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Very happy with a podium

Very happy with a podium place! Even scraped a top 10 in the purists…… Hadn’t realised the tension that riding high in the game could bring, so can now relax again & resume playing at my customary, slightly less exalted, level!

[Dr Winston]

MinardiM189 wrote:

Overall I have to be pleased with my TdF

4th in Standard

28th in Purist

1st Forum Scorum

Now less than 400 points behind Mountain Renegade in overall standard

within 150 of Dr Winston in the purist

and opening a decent gap in Forum Scorum overall.

Many congratulations to the top 3 in TdF standard, you all played a brilliant finish. I thought I was in with a good chance after Stage 16 but got blown out of it by better players.

You’ve had a great run since the spring when everybody you picked turned to dust, or crashed, or didn’t start…playing the best game in the league for three months now….nice.

I’m happy enough with my 14th….more than half the race played without any even reasonable internet connection on my hols makes it tricky, tried last year at the same place on my hols and only managed 250th…I was expecting worse. 

[MinardiM189]

Overall I have to be pleased

Overall I have to be pleased with my TdF

4th in Standard

28th in Purist

1st Forum Scorum

Now less than 400 points behind Mountain Renegade in overall standard

within 150 of Dr Winston in the purist

and opening a decent gap in Forum Scorum overall.

Many congratulations to the top 3 in TdF standard, you all played a brilliant finish. I thought I was in with a good chance after Stage 16 but got blown out of it by better players.

[Dr Winston]

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

I was the same with Trentin when he was good for four stages in a row…i saw it the night before then had to rush my transfers in the morning and messed up.

Great ride from Greipel…nice to go out with a decent finish if this turns out to be his last GT.

Trentin and Stuyven have been excellent throughout as well…

Stuyven is always consistent in the sprints, that is why I picked him for the final stage over Colbrelli and EBH.

Trentin had a great race and made a wise decision to not challenge for intermediate sprints quite early, that gave him freedom to get in breaks which Colbrelli and Matthews never got. Sagan & Bora will not allow anyone near him in the points competition to get away, and unfortunately Sagan didn’t look interested in winning from the break himself after winning stage5.

ASO should change the green jersey format. Maybe 75, 60, 40, 25 for flat stages, making Sagan work harder to collect points in intermediate stages.

I have a sad feeling that MWS coming last on the final stage may cost me a top3 position.

 

You may be right. I wrote earlier on the forum that i’d Like the intermediate sprints to change…and they’ve actually been a little better in this tour than or GT’s of late…

I miss the days of the red jersey competition. When they scrapped it it was quite a well liked competition before the days of breaks being largely made up of the minor teams just for the advertising. Shaun Kelly won it four times which kinda shows how much more importance the red jersey put on the intermediates…your idea would have the same effect.

[MinardiM189]

Dr Winston wrote:

I was the same with Trentin when he was good for four stages in a row…i saw it the night before then had to rush my transfers in the morning and messed up.

Great ride from Greipel…nice to go out with a decent finish if this turns out to be his last GT.

Trentin and Stuyven have been excellent throughout as well…

Stuyven is always consistent in the sprints, that is why I picked him for the final stage over Colbrelli and EBH.

Trentin had a great race and made a wise decision to not challenge for intermediate sprints quite early, that gave him freedom to get in breaks which Colbrelli and Matthews never got. Sagan & Bora will not allow anyone near him in the points competition to get away, and unfortunately Sagan didn’t look interested in winning from the break himself after winning stage5.

ASO should change the green jersey format. Maybe 75, 60, 40, 25 for flat stages, making Sagan work harder to collect points in intermediate stages.

I have a sad feeling that MWS coming last on the final stage may cost me a top3 position.

 

[Dr Winston]

I was the same with Trentin

I was the same with Trentin when he was good for four stages in a row…i saw it the night before then had to rush my transfers in the morning and messed up.

Great ride from Greipel…nice to go out with a decent finish if this turns out to be his last GT.

Trentin and Stuyven have been excellent throughout as well…

[MinardiM189]

Dr Winston wrote:

It was a strange week for you with so many transfers left over. It was all about guessing right with the one off picks….Nibali, Bardet and co….always risky and, as we know, in the long run doomed to fail….even Yates conspired to let us down.

I missed a trick not bringing Trentin in, Porte proved to be a bad pick and then Yates did nothing when I brought him in twice.

Maybe I should have brought Politt in for today, I suspect he will go in a late break with someone like Kung and maybe pull off a surprise.

[Dr Winston]

MinardiM189 wrote:

All my transfers didn’t really help in the last week.

Lets see what my last 5 can do.

EWAN
BERNAL
GROENEWEGEN
KRUIJSWIJK
VIVIANI
STUYVEN
IRVITI
BONIFAZIO

It was a strange week for you with so many transfers left over. It was all about guessing right with the one off picks….Nibali, Bardet and co….always risky and, as we know, in the long run doomed to fail….even Yates conspired to let us down.

[MinardiM189]

All my transfers didn’t

All my transfers didn’t really help in the last week.

Lets see what my last 5 can do.

EWAN
BERNAL
GROENEWEGEN
KRUIJSWIJK
VIVIANI
STUYVEN
IRVITI
BONIFAZIO

[MinardiM189]

Dr Winston wrote:

I quite liked the idea of that final stage….a simple race up a single mountain. Not sure i’d Want it every year but it did have a certain appeal at stage 20.

There are often stages like that in La Vuelta but they have about 150km before the final mountain, eg. Stage 19 last year.

The Giro quite often too.

The shortness of today’s stage made it quite TV friendly but it lacked a  bit of action from the main teams. Movistar could probably have won it if they put Soler on the front for a while rather than him attacking and the same with Quintana & then Landa at the end.

The chance of a stage win for Valverde with zero risk to GC positions was thrown away.

[Dr Winston]

I quite liked the idea of

I quite liked the idea of that final stage….a simple race up a single mountain. Not sure i’d Want it every year but it did have a certain appeal at stage 20.

[MinardiM189]

Movistar with 4 riders in the

Movistar with 4 riders in the final group and they completely fail to work together and lose the stage by 10seconds.

[MinardiM189]

triccky100 wrote:

yep damn shame, was the only one in top 5 with Yates! Don’t think I could catch first but podium was on the cards…

40 points on final climb only points on offer. Bardet would need to be up,. a few who can catch him:

1 BARDET Romain AG2R La Mondiale 86
2 WELLENS Tim Lotto Soudal 74
3 CARUSO Damiano Bahrain Merida 67
4 YATES Simon Mitchelton-Scott 59
5 BERNAL Egan Team INEOS 58
6 QUINTANA Nairo Movistar Team 58

Would my Buchmann/Uran combination have scored more than your Yates/Bardet ?

I think my chance of winning disappeared with the ‘neutralisation’ of the stage. I probably had 3 top 10 finishers as opposed to 1 for the competition leader.

 

[Condor Andy]

Dr Winston wrote:

Nonetheless…has anybody got a profile for tomorrow?….is the KOM competition all by dead now or not?

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2019/stage-20/today/profiles

 

[triccky100]

Dr Winston wrote:

Shame about the Simon Yates pick. Bernal would have carried on driving for the line with Yates in tow along for the ride….and mug Bernal for the stage finish. Picking Bardet and Yates as ny break away picks would have been good going…

Nonetheless…has anybody got a profile for tomorrow?….is the KOM competition all by dead now or not?

 

yep damn shame, was the only one in top 5 with Yates! Don’t think I could catch first but podium was on the cards…

40 points on final climb only points on offer. Bardet would need to be up,. a few who can catch him:

1 BARDET Romain AG2R La Mondiale 86
2 WELLENS Tim Lotto Soudal 74
3 CARUSO Damiano Bahrain Merida 67
4 YATES Simon Mitchelton-Scott 59
5 BERNAL Egan Team INEOS 58
6 QUINTANA Nairo Movistar Team 58

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