[livestrongnick]

So possible fireworks and GC shakeup today?
Having looked at the profile again i think I might regret dropping Alaphilippe :&

Froome
TJ
Yates
Yates
Scarponi
Navarro
Kiserlovski
Teklehaimanot

Topic

[TERatcliffe26]

ala out yates in for me…
ala out yates in for me…

[enrique]

cgipryan wrote:swing, strike,

cgipryan wrote:

swing, strike, miss… the summary of my “all in” for today… next race please…

:)

[cgipryan]

swing, strike, miss… the
swing, strike, miss… the summary of my “all in” for today… next race please…

[enrique]

Today’s stage summary comes
Today’s stage summary comes courtesy of Kleenex, helping the Fantasy Cycling community wipe the tears from their face all over the world… :W

Only 2 teams joined overnight bringing us to a total of 893 teams in the competition.

There were 157 unique scores, exactly the amount of unique scores we had yesterday, too! Hmmm… interesting… 😕

What riders were in the most common team?… 😕 Hmmm… I’m guessing Valverde and Froome… But today it’s especially hard to tell…

Today’s average score was 74.8 points.

As a reference, the average scores for previous stages was:

Stage 1 67.5
Stage 2 82.2
Stage 3 82.2
Stage 4 70.5

Hmmm… 😕 Makes me think there are a lot ‘abandoned” teams out there dragging average scores down… Today, for example, there were 94 teams that scored 33 points or less, which means their whole team scored less than what Froome scored all by his lonesome… 😕 This means, according to the panel of experts I consult with, that these teams are built for a stage and then ‘abandoned’ for the rest of the competition… 😕 That’s roughly 11% of all teams entered…

I guess I could look for the median and the most common score, too… :W

And what would have been today’s ‘Perfect’ team?… this!:

31.5 Romain Bardet
30.7 Tejay Van Garderen
22.5 Simon Yates
22.1 Benat Intxausti
17.4 Michele Scarponi
16.0 Louis Meintjes
4.5 Daniel Teklehaimanot
3.0 Arnaud Courteille

Notice no Froome. Or Valverde… :O 😀

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This team would have come in at 147.7 credits, but (!) it would have yielded you a grand total of 221 points. It was better than the best ‘Actual’ team by ‘only’ 36 points…

Here’s today’s winning team, by the way:

Romain Bardet       KM 58
Tejay Van Garderen       KM 40
Simon Yates       AR 29
Michele Scarponi   KM 21
Andrew Talansky       AR 20
Pierre Rolland   KM 12
Robert Kiserlovski       DS 5
Lawson Craddock   DS 0

Hmmm…No Froome or Valverde there either… :W … but, before today, who the hell would have ventured to put Benat Intxausti or Louis Mentjies or Scarponi on their teams?… 😕 Except you, stumpy… =D> or drdolittle, today’s winner… :W

In contrast, my ‘Dream Team’ of

40.0 Alejandro Valverde
38.0 Christopher Froome
34.1 Vincenzo Nibali
30.7 Tejay Van Garderen
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0

154.8 credits

… going over budget by 4.8 credits would have yielded only 77 points…

Tomorrow? God knows… I’m waiting it out… 😕

I hope we get enough rope to hang ourselves, :/ , with a bigger budget and a better valuation of climbers and GC folks for the Tour… This being able to pick 4 stars and 4 riders everyone will pick too is despairing…

But fun to analyze! 🙂

[stevemarks]

Gone all in, no transfers
Gone all in, no transfers left! At least I can concentrate on TDS. ~X(

[Stumps]

Not a good day today, my
Not a good day today, my transfers failed other than Froome and Meintjes. Made my last 2 transfers for tomorrow and will see how it goes.

[Stumps]

Not a good day today, my
Not a good day today, my transfers failed other than Froome and Meintjes. Made my last 2 transfers for tomorrow and will see how it goes.

[Stumps]

Not a good day today, my
Not a good day today, my transfers failed other than Froome and Meintjes. Made my last 2 transfers for tomorrow and will see how it goes.

[enrique]

triccky100 wrote:…

triccky100 wrote:

… Valverde, Alaphillipe, Purito definitely gone…

I don’t know… Tomorrow’s stage could suit all three… 😕

[JAndrewHill]

Nibali and Alaphillipe picks
Nibali and Alaphillipe picks wasted, and I went for the cheap yates. ~X(
But got top two.
Still have loadsa xfers lefty.

[livestrongnick]

29th on stage and 7th overall
29th on stage and 7th overall I’ll take that thanks 😀

[livestrongnick]

29th on stage and 7th overall
29th on stage and 7th overall I’ll take that thanks 😀

[_Kasper]

Oh, and what happened with
Oh, and what happened with Nibali. Glad i didn’t pick him. Looked like he just quit, he’s probably going for stage win on saturday instead of GC.

[_Kasper]

It seems i have some thinking
It seems i have some thinking to do…
Valverde… Alaphilippe…
I think tomorrow would suit both of them, but i am not impressed with their efforts today ~X(

[backflipbedlem]

13th on stage, might be
13th on stage, might be enough for a stage win on FS

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