Fantasy Cycling - final scores

Lost faith in the brand wrote:

seriously its frank shleck your only gona loose 5 points

If it was Tommy V, I would be demanding a recount, but what did Frank do in the Tour? 10th, 10th & 12th place stage finishes.

Not going to impact on the top 3 prizes. As the difference between 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 are not going to be impacted by 30 odd points. And he was never in number 3's team.

Possible impact on a stage win but unlikely. A lot of work for little gain Dave

Wig_Billy wrote:

Whilst I'm at it, a point about this part of the rule;

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'The scores and rankings for each race will be finalised once the race is completed, and we won't revisit them retrospectively should a rider be suspended later in the season. If we've announced a stage winner and the scores are changed due to a disqualification, that score will stand.'

I don't know if anybody here watched this years Tour of Turkey, but there was one guy who was suspiciously better than everybody else - Ivailo Gabrovski. If the fantasy game included that race, many people would've picked him and they would've collected lots of points as a result. But if somebody didn't pick him because they thought he was a bit too good to be true, they would've missed out because there was no positive test announced during the race.
Fast forward two months and it's reported that Gabrovski's urine sample from that race contained EPO. So anybody who didn't pick him would've been right to do so, but they wouldn't benefit because of the time the test results were announced.

To me, it doesn't seem fair that a positive test can either have a huge impact on your team, or no impact at all just because of the timing of the announcement. I appreciate that changing months of fantasy points and possibly reallocating prizes would be an absolute nightmare, but maybe this is something that can be looked at?

I think he has a point......

Can we have a recount of the TdF in 2009 because I never picked Armstrong?

dave_atkinson wrote:

As always we'll review the rules at the end of the season. But for this season they're set. So Frank's points go.

Yes, I completely understand that. Just giving my opinion.

dave_atkinson wrote:

As always we'll review the rules at the end of the season. But for this season they're set. So Frank's points go.

The wording of the rule might be something to look at if you do decide to keep it (I'm in the camp that says you shouldn't, but that's by-the-by). At the moment it says "if a rider is disqualified or suspended", but as I understand it, officially Frank Schleck withdrew himself after the positive test and was actually neither disqualified nor suspended. He presumably would've been if he hadn't withdrawn, but its just a grey area that some people might get narky about.

Anyway - great three weeks and great game, looking forward to finding out the rules for the Olympics!

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Its called tough luck of the draw, you say it its unfair and we dont know that he is doping, but equally it would be unfair for someone to win by picking someone who has cheated over someone who has not.

And as is the case be it right or wrong the rules were set out from the star

Completely agree, rules are rules.