Rider values

dave_atkinson wrote:

de Gendt currently isn't listed in the overall KOM. Not sure why. He hasn't been givem any points for that yet, we'll amend if we have to

Dave, are the riders' total points on display anywhere on the site? I know if you click on a rider's name you get his total scores for the overall competition, but can they be seen as a group anywhere?

On another note, I'm looking for some numbers to crunch for next year, so, I know it's a lot to ask for, but, if you're bored some day, at the end of the overall competition, could you share some stats for the stage races, like:

1. Top 20 riders who got their points at the finish line of mass sprint stages?
2. Top 20 riders who got their points at the finish line of mountaintop summit finishes?
3. Top 20 riders who got their points in breakaways - or - on the road - meaning not at the finish line?
4. Top 20 riders who got their points from KOM points on the road
5. I know it's a lot, thanks for reading!

http://www.uci.html.infostradasports.com/cache/2/TheASP.asp@PageID%3D102...

I think we'll score quite highly for these early tours as they are fairly predictable and the extra stage scores make for big totals.

On points: by the end of the TdF I had about 190 points but I didn't always use them. In fact leaving a few points spare is a good strategy. The lack of limitations in who you can pick as star riders also makes the game easier as you can pack your team with sprinters for the flat and climbers for the mountains. Transfers rolling over also makes it easier to build up transfers and switch. I used to change mainly DSs, now I'm realising it's more important to change star riders as they are the big points earners.

I was surprised to find Christian Van de Velde as a domestique... Hmmm!...

Yeah...

Gkam84 wrote:

Now your nit picking...

Austerity measures - smaller budgets, higher prices....

Ah, i was looking under riders for the next stage and he wasn't listed. Found him now but it still wont let me pick him.

Never mind cos i couldn't find him i have gone for the same as Mr Hill above.

Well Flecha isn't the Sky specialist I went for . . . I picked another, and I don't mean Cav !

Where has Flecha gone from the Sky line up. They only have 7 listed but he is not one of them. Was going to pick him as he always tries a break at some point. Anybody help

Think I have my team sorted

Cav v Renshaw v Greipel might happen next week in qatar ! Bring it on.

Did anybody go down in value???
Anyhoo, heres a hypothetical not too bad team.

149.4 points.

Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Mark Renshaw (RAB)
Thor Hushovd (BMC)
Juan Jose Haedo (SAX)
Johan Vansummeren (GRM)
Christian Knees (SKY)
Ion Izagirre (EUS)
Anders Lund (SAX)
Javier Moreno (MOV)

Also as previously posted else where, there will be a lot of great riders missing from the tours due to teams merging and consolodating, so some of the choices will be made for us, also remember Coe/Ovett in the running,expect Cav, Goss, Renshaw, Greipelm Hushovd not to come up against each other till they have to.

Im all for low budgets and a challenege, but im not sure the correct balance between budget and rider values has quite been struck

Yeah, i am all for low budgets to make it more skilful . . . big budgets make it too easy.

With a low budget you ned to find those jokers in the patch who no one else realises is going to get in the top 5 in those big uphill finishes in Qatar.

So who are my jokers?
Is Juanjo Cobo riding qatar?
He's good value at 34.7.

The less money you have ther more skillful you need to be.
Otherwise we'd all pick . . .
M. Cavendish PC SKY 40.0
P. Gilbert AR BMC 40.0
A. Contador GC SAX 39.6
J. Rodriguez AR
C. Vande Velde DS GRM 16.6
S. Casar DS FDJ 16.0
L. Bak DS LOT 15.7
V. Agnoli DS LIQ 15.6
D. Cataldo DS OPQ 15.4

Hey, that's not a bad GC squad. . . . can I have 200k and pick this purist team?

The less money you have ther more skillful you need to be.
Otherwise we'd all pick . . .
M. Cavendish PC SKY 40.0
P. Gilbert AR BMC 40.0
A. Contador GC SAX 39.6
C. Vande Velde DS GRM 16.6
S. Casar DS FDJ 16.0
L. Bak DS LOT 15.7
V. Agnoli DS LIQ 15.6
D. Cataldo DS OPQ 15.4

Hey, that's not a bad GC squad. . . . can I have 200k and pick this purist team?

I agree that it will be harder to score points this year.
Less credits and more points for stage wins means that there will be more gambling on trying to pick a stage winner rather than sticking with the (almost) guarenteed points from a gc leader.
I think it will be much more interesting this year and should lead to more varied teams rather than everybody opting for the same team of all the top gc guys.

Even with the lower scoring, theres still no reason you cant be competitive, unless you're trying to compete with your own scores from last year :s

Then of course you have the transfer challenge as you may have chosen riders that are unlikely to score elsewhere. Could be spending a few penalty points?

If i understand this correctly if one of your riders wins a stage then if you have another squad member in your team he also gets points ?

So basically you have to work out who will win the stage and pick a team member of the same squad at a cheap value cos they normally wouldn't win a stage but will subsequently score points.

So for stage one of Paris - Nice (a team time trial) if you pick 4 riders from the top 4 time trialling teams then you will probably score quite highly.

I think my thinking is correct, but i'm starting to confuse myself now

Echo's previous comments.

I think reducing the credits from 175 to 150 due to 5 DS rather than 4 hasn't worked due to the increase in higher valued star riders

Think if you went from 4 star riders to 5 star riders it would be abit more realistic based on the amount of riders in the star category and those that have moved to that category.

However like Gkam says will be tough to make a semi competitive team

but we all love a challenge