Fantasy Cycling 2011 - on road.cc

bilirubin

Results after stage 7 ( Liège - Bastogne - Liège )

1 no use for a name kamatt22 345
= Wheeling n Dealing archieboy 345
3 shutuplegs trailstar 301
4 Shincliffe Clarion Shincliffe Grimpeur 285
5 Electric Plight Orchestra Jamie F 274
= Silence Kirby Please Sanderville 274
7 TeamPolocini Polocini 263
8 Last Up First Off CC Stefan 262
9 Gasworks msw 259
10 chapeaux cingles3454 256
11 Force & Form Neil McC 253
12 Writtle Wheelers alanjay16 242
13 We're not very good Hammerite 241
14 Educating Ricco dave_atkinson 230
15 Leo Team Giant Fast Caterham 228
16 The Crusties slimbo 225
= Team Fungus Pro Cycling fungus the muffin man 225
= Team Shrapnel shraap 225
19 Team Wheelsucker thegibdog 222
20 Sausage In Cider CC MrJim007 221
21 Patchy CC patchy 218
22 Team Blueleaf | Bicycle Smithy Dane 216
23 Snook Cycling durhamwasp 213
24 Kentdowner velosport kentdowner 209
25 Pedaling squares staffo 206
26 Bring Back Jan rich_semple 196
27 PrestwichRoadRash Raymosley 192
28 rollscanardly pot belge 189
29 Dans Devils Mufti Dan 186
30 scouseMouse viveLaPants 180
31 Yorkshire Pudding CC gregster04 172
32 Ribble Valley CRC MJB 169
33 Jimmys Cuckoos jimmythecuckoo 165
34 Big Ring! jackcreasey 160
35 GrannyGear CC Benjamin Hall 153
36 Alberto's Butcher bilirubin 145
37 Antlaff antlaff 140
38 GAN nowhere Fran Manancourt 128
39 poweredbynoone wallonie11 123
40 Elefantino CC jonnyemmett@yahoo.co.uk 109
41 Barefoot Engineering sjacob33 107
42 Awesome Power CC hancocklovesyou 98
43 Alpuerto Clenbutador stereojet 90
44 stoneys stoney1972 87
45 Coxhoe Rouleur's andysnook 85
46 Bantam Thorper Cycling Bantam 58
47 terrynutkinsvelo timcornell 56
48 Dulwich Paragonites Mrjamaldi 53
49 Les Grimpeurs pricey_ 52
50 MAMIL riggsy 48
51 Snuffle bazbadger 39

bilirubin

Out of interest are there any other "purists" on here, by that I mean anyone who has not made a transfer in his team since the season started.

I am, and to my surprise I am sitting joint 23rd out of 1073 teams in the "purists" league.

That's real cycling team management not glory hunting

MrJim007

Woo Hoo!!!
Whopper of a stage for me in the Giro today. First time through the 100 point barrier for a stage, god bless Le Mevel!!!

trailstar

belter.. i had a good early season with the classics but my giros are averaging 40-50.

Now its the GC boys time to play i should fair better.. scarponi, nibali and lovkvist :-)

x8swift9x

I'm in - how do we see the league standing? How are you all fairing on the overall league - I'm 131/3151 in the Giro.

MrJim007

Im normally hopeless at these fantasy league things so i am a little surprised to see myself in 27th overall for the Giro and 64th overall for the world tour season!!

gattocattivo

So, logic says I should sell Nibali and buy Contador. I'm slightly uncomfortable with this on 'moral' grounds (though this hasn't stopped me ditching Cavendish and signing Petacchi), but more importantly I'm worried that he'll get disqualified and I'll lose any points he gets me.

Sudor

Me too ! Sudor

gattocattivo

I'm hoping I haven't broken the rules. When I looked at my scores last night, I noticed that Petacchi was greyed out (as presumably he's now quit the Giro, along with most other sprinters). I made my two transfers, but didn't bother to sell Pettacchi because all that would achieve would be to swap a sprinter who definitely won't score any points today (as he's not in the race) for a cheaper one who almost certainly won't score any points today (as he'll be in the broom wagon).

I'm sure people have complained about not scoring points when they didn't have a full team, but I scored points yesterday so I guess it's OK to have greyed out riders in your team. Logically, I suppose it must be OK, because in theory you could have seven of your team retire from the race on the same day (if they all missed the time cut or got taken down in the same crash) but would only be able to replace two of them due to the transfer restriction.

gattocattivo

It was OK ^

Up to third in the Giro and second in the World Series (in the Bike Radar league, not overall).

hammerite

Greyed out riders are fine, you have to have a full team regardless of whether a rider is in the race of not. I think in the early stages there wasn't one GC contender in the classic races, but you still had to choose one.

I think most went for Cyrille Dessel as he didn't cost much, so you could use the rest of the points on more expensive riders.

Cleat Eastwood

the only reason I could see for picking a non greyed out rider was that you got points for him if a member of his team won the stage. Its the only reason I've kept one of berties low ranking doms. But now matt wilson is probably going to worth 10points a stage till the race ends, whos counting.

Theres only one sprinter now I think.

Cleat Eastwood

Well that all went tits up. I had cunego, van gaderen, and even the name of the driver of the car that pulled out by the cafe....then they reset the server...now I have nothing, nothing I tells ya.

gattocattivo

Yep, it's all gone up the creek the last couple of days. First of all they accidentally let us completely change our teams, so I took full advantage of this and would have scored a gazillion points today. Meanwhile the sites just been crashing over and over and over. Now they've neutralized it and gone back in time.

gattocattivo

It's still crashing all the time now. It took me about an hour to change my team this morning and it was all for nothing in the end. I don't know if it's even worth bothering to try again tonight.

trailstar

all back up and running. However i would have had a belter of a stage yesterday if the points werent zeroed

would have had the following lads who all finished in the top 20 with cunego taking the jersey :
Cunego
Sagan
fuglsang
ten dam
kruijswijk
bakelandts

jimmythecuckoo

Its a bugger its broke but I am sure Dave is beavering away to put it right.

fungus_the_muffin_man

I missed out on 4 changes on sat as i was working. So I've still got riders from the Crit

StanwaySteve62

I'm in, good that can filter just for the tdf

gattocattivo

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