Giro stage 10

Joelsim wrote:

It appears to be stuck

Gkam, are you on duty today?

Joelsim wrote:

Joint combativity award on Fuga, is that 5 points each for Bandiera and Fedi?

10 each I hope..

I'm so happy to see the updating occuring so quickly... That (!) I don't miss about California!

enrique wrote:

Joelsim wrote:

Joint combativity award on Fuga, is that 5 points each for Bandiera and Fedi?

10 each I hope..

I'm so happy to see the updating occuring so quickly... That (!) I don't miss about California!

Are you trying to say I was slow at doing the update for ToC. I do have to have the results before I can update

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Are you trying to say I was slow at doing the update for ToC. I do have to have the results before I can update

No, no, no, not at all... I like the way you work, I was just not crazy about having to wait till the California transfer window closed for the results to be updated... We're good...

enrique wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Are you trying to say I was slow at doing the update for ToC. I do have to have the results before I can update

No, no, no, not at all... I like the way you work, I was just not crazy about having to wait till the California transfer window closed for the results to be updated... We're good...

Are you kidding Enrique, after the debacle last time, this is by far the best way to do things, race has been run and won, it won't change. Priorities my friend.
You also have to be aware of were the results are coming from, we don't all live in Europe:)

drheaton wrote:

1,2,4,8,9,15 plus standings points. I make that 141 which probably won't set the world alight but should be solid. Annoyed Mezgec didn't do better but that's racing, if only I'd picked Matthews instead...

I was originally going to pick Mezgec over my usual Ferrari but in the end went Matthews as I thought he was more likely to do something tomorrow and he seems to have the better form. Only brought in Bouhanni otherwise and swapped Chicchi for a 3 rider I hope will do something later. Still got a transfer in hand and may or may not bring in a rider for the break tomorrow as I want a strong team for the TT, much more predictable than sprints with their crashes. Although penalties aren't expensive if you've got table points already it's a risk bringing in a sprinter. I swapped Uran out to afford Bouhanni but with him coming 13th it wasn't a big profit. Glad I didn't swap Evans though! I'll probably drop a bit today but not too much as it's tricky to afford Bouhanni and Nizzolo and keep all the good scoring GC riders. Ferrari again would have been the clever pick. That guy rarely crashes!

Joelsim wrote:

Alan Tullett wrote:

drheaton wrote:

1,2,4,8,9,15 plus standings points. I make that 141 which probably won't set the world alight but should be solid. Annoyed Mezgec didn't do better but that's racing, if only I'd picked Matthews instead...

I was originally going to pick Mezgec over my usual Ferrari but in the end went Matthews as I thought he was more likely to do something tomorrow and he seems to have the better form. Only brought in Bouhanni otherwise and swapped Chicchi for a 3 rider I hope will do something later. Still got a transfer in hand and may or may not bring in a rider for the break tomorrow as I want a strong team for the TT, much more predictable than sprints with their crashes. Although penalties aren't expensive if you've got table points already it's a risk bringing in a sprinter. I swapped Uran out to afford Bouhanni but with him coming 13th it wasn't a big profit. Glad I didn't swap Evans though! I'll probably drop a bit today but not too much as it's tricky to afford Bouhanni and Nizzolo and keep all the good scoring GC riders. Ferrari again would have been the clever pick. That guy rarely crashes!

But take that Uran for Bouhanni deal and imagine that it will cost you 10 points to swap him in for one stage (ie you buy 3 sprinters and only have 2 changes), and then you need to swap 3 sprinters back out again the next day.

Uran would have scored 17 in finishing plus GC.

Bouhanni scored 40 today with a win and points.

17 + 10 penalty in + 10 penalty out = 37 points, so you have only actually made 3 points. If Bouhanni hadn't come first then you would have lost out.

To some degree you are right if all transfers cost 10 points but we do have free transfers and to be honest I wasn't expecting Uran to come 13th!! And he wouldn't have done apart from the crash. Also I'm not necessarily going to bring in Uran tomorrow. I looked very carefully at all the table points for each rider I had and made the most efficient transfers possible but unexpected things do interfere in such calculations. That's the beauty of the game. And don't worry about the lead at the top, you were about 80 points ahead of me a while ago, now you're only 29 and your team is not looking that great for the TT or tomorrow unless you have a lot of free transfers left!! I may not even make one transfer for tomorrow as Matthews and Ulissi could do well along with Evans. I could go for a mountain point rider by swapping out Bouhanni for someone as I doubt Bouhanni will make it but even he is worth 5 so it's a risk. But you have to take a few calculated risks to win!

Theinvisiblecyclist wrote:

1,2,4,8,9.....plus gc points etc ....that crash ruined my day but if Viviani scored anything today I got my FH at least

I think Viviani bagged 2 points at the intermediate sprint if that helps.

drheaton wrote:

1,2,4,8 and 9 of the top 10. Pity about the crash, wonder if Mezgec/Appolonio/Viviani were stuch behind it?

dito