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February Races

by nigsbrown
Sun, Jan 22, 2012 13:31
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Are the tours of Qatar and Oman or the Vuelta a Andalucia going to be included in the fantasy season? Other races in Feb which would be good to include would be the Volta ao Algarve and the Giro di Sardegna but these clash with the tour of Oman and the Vuelta a Andalucia.
It seems a shame to have a month completely race free and after a fairly good start in the TDU, I don't want to have to wait until Paris-Nice to get my team racing again again.

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fluffchucker replied to Stumps | 12 years ago
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stumps wrote:

At the end of last season peer pressure caused the powers that be to add a race on at the end so i imagine the system is already in place to add or remove races.

Oops, think I started that with the Giro di Lombardia 40
Dave, sorry to find you even more work.
But as I say `You're a very nice man' 25

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spindoctore | 12 years ago
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YES! we wait months for fantasy cycling to come back - have a good TDU, and then the candy is removed for 6 weeks, or so it seemed - well done Road CC and thanks for listening

bring on Qatar - on the fantasy, and in the flesh

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carl simpson replied to aaus | 12 years ago
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aaus wrote:
giff77 wrote:

Dave - you're a legend 4 4 4

I was just about to say that.
What a great news that is!

ill 3rd that .. cheers dave .. made my day 4 4

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fluffchucker | 12 years ago
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Just checked price of my team for Qatar,& now can't afford them with my points balance. Balance down & prices up 20
Can't find a proper profile for race neither, any links?

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nickobec | 12 years ago
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Thanks Dave & Co for including the Tours of Qatar and Oman. Now I will have to go study them.

+1 to include Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and/or Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne to fill in the gap at end of February. Only problem is they are on following days, so only small window to swap riders out (good chance to test the automate roster changer thing, if you have built it). It will get the fantasy players looking at some of the smaller 1 day classics.

Fluffchucker asked

Can't find a proper profile for race neither, any links?

http://www.cyclinglinks.nl/
more links to races than you can poke a stick at

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fluffchucker replied to nickobec | 12 years ago
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nickobec wrote:

http://www.cyclinglinks.nl/
more links to races than you can poke a stick at

Thanks for the link, but still don't see a profile of stages.
Maybe they haven't gone on Qatar website yet

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Gkam84 | 12 years ago
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Keep an eye out on http://www.steephill.tv/

Best place to get all the info on any race you want 26

Here is the full Parcours for this year, i dont think they bother showing profiles as its pretty much ALL flat http://www.letour.fr/2012/TQA/COURSE/us/le_parcours.html

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Stumps | 12 years ago
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Was going to say one is pan flat and the other is a bit lumpy but couldn't remember which way round.

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JAndrewHill | 12 years ago
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Flat ! A few sand dunes and flat . . . uphill to the podium for the winner.

So I'd go for someone like Rigoberto Uran ! 3

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JAndrewHill | 12 years ago
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No, seriously, this is my first pick for Qatar . . .
remove
Lars Boom (RAB)
Heinrich Haussler (GRM)
Davide Appollonio (SKY)
Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Lars Bak (LOT)
Cameron Meyer (GRE)
Jack Bobridge (GRE)
Xavier Florencio (KAT)
David Zabriskie (GRM)

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nickobec | 12 years ago
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The stage at Jabal Al Akhdar (the Green Mountain) with a final climb of 5.8 km at an average gradient of 10.3 percent, reaching up to 13.5 percent over the last two kilometres, will be one of the highlights of the third edition of the Tour of Oman.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/16-teams-named-for-tour-of-oman

So load up your team with sprinters 3

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Gkam84 | 12 years ago
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Thats oman though, we have Qatar first, Climbers needed for it 26

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fluffchucker | 12 years ago
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@ J Andrew Hill
Bobridge hey 41

PS-think you can knock off the signature thanks now if you want 1

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JAndrewHill replied to fluffchucker | 12 years ago
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fluffchucker wrote:

@ J Andrew Hill
Bobridge hey 41

PS-think you can knock off the signature thanks now if you want 1

oops, thanks, well spotted. Bobridge is no climber. Better change him for one of those Euskadel riders, they're good going uphill.

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fluffchucker replied to JAndrewHill | 12 years ago
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JAndrewHill wrote:

oops, thanks, well spotted. Bobridge is no climber. Better change him for one of those Euskadel riders, they're good going uphill.

Dam'n, I shouldn't have said, since your topping NW & IOM keague 26

These did well for me last season, so will loyaly stick by them for next race
D. Martin
D. Moreno
J. Bakelants
N. Roche
K. Seeldraeyers
+ 4 TBA

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Gkam84 | 12 years ago
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Martin and Moreno did me proud on quite a few occasions, but with the new set up, unless i think they can get a win, up in the alps or somewhere, i may well steer clear and stick to riders like Galimzyanov and Wagner for the climbs and Faria Da Costa and Gasparotto for the sprints 3 3

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Simon_MacMichael replied to fluffchucker | 12 years ago
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fluffchucker wrote:

Thanks for the link, but still don't see a profile of stages.
Maybe they haven't gone on Qatar website yet

I found the profiles:

Stage 1: ______________
Stage 2: _ (TTT)
Stage 3: _______________
Stage 4: ______________
Stage 5: ________________
Stage 6: ____________

Hope that helps

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Kentishkate replied to Johnbosley | 12 years ago
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Blimey, February's slow coming! 37

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fluffchucker replied to Simon_MacMichael | 12 years ago
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Simon_MacMichael wrote:

I found the profiles:

Stage 1: ______________
Stage 2: _ (TTT)
Stage 3: _______________
Stage 4: ______________
Stage 5: ________________
Stage 6: ____________

Hope that helps 39

I found some other profiles

Stage 1: ¸.•´¯`•.¸¸.•´¯`•.¸¸.•´¯`•
Stage 2: _ (TTT)
Stage 3: ´סּ ¸ סּ`
Stage 4: =^..^=
Stage 5: ><(((('>
Stage 6: ‹(•¿•)›

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Gkam84 | 12 years ago
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Classic fluffy

I found all the stage finish profiles

Stage 1: $$$$$$
Stage 2: $$$$$$
Stage 3: $$$$$$
Stage 4: $$$$$$
Stage 5: $$$$$$
Stage 6: $$$$$$

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antomeno | 12 years ago
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I have not found which will be the scoring for tour of qatar stages

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dave atkinson replied to antomeno | 12 years ago
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antomeno wrote:

I have not found which will be the scoring for tour of qatar stages

me neither. but i expect i'll have a poke around tomorrow and sort out some scoring criteria 3

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Gkam84 | 12 years ago
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Where there are 3 jersey's

Gold - General individual classification
Silver - General points classification
White - Best young rider classification

So there are your jersey points sorted out

The normal GC and Stage points?

There are 9 sprints up for grabs
Also 5 finish sprints (not that they could in the game)

There is the TTT on Stage 2, so i guess thats going to be the normal TTT set up, unless your going to discount dropped riders 3 3

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thefatcyclist | 12 years ago
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I have 501 riders to choose from for Qatar, which is fine except there are 16 teams of 8 which equals 128. Any chance of an update to the game?

http://www.letour.fr/2012/TQA/RIDERS/us/engages.html

this is the latest rider and reserve list on the website.

Goss is not riding.

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fico replied to spindoctore | 12 years ago
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nigsbrown wrote:

... Other races in Feb which would be good to include would be the Volta ao Algarve and the Giro di Sardegna...

Dave, what's the chance of being able to add these races next year? Seems like Algarve would be more fun 'cause there's both a mountaintop finish and (!) a time trial.

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