Giro 2014

Joelsim wrote:I’m not

Joelsim wrote:

I’m not enjoying the break. I want to play. I think next year there should always be one game at least, every day of the season. And in the winter…

I got NRL and State of Origin to keep me busy atm and I also big speedway(sliders/solo bikes) fan.
State of origin was possibly one of the best games I have seen and I seen all of them and a lot live as I sold programs at the games as kid. If you going to watch a game of origin , check the last one out, except my team lost 🙁

Hope everyone is enjoying
Hope everyone is enjoying their break, I know I certainly am, I could only imagine how some of the riders are feeling, that Giro is just plain Brutal every year.
FANTASTIC viewing , except the organiser’s always seem to stuff up at least 2 stages every year. They certainly could learn a lot off the TDF (except for the driver of the media car that took Hoogs out).
Step in the right direction here I think. I love people getting enthused , but there is a line.

http://road.cc/content/news/120694-police-want-banning-order-spectator-who-pushed-francesco-bongiorno-zoncolan#comment-261717

I seriously doubt I would ride the Giro to often if I was a professional, I would wuss out and do the Classics and come back later in year for Veulta and Worlds ..LOL .
You suffer some mega bad conditions in classics but its only one day and no wet downhills like the Giro’. I can understand the attraction for suffering in the mad conditions of a classic. Pleasure ‘n’ Pain.

THE DAUPH looks a FUN TDF warm-up again, great startlist , can’t wait <:P

And for something a bit more
And for something a bit more light hearted. Every wondered what happens at the back of the bunch? http://youtu.be/k3Uc74IyJSM

chiv30 wrote:… most

chiv30 wrote:

… most [people] would have opted for Quintana…

That’s what’s funny about Purist… There’s a difference between trying to get the highest score possible, beating out other players, having a balanced team, taking risks and as dr says, just having the luck that you don’t have your riders drop out…
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It’s funny because even though ray correctly pointed out that Quintana was not a good value proposition, the best Purist team had him in (!) :/

enrique wrote:

37.0 Nairo Alexander Quintana
33.2 Cadel Evans
26.7 Rafal Majka
23.7 Domenico Pozzovivo
19.1 Wilco Kelderman
17.2 Fabio Aru
16.4 Fabio Andres Duarte
3.4 Rick Flens
3.3 Francesco Chicchi
180.0

I wish we had more detailed info on teams. I wish we could see how many teams actually picked Cataldo and Wellens and Ferrari for their Purist teams for the Giro, just because they were unorthdox great value propositions each yielding 15.1, 18.7 and 10.1 points per budget credit… I don’t know if after, or at any point in the competition, you can see the number, not the percentage, of teams that picked a certain rider, but it’d be kind of cool to see how many people picked those riders for their Purist teams… 😕

Why? Just because I think no one thought of them as worthy picks for GC, breakaway riders, KOM competitiors, etc… and it’d be kind of nice to applaud those who came up with those riders for their teams…

chiv30 wrote:

… the only difference would have been on who [people]… pick…

Incidentally, here are what came about to be the Top 10 ‘best value options’ for the Giro:

9.4 Tim Wellens 18.7
13.1 Julian David Arredondo 17.1
17.2 Fabio Aru 17.0
14.0 Dario Cataldo 15.1
3.0 Enrico Barbin 15.0
3.0 Marco Bandiera 13.7
3.0 Ivan Rovny 13.7
19.1 Wilco Kelderman 13.0
26.7 Rafal Majka 12.8
3.0 Angelo Tulik 12.7

Again, it’d be kind of nice to be able to see how many people chose those riders for Purist after the competition was over… Maybe the ‘riders’ page could collect that info as they do the scores for each rider at the end of the competition…

enrique wrote:chiv30

enrique wrote:

chiv30 wrote:

…what would the best team have been with a 150 credit budget? :)

Good idea! 🙂
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Here it is:

29.3 Rigoberto Uran
26.7 Rafal Majka
19.1 Wilco Kelderman
17.9 Roberto Ferrari
17.2 Fabio Aru
14.0 Dario Cataldo
13.1 Julian David Arredondo
9.4 Tim Wellens
3.0 Enrico Barbin
149.7

It would have netted you 2087 points…

If you felt like you had to have Quintana on your team, you would have had to replace Majka and Ferrari with Quintana and Tjallingii in the team above. So this would have been the best team with Quintana under 150.0:

37.0 Nairo Alexander Quintana
29.3 Rigoberto Uran
19.1 Wilco Kelderman
17.2 Fabio Aru
14.0 Dario Cataldo
13.1 Julian David Arredondo
9.4 Tim Wellens
7.3 Maarten Tjallingii
3.0 Enrico Barbin
149.4

But It would have scored you 1970 points…

So what you have just proved is that even in purist the 180 vs150 budget really was irrelevant as in both instances the difference in max scores across a 3 week tour is minimal, the only difference would have been on who ppl would pick and on the restricted budget ….. I’m sure most ppl would have opted for Quintana thus netting them a lower score

Great Giro everyone!
Really
Great Giro everyone!
Really enjoyed that one to mark my 1 year anniversary of good old Fantasy Cycling!!!

ray silvester wrote:180
[quote=ray silvester]180 credits and I still haven’t got Quintana in purist……just don’t think he’ll do that well fantasy wise even though he may well win the Giro itself but taking the lead late in the race.

EBH and Matthews are the interesting ridersfor me….and I’m predicting one or perhaps both of them will be in pink at some stage in the opening skirmishes.

I thought so!!