2011 prediction game

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

If any submissions are over the time limit, I'm not going to be stressing to hard.

Hitch is that your side? You can PM if you dont want to reveal your selections to others. On that note - did Merckx release what everyone selected or just their scores?

Obviously with time left luckyboy, you can change your predictions if you wish

He posted them before the stage... or during

Anywho thanks for understanding with the time limit and good job on all this.

 

[Tuarts]

No problems, it seemed like people wanted this revived and I found myself with the time to do it.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Luckyboy, just need 1 prediction for the races when the come up, as Mercx said you have 24 hours beforehand to enter the predictions for that race, not the whole thing.

Mercx, ok thanks so 70 is the max anyone can get - picking the winner is big points.

skidmark, my inbox shouldn't get full, if it does holler in this thread. I'll be posting my teams in this thread for transparency sake. Although if anyone does insinuate I'm cheating for personal gain then I'd pack all this in.

Ah, come on. You can tell much.
We just hired AFLD for this game

What is the dead end now ?
24 h ? Or 23,5 hours ? Or neutral start or what ?

If it will be 24h I won't participate for many reasons.
You know, mainly i won't predict before the stage day before has ended.
That makes no sense.

Why not neutral start ? Time is easy to find everywhere.

 

[Tuarts]

Ah, come on. You can tell much.
We just hired AFLD for this game

What is the dead end now ?
24 h ? Or 23,5 hours ? Or neutral start or what ?

If it will be 24h I won't participate for many reasons.
You know, mainly i won't predict before the stage day before has ended.
That makes no sense.

Why not neutral start ? Time is easy to find everywhere.

Have you read the other posts in here? As I said before, I'm not going to be too concerned about the deadline time just so long as you get them in before the start of the race.

 

[Jancouver]

My top 5 sent

 

[The Hitch]

My top 5 sent

Cheers for bumping this so i remember to send mine.

 

[Havetts]

Same haha .

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Same haha .

me 2 10 letters

 

[Cobblestoned]

Have you read the other posts in here? As I said before, I'm not going to be too concerned about the deadline time just so long as you get them in before the start of the race.

Yes I read them.
But now it is even clearer.

 

[El Pistolero]

So I had 5 people who did MSR predictions so I'm going to display what they got so people can understand the scoring (and also to see if I've got it right). Ferminal & The Hitch's predictions came without an order so I took the liberty there so I could show various examples. No I didn't really tip either.

For those that did this before - is my scoring of the "clean sweep" right?

Ingsve, fair point, I'll leave that part up there but will be "relaxed".

Wow, that's an amazing prediction from you @MSR

 

[Eric8-A]

Put mine on reserve, I'll send them within the hour or less.

 

[Tuarts]

2nd post updated: http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?p=463145#post463145

 

[Merckx]

Very well done man! Looks fantastic, thanks for running it =) Game on!!

 

[Tuarts]

Alright, so first post is updated with new table! Also second post has an excel document of everyone's results. I'll wipe the image clean and update when new race begins and just keep updating the file as well. Now to separate 1st and 2nd, I based it purely on the fact that Farrar finished higher up than Griepel. Only reason, doesn't mean anything so please don't read too much into it.

 

[Havetts]

Nine points, Im happy with that, not too bad one the first prediction .

Thanks for running this Tuarts .

 

[Hugo Koblet]

I blame Goss for this! Oh well, I guess I'm doing as well as in the CQ ranking game

Thanks for setting this up Tuarts!

 

[The Hitch]

I blame Goss for this! Oh well, I guess I'm doing as well as in the CQ ranking game

Thanks for setting this up Tuarts!

I pick guys i dont have in the cq game for this so if a big classic doesnt go well for me there, chances are i could do quite well here.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

I pick guys i dont have in the cq game for this so if a big classic doesnt go well for me there, chances are i could do quite well here.

But you'll never be completely happy then

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Good stuff! Farrar for the tiebreaker!

I think this next round is going to be really tight. It will really be a 2 man prediction after almost everyone picking Canc, Gilbert, and maybe Boonen.

 

[El Pistolero]

I pick guys i dont have in the cq game for this so if a big classic doesnt go well for me there, chances are i could do quite well here.

You'd be stupid if you picked the guys from CQ game

I don't think you have Gilbert and Cancellara in your CQ team and they're 90% sure going to be on podium in Flanders.

While Cancellara's winning chance is bordering 95%

I'm going to be disappointed either way next sunday as there can not be two winners in Flanders(Boonen and Gilbert )

 

[Havetts]

Gonna be a lot of the same pickings for P-R and RvV .

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

i suspect first place in flanders will be 99% the same.
the 1% being el pickle for gilbert of course

 

[Eric8-A]

I'm hoping to do better in this game than I'm doing at the CQ one.

 

[Tuarts]

Despite getting the points for the winner I completely tanked

On to RvV and P-R!

 

[Cobblestoned]

Gonna be a lot of the same pickings for P-R and RvV .

Not mine

I predict Cancellara and Boonen beeing heavily marked and some "lucky 3th" for win.
That excludes Pozzato and Thor, because Pippo will be on Boonens wheel, and Thor is on Fabians wheel, while all 4 will miss final selection.