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Tour de France Stage 1

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  • June 21, 2012 at 9:31 am #16131
    londonplayer

    Dave has written his preview for Le Tour so I thought I’d kick things off here.

    Stage 1 is a *Prologue* followed by a Classics type stage (or is that a sprint?). Will you load your team with TTer’s, sprinters or a bit of both?

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  • June 29, 2012 at 1:22 pm #687997
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    ray silvester

    Looks like Elmiger wasn’t the
    Looks like Elmiger wasn’t the secret weapon I thought he was đŸ˜•

    June 26, 2012 at 7:31 am #687995
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    chrisdstripes

    Yeah, shame about Elmiger –
    Yeah, shame about Elmiger – I’m trying to find 3 cheap DS that are good all-rounders and always looking for a break, so I can just leave them in for the first week and not waste transfers – thought he was just the man.

    June 25, 2012 at 6:25 pm #687993
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    d_jp

    Thanks J Andrew!…
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    Thanks J Andrew!… đŸ˜•

    …. hey … wait a minute… Thomas isn’t riding…

    #ImNotFallingForThatOne

    :))

    June 25, 2012 at 5:56 pm #687991
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    TERatcliffe26

    Yup Elmiger messed up my team
    Yup Elmiger messed up my team too…..

    June 25, 2012 at 5:55 pm #687989
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    JAndrewHill

    Geraint Thomas did well in
    Geraint Thomas did well in the short prologue at the giro
    . . . #ILikeToBeHelpful

    June 25, 2012 at 5:50 pm #687987
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    d_jp

    So just when I thought I had
    So just when I thought I had a team I was going to be fairly happy with… (until Saturday evening anyway đŸ˜‰ )… along came the weekend and the roster changes…

    No Elmiger, who’d finished high up in the Tour de Suisse prologue nor Remi Pauriol who’d bagged a few points in the Paris-Nice prologue…

    Hmm, so now what to do…? đŸ˜•

    June 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm #687985
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    JAndrewHill

    Any pg tips have thebenefit
    Any pg tips have thebenefit of pg being a belgian wanting to wear yellow at home….

    June 24, 2012 at 9:48 am #687983
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    TERatcliffe26

    JAndrewHill wrote:I read

    JAndrewHill wrote:
    I read somewhere that cav has been getting in shape for box hill so would he try for the sharp finish on stg one or leave it for ebh? A nd then go for stg two which is flatter. Hmmmm đŸ˜• :?

    Cav really? yh but box hill is the finish, stage 1 is a 2.5km drag uphill, with more than half of that at nearly 6% no way will Cav be near the front for that in my opinion, as the attacks will unable to be controlled. Ive already given my two tips earlier in the thread

    June 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm #687981
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    JAndrewHill

    I read somewhere that cav has
    I read somewhere that cav has been getting in shape for box hill so would he try for the sharp finish on stg one or leave it for ebh? A nd then go for stg two which is flatter. Hmmmm đŸ˜• đŸ˜•

    June 22, 2012 at 1:30 pm #687979
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    drheaton

    That’s beeen suggested before
    That’s beeen suggested before and I think it’s a good idea (if difficult to implement).

    There’s no advantage to it as you have to pick so far in advance and could well schedule bad picks or riders may crash out but it helps those who can’t get online for a period of time.

    June 22, 2012 at 1:26 pm #687977
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    frankiejay2

    By the way, I think the
    By the way, I think the solution to this is to allow daily lineup changes ahead of time as is the case in most other daily fantasy sports. That way if I miss the first six stages I could at least have subs that are automatically set on stages 2-6. It’s going to be no advantage to me, considering I will have no concept of how the race unfolds at that point, but it would give me a chance to compete with the other overall guys.

    June 22, 2012 at 12:55 pm #687975
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    frankiejay2

    I didn’t realize this was
    I didn’t realize this was even an issue. I deleted the second account (which I never even used and simply created for this purpose). Likely by the time I get back my purist team will be awful and I’ll go to daily anyway, but whatever.

    Sorry to upset people with something that seemed kosher enough to me. I’d much rather be around and able to change daily but this is life.

    June 22, 2012 at 7:43 am #687973
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    TERatcliffe26

    The easiest way would be for
    The easiest way would be for people to pick two teams under 1 account and the purist team not be up for any prizes and just be in a league effectively.

    As for having a team that you use for stage hunting and 1 for the overall, I think that is wrong as like I think Wig said its having two bites of the cherry basically

    June 22, 2012 at 7:41 am #687971
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    drheaton

    Perhaps up to 3 teams could
    Perhaps up to 3 teams could be available on one account through premium membership? There’s more to be made of the premium account, more features could be added that’ll make it more appealing to more players. The ‘teams of teams’ ideas I had in another thread could be premium only? Stuff like that would work so why not being able to run a couple of teams?

    At the minute I do not have an account for stage hunting, it was a hypothetical due to the fact that I have a team I don’t really use and to be honest I probably won’t go down that line but at least I’m being honest, eh?

    I wonder how many people have an account for their ‘girlfriend’ or dad or some such that they use too. I guess there’s no real way of telling or enforcing ‘one team per person’ rules until a prize is won and Dave notices it’s going to the same address as something else.

    June 22, 2012 at 7:19 am #687969
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    chrisdstripes

    I think its fair enough to
    I think its fair enough to have one account for purist and one for non-purist (like frankiejay), but to have both of these, and a third account for stage-hunting is not really cricket (don’t know if anyone is doing that or if we’re just discussing the hypothetical).

    I only have the one account, but for the Giro I picked a purist team just for fun and worked out the points myself just to see where I would’ve come, so I’ll probably do that for the TdF too.

    Further down the line, I would advocate users being able to enter 2 teams in Grand Tours (1 purist and 1 not), as its really good fun to pick a purist team, but if you’re going for a good overall position for the season then you’re not gonna do it. Although on second thoughts I’m sure Dave would say why not just set up a second account and do it yourself?! So maybe I’ll do that… đŸ˜‰

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