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Fantasy Olympic Track Cycling
It was suggested a few months ago that some people on the forum might want to try a fantasy track cycling competition for the olympics.
The idea's simple, pick an athlete/team/nation for each track event and we score the results, the best overall result is the winner.
The ten olympic events are:
Men's Keirin
Men's Omnium
Men's sprint
Men's team pursuit
Men's team sprint
Women's Keirin
Women's Omnium
Women's sprint
Women's team pursuit
Women's team sprint
Schedule is here: http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/schedule-and-results/
Athlete details will be available here: http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/athletes/
Deadline for entries is 8pm Wednesday 1st August.
Rules are:
1) Fantasy teams limited to one individual or team from any nationality i.e. you can't have more than one Brit or British team in your own team.
2) Scoring based on the Omnium where 1st scores 1, 2nd scores 2 etc down to 12th scoring 12. Any placing below 12th scores 12. Lowest overall score after 10 events is the winner.
3) DNFs, DQs or withdrawl's of an athlete count as finishing last and will score 12 points.
4) Where non-medal positions are not ranked (see 2008 men's team pursuit and team sprint) the time's from qualification will be used to rank teams for fantasy purposes.
5) Where it is not possible to rank a group of teams or individuals each will be given the score of the highest unranked position i.e. if 5-12 cannot be ranked by any of the above methods each will score 5 points.
6) Tie-breaks - first tie-break is number of Gold medal winners picked, then total medal winners picked then the lowest highest score i.e. one team has a highest event score of 8 (for 8th place), another has 10 (for 10th) then the winner is the team with the score of 8. Final tie-break is a coin-toss.
7) No prizes, although we could ask Dave nicely for a pair of socks 
Any questions/comments? Happy to tweak the rules/format as suggested.
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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Nope, that makes it far too easy
Thought I'd get my team in now, you can copy it if you like but if you do and we win I might add something into the rules to 'resolve' that
Men's Keirin - Max Levy (Germany)
Men's Omnium - Zac Bell (Canada)
Men's sprint - Gregory Bauge (France)
Men's team pursuit - New Zealand
Men's team sprint - Australia
Women's Keirin - Olga Panarina (Belarus)
Women's Omnium - Sarah Hammer (USA)
Women's sprint - Simona Krupeckaitė (Lithunia)
Women's team pursuit - Great Britain
Women's team sprint - China
ok then here is mine
Men's Keirin - Kazunari Watanabe (Japan)
Men's Omnium - Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark)
Men's sprint - Gregory Bauge (France)
Men's team pursuit - Great Britain
Men's team sprint - Australia
Women's Keirin - Shuang Guo (China)
Women's Omnium - Sarah Hammer (USA)
Women's sprint - Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)
Women's team pursuit - Canada
Women's team sprint - Germany
My Picks are:-
Mens Sprint Gregory Bauge(FRA)
mens Kieran Chris Hoy(GB)
Mens Omnium Zach Bell(CAN)
Team Sprint New Zealand
Team Pursuit Japan
Womans Sprint Anna Meares(AUS)
Womens Kieran Miriam Welte(GER)
Womens Omnium Sarah Hammer(USA)
Team Sprint Russia
Team Pursuit China
Let the games begin
I know there's only four teams but I expected them to be more simiilar, I'm surprised we've picked such different teams although Gregory Bauge looks like he might be in every team at this rate!
AND THE WINNING TEAM IS...
MENS KEIRIN MAX LEVY (Germany)
MENS OMNIUM ZAC BELL (Canada)
MENS SPRINT GREG BAUGE (France)
MENS T PURSUIT NEW ZEALAND
MENS T SPRINT AUSTRALIA
WMNS KEIRIN EKATERINA GNIDENKO (Russia)
WMNS OMNIUM SARAH HAMMER (USA)
WMNS SPRINT SIMONA KUPRECKAITE (Lithuania)
WMNS T PURSUIT GREAT BRITAIN
WMNS T SPRINT CHINA
Ok, I think I have mine sorted out....
Men's Keirin - Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)
Men's Omnium - Zachary Bell (Canada)
Men's Sprint - Gregory Bauge (France)
Men's Team Pursuit - Great Britain
Men's Team Sprint - New Zealand
Women's Keirin - Ekaterina Gnidenko (Russia)
Women's Omnium - Sarah Hammer (USA)
Women's Sprint - Simona Krupeckaitė (Lithunia)
Women's Team Pursuit - Australia
Women's Team Sprint - China
MIGHT not be my final line up as it is only 1 rider per country for all the sprint events, but the Olympics site had 2 for some
Another question that I don't know if it'll work. Say I pick Bauge as above, but he goes and wins another event, Do I get any bonuses
It's a good idea but no, I don't think so. It'll be too difficult to work out bonuses for events where you've picked Team GB or Australia and it'd mean everyone would pick Bauge, Mears, Hoy or Pendleton etc, basically any athlete competing in more than one event. As it stands there's no benefit to picking athlete's in two events so it encourages different selections.
OK, here's mine...
Men's Keirin - T Mulder (Hol)
Men's Omnium - E Viviani (Ita)
Men's Sprint - G Bauge (Fra)
Men's Team Pursuit - Russia
Men's Team Sprint - Germany
Women's Keirin - S Krupeckaite (Lith)
Women's Omnium - T Whitten (Can)
Women's Sprint - V Pendleton (GB)
Women's Team Pursuit - New Zealand
Women's Team Sprint - Australia
Can't wait til tomorrow...
jandrewhilln_MacMichael]Fair enough
Have a great holiday and please send some sunshine our way :D[/quote]
Abracadabra...is that enuf sun???
Having applied my lack of track cycling knowledge here goes:
Men's Keirin - Maximilian Levy (GER)
Men's Omnium - Elia Viviani (Italy)
Men's Sprint - G Bauge (Fra)
Men's Team Pursuit - Denmark
Men's Team Sprint - Russia
Women's Keirin - Anna Meares (Australia)
Women's Omnium - Laura Trott (GBR)
Women's Sprint - Simona Krupeckaitė (Lithunia)
Women's Team Pursuit - New Zealand
Women's Team Sprint - China
Bit of shuffling in my team, but I can't edit the one above
Men's Keirin - Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)
Men's Omnium - Martyn Irvine (Ireland)
Men's Sprint - Gregory Bauge (France)
Men's Team Pursuit - Great Britain
Men's Team Sprint - Australia
Women's Keirin - Simona Krupeckaite (Lithuania)
Women's Omnium - Sarah Hammer (USA)
Women's Sprint - Guo Shuang (China)
Women's Team Pursuit - Canada
Women's Team Sprint - Germany
Just a nudge to remind everyone the deadline is 8pm tonight.
So far we've only got 8 entries.
Bump, anyone watching? I missed everything until around 5.15, just came in to see GB DQ'd from the team sprint for a dodgy change over
BOOOOOOOSSSSSST. China got relegated in the gold medal race of the Women's team sprint and Germany win it for me
Booo! Not happy with that result
I'm delighted, not only did I have the winner, Shuang will be going for everything else now and I have her in the sprint
Now need the Aussie's to come out and beat Germany, but can't see it, So i'll only have 4th in the men's
Scores after day one:
Gkam: 5
TERatcliffe: 5
drheaton: 6
Stevespro: 6
chrisdstripes: 6
djb123: 9
JAndrewhill: 10
Livestrongnick: 15 (sorry! you picked Russia for the women's Team Sprint and they didn't compete so you get joint last for the race, 10th)
The difference at the top? The Chinese DQ
Men's Team Pursuit and Women's Keirin tomorrow!
fix fix fix...reinstate the hinese please...not too bad a staet for my team tho.
The thing is, we've all got one pick that's a bit out there and different so it could all change so easily on one event.
It's great to include a simple game like this though, I was really willing the Chinese on in the women's sprint
Damn totally forgot to put a team in on this. Ah well.
Or in my case I have 2 out there, Awang and Irvine
Feel free to put one in for the last races if you like, will add you onto the spreadsheet and just award you max points for the first two races. I won't count you towards the overall but will include you in for fun.
GRRRRR Doh!!!
bloody Russians, oh well shit happens........ another day tomorrow
Thats a bit harsh...altho the chinese were relegated thay were not dqd...and got silver... or am I missin something... and the gb ladies sprint were relegated too, not dqd... is this sour grapes?..
No, just joking really, the teams on 5 and 6 points would have been reversed had China won the gold and Germany come second, that's the point I was making really.
Good stuff. Russia in the men's TP are my hope to pick up some points later - should counteract the fact that I don't have any Chinese women in anything which was definitely a mistake! Thanks drh, doing this makes it (even) more exciting - I'll certainly be supporting Krupeckaite later on (whoever she is!)
Aye, today should shake things up, there's a load of different picks for the women's Keirin and there's a few different Team Pursuit nation's picked too, hoping for a good result from the New Zealand men and Olga Panarina who was my wildcard pick for the Keirin.
FWIW the order in qualifying was:
GB
Australia
New Zealand
Denmark
Russia
Spain
Columbia
Netherlands
Semi's are GB vs Denmark and Australia vs New Zealand but I have no idea how they work out who's going for bronze as wikipedia suggests that the fastest of the six teams not going into the gold medal match go into the bronze round rather than the losers of the semi's which means that in theory Russia can still come third but no higher and even though they're in the semi's New Zealand can still come 8th!
Just been trying to work it out...this from the BBC website - "Eight teams will take part in the first round on Friday, with the top two qualifying for the gold medal match and the next two battling for bronze."
Which would indicate that all 8 teams above will race between 16:18 and 16:43 this afternoon, but qualifying for the medal finals is solely on time. But its pursuit, so if you get caught, do you carry on riding to post a time? I don't really geddit.
I'll stop guessing now and just wait until this afternoon...
Olympics website and Wikipedia both say that the gold medal match will feature the winners of the two races between GB/Denmark and Australia/New Zealand but I agree, it's not clear.
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