If you’ve been on the Stats Hub today, you might have noticed it looks a bit different. That’s because we’ve rebuilt it, and the biggest change is that it’s now properly part of the main site.
It has the same look and the same menu as the rest of the website, so you can move between the two without really noticing. And the two talk to each other a lot more than they used to. Rider pages link to the interviews and features we’ve done with that rider, team pages link to our stories about the team, and race pages link to our previews and reports. The Next up list on our homepage now comes straight from the Hub, and Mercato and the calendar have both moved in (more on those below). Your bookmarks, and the links in our articles, should all still take you to the right place.
Behind the scenes, it should also be much quicker for us to keep everything up to date, whether that’s results, transfers or a rider’s details, so you should see changes sooner.
What’s new
We’ve also gone back further. The Hub now goes back to 2020, with results from more than 850 races, up from about 500 in September, and nearly 4,000 riders. We’ve added 2020, 2021 and 2022, everything from the National Road Series down to National B, plus the national championships, the National Circuit Series and the Tour Series. To be fair, 2020 is mostly a list of cancellations, for obvious reasons. And for the first time there’s junior road racing, from 2021 onwards, and cyclo-cross, starting with this winter’s National Trophy.
Rider pages now show which team someone rode for each season. Race pages have the race’s history and past winners, and stage races show the GC and every stage winner on one page. Team pages show the squad for each year.
Our rankings have new names, The British Continental Road Rankings and Circuit Rankings, and there’s a new page called How the points work, which explains exactly how they’re scored. It covers British Cycling’s National Series, the Rapha Super-League, the Tour Series and the National Trophy as well, and you’ll find the standings for all of them on the Hub.
Mercato has moved in too. The transfers page is now where we keep track of every confirmed signing, re-signing and departure for 2027, as it happens. You can see the latest moves first or go team by team, and the old tracker page on this site points you there now. Don’t worry, the Mercato round-ups aren’t going anywhere.
Same goes for the calendar. Click Calendar in our menu and you’ll land on the Hub’s race listings, with this season’s road races first and cyclo-cross a click away. If you’re an organiser and your race isn’t on there, let us know and we’ll add it.
A couple of smaller things. If you share a rider, team, race or rankings page now, it comes up with a proper preview, with the latest results on it. And the Hub doesn’t use cookies or load anything from anyone else. It counts its own visits, but nothing that tells us who you are.
What’s next
This is really just the start. We’ve got plans to add more features and a lot more data.
We’d love your help with it too. With this much new data there’ll be mistakes, and honestly, I’d love to hear about them!
If you’re a rider, have a look at your page. Check your teams and results are right, and if anything’s wrong, use the Report a data issue link at the bottom of the page. If your page is missing your year of birth, there’s a box at the top for that, so we can show your age category.
If you run a team, check your team page and your squad for 2027, and let us know about any signings, re-signings or departures as they’re announced. We’d love your rider headshots too.
And if you organise races, send us your 2027 dates so we can get them on the calendar, and your start lists and results when you have them. We’re working on a way for organisers to send those straight in, and we’d love to talk to you about it.
Drop us a line at info@thebritishcontinental.co.uk.
Thank you, Martyn
Of course, none of this would exist without Martyn Jepson. A few years ago I put a call out on Twitter for someone to help keep our rankings up to date. I thought it’d be a spreadsheet job. Martyn answered, and instead he built the Stats Hub, in his own time, and kept it going season after season. The new Hub is built on what he made. The way it’s organised, the addresses you’ve bookmarked and most of what’s in it all started with him. There’s a bit more about that on the Hub’s About page. So thank you, Martyn, we forever indebted to you.
Have a good look round, and let us know what you think.
Denny Gray
Founder-editor, The British Continental
