Forum's Scorum's Mini League

ray silvester wrote:

Our new leader in the Forum's Scorun's Tour De France.

not another of your relatives is she stevemarks? She uses the numbers for letters as Nata1ia does.......if so those girls are going to cost you a fortune in personalised number plates.

The first 2 stages has seen no change in the Forum's Scorum's Overall competition although robacairns and myself seem to be engaging in our own 'after you...no after you sir' n 7th and eighth.

Well spotted Ray! Middle daughter, although TBH she has lost interest (boys?) and I have had to waive my advisory fee, and take over the day to day for now. Maybe as she is top, and enjoying the TV coverage, I can get her to step back in.

ray silvester wrote:

No.....that would be you!!

I'm like a ropey old curry! Charming!

chiv30 wrote:

Well I'm into the top ten at the tdf after two great stages ( thx mr gerrans) going for the top spot after issing out to Jonas at the Giro

I've been feeling kinda Schleckish the first couple of stages, and I'm way too far behind now..

drheaton wrote:

Is there any way to access the archived league listings?

I was going to put together a Forum Scorum 'table' based on the World Tour points scoring system (something like 100 down to 10 for top 10 in a week long race, 200 down to 10 for top 20 in a grand tour and something similar for classics) but can't see to get into the older archived races

no, we don't keep the full data. sorry. we might next year

ray silvester wrote:

Aha....drheaton's enthusiasm for the mini-league becomes apparent....he absolutely mullered the Tour of Poland taking both standard AND purist honours.

As a one off race the Classica San Sebastien has no purist event.....the race itself was won in fine style by backflipbedlem for his first competition honours(no hard feelings that you pushed me into 2nd LOL).

ummmmm excuse me am i missing something?

1 Mostly Hopeless drheaton 868
2 Team Cairns robacairns 851
3 dum spiro lacesso simon F 843
4 The Pigeons chrisdstripes 836
5 Pharmacie Roulant Jonas Lorenzen 834
6 spqr stumps 794
7 huntdeano huntdeano 771
8 skidders skeletons stevemarks 757
9 KeejayOV KeejayOV 754
10 backflipbedlem backflipbedlem 751
11 Veelers Wheel Wig_Billy 720
12 OJB Racing obutterwick 707
13 Ratcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 690
14 Team Sky Blue NeilG83 671
15 Rule #5 livestrongnick 652
16 Team C.I.U. colhum1 646
17 Ridley rider Mikeh789 639
18 Marina's Diamonds Julie Danson 638
19 Rule #5 (Purist) livestrongnick 629
20 Team RJB REALJimBob 627
21 Northstar northstar 625
22 Team SounDaz SounDaz_7 617
23 Carbon Crutches and EPO chiv30 593
24 CONTADORS CONQUISTADORS STEVESPRO 79 575
25 Carrick Climbers stepho 568
26 Mostly Hopeless (Purist) drheaton 555

drheaton wrote:

In the overall, my battle for 4th place with stevemarks looks like its going right down to the wire.

And in true Tommy V style, I looked like I'd been dropped from that battle but now I'm trying to come back - less than 100 behind you now Dan!

On another note - Alan Tullett leads the Forum Vuelta Purist comp and looks good, 50 ahead of me, (we have 7 riders the same - his Pozzovivo and Lulu Sanchez vs my Capecchi and Txurruka), with a bit of a gap to Ray in third. Thought that was weird, but on closer inspection it looks like most people didn't go for Moreno, which has made the difference so far. Helluva long way to go on that score though...

Alan Tullett wrote:

Well, finally got my stage win!
27th in purist overall and with Pozzovivo doing well who knows?
Nearly a 100 points above chrisdstripes so hopeful of keeping a lead there, but who knows? A Vuela full of surprises, especially to me

I think my only chance of catching you is a Pozzovivo withdrawal - which would need to happen soon!

ray silvester wrote:

silas chime took out the Forum's Scorum's Vuelta for his first trophy and Alan Tullett grabbed the purist section(his last event win was at the TDU and that seems an awful long time ago now as we head towards the end of the season).

First purist win and then second purist in the Canadian GPs as well! Getting the hang of purist now.

I did get 2nd in a Giro stage and 1st= in a Vuelta stage (although I didn't get a prize because of a coin toss throws his toys out of a pram). Can't dig something up for me Dave, can you? please! Loyal member of the forum etc etc. On a coin toss for f**** s***!

Getting stage wins in GTs is very difficult, even in the fantasy world. How many have other forum members got exactly?

ray silvester wrote:

drheaton wrote:

Fingers crossed I can wrap up the purist comp tomorrow, got Froome and Quintana for today, Cavendish and Kittel for tomorrow so hopefully that'll give me an advantage over Alan and Jonas who both have Sagan.

Jonas is a single point behind you!!

I'm confident I can seal the deal, I have Cavendish and Kittel versus Jonas' Sagan. The only thing that might scupper things is if Hoogerland/El Fares get in the break and load up on intermediate sprint points.

I'm also hoping that I can sneak into the top 20 in the purist overall, lots of people have one of Sagan or Cav or Kittel but not many above me have two.

Good day for me with 1 2 4 7 11 13 17 20. Dropped Gilbert form my team at the last minute though! Oops!

Alan Tullett wrote:

Getting stage wins in GTs is very difficult, even in the fantasy world. How many have other forum members got exactly?

Same as you - first equal in one stage of the Vuelta but lost out on countback or whatever - didn't even get a stage podium badge! I think the only other top 10 I've had in Grand Tours was 4th on Rolland's stage of the TdF last year...

chrisdstripes wrote:

Alan Tullett wrote:

Getting stage wins in GTs is very difficult, even in the fantasy world. How many have other forum members got exactly?

Same as you - first equal in one stage of the Vuelta but lost out on countback or whatever - didn't even get a stage podium badge! I think the only other top 10 I've had in Grand Tours was 4th on Rolland's stage of the TdF last year...

We ought to get together and complain!

chrisdstripes wrote:

drheaton wrote:

In the overall, my battle for 4th place with stevemarks looks like its going right down to the wire.

And in true Tommy V style, I looked like I'd been dropped from that battle but now I'm trying to come back - less than 100 behind you now Dan!

On another note - Alan Tullett leads the Forum Vuelta Purist comp and looks good, 50 ahead of me, (we have 7 riders the same - his Pozzovivo and Lulu Sanchez vs my Capecchi and Txurruka), with a bit of a gap to Ray in third. Thought that was weird, but on closer inspection it looks like most people didn't go for Moreno, which has made the difference so far. Helluva long way to go on that score though...

Miracle of miracles. I lead a purist comp.

My standard is a disaster so just hunting for a stage win there. Hoping for something decent from Pozzovivo tomorrow. Two long steep climbs. It's going to be a hard stage and the first real test for the favourites. All the other stages have been skirmishes by comparison. We could see Moreno help Purito or maybe they'll both go for it. I expect to see Valverde and Nibali up there with only a select few others. Will Roche be able to hang in there? Good to see Sammy do well today; Euskatel need to go out with a bang not a whimper! And I hope Lulu gets something in the TT as Belkin haven't done much so far in the land of their former masters.