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Simon_MacMichael

Simon_MacMichael wrote:

The 2012 peloton in numbers

That link was interesting reading from the start

Basically because of the oldest riders

Jens Voigt Radioshack-Nissan 40
Christopher Horner Radioshack-Nissan 40
Robbie McEwen Greenedge 39
George Hincapie BMC 38
Stuart O’Grady Greenedge 38
Levi Leipheimer Omega Pharma – Quickstep 38

I have removed some names from the list, BUT these guys could, if they have not transferred out of the Leopard and Radioshack teams, been in the same team

Hugh, “… country where his
Hugh, “… country where his main residence is…” ?

Further subdivided in the case of Italian riders into “country where his main residence is for tax purposes” and “country where his main residence is in reality”

Only 65 Italians in the ProTeam ranks according to Inrng

The 2012 peloton in numbers

We’ll set Dave to work 😉

LabMonkey wrote:
Ah, you

LabMonkey wrote:

Ah, you don’t agree because you were only ‘mid table’ 😀

Hardly 99/5113 is not “mid table” 👿

To give a long answer, i was in the top 1.9362409544298846 percent

So lets just call it 2% 🙂

Froome was born in Kenya and
Froome was born in Kenya and did represent them but he’s since switched to GB (and rode for Cav at Copenhagen).

If we start going by birthplace, Dave will need change David Millar to Malta, Wiggo to Belgium, Dan Martin to GB and Nico Roche to France, to name four riders off the top of my head.

I’m not sure we want to do that to him 😉

Gkam84 wrote:LabMonkey

Gkam84 wrote:

LabMonkey wrote:

Agree – 100% – it was so boring when everyone was after safe ‘GC’ type points – the risk was too high to try anything else… the new points system is far better.

Not really, its going to be the same as it was last year, i rarely picked the LR and was losing 10 points a day to the guys who constantly keep the LR in, boring as sh*t, should scrap the LR points, just because someone is in last place, thats just the same as getting safe GC points

Ah, you don’t agree because you were only ‘mid table’ 😀

Us fella’s at the top of the tree would pretty much always have the same riders on the same stage of each and every GT – it really all came down to who picked the best team for stage 1 – as everyone else was a day or two behind transferring in the ‘safe picks’ and so dropped behind on points B-)

I think I am going to play differently this year… but then again… I only really played with the season long total in mid last year and LOVED the game from start to finish.

Wig_Billy wrote:Haven’t the

Wig_Billy wrote:

Haven’t the LR points been changed to the last person across the finish line on the stage? That’s going to be incredibly hard to predict.

Ok, so it’s not the ‘Lanerne Rouge’ who gets these 10 points… It’s literally the last rider to cros the line each day, right? So, it should practically be a different rider every day, right?

Wig_Billy wrote:Haven’t the

Wig_Billy wrote:

Haven’t the LR points been changed to the last person across the finish line on the stage? That’s going to be incredibly hard to predict.

Well, some days on the Grand Tours it won’t be too hard to predict who some of the more likely candidates will be.

But think of it as a bonus if one of your riders has a shocker 😉

I can see many an hour of my
I can see many an hour of my already limited spare time being lost to this.

Now if only there were stage profiles within the Stages tab…. Appreciate it’s a mammoth task but would be immense. Perhaps links to the relevant stage profile on the respective website? i.e. http://www.tourdownunder.com.au/down-under-classic-and-stages-1-6.htm for TDU.

Cheers

Rich