Just lost another of my team - down to 5!
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i gave up looking weeks ago
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I'm locked in a bitter struggle over the minor placings with Gembo.
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@cyclingmollie, we could both still get on the podium, froome's next mechanical might prove crucial. Also if my last GC man standing rigobeto makes it to the time trial, ahead of Froome then he will prevail. Our tactic is to very much stay under the radar.
Sky are winning fantasy team but quickstep not far behind
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It's certainly been the closest Tour for years.
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Quickstep messed up for Dan Martin, lugging Kittel up the mountains.nwill be worse today. Kittel might be out?
Our league on the other hand has a certain runaway winner who is keeping very quiet in case Mr SRD JOINS AT THE END AND gazumps him.
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Oops - another big name out now
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Better not be another of Jerry Corb's Allstars, we are three down already. Will watch highlights
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Did wonder if Kittel would make it but he probably would have if he had not crashed spectacularly
My man Uran has revealed himself, Bardet moaning he did not do any work which is peepee
Just spotted a devil at the end there. Not the devil though, he is retired?
Should be good on the Izoard hilltop finish tomorrow.
Has been. Tour to remember.
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Another thriller
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Not seen highlights but from Bax boy getting over the 5000 looks like his Oz sprinter took palmares over my German and Dutch disappointments.
I was in top 5per cent nearly of the whole league but have slipped back. Bax near the top , respect as can't be just lucky as he so nearly won our league last year. However our very own eathowned won the whole show the year before.
Stay awesome
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Ooh, I love that guy who went the right way round the roundabout the right way, he is the Flahute's Flahute
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Not on the podium this edition, I'm afraid....
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Well done to bax and special mention to republic of leith for fourth spot without picking Froome.
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Is it childish to be amused that 'Better than ^^' came last?
Seventeenth out of twenty seven with a team chosen by osmosis - not bad for my first year. Next year I shall choose by electrophoresis, or, if budget permits, quadrupole mass spectrometry.
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@Iwrats, there is a big element of luck involved. Some riders do better than others who are next to them on GC - Dan Martin V Simon Yares? The rules of the fantasy league are not exactly same as the actual but quite close.
Sagan would normally give you huge points. Just picking Froome would move you up ten places. (Assuming you did not pick Froome by osmosis)
Three of my more costly riders to buy, Porte, Fuglsang and Makjka all fell off. Broken everything, broken wrist and sore everything . But two of my cheapest picks, Barguil and Uran were the highest scorers per point paid (EBH also very good value for six points but I did not have him this year).
Just picking Sky riders would have been a fair tactic. Next year it will be interesting to see if that team stays together. Obviously Lanada is offski.
Bardet needs to learn to time trial? to beat Froome and also Uran who both ride the percentages and know the TT will help. Crazy drug fuelled mountain breakaways do not feature any more. Micro doping and long flat stages lead to a tour of exciting highlights interspersed with dullness.
A big Canadian lad I was cycling with in Bedfordshire also mentioned Venus Gases. Must google them.
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@gembo
I see. Has anyone plotted up price versus points for historical races? If Nate Silver was on CCE this is where he might start the search for undervalued assets.
I once took part in a dead pool run by actuaries.
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I'm pleased with my team selected on likeability. Contador? I hear you ask. He survived major brain surgery early in his career so I gave him a bye. Aru was a lucky guess.
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I had Bohanni on my team. He really didn't do well but somehow managed to get 500 pts, whereas as Yates, white jersey winner and consistently in the top 10 only got 750.
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I don't get the negativity on Froome eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/40692045
I can't help feeling it's mainly media generated.
The fact is that the UK now has a four-time winner, apparently clean, of one of the toughest, most spectacular sporting events there is. 6 or so years ago there were none.
He does have support from a good team, but it is a team sport.Posted 7 years ago # -
I had a shocker- lost Izaguirre on day 1 and 3 others during the race. 2 of my 5 finishers scored 2 points between them.
Agree with Amir both on thoughts on Froome and the strange scoring Thought Thomas de Gendt scored very poorly given what he gave to the race- 1000km + in breaks with lots of KOM and PGreen Jersey points. (3rd overall in KOM).
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"special mention to republic of leith for fourth spot without picking Froome." Thanks @gembo
I can't for the life of me remember why I decided not to pick Froome (or contador/quintana)
Got a bit unlucky with Porte and Cav crashing out early I think.
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Not childish at all iwrats. Especially as the one directly above him in second last place is his dad..he must have predicted that, at a much better level than his team prediction..
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@amir, none of them are Persil White. Their haematocrit levels will all be the max they can be without not being legal etc. The power wattage output guy will be along in a minute to say that all of their power output is Borderline. The one guy who refused the TUE might be an exception. They can all try to copy Sky. Did you know David Millar was having dinner with Dave Brailsford one night in 2004 when the french police arrested David Millar. [wiki says]. Landa may struggle to lead a team as good as the team that has Landa as number 2
I think Froome does well, plays all the percentages. Won it without ever winnig a stage He is a twig, as over 6ft and weighs 10 stone. He devotes his whole life to the tour, he improves where he is weak (descending) he is a consummate professional. And yet, I will go for Bardet any day. Froome also too obvious a pick for me.
The rules of fantasy league also favour Froome and some others. Yates as metioned finished one place below Dan Marton is that right? But 500 fewer fantasy velo points or something like that.
I like playing the game though and obvipously would have had better than fifth if Majka, Porte and Fuglsang had stayed in the hunt. I did win the other league I was in, very late in the day [but had been there since the start just made gains with Barguil and built on that]. CCE just more wise than Fietsclub Balerno?
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"The one guy who refused the TUE might be an exception."
I was in two minds about this (possibly because I don't know all the facts). But at this time of year I may struggle without hayfever relief (and indeed asthma relief). But TUEs aren't (yet) required for commuting, cafe rides or audax. Definitely some mechanical doping going on in the first of these.
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(I thought there was a Vuelta thread?)
I am going to come out of the Froome cupboard and admit I struggle to like him. Nothing wrong with him at all and yet every day I feel a tad disappointed that he retains the appropriately coloured jersey.
Maybe it is because his "Britishness" appears to have come from having once watched an episode of Dad's Army (or equivalent) but I think it might be because he is frankly a bit dull. At least he has finally managed to win a stage of something now but most of his success seems to come from having his team drag him up the course not too far away from the front while other riders provide the excitement.
Maybe I am being unfair but I expect that if I feel this way then others do too.
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@Min. I never pick him because he is too obvious a pick. He is going to win the Vuelta though unless he crashes. I struggle to warm to his personality, or find it. But that is me. Not him. One of his parents had a British passport. Almost the whole of continental Europe thinks he is doping and/or mechanical doping. These days I feel that will be legal doping.
I think there was a Vuelta thread but I could not find it either when I wanted to object to Sunweb kicking Barguil out. (he was in my team).
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"Almost the whole of continental Europe thinks he is doping and/or mechanical doping."
Could be because he's winning? And on a bike? And not French? I would be gloriously disappointed if he were and don't currently believe he's cheating . But it' not been long enough since the last scandal in cycling to be shocked.
And of course other recent Grand Tour winners have had a bit of smoke - the great Contador and our own Brad.
I've no objection to good teamwork winning the grand tours. They are team sports after all, and I think on the balance that this interaction between the team and individual spices it up.
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I struggle to warm to his personality, or find it.
Lol, yes. I wanted to say that too but you said it better!Posted 7 years ago # -
@Amir, I do not think he is currently cheating no, I think Legal doping
I think the europeans are pointing to his meteoric rise which is put down to Biharzia. Whereas they put it down to doping.
I think they are all at it and I do not mind.
Nice that Landa did to Froome what Froome did to Wiggins.
I think it is great that we have British, Irish, American, Australian, Canadian cyclists in addition to the rest of the non-English speaking world who have always been into cycling. I do not need people to be whiter than white. Merckx himself was fond of the Billy Whizz and Coppi talked openly of La Bomba
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