Standard Team Giro Updates

ray silvester wrote:…

ray silvester wrote:

… PolishDave managed an upward jump of 2 places despite a maximum of 4 paltry transfers?

Pretty cool, huh? He brought in Mezgec for Di Luca on Stage 20, then he brought in Nizzolo, Viviani and Cavendish for Stage 21! Awesome play! 🙂 And no penalty transfers on the last day! 🙂

Here we go, Giro Final
Here we go, Giro Final Standings! 🙂

Exciting race but no surprises for the final day:

Yesterday’s Rank Today’s Rank Team Owner

2 2 Mountain Renegade tony kappler
4 4 Eyeballs Out richardk9
5 7 rock n rouleurs matanhale
8 6 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave
12 13 Leipheimer not weeks memories of meseeuw
15 16 DAMS-Lidl mafioso
16 29 specialneeds specialneeds
17 73 Meagre Farmer Otto Tom Amos
20 20 EPO Ealing gruenstein
21 23 petiagos petiagos
23 24 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter

No surprise either in that the Top Jumps into the Top 25 were Premium Players. anita (ZACATON), who jumped 8 spots into No. 14 and johnny2names (johnny2names) jumped 11 spots into No. 19.

Well, brace yourselves for withdrawal symptoms! 🙂

chiv30 wrote:29 points can

chiv30 wrote:

29 points can easily be found with a gamble or two and the gamble paying off , in the ITT I gained 73 points on the people above me .

I’d be thrilled if that happened… But how many surprisies can a sprint finish have in it? I can’t think of many, but I’d ceratinly love to see one! And how many risks will someone in the Top 25 be willing to take and lose their position so late in the game? I guess that’s the dilemma at the end of a Grand Tour… Do I go for the gamble or do I play conservatively to not lose position?… I’m happy you got that boost on the ITT but I think ITT’s are a little harder to predict than sprints… But I’d love a surprise today! 🙂

Last day (before the last
Last day (before the last stage!) Standard Player Standings:

2 Mountain Renegade tony kappler
4 Eyeballs Out richardk9
5 rock n rouleurs matanhale
7 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave
12 specialneeds specialneeds
14 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter
15 Leipheimer not weeks memories of meseeuw
16 Meagre Farmer Otto Tom Amos
16= petiagos petiagos
18 DAMS-Lidl mafioso
21 EPO Ealing gruenstein
24 Chute Collective Chute Collective

12 Standard Players in the Top 25

Wow, we’ll see tomorrow what happens… Huge ineherent advantage for Premium Players, because they can bring in 1, 2, 3 or more sprinters (any more might not be necessary, even if they’re available!) without incurring any Penalty transfers, and no Standard player has an advantage to absorb that point blow, but (!), you never know!

(It’s not about the bike! It’s about playing the game! 😉 )

At the end of April I had
At the end of April I had written:

enrique wrote:

…I guess it would probably take a miracle for anyone playing Standard to win in this scenario….

But (!) to my surprise (!) 🙂 :

These were the highest ranking Standard Players in the Giro overall competition on May 15:

3 petiagos petiagos 1155
4 Pharmacie Roulant Jonas Lorenzen 1144 2
5 Eyeballs Out richardk9 1135
6 Mountain Renegade tony kappler 1127 2
7 Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan 1124
8 karlake2 karlake2 1122 3
9 ZACATON anita 1115
10 Indurains lungs Samacollins 1105 7
11 rock n rouleurs matanhale 1099 8
12 Team Velosive Sebbe87 1094 4
12= Rangaedge Rangaedge 1094 11
14 Team Sky Blue NeilG83 1092 8
15 mischelka mischelka 1086 5
15= Hinaults Uno Hinaults Uno 1086 3
17 Eds Ripley Riders Eds Ripley Riders 1084 11
18 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter 1083
19 ProVelo ricycle 1080 4
20 pclark007 pclark007 1076 12
21 Got Milk TheDoctor 1074 5
21= CPT RACERS KIEF77 1074 7
23 Lampre-LSD ewen 1073 4
24 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave 1072 9
25 Klefbet.com kleff 1071 1

Pretty impressive! 🙂

That was on May 15. Back then, there were, if I counted right, 23 Standard Players in the Top 25 of the Giro overall competition.

Then this was the list of those Standard Players on May 20, just 5 days later:

Overall Ranking Team Team Owner
2 Mountain Renegade tony kappler
4 rock n rouleurs matanhale
7 petiagos petiagos
8 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave
11 Guybrush Threepwood 2MeterPeter
13 Eyeballs Out richardk9
14 Chute Collective Chute Collective
15 Indurains lungs Samacollins
17 Rangaedge Rangaedge
20 BaggyBoy999 BaggyBoy999
23 Leipheimer not weeks memories of meseeuw

11 Standrad Players in the Top 25. Mountain Renegade (tony kappler) is sitting pretty at No. 2 in the overall and rock n rouleurs (matanhale) is at No. 4.

Not that I’ve ever “seen” them here on the forum, but a hat’s off to them! <:P

I’m looking forward to seeing if a Standard Player can win the competition. It would completely debunk my theory that Premium Members have a huge advantage over Standard Players, but I’d be mightily impressed with the smarts, strategy and logic of these players! Thanks for a thrilling ride! 🙂 And good luck! 🙂