Stage 1 Turin TT
Ganna has not had a total collapse in form, TJV have some nifty bikes, and Evenepoel is good, but not as good as he might have been.
Purple points
Purple because I don't believe that colour is ever called cyclamen; these points because these are the points that CQ gives to the top 10 in a stage. These points are not lost even if the rider fails to finish the Giro; the same applies to the 18 points that Ganna gets for having a pink jersey to wear tomorrow (but that is not in this classification).
| GANNA Filippo | 70 | 0 teams |
| AFFINI Edoardo | 40 | 0 |
| FOSS Tobias Svendsen | 25 | 1 |
| ALMEIDA Joao Pedro Gonçalves | 15 | 4 |
| CAVAGNA Rémi | 10 | 3 |
| VAN EMDEN Jos | 7 | 0 |
| EVENEPOEL Remco | 5 | 30 |
| WALSCHEID Maximilian | 3 | 0 |
| BRÄNDLE Matthias | 2 | 0 |
| MOSCON Gianni | 1 | 4 |
The unique pick of Foss gives Otoxiep the first lead in this minor classification
1 | Otoxiep87 | 30 |
2= | Leadbelly, LosBrolin | 21 |
4 | Salvarani | 20 |
5= | ArchieBoy, Nathanptz, RedheadDane, Yellow_Knight | 15 |
9 | Nyssinator | 6 |
10= | Evenepoel teams | 5 |
32 | Rufs | 1 |
33= | the rest | 0 |
| Collective_Wisdom | 5 |
Pink points
The main game. This includes: the purple points as above; the pink jersey bonuses already mentioned; the points for GC standings (by far the biggest contribution to most riders' scores);points for the sprint jersey standings, on the same basis as stage points; and (starting tomorrow and up to a top ten by a few stages in) KoM classification points on the same distribution. The last three are projections, and so will gradually become more realistic projections as the race goes on.
Having three riders in the top ten, as Los Brolin has, will outscore having two as Otoxiep does, because the drop off in scores is not as dramatic in the GC points allocation as with the stage points.
1 | LosBrolin | 770 |
2 | Leadbelly | 733 |
3 | Otoxiep87 | 731 |
4 | Salvarani | 623 |
5 | Nathanptz | 601 |
6= | ArchieBoy | 584 |
6= | Yellow_Knight | 584 |
8= | Bminchow | 492 |
8= | SafeBet | 492 |
10 | Nyssinator | 472 |
11 | DevilsElbow | 469 |
12 | RedheadDane | 423 |
13 | Del1962 | 399 |
14 | Fivezzz | 397 |
15= | AmisVelo | 393 |
15= | Comodoro | 393 |
15= | Mellow_Velo | 393 |
18 | Berflamand | 389 |
19 | Lecko | 380 |
20 | ChrisDK | 368 |
21 | BikeRacer33 | 364 |
21 | Shalgo | 364 |
23 | Northerner | 358 |
24 | Madrazo | 356 |
25= | Bonimenier | 350 |
25= | Scrooll07 | 350 |
27 | Koronin | 343 |
28 | Search | 339 |
29 | Laarsland | 333 |
30= | Kazistuta | 331 |
30= | Tobydawq | 331 |
32 | BicycleBoy | 320 |
33 | Rufs | 268 |
34 | Googolplex | 251 |
34 | Rote_Laterne | 251 |
36 | Armchair_Cyclist | 208 |
37 | Triley36 | 202 |
37 | ZakaFan | 202 |
39 | Vladimir | 177 |
40 | BluesInTheBottle | 154 |
| Collective_Wisdom | 406 |
The Dekker/Rubio tiebreak between the identical Bminchow/SafeBet teams, and the principle of separating any other teams with identical scores (ignore the top scoring rider, then compare the scores of the next highest that is not common to both teams) is not really worth applying unless the teams are very near the top: I will probably resort to it only if teams are in the top 5 and in the final table. But as an example, Archie and Yellow Knight have the same men as the top four scorers, but although their 5th men are both on 15 points, Sagan (for Archie) is higher in GC than Hindley (for YK), so if I needed to differentiate, Archie would be 6th.
Treat these scores with as much credibility as you would the current GC as a forecast of what will be the case in three weeks time.
Inter forum competition
I probably won't post it every day, but in the last few games I have taken to putting up an average score for the contributors from the two forums that host the games. I omit my score from the competition: I include Amis Velo, who I know in real life and often sends me his team by text or on the back of an envelope, on VeloRooms because if he does submit a team by PM, he does so there.
So far, Team VeloRooms has won every time.
After one stage Team VeloRooms (AmisVelo, ArchieBoy, BikeRacer33, ChrisDK, Leadbelly, Mellow_Velo, Otoxiep87, Rote_Laterne, Scrooll07, Search, ZakaFan) 428
Cycling News Forumites (everyone else, bar me) 394
The spreadsheet
Where all the real work is done, is available
here: I won't paste the link every daily update, but you know where to find it. And if you actually know anything about Excel, rather than just hacking through it by trial and error like I do, and spot any gross inefficiencies in it, please let me know.
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