[backflipbedlem]

Just wondered what everyones Purist teams were, never saw them at the begining!

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[enrique]

Joelsim wrote:I’ve gone all

Joelsim wrote:

I’ve gone all sprinty. For FS reasons and intermediate sprint points. Time will tell whether it works out.

That wasn’t such a bad idea! 🙂

I don’t know how you guys don’t miss this but here it is! The BPPT! 🙂

This is fairly special! 🙂 Probably because of the huge amount of points available on every stage I think this is the first time I’ve found 2 ‘pure’ sprinters on the BPPT for a Grand Tour! 🙂

40.0 Peter Sagan
37.5 Christopher Froome
26.8 John Degenkolb
17.1 Andre Greipel
16.2 Pierre Rolland
11.4 Bob Jungels
8.9 Serge Pauwels
7.6 Mathias Frank
4.0 Ruben Plaza

This team would have yielded 2490 points and come in at 169.5 credits.

It would have come in at No. 370 with no transfers in the Standard Competition.

I wonder if the Best ‘Actual’ Team got it right? Would somebody post for me please? Thanks!

Congratulations again to triccky again on the Standard Competition! 🙂 Nice job! 🙂

[leortp]

8th this year to follow 3rd
8th this year to follow 3rd place 2 years ago.

I just needed arredondo to do something/anything … harder to stay mad at Kudus

[Joelsim]

Aagh! Very very poor from me
Aagh! Very very poor from me today. (And obviously I was expecting Cav & Greipel to win today 😉 )

[backflipbedlem]

Joelsim wrote:I’m dropping

Joelsim wrote:

I’m dropping like a stone. One change would have made me a potential winner, if I’d chosen Froome or Quintana instead of Kristoff. Then again I wouldn’t have won 3 stages.

Yea Kristoff been a big dissapointment! I would of done much better with Greipel!

[Joelsim]

I’m dropping like a stone.
I’m dropping like a stone. One change would have made me a potential winner, if I’d chosen Froome or Quintana instead of Kristoff. Then again I wouldn’t have won 3 stages.

[Condor Andy]

I’m sitting in 33rd now with
I’m sitting in 33rd now with my hopes resting on Mathias Frank continuing yesterdays good form.

[chrisdstripes]

Nice work Joel!
Sagan’s
Nice work Joel!

Sagan’s relentlessness is doing for my challenge, although I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m close to being the top non-Sagan purist team!

[Joelsim]

Tour De France Purist 3rd
Tour De France Purist 3rd stage win…surely there must be a prize for that!

I need something to compensate for the punching, spitting and urine-throwing I’ve had to endure en route…

[Alan Tullett]

chrisdstripes

chrisdstripes wrote:

triccky100 wrote:

I’ve gone all climbly instead of sprinty, but did not realise the scoring was skewed towards intermediate sprints and KOM points (was it the same in the giro?).

Its the same, in that they score what the race scores, but in the TDF they just have one sprint per stage with 15 guys scoring, as opposed to 3-4 sprints with just three scorers. So normally there’s a small break and then the sprinters compete for 6-12 points, whereas in the other races the break snaffles all the sprint points. Makes sprinters a lot more valuable in the TDF than the other grand tours as far as fantasy cycling goes – took me a year to work that out as well!

KOM tends to hot up in the second half of the race with big points for Cat 1 and HC. If a guy in the breakaway crests those climbs first and then goes on to win the stage, there are huge fantasy points – Voeckler got 100 in one stage a couple of years ago(!) and Rolland maybe 80-odd one day in the same tour. But over a few stages the GC guys will still be the top scorers…

I remember that as I had him and it was Valverde who scored good points the next day to get me the stage win and a Bryton rider I still use! Those were the days! Bikes for the winners and very good stage prizes!

For this race I’ve gone with a mixture of climbers and sprinters although I’m not expecting anyone to score 100 points in a single stage.

Nibali
Quintana
Cav
Degenkolb
Soupe
Talansky
Arredondo
kozontchuk now out
Barta

Nibali and Quintana a bit of a disappointment so far but we’ll see how they’ll go in the end. They’ll need to attack to catch Froome Contador and TVG.

[Joelsim]

It won’t here either! I’m not
It won’t here either! I’m not going to score many points today

[backflipbedlem]

Good luck Joel! Tried to do a
Good luck Joel! Tried to do a similar thing in the Giro, but didn’t quite work

[Joelsim]

2nd stage win today of the
2nd stage win today of the comp today and now first overall. Doesn’t get much better than that.

Having said that my sprint team are now going to plummet, hopefully the intermediates can soften that plummet.

[Joelsim]

That was to stumps rather
That was to stumps rather than you so he can see what we mean

[Aragonite]

As above. Stage 1 Purist
As above. Stage 1 Purist shows my French 5, team and score. Stages 2-6 Purist shows my Standard teams and scores.

[Joelsim]

Click on your name in the
Click on your name in the overall and then go to stage scores and then click on your purist stages and you’ll see what I mean

[Author]

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