Giro d’Italia

Condor Andy wrote:

jollygoodvelo wrote:

Sorry if I’ve missed a note somewhere, but it looks like we’re back up to 45 transfers for the Giro when I think the Vuelta was 42?  Is that deliberate?

Yep! It’ll be 45 for at GTs this year, a nice round number. These races are complicated and a couple of extra transfers makes things a bit more interesting. Still averages out at just over 2 a stage.

Good decision. The Vuelta was really hard work last year with stages going from flat to mountains and back again all the time. 

Condor Andy wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

The intermediate sprint points are a little bit confusing in this race.

It looks like only the first intermediate sprint counts for the points competition and the points scored are different to the sprints competition.

Yesterday the first sprint scored 12, 8, 6,5,4,3,2,1 for the first 8 riders, these count to the points competition.

The first 5 riders scored 10,6,4,2,1 in the sprints competition.

At the second intermediate sprint, points were only awarded in the sprints competition but riders also get bonus seconds -3,2,1.

Does anyone know for sure how it works ?

I’m looking at the Giro website now and in the intermediate sprint classifications for stage 2 have 10-6-3-2-1 for both, with 3 riders listed on the first one as having 0 points. Weird discrepency with Frapporti showing 10 and 3 points for the sprints, but only on 12 total for the stage. Your guess is as good as mine. I might peruse the Garibaldi at lunch to see if there’s any fine print.

They’re doing something odd with that. The commentators talked about it yesterday but didn’t fully grasp it. It’s a mixture of bonus seconds and pts with the last intermediate sprint every day giving bonus seconds. 

MinardiM189 wrote:

archieboy wrote:

Stg 3 last few kms look interesting over the sandbar, headwind & echelons anyone…

Apparently there are trees lining the final kms of the race so unlikley there are echelons at that point but there could be earlier.

What wind speeds are we expecting?…..

MikaelLie wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Gecko-cyclist wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Mmm….2nd in the season competition and 2nd in the purist competition….I can see a pattern developing.

Well done Gecko…back on top in the purist.

Thanks Dr. I wish I had your consistency in both! Theres a lot of points to play for until Verona so the lead could keep changing. My only sprinter is Lonardi. I expect to drop like a stone for a week but fingers crossed the gc boys stay safe and I bounce back or my strategy is right up the swanny…

Thanks Gecko…but not true….next year i’m changing my name to Dr Yo-Yo….You, me, Minardi, Andy, Tony and everybody else all go through big drops and then rise back up. The game has been kind to me this past month but it’ll bite me again soon enough.

On reflection I think you’ve called it right for this race (I think I may have wrote it further up before it started) but I really didn’t think many players would be brave enough to backload as much as you have….I seriously think you may win this one if they all stay upright. Two or three of the few sprinter stages may turn out to be nothing of the sort….which will help you enormously…and well worth the gamble.

 It’s the 1st time im playing in here, so I dont know the scoringsystem well enough. But this is my purist team:

Primoz Roglic
Elia Viviani
Simon Yates
Ilnur Zakarin                                                                            Bob Jungels
Ivan Ramiro Sosa
Vincenzo Nibali
Tony Gallopin   

Excellent. Thin first half but a strong second half coming your way.