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Fantasy Directeur Sportif Challenge

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  • January 21, 2013 at 11:10 am #17732
    drheaton

    Not sure if you've seen it but in case you lot haven't, I've challenged TERatcliffe this year to pick a squad of riders and try and run a 'proper' fantasy team through the season.

    We'll both be blogging about it through the year and the first posts are up (/blog).  Anyway, you lot are free to pick your own squads too and keep us all informed of how you're doing either on here or in the blog comments.  I've set up a league and if you've got any questions, let me know.

    EDIT

    If you want to take part the list of rider values you'll need is here http://db.tt/1rO7IFhq and check out my post here /content/blog/74271-big-unveil for rules etc.

    RUNNING UPDATE:

    World Tour Points – 1037 total / 851 based on top 5 riders

    Fantasy points total: 2583

     

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  • February 27, 2013 at 9:38 pm #712461
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    drheaton

    I’ve got quite a strong squad
    I’ve got quite a strong squad for PN with 13 riders in total.

    GC:
    Roche, Westra, Kelderman, Quintana, Talansky

    Sprinters:
    Bouhanni, Kittel

    Classics:
    Boonen, Gilbert, Tiernan-Locke

    Wildcards:
    Barguil, Lutsenko, Cattaneo

    So… my team will be:
    Roche
    Westra
    Kelderman
    Quintana
    Talansky
    Bouhanni
    Kittel
    Tiernan-Locke
    Boonen

    My quandary is over whether to pick Boonen or not. It’s a toss up between him, Gilbert, Barguil and Lutsenko. Barguil/Lutsenko could do something interesting as neo-pro’s whereas Boonen/Gilbert are getting ready for the classics. Boonen won a stage last year but I don’t see him as being in the same form as last year…

    Bah, Boonen it is.

    Oh, and for TA I’ve currently got 9:

    Cavendish, Demare, Sammy Sanchez, Jelle Vanendert, Cancellara, Vanmarcke, Nordhaug, Betancurt, Devolder.

    Not nearly as strong but not terrible.

    February 27, 2013 at 7:55 pm #712459
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    Anonymous

    Just had a tot up and on
    Just had a tot up and on provisional start lists I have 16 of my 27 active riders entered in Paris Nice. Knew I’d picked a good team for something… Top 9 riders take me to 180.6 points though, so…

    van Garderen, de Gendt, Talansky
    Tiernan Locke, Roche, G Izagirre
    Kittel, Astarloza, Gutierrez

    Astarloza as captain, Kittel as sprinter and hopefully 6, maybe 7 of the top 10 in GC… Hopefully KoM is in there too.

    and the other 7?
    Voigt, Fuglsang,M Iglinsky, Roy, Cattaneo, N Sorenson and Zandio.

    Too much choice aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh!

    Trouble is that leaves me with just 6 riders in Tirreno.

    February 18, 2013 at 7:48 pm #712457
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    drheaton

    UPDATE!
    http://road.cc/conten
    UPDATE!

    http://road.cc/content/blog/76495-and-breathe

    Basically, I’m doing ok, currently 6th in the World Tour rankings (on 46 points) after one race but the real tests are to come.

    February 17, 2013 at 11:52 am #712455
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    Anonymous

    Palmares so far
    my team is
    Palmares so far
    my team is doing well, in the real world, just not in the fantasy or wt
    1st stage of Tour de San Luis(Cav) and 2nd overall(van Garderen)
    Tour of Qatar overall win(Cav) and 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th stages
    La Marseillaise 4th overall(Roux)
    Etoile de Besseges 3rd (Roux) and 4th (Roy) overall, 1st and second on final stage (Roux, Roy)
    Tour Mediterraneo 3rd stage 2 (Roux), 5th overall (Roche)
    Tour of Oman 1st and second stage 1 (Kittel, Appllonio)
    Haut Var Stage 1 (Hushovd)

    February 13, 2013 at 9:57 pm #712453
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    Anonymous

    Just for fun, as DS who would
    Just for fun, as DS who would you have entered from your team for races during the season, assuming you were a real World Tour team.
    No score limit but keep it real, bearing in mind rider goals and team goals. You also can pick and choose which races you enter from the calendar, so for example with the one day races in mind I’ve included the Marseille one day, to stretch the legs of those not going to San Luis or Australia. You can also drop races later in the season which are not compulsory for World Tour teams (like San Luis which I nearly dropped). And keep an eye on those air miles, you may not want to fly riders from San Luis to Qatar to the Med to Oman.

    For me the team goal is to entertain the spectators, so lots of breaks, lots of combative riding and pleasing the sponsors. Targetted races are the 1 day races and GTs. GT goals will vary but I’d be happy with 1 overall jersey and 1 top 10 GC finish plus say 6-10 GT stages through the year (well I have got Cav). Any more and I’ll be hanging out a car window like Marc Madiot

    Rider goals – more to be added later after I’ve ‘talked’ to the riders. These are hopefully close to the actual rider goals.

    Cav in yellow day one and green overall at the TdF.
    Cancellara to lose weight and work on beating Gilbert rather than Martin
    Voigt to get in every break and have fun
    JTL for the Ardennes Classics and the Vuelta
    Talansky Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie, TdF top 10

    race entries

    I would have made

    TdU – 7 riders:
    Gutierrez, Kittel, Appolonio, Tiernan Locke, Schleck, Riblon, Pichon

    Tour de San Luis – 6 riders
    Hushovd, de Gendt, Fuglsang, Cattaneo, Roy, Iglinsky

    GP d’Ouverture La Marseillaise – 8 riders
    Roy, Roux, Cancellara, Astarloza, Voigt, Izagirre, Sorenson, Dowsett

    Tour of Qatar – 8 riders
    Cavendish, Voigt, Kittel, Appolonio, Cancellara, Riblon, Pichon, Sorenson

    Tour Mediterraneo – 8 riders
    Hushovd, de Gendt, Fuglsang, Cattaneo, Roy, Iglinsky, Roux, Dowsett

    rest of February calendar for team.
    Tour of Oman – 8 riders
    Cancellara, Schar, Appollonio, Kittel, Guttierez, Talansky, Cattaneo, Izagirre

    Volta ao Algarve
    Hushovd, de Gendt, Fuglsang, Cattaneo, Roy, Iglinsky, Roux, Dowsett

    Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

    February 10, 2013 at 7:35 pm #712451
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    Anonymous

    That’s a pointed question, if
    That’s a pointed question, if we’re doing this for world tour points should we declare appropriate teams from our squad for the TdU, and so on through the year, keeping track of points earned, or is it world tour points howsoever earned by those riders through the year, or are we using the fantasy league to keep track?

    So… If we’re declaring teams,

    for TdU my 7 man team will be Voigt, de Gendt, Iglinsky, Izagirre, Kittel, Gutierrez, Appollonio

    For Tour de San Luis Cavendish, Sorenson, Hushovd and Van Garderen are the only riders I can declare.

    Tour of Qatar Cavendish, Cancellara, Appollonio, Rasch, Riblon, Kittel, Schar

    Mediterraneo Roux, Roy, Pichon, Hushovd, Schleck, Talansky, Roche

    Oman Appollonio, Kittel, Schar, Cancellara

    bearing in mind this is all fun, and I’m coming stone dead last anyway…

    February 3, 2013 at 11:28 pm #712449
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    Anonymous

    and for me
    TDU fantasy 119,
    and for me
    TDU fantasy 119, world tour 30pts.

    told you, stone dead last 🙂

    February 3, 2013 at 10:05 am #712447
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    drheaton

    Its going to be interesting
    Its going to be interesting through the year to see how much disparity there is between fantasy and world tour points for the world tour races.

    The next WT race is Paris-Nice though so its fantasy points all the way for Qatar and Oman!

    February 2, 2013 at 10:23 pm #712445
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    TERatcliffe26

    So for the TDU
    Drheaton
    So for the TDU

    Drheaton scored 215 fantasy points and 46 UCI World Tour points

    I scored 355 fantasy points but just 31 UCI World Tour points

    February 2, 2013 at 9:27 pm #712443
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    TERatcliffe26

    My team is Degenkolb, Bewley
    My team is Degenkolb, Bewley and Kreder

    I will put up mine and Drheaton’s scores from the TDU later tonight so you guys can compare

    February 2, 2013 at 9:18 pm #712441
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    drheaton

    After all the changes I’m
    After all the changes I’m restricted to 4 guys now, Cavendish, Cancellara, Bouhanni and Devolder. Not the strong team I was hoping for.

    January 29, 2013 at 6:24 pm #712439
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    JAndrewHill

    And the Hugh Lupus team is
    And the Hugh Lupus team is likely to be…

    Mark Cavendish (OPQ)
    Leigh Howard (GRE)
    Yauheni Hutarovich (ALM)
    Jacopo Guarnieri (AST)
    Gabriel Rasch (SKY)
    Taylor Phinney (BMC)
    Tomasz Marczynski (VCD)
    Andy Schleck (RSN)
    Zak Dempster (APP)

    😉

    January 29, 2013 at 9:05 am #712437
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    drheaton

    Booo!
    Booo!

    January 29, 2013 at 8:45 am #712435
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    TERatcliffe26

    drheaton wrote:Amazingly I
    [quote=drheaton]Amazingly I can actually put out a pretty strong 7 man team for the ToQ:

    Cavendish
    Bouhanni
    Cancellara
    Kittel
    Devolder
    Lutsenko
    Danny Van Poppel

    with Betancurt and Baguil as filler to get a legal team.

    http://fantasy.road.cc/viewuser?uid=9348%5B/quote%5D

    I have you down as 5 riders, no van poppel or kittel from your riders there, both are reserves and unlikely to ride

    January 28, 2013 at 5:33 pm #712433
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    Gkam84

    WAIT WAIT WAIT…..Qatar is
    WAIT WAIT WAIT…..Qatar is not totally complete yet. Final roster tomorrow hopefully 🙂

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