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Tirreno-Adriatico
This competition is pretty much ready to go and should be open tomorrow.
Some things to note on scoring, there is only one category of climb in the race which means all climbs score the same points in this race and in the fantasy game which will be 5, 3, 2 & 1 for the first four over the summit.
The race starts with a TTT on Wednesday afternoon followed by 5 stages before an ITT to finish. So far the start time for the first stage is the only one that has been announced. Hopefully the rest are confirmed before the race starts but if not we'll need to set early transfer deadlines to make sure that the window closes before the stage starts each day so bare that in mind and check the 'stages' page for the race each day to make sure you know when the deadlines will be for each stage.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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I've already changed my team a number of times, and I'm still not happy with it.
I made this suggestion at the end of last season, really wanted it for my purist selections as I'm piss poor at that.....
Its impossible. Too many good riders and I cant afford more than five...and then its four for under a fiver. Might have a chance if im lucky.
yeah, it's a tough one with only 140 credits to spend, this. but hey, noone wants it to be too easy all the time, do they? where's the fun in that?
the budget is set by hand. we decide it when we know who's racing. we *could* set it by algorithm based on the value of the riders in the field. but it's fun to throw a tricky one in from time to time. and everyone's in the same boat.
the budget *could* go over 150 for the grand tours, there's nothing stopping it. it *might* for the TdF, the others, unlikely.
Still loving it....even though ive been pretty useless/unlucky this year.
It's a level playing field.
(Now where have I heard that before?)
My 2p .....I think for purist you should keep the 150 budget on stage races such as T-A where there's a strong field and every type of stage possible after all once your purist is picked there's no changes so there isn't the tactics of sprinters /tters in then out which in turn still make your original picks a lot harder than std ....
As I said just my 2p
That would be very lovely, thank you!
Well window closed, so that's that then. The race is on and I have played it safe and hedged my bets, understanding that there will almost certainly be some penalty points tonight.
OPQS
Poels
Cav
OGE
Meyer
Impey
SKY
Sioutsou
MOV
Inxausti
TREK
Arredondo
CDALE
Borghini
BELK
Goos
Tricky one indeed.
Used my Purist team to go for the TTT.
2 OPQS
2 Orica
2 Mov
2 Sky
1 Tinkoff
And filled my Standard with Sprinters for tomorrow.
some similarities but also some differences...
Daryl Impey (OGE)
Michael Hepburn (OGE)
Julian David Arredondo (TFR)
Kristian Sbaragli (MTQ)
Mark Cavendish (OPQ)
Wout Poels (OPQ)
Bernhard Eisel (SKY)
Andrey Amador (MOV)
Sacha Modolo (LAM)
Gone for less penalties and probably less credits.
Borghini could be a good 3.5 pick...
Did anyone not pick Arredondo?
we now have a handy back-end tool that works out an average rider value based on the startlist, and does a back-of-a-fag-packet calculation to suggest a competition budget.
it doesn't set the budget though, that's still at our discretion
it suggested a good budget for TA might be 152
arredondo: CHECK
Feel like I'm missing out!
How can you not love a man like you? That's pretty cool, Dave! I love it!
Heh heh! Awesome! I hope you trust it enough for the next races! It might be pretty cool! I wonder what it will suggest for the Tour?
I don't know if I saved them but it might be pretty cool to see the average rider values for the races we've already done just to compare! It'd be nice to see what your 'tool' suggested for the Classics and Paris Nice. I wonder what's a better indicator of field strength? Total value of the field or average rider value? I might take a look at total value... The difference between races might be more apparent.... You're awesome, Dave, I mean it! 
The lower the budget, the more differences surely? We don't want everyone picking the same team.
Pretty much, rather than everyone picking the best 5 guys and the difference being the cheap riders a low budget means you need to pick which of the favourites you want.
Need some value in the low end to assist with picking different riders
Double check
Well with Cannondale ahead of Sky, that's my attempt buggered!
How many good TTTs do Movistar have to ride before Eurosport commentators stop being suprised?
Well I make it 142 points.
Do u get GC points in a TTT?
Yep, you'll get GC points, so Cav gets a 10-point bonus etc...
I had 2 OPQ, 2 Orica, 1 Movistar (no Sky) and the rest for tomorrow, so went as well as I could have hoped, maybe even a couple of points for my 3.0 riders...
Anyone know what order Omega crossed the line?
Or have the GC positions?
Classics is hard to say because the field changes completely for each race. but here's some others:
TDU: 138
TOQ: 134
TMD: 148
TOO: 142
VAA: 146
PNI: 140
I can't look at the cycling websites in case I see the Paris-Nice result, watching it now. Was definitely Cav 1st tho.
Wow. Nice!
I can't wait to see what your fascinating equation yields for the Dauphine, the TDS and Tour! I like the idea of setting the budgets at 140 for the smaller races and 150 for the Classics, Paris Nice and Tirreno. Of course, I'd love to see 175, as was suggested last year, for the Tour! When I think we only had one (!) 3.0 rider? Maybe I'm wrong about that 
GC
1 132 CAVENDISH Mark
2 133 KWIATKOWSKI Michal
3 131 URAN URAN Rigoberto
4 137 RENSHAW Mark
5 136 POELS Wouter
6 135 PETACCHI Alessandro +2"
7 134 MARTIN Tony +3"
8 148 IMPEY Daryl +11"
9 144 CLARKE Simon +11"
10 142 DURBRIDGE Luke +11"
Yay, 139 for me today.
And 5 transfers done and filled the team with sprint talent for tomorrow.
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