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  • June 24, 2014 at 12:49 pm #21759
    Joelsim

    My first Tour and it looks like tactics during this need to be adapted from the usual fayre.

    Still over a week and a half away, which is less than ideal.

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  • June 28, 2014 at 6:51 pm #800851
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    Stumps

    Perhaps Bjarne could ge this
    Perhaps Bjarne could ge this bike out again, it would make a canny threesome !

    June 28, 2014 at 4:34 pm #800849
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    Joelsim

    Huge. Good job that other
    Huge. Good job that other bastion of clean riding Mick Rogers is on hand.

    June 28, 2014 at 3:47 pm #800847
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    Stumps

    Joelsim wrote:Kreuziger out

    Joelsim wrote:
    Kreuziger out of the tour for irregular passport readings that have failed to be explained.

    ha, he’s contador’s wing man. Massive loss to their team 😀

    June 28, 2014 at 2:13 pm #800845
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    Joelsim

    Kreuziger out of the tour for
    Kreuziger out of the tour for irregular passport readings that have failed to be explained.

    June 28, 2014 at 11:45 am #800843
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    TERatcliffe26

    Should have clarified, when I
    Should have clarified, when I said hit and miss with Kittel, I was referring to him making it to sprints you should expect him to contest, ie, I see Kristoff contesting more sprints than Kittel (and Cav for that matter, although Cav always seems to have another gear at the tour), same can be said for Greipel as I see him as stronger these days, with a little less top end.

    June 28, 2014 at 11:30 am #800841
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    Joelsim

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:Think Im

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    Think Im gonna go Sagan over Cav for stage 1 in standard too to give me another transfer for stage 2. As I did have the combo of Cav/Bennati, now going Sagan/Haussler. Struggling to find much value at the sort of 8-15 range for sprinters, but plenty when i comes to lumpy/mountains, especially in the say 9-17 range.
    Also can’t decide on Kittel or Kristoff, and I can’t get Demare in. Kittel is good don’t get me wrong, but from a fantasy point of view he can be so hit and miss

    Can’t decide on purist, got 7 pretty much set in stone, although im worried about my sprint options. Can’t seem to be able to have the balls to do it without Contador/Froome and go with another sprinter, as I only have Sagan and Modolo.
    Do I drop Contador for say Talansky, and be able to bring Demare for my other mid priced climber.

    Decisions

    Out of the 13 bunch sprints that Cav & Kittel have been involved, Cav has only won 2.

    Kittel, looking at his PCS stats, has only failed to win one sprint that he has contested this year. This doesn’t include those that he has been dropped before the sprint has commenced/crashed.

    Basically if he is there in the final straight, odds-on he will win it.

    June 28, 2014 at 11:06 am #800839
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    TERatcliffe26

    Almost opposite to
    Almost opposite to mine

    Contador
    Bardet
    JVDB
    Sagan
    Modolo
    Voeckler
    Bideau
    Nieve/Frank
    Voss/Ladagnous

    June 28, 2014 at 10:55 am #800837
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    Joelsim

    This is how my Purist is
    This is how my Purist is looking at the moment. It will obviously change during the course of this week. A lot.

    Peter Sagan (CAD)
    Alexander Kristoff (KAT)
    Arnaud Demare (FDJ)
    Sacha Modolo (LAM)
    Danny Van Poppel (TFR)
    Rein Taaramae (COF)
    Arnaud Gerard (BSE)
    Alessandro De Marchi (CAD)
    Thomas Voeckler (EUC)

    June 28, 2014 at 10:21 am #800835
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    TERatcliffe26

    Think Im gonna go Sagan over
    Think Im gonna go Sagan over Cav for stage 1 in standard too to give me another transfer for stage 2. As I did have the combo of Cav/Bennati, now going Sagan/Haussler. Struggling to find much value at the sort of 8-15 range for sprinters, but plenty when i comes to lumpy/mountains, especially in the say 9-17 range.
    Also can’t decide on Kittel or Kristoff, and I can’t get Demare in. Kittel is good don’t get me wrong, but from a fantasy point of view he can be so hit and miss

    Can’t decide on purist, got 7 pretty much set in stone, although im worried about my sprint options. Can’t seem to be able to have the balls to do it without Contador/Froome and go with another sprinter, as I only have Sagan and Modolo.
    Do I drop Contador for say Talansky, and be able to bring Demare for my other mid priced climber.

    Decisions

    June 27, 2014 at 8:14 pm #800833
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    Joelsim

    Ive got 5 or 6 in mine.
    At
    Ive got 5 or 6 in mine.

    At the moment.

    None this morning.

    June 27, 2014 at 8:08 pm #800831
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    TERatcliffe26

    Sagan surely?
    Ive gone Sagan
    Sagan surely?

    Ive gone Sagan and Modolo as my sprinters

    June 27, 2014 at 3:33 pm #800829
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    Joelsim

    I would have thought that was
    I would have thought that was a no-brainer

    June 27, 2014 at 2:58 pm #800827
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    Stumps

    My hardest decision is
    My hardest decision is whether to go Cav or Sagan in my purist team.

    If Cav then it free’s up another 4+ points towards a better rider…. 😕

    June 27, 2014 at 9:54 am #800825
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    Joelsim

    This tour gets harder for
    This tour gets harder for picking a team the more I look at it. With several flat stages you would think it would be relatively easy, but the sprinters are expensive. Stage 2,5,7,8,9 are anyone’s guess plus a risk of breakaways in the others.

    Choices, choices.

    June 27, 2014 at 3:37 am #800823
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    Nix

    I’m not sure on conventions
    I’m not sure on conventions on this site re posting references to other sites. Apologies in advance if this is not appropriate.

    I am running a game I’m calling Ultimate Cycling Challenge. This game introduces the concept of Combined Cycling Arts. It has 2 components:
    – the Fantasy points scored in TDF (via this road.cc game in our league),
    added to
    – the Kilometres you actually ride yourself during the TDF period (measured via strava and picked up in our strava group). If Brits or Yanks want to be measured in miles you can but I don’t think that is a wise choice here 😉 .

    Biggest aggregate number wins. No prizes except massive bragging rights.

    You have to ask to join our league and strava group, but at this point everyone is welcome to join. I’m running it through DTTalk.com in Australia. Here is the address of the launch article –

    Fantasy Cycling – Le Tour est ici

    Think of it as fantasy cycling, now with added realism.

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