ENECO Tour Stage 1

I won't be paying much attention to this race, so it's a purist team for me.

Boonen
Appollonio
Haussler
Oss
Guarnieri
Nizzolo
Boeckmans
Kwiatowski
Kristoff

Youthful team for me,trying to nick some Young Rider points

Keukelaire
Kittel
Renshaw-My only over 25
Apollonio
Nizzolo
Kwiatkowski
Blythe
Gallopin
Dowsett

I don't really know what to expect, so I've gone mainly sprinty for today, primarily from teams that should do OK in the TTT, and then have 4 transfers for stage 3 once I've seen who's in form.

Haussler
Roelandts
Boonen
Bos
Blythe (probably silly but feeling patriotic at the mo!)
Kristoff
Demare
Guarnieri
Rosseler

Gone abit sprint based, not too sure on team time trial, save transfers for stage 3

Marcel Kittel (ARG)
Mark Renshaw (RAB)
Davide Appollonio (SKY)
Alessandro Petacchi (LAM)
Leigh Howard (GRE)
Kris Boeckmans (VCD)
Andrey Amador (MOV)
Tony Gallopin (RSN)
Niki Terpstra (OPQ)

Gotta be better than my Track cycling team

These 2 have 6min50sec lead

S. Scheirlinckx
P. Urtasun Perez

My team and most likely purist

Jose Joaquin Rojas (MOV)
Marcel Kittel (ARG)
Heinrich Haussler (GRM)
Mark Renshaw (RAB)
Adam Blythe (BMC)
Kris Boeckmans (VCD)
Andrey Amador (MOV)
Jon Izagirre (EUS)
Alexander Kristoff (KAT)

Nice Gkam got your compulsory Izagirre pick

Nope, thats the other one, Its normally Gorka

But Jon has been doing quite well, just not going in the breaks

Yes i'm aware it's the other one. Gorka did me proud in Le Tour

Blythe has good form from Paris-Correze and BMC should do well in the TTT so not a bad pick at all.

Well my team looks like this

Rojas
Kittel
Boonen
Van Avermaet

Terpstra
Boeckmans
Guarnari
Kristoff
Nizzolo

Massive crash just on 3km

Kittel wins I think

Kittel
Demare
Phinney
Haussler
Blythe
Van Staeyen
Rojas
Robert
Guarnieri
Nizzolo

Thats your top 10

I got 1,4,5 and 7th out of those but many people coming across the line holing various body parts, expect at least 10 people to not be riding tomorrow from the start list today

Got my team abit wrong there.

I believe you had 3 in the top 5 Gkam...

Think I had 1,7,9 and 10

1,3 & 4 out of the top 10 for me today, not bad I suppose

2,4,5,9 for me - happy with that. Didn't see it - did poor Boonen get involved in another crash?

Nah Boonen rolled in (behind the sprint, gave up with about 2/300m to go), whether he was in the top 20 time will tell

1st,2nd,3rd,4th and 7th.

1, 3, and 4 for me based on the official top 10 that I've seen. Normally I'd say that's pretty good but it looks like everyone else had the same ideas as me (or better) so I don't know how I'm going to pull ahead in the purist league.

Full results here: http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&Spor...

Got 11th as well.

VERY confusing and I think its going to cause BIG problems with scoring, as they have the overall, but including the time bonuses. So everyone is out of position.

The finish line position is not listed

Top top 10 GC is

1 Marcel Kittel ARGOS-SHIMANO 5:38:18
2 Arnaud Demare FDJ-BIG MAT 0:00:04
3 Taylor Phinney BMC RACING TEAM 0:00:06
4 Aidis Kruopis ORICA-GREENEDGE
5 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi MOVISTAR TEAM 0:00:07
6 Wouter Mol VACANSOLEIL-DCM 0:00:08
7 Luke Rowe SKY PROCYCLING
8 Robert Wagner RADIOSHACK-NISSAN 0:00:09
9 Matteo Montaguti AG2R LA MONDIALE
10 Heinrich Haussler GARMIN-BARRACUDA 0:00:10

Nice find, the clears it all up for the points

Still garbage....why did my weird wildcards do so badly???

1,3,4,17 and 18 for me. Gonna keep it purist for the time being just to see how they do.

Hi guys - don't know if I'm the first to point out that the scores don't seem quite right unless I'm missing something?

EG Haussler 14? (gets at least 22 for coming 4th)
Blythe 11, Kristoff 4. Haven't checked any others so may be more...

seems to have changed from earlier. i'll re-do it tomorrow.

Don't use the official site Dave, as they are not listing it as they cross the line, they are only listing the GC thats including the time bonuses. The link above is spot on. I'll paste it again for you

http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&Spor...

Here's a BAD couple,

Kruopis got 29 points in the game and should only have 7
Ventoso got 26 in game and should only have 6

Actually i make it kruopis should get 15 (7 GC, 1st in a sprint, 3rd in a sprint) and ventoso 12 (6 GC , 1st in a sprint)

Sprints don't count in this tour Teratcliffe

This stage will be scored on the following criteria:
Finish line - multi-day tour: Points awarded for the first 20 riders over the line in a multi-stage race.

The following points will be awarded (1st-20th): 35, 30, 25, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

GC (Tour): Points awarded for a top ten position in the GC of a Tour at the end of a stage. 10 points for first down to 1 point for 10th

Points competition (Tour): Points awarded for overall standing in the points competition at the end of a stage. 5 points for first position down to 1 point for 5th

Young rider competition (Tour): Points awarded for overall standing in the young rider competition at the end of a stage. 5 points for first position down to 1 point for 5th

Last man home: 10 points awarded for the last man home on a tour stage or one-day race

Team bonus: 5 points to every participating rider in the winning rider's team

Also APPOLLONIO was scored 3 for 18th but he's 18th GC he was 12th for the stage which would be 9 points!

Stupid time bonuses have made it well confusing

No young rider points?

It clearly says on the scoring criteria for the stage that there would be?

Confusing....

points should be in and correct now...

So no young rider points then? Otherwise Kittel would be 55,Demare 47 and so on.

No young riders classification in the race, so no points in the game

right, so i got a bit confused here

there's no young riders classification. there is a primus jersey which i've awarded points for, on a 5-down-to-1 basis, Urtasun leads. I'd assumed without really looking at the riders that it was the young rider jersey. but urtasun's no spring chicken, is he?

so, what exactly is it? and shall we award points for it?

also, there wasn't any mention of the intermediate sprints in the stuff i found on the race (patchy at best) so i left them out.

Primus appears to be combativity NOT young riders(Millar's 6th on Primus!!).

Easy enough to get Young Rider standings via

http://www.uci.infostradasports.com/asp/lib/TheASP.asp?PageID=19006&Spor...

click on general clasification and award 5-1 for all 25 and under?

It was specified on the scoring criteria and was therefore a huge factor in selection even if there is no jersey.

Hardly a factor in selection. With only a max of 5 points, There is no way thats how most people picked there team as almost 1/3 of the field are under 25 if I've looked at it right

No scores for young and the combative (Primus) Shouldn't be scored either, as thats normally just 10 points to one person. Which, without the intermediates, we cant work out who wins what.

Lets just have, GC, Points and Finishing positions

7 stages of 5,4,3,2 & 1 = 105 maximum Young rider points.

Yeah 105 over all, but the chances of you having the top 5 young riders for 7 stages is about the same as winning the Euromillions

if there isn't a young rider jersey then we won't be awarding young rider points, so sorry about that. my mistake. there won't be primus points either, so updating the scores.