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  • April 13, 2013 at 9:38 pm #18479
    enrique

    🙂 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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  • May 16, 2013 at 10:01 pm #727803
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    Ghedebrav

    Ghedebrav wrote:By the way,

    Ghedebrav wrote:
    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)

    Swap out Scarponi for Uran and this would actually have been a not-half-bad team. After the utter failure of my Belgians in the ToC I may now ditch this ‘national purist’ idea…

    May 16, 2013 at 9:50 pm #727801
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:Not that it’s

    enrique wrote:
    Not that it’s relevant, but…

    I think Cyclingnews.com has Vincenzo Nibali as ViNcenzo, but in the game he appears as Vicenzo…

    May 9, 2013 at 5:37 pm #727799
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:Not that it’s

    enrique wrote:
    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” :)

    Not that it’s relevant, but for some reason now Tiziano Dall ‘Antonia has 3 (!) back-slashes () in the middle of his last name in the game – “Tiziano Dall\’Antonia” 🙂

    May 4, 2013 at 9:40 am #727797
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    ray silvester

    drheaton wrote:ray silvester

    drheaton wrote:
    ray silvester wrote:
    I think if OPQS bought a stronger team then yeah,Cav would be a shoo-in for purist because if he wins stage 1 then they would podium in the TTT giving Cav the Maglia Rosa for a few stages but without their big diesels(Martin,Chava,Grabsch,Kwiatkowski etc) I think they could lose at least 20 seconds to Sky,Garmin,Astana and Greenedge meaning that anything up to 36 riders will be above him in GC wiping out any chance of points in that competition.

    You forget the 20 sec bonus for winning the stage, potentially Cav will be 20 seconds up on the field heading into the TTT and possibly more if he takes an intermediate sprint too.

    Nope.

    That’s why I stated that I expected him to lose 20seconds or more…..and traditionally he’s never gone for intermediate sprints.

    May 4, 2013 at 9:16 am #727795
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    drheaton

    ray silvester wrote:I think

    ray silvester wrote:
    I think if OPQS bought a stronger team then yeah,Cav would be a shoo-in for purist because if he wins stage 1 then they would podium in the TTT giving Cav the Maglia Rosa for a few stages but without their big diesels(Martin,Chava,Grabsch,Kwiatkowski etc) I think they could lose at least 20 seconds to Sky,Garmin,Astana and Greenedge meaning that anything up to 36 riders will be above him in GC wiping out any chance of points in that competition.

    You forget the 20 sec bonus for winning the stage, potentially Cav will be 20 seconds up on the field heading into the TTT and possibly more if he takes an intermediate sprint too.

    May 4, 2013 at 8:58 am #727793
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    ray silvester

    I think if OPQS bought a
    I think if OPQS bought a stronger team then yeah,Cav would be a shoo-in for purist because if he wins stage 1 then they would podium in the TTT giving Cav the Maglia Rosa for a few stages but without their big diesels(Martin,Chava,Grabsch,Kwiatkowski etc) I think they could lose at least 20 seconds to Sky,Garmin,Astana and Greenedge meaning that anything up to 36 riders will be above him in GC wiping out any chance of points in that competition.

    Also it’s not a given that he wins as many of the sprint stages as everyone thinks…..there will be some super-motivated Italian sprinters(Ferrari,Nizzolo,Chicchi,Gavazzi,Modolo even Gatto).

    Bear in mind also that all is not well in the Manxman’s train if they were trying to draft in Petacchi at the last minute…..no Terpstra or Meerkat :B

    I’ve no sprinters in my purist team…..there just isn’t enough stages that suit them and if I was having just one of the ‘Green PC’ guys it would probably be Bouhanni or Degenkolb.

    There is one guy that is an absolute must for every purist team though and I’d suggest he’d be the most popular rider outside of Wiggo/Nibali…..I’ll reveal after the deadline but most of the forum regulars will not be surprised(just relieved he’s not yet been flagged up).

    May 3, 2013 at 10:14 pm #727791
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    d_jp

    Some (useless ) stats about
    Some (useless ;)) stats about my Purist team:
    5 Italians
    3 ARs, 1 PC & the rest are DS

    The most useful things is probably that I normally do really badly so I wouldn’t copy me if I were you 😉

    May 3, 2013 at 10:07 pm #727789
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    charliemac74

    Potentially
    Potentially

    May 3, 2013 at 10:04 pm #727787
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    charliemac74

    Stage 2 scoring not looking
    Stage 2 scoring not looking good though.

    May 3, 2013 at 10:03 pm #727785
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    charliemac74

    My Purist team is old
    My Purist team is old skool:

    1 x GC
    1 x AR
    1 x KM
    1 x PC
    5 x DS

    I like structure.

    DOWN WITH PENALTY TRANSFERS!!!

    May 3, 2013 at 7:50 pm #727783
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    TERatcliffe26

    Ghedebrav, I understand what
    Ghedebrav, I understand what you are saying, but without revealing all my purist team, I would have to axe either Niemiec or Betancur for someone as cheap as Pelizotti or less (I already have 3 guys less than 6 credits)to get Cav in and that would be in place of Bouhanni. As I don’t want to axe 3 of my other riders.

    I don’t think Cav and Pellizotti would outscore a combo of Bouhanni and Betancu/Niemiec, not sure what you think on this?

    I think say Cav wins 5 sprint stages (which he won’t win 5 anyway in opinion), Bouhanni will come 3rd on all those 5, he only looses out on roughly 50 points, Niemiec could top 10 if not better on at least 5 mountain type stages, and Pellizotti potentially outside the top 20. so Niemiec easily makes up the points. If its betancur he should be inside the top 5 in young rider too. Realistically I think if Cav wins 3, Bouhanni will win 1, and so Cav may only outscore by about 30/40 odd points, also Bouhanni has a better chance of hanging in on tougher stages that may be a reduced sprint if has his form of TOO.

    May 3, 2013 at 5:43 pm #727781
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    Ghedebrav

    enrique wrote:chrisdstripes

    enrique wrote:
    chrisdstripes wrote:
    … 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…

    Let me know if you find out otherwise… I had the impression the only riders that outscored Cav in the game last year were Hesjedal and Rodriguez…

    Also there a lot of serious GC contenders, none of whom are really obvious favourites in the same way that Cavendish is the outstanding sprinter. Of riders to pick at the outset, I can’t see anyone as likely to score you lots of points.

    If Greipel and/or Sagan were here too, things might be different.

    May 3, 2013 at 4:32 pm #727779
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    JAndrewHill

    I have decided to drop three
    I have decided to drop three italians from my all italian purist team, and brought in three italians.
    Nib Nib Nibali…

    May 3, 2013 at 1:26 pm #727777
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    Stumps

    Picked my purist team with
    Picked my purist team with one space spare – looking at Henao but dont know if he will be sacrificed for Wiggins.

    BUT if Wiggins is not upto it Henao will be the main man, decisions decisions 😕 😕

    May 3, 2013 at 1:13 pm #727775
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    enrique

    chrisdstripes wrote:… I

    chrisdstripes wrote:
    … 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…

    Let me know if you find out otherwise… I had the impression the only riders that outscored Cav in the game last year were Hesjedal and Rodriguez…

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