2013 Giro d'Italia CQ game

[Afrank]

If I told you that, people would be inclined to vote for their own self interest

It is now v little hassle (add 1 column to a spreadsheet SUM(a1:d1) code), and the difference is 20 points from top to bottom of the list of beneficiaries.

And that's exactly why I asked.

I think it would be fine to just leave as is at this point. If his points are taken away on CQ, it won't be until much after the Giro.

 

[Tuarts]

Pleased I got my setup right, close but no cigar!

Trofimov improved his GC rank today so should be even closer but there's no way I'll win.

Congrats MV! Pirazzi was a great pick, way better than that spud Cobo.

 

[asdfgh101]

CQ will DQ Di Luca after he is suspended. His points will be re-allocated but the TTT result will stand. If it is no trouble then you should submit the ammended results as it might be important for top 3/10.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Stage 20 daily points

Nibali 70 + 18 for 27 teams (but the other 16 teams lost any ambitions a long time ago)
Duarte 40 pts for 7 teams
Betancur 15 pts for 5 teams
Aru 10 pts for 3 teams
Pozzovivo 5 pts for 1 team
D Caruso 3 pts for 2 teams
Atapuma 2 pts for 5 teams
Majka 1 pt for 10 teams

Today's top ten
1 Al Pacino 130 (Nibali, Duarte and Atapuma)
2 = Jakob747, Lupetto, Ruudz0r and Sasquatch 128 (Nibali and Duarte)
6= LightBing and NairoQ 105 (Nibali, Betancur and Atapuma)
8 Afrank 104 (Nibali, Betancur and Majka)
9 Geraint Too Fast 98 (Nibali and Aru)
10 Kazistuta 96 (Nibali, Pozzovivo, Atapuma and Majka)

1 Mellow Velo 820
2 Afrank 763
3 The Asian 762
4 Tuarts 749
5 NairoQ 708
6 Asdfgh101 702
7 Jakob747 700
8 Sasquatch 693
9 Vitapen 690
10 Al Pacino 681
11 Comodoro 679
11 Jancouver 679
13 Minessa 663
14 Kazistuta 655
15 Martyfulu 650
16 Lupetto 619
17 LightBing 617
18 Cyival 605
19 Ruudz0r 603
20 EvansisTheBest 592
21 Garfield 585
22 Maaaaaaaarten 584
23 Vladimir 575
24 Handbrake 566
25 Hilltopfinisher 558
26 Geraint Too Fast 554
27 Yellow Knight 551
28 Taiwan 479
29 Manafana 456
30 Karaev 383
31 Search 345
32 BlackBandit222 329
33 Hugo Koblet 318
34 Falze 306
35 Armchair Cyclist 293
36 Just Some Guy 284
37 Shalgo 271
38 Whittashau 247
39 The Fool on the Hill 195
40 Kjetilraknerud 185
41 18-Valve Pithy 168
42 MC Mountain 129
43 Bicycle Boy 112

(Following comments of others, I have not factored in any reallocation of stage points taken by Di Luca, but it would have lead to several changes in the top ten if I had)

 

[taiwan]

Barely even mid-pack

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Virtual points changes

To preserve a modicum of intrigue and suspense, I won't post the standings, as there will be virtually no change tomorrow except in the red jersey competition, but the major points earned and lost by selected riders today are:

Nibali +151
Betancur +60
Duarte +46
Pozzovivo +20
Intxausti +15
D Caruso + 15
Aru +14
Trofimov +14
Atapuma +10
.....
Bole -15
Sánchez -23
Majka -23
Niemiec -25
Evans -75

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Barely even mid-pack

2nd best of those who made the fatal error of not selecting Nibali, if that is any consolation to you.

 

[Afrank]

Virtual points changes

To preserve a modicum of intrigue and suspense, I won't post the standings, as there will be virtually no change tomorrow except in the red jersey competition, but the major points earned and lost by selected riders today are:

Nibali +151
Betancur +60
Duarte +46
Pozzovivo +20
Intxausti +15
D Caruso + 15
Aru +14
Trofimov +14
Atapuma +10
.....
Bole -15
Sánchez -23
Majka -23
Niemiec -25
Evans -75

Dam you Armchair!


I had the 2 top point earning riders though so hopefully I moved up from the 9th I've been occupying in the virtural standings. Happy with how I've done so far this Giro cq game though. 3 stages wins and was 1st in standings a couple times.
Too bad yesterday's stage was canceled though, that probably negatively effected my placing a bit as I think Betancur would have had a good chance to gain some points there.

Thanks yet again for all your work BTW.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

I think Nibali-Hesjedal is a better duo than Nibali-Betancur. I was gonna pick Betancur for stage points in medium mountain stages + decent chance of GC points.

But then I remembered I could pick a serious contender ftw for only 100 points more

Oh boy, I sure do regret this one

 

[al_pacino]

Oh boy, I sure do regret this one

too true.

At least I have Betancur for the main game.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Stage 21: final daily points

No 18 point pink jersey bonus today (but that is fairly incidental considering how far adrift all the non Nibalists are)

Modolo 40 points for 6 teams
Viviani 25 pts for 2 teams
Mezgec 10 points for 1 team
Ferrari 7 pts for 14 teams
Belletti 3 pts for 1 team (Bicycle Boy, our lanterne rouge and his first points since stage 13)

Daily top ten
1= Just Some Guy, Karaev 47 (Modolo and Ferrari)
3= Lupetto, Mellow Velo, Search, The Asian 40 (Modolo)
7 Whittashau 32 (Viviani and Ferrari)
8 BlackBandit222 25 (Ferrari)
9 Martyfulu 10 (Mezgec)
10= 11 teams 7 (Ferrari)

Daily scores totals
1 Mellow Velo 860
2 The Asian 802
3 Afrank 763
4 Tuarts 749
5 Asdfgh101 709
6 NairoQ 708
7 Jakob747 700
7 Sasquatch 700
9 Vitapen 697
10 Comodoro 686
11 Al Pacino 681
12 Jancouver 679
13 Minessa 663
14 Kazistuta 662
15 Martyfulu 660
16 Lupetto 659
17 LightBing 617
18 Cyival 612
19 Ruudz0r 603
20 EvansisTheBest 592
21 Garfield 585
22 Maaaaaaaarten 584
23 Vladimir 582
24 Handbrake 573
25 Hilltopfinisher 558
26 Geraint Too Fast 554
27 Yellow Knight 551
28 Taiwan 486
29 Manafana 456
30 Karaev 430
31 Search 385
32 BlackBandit222 354
33 Just Some Guy 331
34 Hugo Koblet 325
35 Falze 306
36 Armchair Cyclist 293
37 Whittashau 279
38 Shalgo 271
39 The Fool on the Hill 202
40 Kjetilraknerud 185
41 18-Valve Pithy 168
42 MC Mountain 129
43 Bicycle Boy 115

The points competition
1 point if you were top scorer on the day, 0.5 points if yu were joint top scorer, 0.33 pts if you were one of three equal top scorers...

1 Martyfulu 3pts (almost entirely due to unique pick of Mezgec)
2 Afrank 2.33
3= Al Pacino and Geraint Too Fast 2pts
5= Just Some Guy and Whittashau 1.5

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

FINAL STANDINGS

1 Mellow Velo 2104
2 Tuarts 2033
3 Vitapen 1875
4 NairoQ 1859
5 Kazistuta 1838
6 Afrank 1828
7 The Asian 1822
8 Cyival 1796
9 Sasquatch 1795
10 Comodoro 1777
11 Martyfulu 1717
12 LightBing 1670
13 Lupetto 1638
14 Asdfgh101 1635
15 Al Pacino 1598
16 Vladimir 1571
17 Jancouver 1565
18 Garfield 1524
19 Minessa 1497
20 EvansisTheBest 1489
21 Jakob747 1483
22 Ruudz0r 1480
23 Manafana 1476
24 Maaaaaaaarten 1466
25 Hilltopfinisher 1447
26 Handbrake 1437
27 Yellow Knight 1328
28 Geraint Too Fast 1326
29 Taiwan 1234
30 Karaev 1165
31 Falze 1018
32 Just Some Guy 904
33 Shalgo 903
34 Hugo Koblet 854
35 BlackBandit222 793
36 Search 759
36 Whittashau 759
38 Armchair Cyclist 715
39 18-Valve Pithy 633
40 Kjetilraknerud 561
41 The Fool on the Hill 437
42 MC Mountain 275
43 Bicycle Boy 190

Well done Mellow Velo: despite an illegal pick, you still come away with a comfortable win.

Manafana in 23rd is the only rider without Nibali to beat any rider with Nibali.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Geraint Too Fast's unusual tactic of picking the whole Astana team left him last of the teams that picked Nibali, but at least he chose the best team.
Other team's totals:
AST 1326
SKY 892 (but miles over budget)
MOV 800
LAM 719
ALM 710
BMC 630
OPQ 571
KAT 491
VIN 401
BAR 387
EUS 357
TST 356
CAN 349
RLT 323
COL 295
ARG 275
BLA 269
LTB 257
GRS 253
ARG 230
FDJ 221
OGE 200
VCD 153

 

[Jancouver]

Thanks for the update and for running the game! Looking forward to the TDF

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Unimpeachable picks (those riders that scored more points than anyone cheaper)

Rider cost points
NIBALI 1415 1013
URAN 988 532
EVANS 820 440
SANTAMBROGIO 811 280
INTXAUSTI 552 279
NIEMIEC 495 266
MAJKA 260 226
PIRAZZI 145 122
BATTAGLIN 68 110
PETROV 43 60
LANCASTER 33 41
AVILA 3 15

Mellow has 5 of these
Kazistuta and Manafana have 4 each
13 teams have three of them

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Riders with a return of 50% +

Rider cost points %age
AVILA 3 15 500
MARENTES 9 15 167
BATTAGLIN 68 110 162
PETROV 43 60 140
LANCASTER 33 41 124
PANTANO 54 52 96
TROFIMOV 114 107 94
MAJKA 260 226 87
PIRAZZI 145 122 84
AZANZA 47 38 81
HANSEN 107 85 79
GARATE 55 42 76
WAUTERS 20 15 75
ROSA 78 56 72
NIBALI 1415 1013 72
BELKOV 121 85 70
PUCCIO 108 72 67
PRONI 24 15 63
HERRADA 109 66 61
AGNOLI 57 33 58
ZARDINI 26 15 58
DE GREEF 108 62 57
SERPA 89 51 57
URAN 988 532 54
NIEMIEC 495 266 54
EVANS 820 440 54
CHALAPUD 41 22 54
ZANDIO 28 15 54
ERMETI 29 15 52
INTXAUSTI 552 279 51
KISERLOVSKI 196 98 50
BULGAC 30 15 50
PATE 30 15 50

Mellow Velo and Tuarts each have 6 of these
Vitapen, Kazistuta, Garfield, Evans, Maaaaarten each have 5
15 teams have 4

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Thanks for running the game, Armchair! Some really great updates! Unfortunately I went for the wrong guy, having picked Wiggins instead of Nibali so of course I finished in the bottom 10

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Googledocs doesn't seem to have been a great success for some of you in downloading in previous files I've put up: hopefully Mediafire will be more serviceable.

Find out where it all went wrong for you (unless you are Mellow Velo) here.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Cangratulations to Mellow Velo, well deserved victory as he would have beaten the record for most points ever in a GQ GT game if not for the cancellation of stage 19.
As for me it was a pretty uneventful journey except for the clean sweep of the podium of the MTT.

 

[asdfgh101]

Cangratulations to Mellow Velo, well deserved victory as he would have beaten the record for most points ever in a GQ GT game if not for the cancellation of stage 19.
As for me it was a pretty uneventful journey except for the clean sweep of the podium of the MTT.

See my post in the main game thread (basically wondering if you can upload an update tomorrow).

 

[taiwan]

To get beaten by someone who just copypasted the Astana squad does rankle a bit though.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

To get beaten by someone who just copypasted the Astana squad does rankle a bit though.

Sorry.

 

[taiwan]

Well I had a little chuckle when I saw the team. Your turn I suppose

 

[Mellow Velo]

Cangratulations to Mellow Velo, well deserved victory as he would have beaten the record for most points ever in a GQ GT game if not for the cancellation of stage 19.
As for me it was a pretty uneventful journey except for the clean sweep of the podium of the MTT.

Thanks for that and to all. Hadn't realised it would/could have been a new TS.
Thanks to Armchair for the regular and speedy updates.
Hard to believe my hastily assembled squad won out.
As pointed out, so pushed for time, that I hadn't even read the rules properly.
First instinct may be the key.

Sorry for not contributing to the general Giro chat, but I don't post on CN any more.
But for this, I had too.

 

[Afrank]

Finished in 6th overall, alright, I'm happy with that.
Too bad my wildcard picks like Gatto and Quintero (was hoping for a high finish in a successful mountain breakaway) weren't able to perform. Should have also gone with Pirazzi who I was seriously considering for a while. But went with Locatelli instead based on his cheaper price and the fact that he would be more of a wildcard pick meaning more profit if he did end up performing.

Anyways, looking forward to the Tour game. I can tell I'm much better at these smaller CQ games then the year long one.
And Congrats to Mellow Vello.