Tour de France Stage 1

drheaton wrote:It’s not as if

drheaton wrote:

It’s not as if I’m having two bites at the overall cherry, I’m playing separate games in the full and purist games and going after entirely separate things. Playing three teams, one going after the overall, one purist and one for stage prizes is probably too far and I’m not really intending to but there’s a point there, there’s a group of players going after the overall who won’t win anything, why is it fair to exclude them from competing for the stage prizes?

If you go for the overall you need consistently high scoring but generally your team is set out for each stage with an eye on the next two or three stages. That means your team usually isn’t set up for individual stage wins. I get that these prizes are there to give everyone a chance to win something once your chance for the overall is gone but I’d like those prizes as much as anyone and its a bit crap that I’m excluded from that if I also want a high overall placing.

I thought the whole point was to choose between keeping a high overall position and going for stage wins, not this ‘have your cake and eat it’ situation which you describe.

I sacrificed a good overall position in the Giro for a crack at winning the final stage, and I’d be pretty pissed off if it turned out that I was beaten by people with multiple accounts…

If I were around the full TdF
If I were around the full TdF I would have one team, not a purist, but since I am gone it is what it is. I would prefer to have a team to go after the overall (in my dreams), but since that is not a possibility I’ll be happy with the purist team and fiddle away with the other one just cuz I need something to be doing 🙂

In my opinion, its all about
In my opinion, its all about the season long game.

It would be good if everyone who played the whole season got a prize, like the people in metric centuries.

There’d probably be loads though.

Maybe a T-shirt saying;

Road.cc Fantasy Cycling Finisher

🙂

Or is that lame?

I think running two accounts
I think running two accounts is already outside the realm of good sportsmanship, let alone three! :O

Quote:Going to have a purist

Going to have a purist team for premium and a second account for stage hunting in weeks 2-3.

NAUGHTY NAUGHTY
:O

Edit: Sorry, just the nature of your premiumship.

My bad.

In fairness, it does say:
In fairness, it does say: ‘Another key rider to watch is Andy Schleck, the weakest of the overall favourites against the clock. He won’t want to lose more than 20 seconds on his main rivals, Bradley Wiggins and cadel Evans.’

Not exactly laughable!

I have my team pretty much
I have my team pretty much sorted out, I’m off to a remote place for work as of 5th July, so unless by some miracle i can get use of wifi somewhere, my team will be based around the first few stages and then purist’ing it from there 👿

londonplayer

londonplayer wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Ive got my team in mind based on stages P and 1, gonna wing stage 2 to keep my team ready for stage 3, and then after stage 3 make some wholesale changes for the flat!

I tip a certain beligum for stage 3 and a certain aussie or spaniard for stage 1

TER, you’ve started the ball rolling with the nationality cryptics….. ugh!

Considering there are bluffers guides widely published online on cycling websites, why not just mention them?

Gilbert, Gerrans and ?

My bad, sorry LL Sanchez is the other, basically half my team is Prologue orientated with the other half people that may top 20 in the prologue but also could prosper on stage 1. Gilbert will not be in my team for the prologue however.

Maybe I should just name my team and be done with it. Just waiting on the participation of a vaconsoliel rider and an AG2R rider