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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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  • July 18, 2012 at 9:24 am #691887
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    TERatcliffe26

    laura trott would be the GB
    laura trott would be the GB lady i reckon…

    July 18, 2012 at 5:22 am #691885
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    drheaton

    Nope, just one of those, only
    Nope, just one of those, only one athlete/team of any nationality in your chosen 10.

    July 17, 2012 at 9:36 pm #691883
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    JAndrewHill

    So could I pick team gb for
    So could I pick team gb for the team pursuit and vicky p for the ladies sprint?

    July 17, 2012 at 9:29 pm #691881
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    JAndrewHill

    Ok, will try to join in if I
    Ok, will try to join in if I can get a wifi connection in kos…i know which brit lady I fancy and its not vp who might lose to the aussie….

    July 17, 2012 at 9:29 pm #691879
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    JAndrewHill

    Ok, will try to join in if I
    Ok, will try to join in if I can get a wifi connection in kos…i know which brit lady I fancy and its not vp who might lose to the aussie….

    July 17, 2012 at 12:28 pm #691877
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    livestrongnick

    O.K cool
    Just thought i’d
    O.K cool B-)
    Just thought i’d put it out there, but more than happy.

    I’m in too 😀

    July 17, 2012 at 12:27 pm #691875
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    Simon_MacMichael

    I’ll be in for this, just to
    I’ll be in for this, just to repeat what Dr H said (might have been me who made original suggestion of not being able to repeat country/gender), reason I did that was it does make things more awkward and spread things around, but doesn’t make it impossible. There are a few events in which we know who should win gold, and in some cases those are same countries – so to stop everyone picking near identical teams, this makes you think a little harder, and stops everyone probably picking the same six people for six of the ten events.

    July 17, 2012 at 11:35 am #691873
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    silas chime

    Sounds like fun
    Sounds like fun

    July 17, 2012 at 11:24 am #691871
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    TERatcliffe26

    I agree with one nationality
    I agree with one nationality for the whole thing, not per sex. As its only 10 races, thus 10 nationalities.

    And makes it more interesting on who you pick lower down, as one [er sex means you could end up with multiple teams scoring the same at the end

    July 17, 2012 at 8:48 am #691869
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    drheaton

    Had a quick look and it’s
    Had a quick look and it’s possible to compile a team for the events, based on only one entry per Nationality, that is based solely on medal winners from the last World Championships.

    You’re not going to be able to pick the winner of each event but it should be possible to pick top 3 or top 5 based on one pick per Nation. Plus, you still need to decide where to use your ‘star’ picks of GB, Australia, France, Germany and New Zealand and where to plump for someone lower down the pecking order.

    July 17, 2012 at 7:48 am #691867
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    drheaton

    Hmmm, I’m tempted to say no
    Hmmm, I’m tempted to say no as it makes it more difficult. One Nationality per sex means that everyone will have two Brits, two Aussies, two French/German etc making all teams a much of a muchness but one nationality per team means you need to think really hard about where to use your Brit, where to use your Aussie etc. So, do you use your sole Brit for a guaranteed 1st/2nd place like in the women’s team pursuit or do you use it for a chance of a decent placing in something else (Omnium?) and pick a more obscure team for the team pursuit (Canada/Ukraine).

    I’ll leave it open to suggestions though so if everyone wants one Nationality per sex we’ll go with that.

    July 17, 2012 at 7:43 am #691865
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    livestrongnick

    With regards to the only one
    With regards to the only one from each nationality, can we not have one male and one female rider from the same country?
    Purely because it’ll be alot of Brit and Aus riders scoring so be limited to scoring picks.

    July 16, 2012 at 11:03 pm #691863
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    Dylan Churchill

    I’m in looks good
    I’m in looks good

    July 16, 2012 at 8:51 pm #691861
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    Stumps

    Count me in, sounds like fun
    Count me in, sounds like fun

    July 16, 2012 at 7:21 pm #691859
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    Gkam84

    We’ll be able to see riders
    We’ll be able to see riders soon hopefully

    Come back to this page as the London 2012 Olympic Games approach to see the profiles of every athlete competing in the Cycling – Track competition.

    http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/athletes/

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