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Notes From the Line-Up – Rio

As the picture above implies, the tour is no longer being held at heaving West-Australian reef breaks. Our new destination – Grumari, Brazil – brings with it a new set of conditions and a fresh slate for surfers to prove themselves. We spoke to the founder of Fantasy Surfing Tips and Brazilian local Francisco Pimentel … Read more

Injury Update – Oi Rio Pro

Kelly Slater – OUT Slater doesn’t need a reason, but here goes: because he’s down on form, doesn’t like the contest at the best of times, the forecast sucks and he has a world-class wave pool at his disposal. Does anyone blame him? Replaced by TBA Joel Parkison – OUT No reason given. Is he … Read more

Oi Rio Pro Sortable Data

Here are the numbers for the Oi Rio Pro. Below you will find a range of data fields that you can manipulate in order to wade your way through the selection process. These data projections take the 2014/2015/2016 results into consideration and give a slight weighting to 2016 form within the overall projected scores. Many … Read more

Rio Fantasy Outlook

We talk strategy and numbers for Mens’/Women’s Fantasy Surfer and WSL Fantasy Surfing (see tabs) Also, don’t forget to reference our Points Per Dollar and Conditions AHS sortable tables! If you love Surf-Stats give us a shout on Twitter or Instagram @surfstats.  Enjoy, and happy researching![xt_tab style=”xa-default” ][xt_item title=”Fantasy Surfer Outlook” icon=””]Men’s Fantasy Surfer Outlook Lets get this out … Read more

Oi Rio Pro Fantasy Surfer Points/$ Tables

Here’s our Fantasy Surfer projected points per dollar value tables.  Our projection model seems to like Filipe Toledo and Sage Erickson a whole lot.  But we’ll be posting some thoughts in the next week about picks.  Sage would be showing a huge payoff if she moves into R4, but we’ll dive into why that just might … Read more