Tour De France – Stage 10

Quote:Good news for your

Good news for your purists, Cousin gets most combative

Yay! It was the tache wot won it.

The top five of the 10th
The top five of the 10th stage is:

1. Marcel Kittel (GER) ARG
2. André Greipel (GER) LTB
3. Mark Cavendish (GBR) OPQ
4. Peter Sagan (SLO) CAN
5. William Bonnet (FRA) FDJ
6. Kristoff
7. Dumoulin (S)
8. Reza
9. Van Poppel (D)
10. Rojas
11. Goss
12. Henderson
13. Gene
14. Lemoine
15. Flecha
16. El Fares
17. Ferrari
18. Garcia
19. Dumoulin (T)
20. Jeannesson

Bugger, tried to force Bonnet into my team this morning but couldn’t afford him without dropping Van Poppel and thought DVP would score higher.

captain_slog wrote:Well I

captain_slog wrote:

Well I picked the wrong Sojasun guys, no surprise there.

I have got Cousin in my purists, though, a decision made doubly fortuitous by the fact that he’s sporting such a stylish moustache. Is there anyone else in the peloton similarly adorned? (No, Peter, that doesn’t count.)

Good news for your purists, Cousin gets most combative.

Well I picked the wrong
Well I picked the wrong Sojasun guys, no surprise there.

I have got Cousin in my purists, though, a decision made doubly fortuitous by the fact that he’s sporting such a stylish moustache. Is there anyone else in the peloton similarly adorned? (No, Peter, that doesn’t count.)

chokofingrz wrote:So, hands

chokofingrz wrote:

So, hands up anyone else who’s already been foiled in their attempts to line up with three OPQ riders tomorrow?

It crossed my mind 🙂

Had a think and done a little
Had a think and done a little bit of ‘back of the envelope’ maths and I reckon it’s better (overall) to make transfers tonight rather than bank them over the TT.

If I keep Cav for tomorrow he’ll score max 8-10 points (3-5 for points jersey plus 5 for Tony Martin if he wins), add two transfers to that (10 points each as that’s the cost of making those as penalties assuming I don’t save them) gives me a max cost of 30 points. If I swap him for Tony Martin then that’s probably a net 5 point gain. If I swap him for Froome that’s potentially higher as I get more jersey points.

If I apply this to Greipel (3-5 points for jerseys plus 20 in transfers) it’s actually more beneficial as there’s be no team bonus. Same applies to Sagan.

So I think I’ll drop Greipel/Sagan tonight for Martin/Froome or some other combo and probably still come out 20-30 points up (at best). It’s risky though, if Martin tanks or Froome doesn’t top 5 I’m down on points and transfers.

Wig_Billy wrote:drheaton

Wig_Billy wrote:

drheaton wrote:

Like I said, all in on the sprint, 6 changes (20 penalty points) so I have

Sagan
Cavendish
Greipel
Kittel
D Van Poppel
El Fares
Mederel
Fischer
Gutierrez (DNS)

Given my lowly overall position I think I’ll be throwing a few penalty transfers at my team in order to maximise points each day and hope that keeps me ahead of people sticking to two transfers a day.

I’m in a very similar position to you and I have a very similar team (just swap Fischer for Bono), but my strategy is very different. I’m going to bank transfers until stage 14 or 15 or 16 (I haven’t decided which yet :?), then have some fun trying to get a stage win in the final week.

I considered that but thought it’d be more fun just to ignore the penalty numbers and put whatever team I want together. Banking transfers then taking a risk and getting it wrong wouldn’t be fun 🙁

Plan is to probably drop 4/5 tonight for TTers then same again for sprinters after tomorrow. Then see what the terrain brings. I am tempted to ignore the TT entirely and save 4 transfers by keeping my team the same for Thursday but I’m still harbouring hope of a solid overall position (not that I can do much from 230th).

In the end I might plump for a middle ground and just make one or two changes tonight.