Fantasy Directeur Sportif Challenge

Well said j andrew, whoever
Well said j andrew, whoever you are. 😉

We are scoring both by
We are scoring both by fantasy points and UCI points

We hadn’t yet decided a full race schedule beyond the fact that me and Drheaton are doing the TDU. We are doing it based round doing the blogs. It will look something like this

Qatar and Oman
PN and TA
classics
Giro
DL and TdS
Tour de France
Vuleta
World Champs and ToB

It may be the case that we score all WT races by UCI points but we hadnt decided that just yet and we have plenty of time till the next WT race

As for declaring teams, that does need to happen, however in most cases your team will pick itself. Only is some of the classics and the GT’s is it likely you will have more than 9 riders to choose from

Well here is my team…..and
Well here is my team…..and we are using a Megabus to transport riders back to the hotel (times of austerity you know…)
Peter Sagan AR 35.4
Alberto Contador GC 35.2
Mark Cavendish PC 24.3
Andre Greipel PC 23.9
Taylor Phinney AR 22.6
Philippe Gilbert AR 22
Luke Durbridge AR 18.2
Jesse Sergent AR 15.7
Leigh Howard AR 15.3
Kevin Seeldraeyers KM 14.9
Yauheni Hutarovich PC 14.9
Tomasz Marczynski KM 14.5
Gustav Erik Larsson DS 13.5
Alessandro Petacchi DS 13.1
Alex Dowsett DS 10.5
Arnaud Demare DS 10.2
Jacopo Guarnieri DS 9.2
Sylvester Szmyd DS 8.7
Steele von Hoff DS 7.6
Johnny Hoogerland DS 4.5
Zak Dempster DS 3.5
Jurgen van de Walle DS 3
Gabriel Rasch DS 3
Andy Schleck DS 3
Juraj Sagan DS 3

Go on then, give it a
Go on then, give it a go…
348.8 points based on the correct values. 29 riders, since there is one neo pro (I think Cattaneo). I’ve limited myself to a max of 3 per team. It’s probably heavy on classic riders and names I know, rather than being strongly based on form, but who knows, it’s a long season.

Mark Cavendish, PC, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, 24.3
due a good year, and with a lead out train, who knows what he might achieve.
Tejay van Garderen, AR, BMC Racing Team, 30.7
if cut loose from Evans, last year showed such promise.
Fabian Cancellara, AR, RadioShack-Leopard, 26.6
again due a good year, and I suspect he will be in transition to a more GC type rider
Thomas de Gendt, AR, Vacansoleil-DCM, 25.9
again performed well last year and has the legs to top 10 in any of the GTs
Jens Voigt, PC, RadioShack-Leopard, 20.9
if this is his last year, it will be a cracker
Jon Tiernan-Locke, PC, Sky, 14
after last year’s world champs, should love the classics
Andrew Talansky, DS, Garmin-Sharp, 20.1
another strong GC rider last year
Jakob Fuglsang, DS, Astana, 16.4
time to put his money where his mouth is
Thor Hushovd, DS, BMC Racing Team, 11.9
after illness, this may well be a good year
Marcel Kittel, DS, Argos – Shimano, 9.5
sadly I think he’ll see a lot of Cav, Sagan and Degenkolb’s back wheels, but at minor tours should hopefully clean up
Maxim Iglinsky, DS, Astana, 9.6
hopefully classics and shorter tours
Jeremy Roy, DS, FDJ-BigMat, 14.8
TdF stage hopefully
Gorka Izagirre, DS, Euskaltel-Euskadi, 17.4
shorter tour stage wins (maybe)
Anthony Roux, DS, FDJ-BigMat, 10.3
another TdF stalwart
Nicki Sorensen, DS, Saxo – Tinkoff, 9.1
towing people uphill
Michael Schar, DS, BMC Racing Team, 6.3
shorter tour stage wins (maybe)
Jose Ivan Gutierrez, DS, Movistar, 7.4
road captain
Mikel Astarloza, DS, Euskaltel-Euskadi, 5.9
road captain, and mountain stages
Johnny Hoogerland, DS, Vacansoleil-DCM, 4.5
spotty jersey type
Alex Dowsett, DS, Movistar, 10.5
maybe will have looser reins for breaks
Christophe Riblon, DS, Ag2r-La Mondiale, 5.4
more TdF goodness
Davide Appollonio, DS, Ag2r-La Mondiale, 6.7
DS
Andy Schleck, PC, RadioShack-Leopard, 3
if he doesn’t better last year….
Steve Houanard, DS, Ag2r-La Mondiale, 3
DS
Nicolas Roche, KM, Saxo – Tinkoff, 19.1
being towed halfway up a hill…
Laurent Pichon, DS, FDJ-BigMat, 3
DS
Mattia Cattaneo, DS, Lampre – Merida, 3
DS
Xabier Zandio, DS, Sky, 6.5
super DS
Gabriel Rasch, DS, Sky, 3
DS

EDITS –
after being pointed to the blog post I’d missed (thanks)… I’ve recalculated and found an extra 17 odd points, so Huguet has been swapped for Roche, and after finding Marzano may have, or may be close to retiring I’ve swapped in Appollonio, who I hope will be able to thrive outside Sky.

I’m just looking to see if I can set up my purist team with these riders…

Just one point on your team
Just one point on your team Rob, Sky have a classics vs tour set up. JTL is not in the classics, but Rasch is 😉