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Podium Cafe VDS

Hello,

 

At the end of last year I said I'd be setting up an off-site league in one of the other bigger fantasy games.  The game is the Podium Cafe VDS and it is a year long squad based game.  You get a budget, pick a squad based on a set of rules then that's it.  No transfers, no picking teams, nothing.  You just have to trust your guys to go out and get you some points.

The game runs across both women's and men's racing the calendar is very extensive covering everything from Grand Tours to national championships.

An intro to the game can be found here - http://www.podiumcafe.com/2014/2/3/5370538/fsa-directeur-sportif-2014-starts-now

And the game itself is here - http://pdcvds.com/

League's don't seem to work too well so if anyone else is interested in competing we'll need to add each other to our own personal leagues, that means if you 're in you need to post your DS name and team name in this thread.  I'll keep track of the results through the year.

My details are:- DS name - drheaton Men's team - Mostly Hopeless Women's team - Right-handed OuOuOranges

Competitors: (DS - Men's Team - Women's Team)
TERatcliffe26 - TERatcliffe26
shutuplegs - Avengers:Age of Nick! - Ladies 1st
The Domestique - The Domestique
raysilvester1 - Big Rays Riders
Ghedebrav - Voodoo All Stars
Twybaydos - Topsport Torquay - Topsport Torquay Femennile
chiv30 - Carbon crutches and epo
Pure fantasy - Pure fantasy - Pure fantasy women

If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.

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TERatcliffe26 | 9 years ago
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Complete bust for me at the giro today. (more geared to overall with J-Rod and Pozz, and outside potential from Basso, Monfort, Geniez, Zoidl, Arredondo. Only Colbrelli that could do something on flatter stages)

Just need Demare to hold on to the overall at 4JDD though

As for my women, Vos looks like she is gonna pull me back into contention and make her selection worth it

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ray silvester replied to Alan Tullett | 9 years ago
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Alan Tullett wrote:
Dux89 wrote:

Would be really great if Uran finally delivered for all those points.

Ditto!
Got Swift, Rolland, Amador and Haas as well. But no Porte, my big mistake!  20

Yeah.....Uran would be nice for me too....plus a sprints jersey for Bouhanni perhaps?

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Twybaydos | 9 years ago
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I haven't updated this for a while as things weren't really moving enough week on week to justify it.

After Giro I'll aim to tot up scores. At the moment Dux89 (DaneC) is now beating me by 200 points but if my Pozzo and Kelderman finish above his Uran and Arredondo gets the mountains jersey I may claw this back. Uran finishing second would only give Dane 450 points but 6+7+mts yields 585.

Aru was only 6 points by the way....

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ray silvester | 9 years ago
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Nice little century for Phinney in the US TT's

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livestrongnick replied to ray silvester | 9 years ago
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ray silvester wrote:

Nice little century for Phinney in the US TT's

No more points for a while now though  40 having a broken leg and stuff  31

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ray silvester | 9 years ago
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Ouch

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Twybaydos | 9 years ago
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Results after the Giro. I clawed back a lot of points from Dux 89 in the final standings where Pozzo, Kelderman, Geniez and Arredondo scored more than his Uran, but Dux is still ahead of me by 32 points (or a Bryan Coquard stage win in the French cup).

Men - Big changes, bad times for Ghedebrav, great results for Ray and Nick, who moved off the bottom

1.(2) Dane C - Velohuman Pro Cycling 7448
2.(1) Twybaydos Topsport Torquay 7416
3.(6) raysilvester1 Big Rays Riders 6232
4.(4) Pure fantasy Pure fantasy 5894
5.(8) TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 5469
6.(10) shutuplegs Avengers:Age of Nick! 5288
7. (7) The Domestique The Domestique 5024
8.(5) drheaton Mostly Hopeless 4743
9.(3) Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 4649
10.(9) chiv30 carbon crutches and epo 3902

Women
1. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay Femennile 7153
2. shutuplegs Ladies 1st 5840
3.(5) drheaton Right-handed OuOuOranges 5668
4.(6) TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 5323
5.(3) Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 5192
6.(4). Pure fantasy Pure fantasy women 4434
7. The Domestique The Domestique 3188

Combined (a count-back of overall place in each game rather than total score):
1. Twybaydos 46
2.(3) shutuplegs 235
3.(6) TERatcliffe26 263
4.(5). drheaton 290
5.(3) PureFantasy 315
6.(2). Ghedebrav 327
7. The Domestique 425

It's probably not worth updating the results until after TDF.

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drheaton | 9 years ago
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Fingers crossed Sagan/Kwiatowski light up the Tour.

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livestrongnick | 9 years ago
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Quitana did good for me in the Giro but thats it for me now.......back to the bottom I think  31

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ray silvester | 9 years ago
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Big Panzer starting to pick up some points now in the TT's.......his selectionbeing good or bad more or less rests on him winning the World's Team AND ITT?

Hope I haven't jinxd him as last time I bigged up a TT'er(Phinney) he broke his leg the next day  102

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livestrongnick | 9 years ago
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I stole the lead in the ladies  4
Thanks lizzie  8

1. shutuplegs Ladies 1st 8387
2. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay Femennile 8358
3. drheaton Right-handed OuOuOranges 7723
4. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 7539
5. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 7032
6. Pure fantasy Pure fantasy women 5984
7. The Domestique The Domestique 5534

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Dux89 | 9 years ago
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Plenty of people have Sagan, but Kwiatkowski and Coquard are my main differentiators from other teams in this Tour. Would love it if they'd just get a little closer.

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Twybaydos replied to livestrongnick | 9 years ago
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I stole the lead in the ladies  4
Thanks lizzie  8

I have lizzie too, it's Ferrand-Prevot and Bronzini you should be thanking

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livestrongnick | 9 years ago
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Yeah course I'd not really crossed checked our riders woohoo!

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Twybaydos | 9 years ago
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This one slipped the radar, mainly because I set up a mini league on my VDS profile and forgot to tell you how things were going. Will post full final results soon but:

Dux89 won the mens competition
I won the ladies

On the basis I came second in mens and Dux didn't enter, I think I also won the combined.

I enjoyed playing, I thoroughly recommend this next year for those who missed out. If I recall teams have to be entered by February so get ready to unrealistically expect riders can carry their TDU form into the business end of the 2015 season.

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