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Criterium du Dauphine stage 4

My team for today

ROHAN DENNIS (BMC)
NACER BOUHANNI (COF)
JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE (EQS)
TEJAY VAN GARDEREN (BMC)
JONAS VANGENECHTEN (IAM)
LUKA MEZGEC (TGA)
DANIEL TEKLEHAIMANOT (MTQ)
EDVALD BOASSON HAGEN (MTQ)

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cgipryan | 9 years ago
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Congrats for the stage win, enrique!

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enrique replied to cgipryan | 9 years ago
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Here's yesterday's stage summary:

Yesterday we had 891 teams in the competition... 7 more teams joined the competition overnight... No...  45 They weren't mine...  45

We went back down to 157 unique scores, which I take to mean we went back to people choosing more similar teams. Quite a drop from the 345 unique scores in the TTT!  39

Here's what seems to have been the most common team selection for Stage 4 with 21 teams which had the most commen score seeming to share these scoring riders:

Nacer Bouhanni       PC
Edvald Boasson Hagen       DS
Luka Mezgec       PC
Julian Alaphilippe       AR

The usual caveats apply.  1

cgipryan wrote:

Congrats for the stage win, enrique!

Thanks, ryan!  1

I was in good company, too!  1

2 Velociraptor    Joelsim
21 CONTADORS CONQUISTADORS    STEVESPRO 79

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cgipryan | 9 years ago
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The new transfer rules make me feel like I'm playing poker. I need to struggle to keep cool for a certain number of stages (making a purist-ish sort of a team and holding on to it for as long as I can with just fairly small tweaks) and then, when the type of stages changes drastically, I feel like I'm going all in... that's where you need to be spot on (especially in the shorter stage races where there's really no time to make amends). Ah, the pressure...  17

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enrique replied to cgipryan | 9 years ago
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cgipryan wrote:

... I need to... [make] a purist-ish sort of a team and holding on to it for as long as I can... and then, when the type of stages changes drastically... going all in... that's where you need to be spot on...

That's a good analogy... I hope some day we go back to having penalty transfers... I think they help you alleviate the anxiety distribute the risk and feel less pressure... I still wonder why we got rid of them...  39

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Joelsim | 9 years ago
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Yeah I know. I've already conceded this year on that one. A year of learning!

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TERatcliffe26 | 9 years ago
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Bah, terrible for me...

Joel is tearing it up

(Although Dennis leading and Vangec 2nd for my FSL team Joel  3 )

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Stumps | 9 years ago
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1,3,4,6 + Dennis. Not bad but not brilliant either.

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chrisdstripes | 9 years ago
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Solid for me. Alaphilippe is a beast - I keep thinking he MUST be knackered by now but he keeps going. At least he's in my purists.

All change tonight - will be lots of different teams tomorrow!

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Joelsim | 9 years ago
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1,2,3,4,6 plus TJ, Dennis and Teklehaimanot

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Moist von Lipwig | 9 years ago
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1. Nacer Bouhanni 5.30.53
2. Jonas Van Genechten
3. Luka Mezgec
4. Edvald Boasson Hagen
5. Alexey Tsatevich
6. Julian Alaphilippe
7. Samuel Dumoulin
8. Tiesj Benoot
9. Kevin Reza
10. Nathan Haas

Its not often a bit of a punt comes off, single transfer brought in Van Genechten for today for 1/2/3/4/6 of the top 10.

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backflipbedlem | 9 years ago
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1,3,4,6,7

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Moist von Lipwig | 9 years ago
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Geschke also DNS today.

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Condor Andy | 9 years ago
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Boeckmans has abandoned.

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stevemarks | 9 years ago
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Julian Alaphilippe (EQS)
Kris Boeckmans (LTS)
Michael Schar (BMC)
Nacer Bouhanni (COF)
Edvald Boasson Hagen (MTQ)
Maxime Bouet (EQS)
Rohan Dennis (BMC)
Alejandro Valverde (MOV)

8 transfers left going to use quite a few tonight then sit and watch again.

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triccky100 | 9 years ago
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NACER BOUHANNI (COF)
SIMON GERRANS (OGE)
JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE (EQS)
ROHAN DENNIS (BMC)
SAMUEL DUMOULIN (ALM)
EDVALD BOASSON HAGEN (MTQ)
JESPER HANSEN (TSB)
DANIEL TEKLEHAIMANOT (MTQ)

8 transfers left

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Sniffer | 9 years ago
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Bouhanni
Mezgec
Alaphilippe
Oss
Gerrans
Boasson Hagen
Schar
Westra

9 transfers, but I think I'll need lots of them for tomorrow.

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chrisdstripes | 9 years ago
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I still have 11 transfers, may have been a bit too conservative...

Bouhanni/Dumoulin (In for Alaphilippe and Modolo)
Gerrans/Bouet/EBH
Grivko/Nibali/Dennis

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livestrongnick | 9 years ago
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ROHAN DENNIS (BMC)
NACER BOUHANNI (COF)
JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE (EQS)
TEJAY VAN GARDEREN (BMC)
DANIEL TEKLEHAIMANOT (MTQ)
EDVALD BOASSON HAGEN (MTQ)
PETER KENNAUGH (SKY)
MICHELE SCARPONI (AST)
8 changes left

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Condor Andy | 9 years ago
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2 changes for today. Modolo and Kennaugh out, Dumoulin and Keukeleire in.

Bouhanni
Gerrans
Keukeleire
Navardauskas
Dennis
Dumoulin
Alaphilippe
Boasson Hagen

9 changes left for the mountains  1

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backflipbedlem | 9 years ago
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just 2 changes, thought is was a bit more lumpy, but reckon will still come down to a bunch sprint. 13 transfers left

Bouhanni
Mezgec
Dumoulin
Gerrans
Alaphilippe
Navardauskas
Boekmans
Boasson Hagen

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_Kasper | 9 years ago
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JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE (EQS)
NACER BOUHANNI (COF)
EDVALD BOASSON HAGEN (MTQ)
SIMON GERRANS (OGE)
LUKA MEZGEC (TGA)
ROBERT KISERLOVSKI (TSB)
ANDREW TALANSKY (TCG)
TEJAY VAN GARDEREN (BMC)

Out goes Quiziato, Intxausti and Modolo

7 transfers left. 4 for tomorrow, and 3 for adjustments. Should be sufficient.

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chrisdstripes | 9 years ago
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I dropped Alaphilippe - eek!

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