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Giro D' Italia Roster
Just wanted to point out Levi Leipheimer is listed for the Giro!
Still with Omega Pharma-Quick Step at 18.9 points!
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Thanks both for the advice - I was thinking about Bouhanni/Degenkolb for the purist, but have now hit on the slightly mad idea of having a Colombian-only purist team (N.B. my purist teams *always* bomb, so for the rest of the season I'm deploying national teams in the purist comps).
It's actually not quite possible because of the two-riders-per-team rule. But I've topped up with a Venezuelan, whihc is as close as you can get and I'm sure you'll all agree is fair enough.
I suspect my purist points will come in the mountains.
Sounds like fun, and an interesting idea, I'll look forward to your French team during the Tour de France.
I suppose a purely Italian team would be too easy? Might have a look just for fun.
EDIT: Yes, very easy to put a purely Italian team together.
And if you wanted to stick to your Columbian team you can always pick a non-rider like Anacona of Lampre to fill a spot, there's also a Columbian on Movistar I think.
Not that it's relevant, but for some reason Tiziano Dall 'Antonia has a back-slash (\) in the middle of his last name in the game - "Tiziano Dall\'Antonia"
It's how it's supposed to be, it's pronounced as a 'cruoghz' sound...
Yes, without even trying, I have 5 Italians in my purist team anyway! And 2 Brits (wonder who they could be...), a Russian and a Frenchman. Chances of me not changing it all around again by Saturday are fairly slim...
Here's a game for you then, pick three Italians for 50 credits or less, combined fantasy score at the end of the race wins.
Only riders making it to the end of the race count, if your's quits mid race, they get no points
Colombians (plus one Venezuelan) now selected!
For California, may see if I can go all-German. TdF all Brits, Yanks or Italians (not sure which yet) and all-French in the Vuelta.
What about Aussies?
Ha - the three that spring to mind add up to 50.1 credits! Always the way...
ive already picked my all italian purist team and it aint bad. ive described them in another post...
So its Danielson - interesting. That'll definitely be better support for Ryder than he had last year...
I will do that... my 3 are Nibali, Locatelli and Aru
Mine will have to be Scarponi, Santambrogio and Locatelli
I will go for...
paolini
santambrogio
chichi
Nibali,Pirazzi,Gavazzi
NIBALI....PIRAZZI....GAVAZZI....
I don't know if the game roster has been fully updated. If not could I just point out that Ivan Basso has had to pull out and has been replaced by Damiano Caruso.
There will be some last minute changes and it's likely an update will be required at least a couple more times before Saturday.
No doubt one will be done today and another tomorrow to tidy up any last minute changes. If Dave doesn't get chance I'll have a look over lunch.
Yes, I assumed you would be doing last minute updates. I just wanted to give anybody who had Basso in their plans a bit of a forewarning. Thanks for the hard work. Looking forward to Saturday, the Giro is definitely my favourite race of the calendar.
Nibali
Samtambrogio
Garzelli
Three Italians - Gatto, Aru, Nibs.
I saw on Cycling News Ramunas Navardauskas is in... But I don't know who he replaced...
I think it's Howes
Might've bottled my Colombian idea...
Could possibly set up a separate free account and just do that as purist for the Colombians. I just reckon I've got a decent idea of a good team.
OK, I should probably stick with the more fun option. Besides, surely Scarponi can't win anyway...?
Still wavering over my purist team - 46 credits for last 2 riders. Want to go for Cav plus one, but there's always the chance he'll drop out halfway through, or get taken out by Ferrari again... If I don't pick him, I could bring in 2 good guys instead, but Cav could potentially score big in week one, which most of my others won't do. DAMN GAME.
Ramunas is a genuine contender for maglia rosa after the TTT
Barring catastrophic underperformance, Cav should really be first name on the roster for everyone's purist. No other rider is a likely to bag multiple stage wins, nor get as many sprint points thus consistent scoring even in high mountians. I'd even expect OPQS to do alright in the TTT. Even at his high price, he's still a bit undervalued.
He'd only consider dropping, I think, if he (or his train
) performs disappointingly in the first few flat sprints, putting him out of contention for the overall points jersey.
So - pick Cav. Unless, that is, you're doing some silly experiment of picking only Andean mountaineers...
By the way, for the record my Purist team would have been:
Cav
Nibali
Gesink
Navardauskas
Scarponi
Aru
Chalapud
Mezgec
Berard (or Azanza; I like to include a Basque for good luck)
Yep - thats what I'm intending - just trying to talk myself out of it - I don't think he is as obvious a choice as you do though! I haven't checked the details, but I'm sure last year the top 4 or 5 GC guys all outscored the top sprinter (Cav) in terms of fantasy points...
Not so sure that OPQS will do so well in the TTT this time without Martin,Chavanel and Velits to tow them around?
No Cav in my purists......although my standards will have him for stage 1.
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