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Paris Nice. Prologue.
My current team for the prologue is the following one:
Wiggins 38.4
T.Martin 38.4
Leipheimer 22.6
Viviani 10.9
Porte 14.4
Gretsch 9.9
Engoulvent 7.7
Kreder 3.2
Astarloza 2.5
Total 148
There are another interesting riders like Van Garderen, Kloden, Brajkovic...
Which is your team?
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Well Wiggins, Martin & Porte is a pretty safe bet.
Same here.
And Rein Taramae. He's my banker for this Tour. I can see him doing well in any of the stages.
Largely agree with you, except I've gone for Froome instead of Wiggins (saving himself for the Tour & all that.
And this year I am doing each race as 'purist'
Personally i think the term "fishing" is more apt than anything else...my team bares absolutely no resemblance to any posted but i'm not leading the comp so what do i know
I think the following will do well next week
Phillipe Gilbert
BELLETTI Manuel
KREUZIGER Roman
ROLLIN Dominique
VAN SUMMEREN Johan
LANGEVELD Sebastian
WILSON Matthew
KUSCHYNSKI Aleksandr
GALLOPIN Tony
My team is as follows:
L Armstrong
M Indurain
S Kelly
S Roche
G Lemond
P Delgado
M Pantani
D Abdujaparov
and to round it off................F Landis.
I think they were canny riders.
Well I've managed to pick the winner in every first stage this year but I'm not going for either the winner or 2nd placed rider this time as I can't afford them. Interestingly my very first no-brainer pick was someone that nobody has mentioned yet, think he could well smash a top 5 TT and overall podium, let the guessing games begin...
well smash a top 5 TT and overall podium, let the guessing games begin...
Should have mentioned him now....
B. Wiggins GC SKY 38.4
F. Schleck GC RSN 38.0
A. Schleck GC RSN 37.8
B. Mollema GC RAB 36.8
C. Froome GC SKY 35.8
D. Menchov GC KAT 31.5
I. Anton GC EUS 27.6
A. Kloden GC RSN 27.6
I. Basso GC LIQ 26.7
D. Arroyo GC MOV 24.8
L. Leipheimer GC OPQ 22.6
T. Martin AR OPQ 38.4
T. Hushovd AR BMC 35.0
T. Voeckler AR EUC 33.3
D. Cunego AR LAM 31.1
C. Le Mevel AR GRM 31.1
M. Monfort AR RSN 30.7
K. Siutsou AR SKY 28.3
A. Valverde AR MOV 28.3
D. Millar AR GRM 28.2
T. Boonen AR OPQ 27.8
G. Thomas AR SKY 27.4
S. Chavanel AR OPQ 25.2
N. Nuyens AR SAX 23.5
J. Roy AR FDJ 23.3
J. Brajkovic AR AST 21.8
S. Gerrans AR GRE 21.7
L. Sanchez AR RAB 20.9
B. Leukemans AR VCD 20.5
S. Lagutin AR VCD 20.4
H. Haussler AR GRM 20.3
A. Jeannesson AR FDJ 18.7
T. de Gendt AR VCD 18.4
H. Dupont AR ALM 17.9
F. Sabatini AR LIQ 16.9
K. Kroon AR SAX 15.5
If i had 1 guess id say you mean mollema
Problem Squiggle is the Winner of the first stage is worth more than the winner of any other stage.
You get 35pts for win + 10pts for leading GC + 5pts for points jersey + possible young riders & KOM points.
So realistically 50% bonus for picking 1st stage winner (over any other stage except when GC changes hands) and if he stays in your team on the 2nd day (predicted sprint finish day) good chance of solid GC & sprint jersey points for that day too.
I am with TERatcliffe26 Blake Mollema, but he is expensive this year.
My form guide for this prologue is the Tour de Suisse prologue, last two years, very similar profile.
Mollema is stupidly expensive this year and also got an upgrade to GC, I'm thinking he might bomb this season and been like Wiggo since he joined Sky, high up in the GC one year and then no where the next
don't pick him then, eh
It's not Mollema. Not worried about not having the stage 1 winner as I have 2 of his team mates and one of them at least is going to smash it. Also have a team mate of 2nd placed rider not just incase he wins but because he's also going to smash it! I think I have 4 top 7 prologue guys in my star picks, I can't afford the winner without sacrificing one of them so I think it's worth it not to pick him for stage 1.
I potentially have 6 top 10 guys for the prologue but its all about what happens in the day
Problem Squiggle is the Winner of the first stage is worth more than the winner of any other stage blah blah blah[/quote]
Actually you've got a fair point there... 93 points for top 2 versus 94 points for 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. So if I can shoehorn in another good rider then it makes more sense to go for the first option. Going to have another look at it...
Ahha here lies the problem... I can't shoehorn in anyone without sacrificing some of my DS riders, and I think this time I might have a good balance. My stars total 100.9 and my DS total 48.6. Sod it I'm going to stick, can't win without some risks!
My Stars are 112.4 with my DS being 31.9
I don't have a team mate of who I think might win, but I have a team mate of the other one who I think has a chance at winning, but i've had my team set for weeks now, not going to change it unless there are pull outs
If my team is all right after the ITT, It might stay the same until the end, because I think I also have the three podium guys for the end of the race
Technical question. I can't see Kreder on the start list for the game. At least as a rider 'Riding the next stage'. But what if I put Kreder in my team, by searching for all riders - not just the ones racing in the next race - and added him to my team? I suppose he'd be grayed out, but would my team still be valid? and what if he replaced another rider and did race? Would he just be 'ungrayed out' and participate normally? Just wondering...
Not sure how it works this year
But last year you needed all riders to be active for the first stage or your team was invaild and you scored 0, But he's only a sub and unless something happens today, he will not be riding
you'll score whatever your team. assuming some of your riders get points. if you want you can have a full team of non-participating riders. don't bother me
yes
My stars total exactly 100 and my DS's 49.5 but i think i have a good balance as a couple of my DS's could easily have been star riders to be honest
I hope I have 9 of the top 10 stage 1 finishers in my squad.
Oh no, just noticed Cameron Meyer is out, so I will have to work put who would have come 11th now. . .
I love how you can predict the race results
Thanks, Dave!
Dave, the provisional start list for Garmin does not include Rasmussen, it used to have Bauer... These lists change all the time! Dave, can't you get the ASO and the teams under control, please? At any rate, this is repetitive, but I can choose someone like Bauer and if you make him 'active' later everything will be ok, right? I'm just a little confused!
What happened to Meyer? Did I miss any news on him? Crap! My team is falling apart!
Cameron Meyer will race Tirreno-Adriatico instead of Paris-Nice
Wow! Thanks! I had him on my team. too! All this planning and my team is falling apart too! Now I can't find Vinokourov on the PN start list either. This is Fantasy Cycling hell! Crap!
My monitor is full of little holes made by the darts.
Again.
Yeah, thanks! At least you made me look at the Tirreno-Adriatico start list here:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tirreno-adriatico-2012/start-list
and I saw Talansky and Lighthart are riding that, sparing me from picking another set of riders I wanted for Paris-Nice! Thanks for the tip!
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