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Fantasy Olympic Track Cycling

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  • July 16, 2012 at 11:08 am #16342
    drheaton

    It was suggested a few months ago that some people on the forum might want to try a fantasy track cycling competition for the olympics.

    The idea’s simple, pick an athlete/team/nation for each track event and we score the results, the best overall result is the winner.

    The ten olympic events are:

    Men’s Keirin
    Men’s Omnium
    Men’s sprint
    Men’s team pursuit
    Men’s team sprint
    Women’s Keirin
    Women’s Omnium
    Women’s sprint
    Women’s team pursuit
    Women’s team sprint

    Schedule is here: http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/schedule-and-results/

    Athlete details will be available here: http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/athletes/

    Deadline for entries is 8pm Wednesday 1st August.

    Rules are:
    1) Fantasy teams limited to one individual or team from any nationality i.e. you can’t have more than one Brit or British team in your own team.
    2) Scoring based on the Omnium where 1st scores 1, 2nd scores 2 etc down to 12th scoring 12. Any placing below 12th scores 12. Lowest overall score after 10 events is the winner.
    3) DNFs, DQs or withdrawl’s of an athlete count as finishing last and will score 12 points.
    4) Where non-medal positions are not ranked (see 2008 men’s team pursuit and team sprint) the time’s from qualification will be used to rank teams for fantasy purposes.
    5) Where it is not possible to rank a group of teams or individuals each will be given the score of the highest unranked position i.e. if 5-12 cannot be ranked by any of the above methods each will score 5 points.
    6) Tie-breaks – first tie-break is number of Gold medal winners picked, then total medal winners picked then the lowest highest score i.e. one team has a highest event score of 8 (for 8th place), another has 10 (for 10th) then the winner is the team with the score of 8. Final tie-break is a coin-toss.
    7) No prizes, although we could ask Dave nicely for a pair of socks 😀

    Any questions/comments? Happy to tweak the rules/format as suggested.

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  • August 3, 2012 at 5:58 pm #691977
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    Gkam84

    Its ok, I’ve dropped points
    Its ok, I’ve dropped points on having Krupeckaite in the Keirin, best she can do is 7th :”(

    August 3, 2012 at 5:47 pm #691975
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    livestrongnick

    Ah brilliant! my womens team
    Ah brilliant! my womens team pursuit is last and my womens kieran didn’t go! :”( :”( :”(

    August 3, 2012 at 5:34 pm #691973
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    Gkam84

    You got 3rd with NZ for the
    You got 3rd with NZ for the men’s pursuit 😉

    August 3, 2012 at 5:25 pm #691971
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    JAndrewHill

    So I think I got last and dnq
    So I think I got last and dnq today….might be going for the stage wins now. ~X(

    August 3, 2012 at 3:32 pm #691969
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    Gkam84

    Ignore me, i’m still confused
    Ignore me, i’m still confused by this 👿

    August 3, 2012 at 3:28 pm #691967
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    Gkam84

    Is it not, Time for the first
    Is it not, Time for the first 8, top 4 times go though, with 1/3 meeting each other and 2/4

    Then its all about winning rather than time, Winners into gold and losers into bronze 😕

    Ok, maybe I was slightly off with my thoughts 👿

    August 3, 2012 at 3:00 pm #691965
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    drheaton

    Guardian wrote:The team

    Guardian wrote:
    The team pursuit starts with a qualifying round. Teams are seeded in the first round according to their qualifying times – the fastest team competes against the fourth fastest, second competes against third, fifth against eighth and sixth against seventh. The winners of the two heats between the top four teams advance to the finals; the remaining six teams are ranked according to their times from the first round, with the best two competing for bronze. Bewildered? Me too.

    This track cycling business is bonkers.

    ie, winners of the two semi’s (the races between the fastest four teams, in this case GB v Denmark and Australia v New Zealand) go through to the gold medal race, fastest two of the remaining six teams go through to the bronze race.

    August 3, 2012 at 8:19 am #691963
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    drheaton

    Olympics website and
    Olympics website and Wikipedia both say that the gold medal match will feature the winners of the two races between GB/Denmark and Australia/New Zealand but I agree, it’s not clear.

    August 3, 2012 at 8:17 am #691961
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    chrisdstripes

    Just been trying to work it
    Just been trying to work it out…this from the BBC website – “Eight teams will take part in the first round on Friday, with the top two qualifying for the gold medal match and the next two battling for bronze.”

    Which would indicate that all 8 teams above will race between 16:18 and 16:43 this afternoon, but qualifying for the medal finals is solely on time. But its pursuit, so if you get caught, do you carry on riding to post a time? I don’t really geddit.

    I’ll stop guessing now and just wait until this afternoon…

    August 3, 2012 at 7:25 am #691959
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    drheaton

    Aye, today should shake
    Aye, today should shake things up, there’s a load of different picks for the women’s Keirin and there’s a few different Team Pursuit nation’s picked too, hoping for a good result from the New Zealand men and Olga Panarina who was my wildcard pick for the Keirin.

    FWIW the order in qualifying was:

    GB
    Australia
    New Zealand
    Denmark
    Russia
    Spain
    Columbia
    Netherlands

    Semi’s are GB vs Denmark and Australia vs New Zealand but I have no idea how they work out who’s going for bronze as wikipedia suggests that the fastest of the six teams not going into the gold medal match go into the bronze round rather than the losers of the semi’s which means that in theory Russia can still come third but no higher and even though they’re in the semi’s New Zealand can still come 8th! 😕

    August 3, 2012 at 6:45 am #691957
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    chrisdstripes

    Good stuff. Russia in the
    Good stuff. Russia in the men’s TP are my hope to pick up some points later – should counteract the fact that I don’t have any Chinese women in anything which was definitely a mistake! Thanks drh, doing this makes it (even) more exciting – I’ll certainly be supporting Krupeckaite later on (whoever she is!) 😀

    August 3, 2012 at 5:07 am #691955
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    drheaton

    No, just joking really, the
    No, just joking really, the teams on 5 and 6 points would have been reversed had China won the gold and Germany come second, that’s the point I was making really.

    August 2, 2012 at 10:57 pm #691953
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    JAndrewHill

    Thats a bit harsh…altho the
    Thats a bit harsh…altho the chinese were relegated thay were not dqd…and got silver… or am I missin something… and the gb ladies sprint were relegated too, not dqd… is this sour grapes?..

    August 2, 2012 at 10:21 pm #691951
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    livestrongnick

    drheaton wrote:Scores after

    drheaton wrote:
    Scores after day one:

    Gkam: 5
    TERatcliffe: 5
    drheaton: 6
    Stevespro: 6
    chrisdstripes: 6
    djb123: 9
    JAndrewhill: 10
    Livestrongnick: 15 (sorry! you picked Russia for the women’s Team Sprint and they didn’t compete so you get joint last for the race, 10th)

    The difference at the top? The Chinese DQ X(

    Men’s Team Pursuit and Women’s Keirin tomorrow!

    X( X( X(
    GRRRRR Doh!!!
    bloody Russians, oh well shit happens…….. another day tomorrow =))

    August 2, 2012 at 7:29 pm #691949
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    drheaton

    Feel free to put one in for
    Feel free to put one in for the last races if you like, will add you onto the spreadsheet and just award you max points for the first two races. I won’t count you towards the overall but will include you in for fun.

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