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Purist Tour de France 2013
Just tried to sit down and pick a Purist team for the TdF and it's hard!
Lots of high value riders, very few very cheap riders and not many bargains to be had, this is going to be a tough race to get right from a fantasy point of view.
My thinking at the minute is Froome plus 1 high value rider (Sagan/Cavendish or maybe Contador/Voeckler) then some mid and low priced riders but there's not much quality lower down, might have to rethink and go for lots of mid-range guys...
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Here is my team, called
If I have To Watch It I May As Well Have A Team.
pick basis,"I'll just divide up the points as evenly as possible from near the middle of the list with names I have heard of."
Samuel Dumoulin
Rein Taaramae
Thomas De Gendt
Andrey Amador
Jon Izaguirre Insausti
Kanstantin Siutsou
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
Rohan Dennis
Andy Schleck
I'm The Fat Cylist's wife BTW. First time doing this.
Would love to drop Rogers for Porte, bring in Bertie, but it just does not work, damn budgets!
I don't want to give tips really but you always have the option of dropping both Martin and Rogers and picking up Contador/Voeckler/Rolland/Pinot plus one cheaper guy.
Gadret and Coppel are decent shouts at under 9 credits and riders like Bonnet (5.2) and Hoogerland (6.2) can pick up a few points. My worry with Rogers/Martin is that both will top 10 in the GC but not actually score many fantasy points on their way there finishing 15-20th each day and picking up minor points but being consistently average.
Yea thats the problem with a lot of the GC guys
Yeah, attacking unpredictable riders that can win stages often score more fantasy points than riders on their way to a steady top 10 place.
That's why I'm not picking TJVG in my teams this race (plus he's bloody expensive). He's strong and steady but not likely to attack hard and win a stage. He's most likely to top 10 overall through consistently being top 10 on the big stages and doing well in the TT.
I've got a tenner on Rogers to finish top ten in GC - at 14/1.
Happy to declare my peculiarly-organised purist:
Cav
Quintana
Costa
Hoogerland
Dennis
Navardauskas
Marino
Bonnet
Gadret
EDIT: I have already changed this.
Probably change before tomorrow
Van Den Broeck (my top 3 tip)
Quintana (youth winner)
Cavendish (points winner)
Kittel (few sprint points)
Zubeldia (team leader?, experienced)
Schleck (bound to get a stage win)
Cunego (team leader, few top 10's?)
Mederel (cheap French guy)
El Flares (same as mederel)
My team for tomorrow and the next 20 odd days:
Christopher Froome
Moreno Moser
Richie Porte
Maxime Mederel
Alexis Vuillermoz
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
Alexander Kristoff
Murilo Antonio Fischer
Matteo Bono
A French affair for me
Rolland
Pinot
Bouhanni
Peraud
Gadret
Coppel
El Fares
Moinard
J Pineau
Said in an earlier post that my purist team is going to be picked with my heart and not my head...Picked with breakaways in mind and to keep me interested on the boring stages when 'Carlton' is doing my head in....
T.VOECKLAR
RUI COSTA
R.NAVARDAUSKAS
L.WESTRA
J.COPPEL
D.NAVARRO
J.HOOGERLAND
L-P.NORDHAUG
E.GASPAROTTO
LAST MINUTE CHANGE
Out:LeMevel/Jeannesson
In:Navarro/Bonnet
Its a long race so making this list was really hard. Not sure if there is enough balance but here it is...Schleck is my wild card.
Mark Cavendish (OPQ)
Ryder Hesjedal (GRM)
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (MOV)
Julien El Fares (SAU)
Daniel Martin (GRM)
Manuel Quinziato (BMC)
Daniel Navarro Garcia (COF)
Andy Schleck (RSN)
José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (MOV)
Here's mine - bit of a chancer's squad really
Sagan
Porte
Quintana
Kittel
Dennis
Hoogerland
Gadret
Le Mevel
Fischer
Gone for the big guns and 5 fillers. 3 GC and 1 Green.
Sagan
Froome
Porte
Quintana
Le Mevel
Bono
Gutierrez Palacios
Fischer
Mederel
Not sure on my team now ive seen others
Froome
Sagan
Quintana
Navarro
Gadret
Hivert
Hoogerland
Gutierrez
Fischer
Plumped for Quintana in the end
Froome (top GC, three stage wins)
Cavendish (green plus four stage wins)
Quintana (possible white jersey/top ten GC, maybe KoM)
Kittel (consistent on the flat)
Coppel (dark horse for top ten GC, at least one long break)
Gadret (same)
Bonnet (sprint placings)
Palacios (Team TT)
Willems (Greipel bonus points)
In the end, Cav's stage wins outweigh Sagan's points, there's loads of good sprinters in this race and I don't see him getting top 5 on the flat too often.
Sagan
Quintana
Hesjedal
Navarro
Vichot
Cimolai
Schleck
Gadret
Le Mevel
I always prefer a balanced team. Not having Froome is a risk though.
Crap, Coppel lost 12 minutes yesterday, that's his GC hopes done. Wonder if he's finally given up on his aspirations and will chase a stage win. Fingers crossed he goes for the polka dot jersey
Other than that so far it hasn't gone entirely to plan. Cav dropped points on stage 1 and Bonnet hasn't really featured as I hoped. At least Kittel worked out well and I'm glad I didn't pick De Gendt in the end, shocked he dropped 17 minutes yesterday.
Well I picked my Purist team with my heart and not my head...Basically if I don't like the rider as a personality then I did not consider them....After two stages, I have zero points....
Sad thing is, I am still looking at my team and thinking that it looks pretty good....
T.VOECKLAR
RUI COSTA
J.COPPEL
R.NAVARDAUSKAS
L.WESTRE
D.NAVARRO
J.HOOGERLAND
L-P.NORDHAUG
E.GASPAROTTO
You can never tell how a purist team might do, looking at your team you could do appallingly or you could end up with a five way battle (Voeckler, Costa, Coppel, Westra, Hoogerland) for the KoM jersey and thrash everyone by a country mile.
It's not so bad, you got your first points with Westra in the break today
Kittel and Sagan so far have done OK but not much else - ideal scenario for me is Garmin win the TTT and Talansky takes top 3 in GC and White jersey, and keeps it for a week or more. Glad Dennis dropped time, as others seem to have him, and he could've done likewise.
Can anyone tell me how I've accrued points for Nacer Bouhanni (8 so far) he's finished well down the field both days.
From the intermediate sprints
Sky and Froome better start pulling their collective fingers out or my team will be going down big style, some nice early points from my DS but the big boys are very disappointing so far.
Yes - hopefully they'll manage to cope without a fully fit G in the TTT...
Sky will be fine, Froome and Porte are strong TTers as are EBH, Kiriyenka and Kennaugh.
EBH in yellow tomorrow.
The good thing about coppel loosing time is that they have to ride for Navarro in GC, who I think will top 15, and have some decent stage results
interesting, all the leader in the purist league have pick 5 fast men and padded out wilt low cost. They will pay in the mountains, but do you think this is a viable strategy, rather than say picking 2pc, 1 gc, 2 km, etc etc, intrigued an time will tell
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