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Vuelta al Pais Vasco – Stage 3

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  • April 3, 2013 at 7:25 am #18393
    obutterwick

    Again, I’ll probably live to regret my changes. Had fancied Anton for this one but form suggests otherwise. Perhaps a toss up between Gorka and Ion if going for a Euskatel rider in support of Sanchez.

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  • April 3, 2013 at 1:44 pm #725591
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    chrisdstripes

    stevemarks wrote:Thanks guys

    stevemarks wrote:
    Thanks guys I am still learning so much all the time from playing this wonderful game. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    I also have someone in the break today (Landa) albeit in my purist team, makes a nice change.

    Does anyone want to give me some tips about how you find guys who might go in the break because its not something that you can lay your hands on stats for very easily?


    I normally spend about 3 hours considering all of the above points, and then pick Jens Voight.

    April 3, 2013 at 1:38 pm #725589
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    drheaton

    Philip Unwin wrote:Conversely

    Philip Unwin wrote:
    Conversely riders on a team who have a GC contender may be under strict orders not to leave their team leader’s side eg Saxo for Contador, which is a shame as I am a big fan of Nicholas Roche, who may not be allowed to attack in the mountains.

    Yeah, part of it is down to team politics and sponsors. Spanish teams tend to have spanish sponsors. That means that they want to do well in front of their home markets. That’s why the likes of Euskatel, Caja Rural and Movistar might throw guys in the break during the spanish races whereas FDJ, Cofidis, Europcar etc are more active in the french races.

    Also Philip is right in that if a team has a rider to protect and a goal such as GC placings or sprint stage wins then they are less likely to use up riders on ‘pointless’ breaks, Sky are a prime example of this. On the flip side if a team has a strong sprinter they don’t need to work so hard for him in the mountains and can allow their climbers to have a bit of fun.

    April 3, 2013 at 1:37 pm #725587
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    ray silvester

    stevemarks wrote:Thanks guys

    stevemarks wrote:
    Thanks guys I am still learning so much all the time from playing this wonderful game. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    I also have someone in the break today (Landa) albeit in my purist team, makes a nice change.

    Does anyone want to give me some tips about how you find guys who might go in the break because its not something that you can lay your hands on stats for very easily?

    This race lends itself to breakaway points quite well as it has three sprint points and lots of classified climbs within the stages…..for our game purposes you could have a grand tour stage with just 1 HC summit finish that could possibly be the queen stage but only earn sprint bonuses for the break.

    April 3, 2013 at 1:28 pm #725585
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    Philip Unwin

    No surprises
    mountain
    1
    No surprises
    mountain
    1 Txurruka
    2 Fraile
    3 Navarro
    I hope Eurosport realise the race will probably not finish until about 30 mins after their scheduled coverage

    April 3, 2013 at 1:19 pm #725583
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    Philip Unwin

    Conversely riders on a team
    Conversely riders on a team who have a GC contender may be under strict orders not to leave their team leader’s side eg Saxo for Contador, which is a shame as I am a big fan of Nicholas Roche, who may not be allowed to attack in the mountains.

    April 3, 2013 at 1:15 pm #725581
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    stevemarks

    Thanks everyone.
    I was trying
    Thanks everyone.

    I was trying to run a spreadsheet on it but it was too time consuming and I gave up. There were far too many different names too.

    :B :B :B

    April 3, 2013 at 1:06 pm #725579
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    drheaton

    Pick them from a hat.
    There
    Pick them from a hat.

    There are more obvious people, sometimes if a guy drops loads of time on the first stage then they’re going to attack the next day, sometimes you can get a feeling of who wants a mountain or sprint jersey (Txurruka) fairly early on and pick them up, sometimes it’s just a case of picking a random guy.

    Caja Rural as an invitational team were always going to put guys in the breaks and Txurruka, being a Basque formerly on Euskatel, was likely to be their go to guy but unfortunately I dropped him from my team before stage 1 and chose not to draft him in.

    April 3, 2013 at 1:04 pm #725577
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    Philip Unwin

    stevemarks wrote:Thanks guys

    stevemarks wrote:
    Thanks guys I am still learning so much all the time from playing this wonderful game. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    I also have someone in the break today (Landa) albeit in my purist team, makes a nice change.

    Does anyone want to give me some tips about how you find guys who might go in the break because its not something that you can lay your hands on stats for very easily?


    Sometimes the region they are from.
    Maybe looking for a new contract.
    Crystal ball

    April 3, 2013 at 1:00 pm #725575
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    stevemarks

    Thanks guys I am still
    Thanks guys I am still learning so much all the time from playing this wonderful game. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    I also have someone in the break today (Landa) albeit in my purist team, makes a nice change.

    Does anyone want to give me some tips about how you find guys who might go in the break because its not something that you can lay your hands on stats for very easily?

    April 3, 2013 at 12:59 pm #725573
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    Philip Unwin

    drheaton wrote:Amets Txurruka

    drheaton wrote:
    Amets Txurruka is my new least favourite rider.

    For me can never overtake Contador
    Lead now 5mins

    April 3, 2013 at 12:53 pm #725571
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    drheaton

    Amets Txurruka is my new
    Amets Txurruka is my new least favourite rider.

    April 3, 2013 at 12:51 pm #725569
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    ray silvester

    Could be worse…..Eurosport
    Could be worse…..Eurosport got the winner wrong yesterday!!

    April 3, 2013 at 12:50 pm #725567
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    ray silvester

    CyclingUpdates
    CyclingUpdates ‏@CyclingUptodate 23m
    #PaisVasco its not Cardoso in the break for CJR but Fraile. The 5 leaders have 3.30 minute after 60K

    April 3, 2013 at 12:47 pm #725565
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    Philip Unwin

    1st sprint
    1 Txurruka
    2
    1st sprint
    1 Txurruka
    2 Bardet
    3 Landa

    April 3, 2013 at 12:36 pm #725563
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    Philip Unwin

    chiv30 wrote:well at least

    chiv30 wrote:
    well at least thats cleared up and im not going insane…. :)

    Yeah Diariovasco and Biciclisimo tend to take it in turns to go to sleep so follow both (|:

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