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The Giro Purist thread

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  • May 4, 2013 at 12:17 pm #18679
    drheaton

    I figured the purist comp deserved a separate thread so we can keep purist discussions separate from the main stage threads.

    My Purist team is climber biased:

    Wiggins
    Nibali
    Scarponi
    Santambrogio
    Betancur
    Majka
    Pantano
    Locatelli
    Gavazzi

    Gavazzi is my only 'sprinter' but I've effectively got 5 team leaders and Betancur who I think will be stronger than Pozzovivo, at least to start with.

    Majka and Betancur are in there for young rider points as is Locatelli although he and Pantano are my breakaway guys.  Gavazzi, I hope, can feature in a few flat stages but I shied away from Bouhanni or Cav as just don't see their being enough stages for them to make them worth picking over the likes of Santambrogio or Scarponi.

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  • May 27, 2013 at 7:31 am #732157
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    ray silvester

    ray silvester wrote:Great

    ray silvester wrote:
    Great minds think alike on Gavazzi…..let’s hope he can stay between the…ahem….’white lines’?

    Surprised no Samu though Dr?

    I guess a Cav red jersey in Brescia would kill us both though!!

    Wiggins(must have)
    Nibali(ditto)
    Weening(great form)
    Garzelli(a last swansong)
    Gavazzi(likely to be there at the end-hometown=Brescia)
    Sanchez(bargain of the Giro for me)
    Betancur(youth)
    Aru(youth)
    Ludviggson(breaks + decent TT)

    Well there’s some chickens home to roost re Cav,Gavazzi,Wiggo and even Samu to a certain extent.

    I guess from that you’ll know how my Giro went X(

    May 27, 2013 at 7:29 am #732155
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    ray silvester

    enrique wrote:If I’m not

    enrique wrote:
    If I’m not mistaken, this would have been the perfect Purist team for the Giro:

    Vicenzo Nibali
    Cadel Evans
    Carlos Alberto Betancur
    Giovanni Visconti
    Mauro Santambrogio
    Stefano Pirazzi
    Rafal Majka
    Maxim Belkov
    Danilo Di Luca

    It would have netted a grand total of 2340 points if I did my math right! 🙂 And, had anybody selected it, would have gotten you into the No. 101 in the overall competition, without (!) making a single (!) transfer! 😕 😉

    The Best (?) Investment (?) Danilo Di Luca who at 3.0 brought in 104 points, then Luka Mezgec who at 3.0 brought in 100 points…

    Man you’ve got some serious time on your hands LOL :B

    Good work though 😉

    May 27, 2013 at 7:25 am #732153
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    enrique

    If I’m not mistaken, this
    If I’m not mistaken, this would have been the perfect Purist team for the Giro:

    Vicenzo Nibali
    Cadel Evans
    Carlos Alberto Betancur
    Giovanni Visconti
    Mauro Santambrogio
    Stefano Pirazzi
    Rafal Majka
    Maxim Belkov
    Danilo Di Luca

    It would have netted a grand total of 2340 points if I did my math right! 🙂 And, had anybody selected it, would have gotten you into the No. 101 in the overall competition, without (!) making a single (!) transfer! 😕 😉

    The Best (?) Investment (?) Danilo Di Luca who at 3.0 brought in 104 points, then Luka Mezgec who at 3.0 brought in 100 points…

    May 17, 2013 at 12:49 pm #732151
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    ray silvester

    stumps wrote:Didn’t pick

    stumps wrote:
    Didn’t pick Wiggins for mine, kept in Cav.

    Michele Scarponi
    Thomas Dekker
    Alex Dowsett
    Mauro Santambrogio
    Mark Cavendish
    Stefano Garzelli
    Pieter Weening
    Vicenzo Nibali
    Stefano Pirazzi

    That’s looking pretty decent stumpy?

    May 17, 2013 at 11:59 am #732149
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    ray silvester

    drheaton wrote:Still got 8,

    drheaton wrote:
    Still got 8, hoping Scarponi and Majka can finally come good. Also, hoping Locatelli actually does, well, anything. He’s been totally non-existent so far.

    I’d say Scarponi and Majka are over-achieving in this to be honest(especially Rafa)…..not sure how that equates to Fantasy pts though?

    May 17, 2013 at 9:37 am #732147
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    drheaton

    Still got 8, hoping Scarponi
    Still got 8, hoping Scarponi and Majka can finally come good. Also, hoping Locatelli actually does, well, anything. He’s been totally non-existent so far.

    May 17, 2013 at 9:34 am #732145
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    TERatcliffe26

    Im down to 7 now Wiggins and
    Im down to 7 now Wiggins and Bouhanni has gone

    May 17, 2013 at 9:23 am #732143
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    dave atkinson

    yup, down to six too now
    yup, down to six too now wiggns, hesjedal and cattaneo have all sacked it off. wonder if i’ll lose any more?

    May 17, 2013 at 9:21 am #732141
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    livestrongnick

    so with wiggo pulling out im
    so with wiggo pulling out im now down to 6 riders…… :”(

    May 16, 2013 at 6:44 pm #732139
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    Stumps

    Moved up into the 90’s, still
    Moved up into the 90’s, still a canny way off but another victory for Cav tomorrow will help.

    May 16, 2013 at 4:21 pm #732137
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    drheaton

    *sigh* bloody Wiggins, that’s
    *sigh* bloody Wiggins, that’s totally buggered my purist Giro up.

    Was hoping he’d come good for the french mountains but instead it looks like he may pull out and prepare for the Tour instead.

    May 16, 2013 at 11:40 am #732135
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    Philip Unwin

    My purist team, very
    My purist team, very disappointed with Aru, Pietropolli and Locatelli who have all been anonymous.

    May 16, 2013 at 10:55 am #732133
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    Stumps

    Agree about Cav and Viviani,
    Agree about Cav and Viviani, i sort of went with a mixture of both sprinters and climbers. Sitting 117th at the mo but 193 points behind, so need a bit of a miracle. Really disappointed with Garzelli and i thought Weening might have done better.

    Michele Scarponi
    Thomas Dekker
    Alex Dowsett
    Mauro Santambrogio
    Mark Cavendish
    Stefano Garzelli
    Pieter Weening
    Vicenzo Nibali
    Stefano Pirazzi

    May 16, 2013 at 9:22 am #732131
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    drheaton

    I’ll admit that Cav (142
    I’ll admit that Cav (142 points) and Viviani (143) are both doing better than I expected and are both sound picks, especially with at least two sprint finishes likely.

    Of the two Viviani I think would have been the better pick as he seems to be chasing intermediate sprints and is cheaper.

    I think the big one most people missed was Evans, at 196 points he’s outscored everyone so far by a good 30 points, second and third are Uran (167) and Nibali (161) then there’s a few at the 140ish mark.

    My team of

    Wiggins
    Nibali
    Scarponi
    Santambrogio
    Betancur
    Majka
    Pantano
    Locatelli
    Gavazzi

    is doing ok but Locatelli has been quiet and the obvious misses (Pirazzi, Battaglin, Di Luca) have hurt me. I’m 65th in the purist comp some 160 points behind the leader and likely to drop a few places again on the flat stages.

    May 16, 2013 at 9:14 am #732129
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    ray silvester

    I’ve still got all 9 upright
    I’ve still got all 9 upright but sitting 582nd in purist is not very good at all.

    Wiggins,Kelderman,Nibali,Sanchez,Betancur,Aru,Weening,Garzelli,Ludviggson.

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