The Hitch said:Well Cobo remained exactly the same but if you look at Deignan he was chosen four times out of 30 to start.
Thats 13 %. One in every 8 people.
Since then he was chosen 25 times out of 58. Thats 43%. An huge increase. 3.3 times as many people chose him after the deadline.
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I think a lot of the teams submited after are superteams.
Yeah, probably, I just wanted to say that not ALL of the teams with these guys are pulled from other lists. I was alerted to Cobo's 0 score by people making a big deal of it here, but after I looked at every cq earner from this year, I went back to previous years and found him pretty quickly. I'm pretty confident I would have had exactly the same team if I hadn't read this thread, is what I mean. I actually had the opposite problem at one point, I was tempted to pick a rider over another just because he was less popular and I didn't want to just go with what other people were doing. But in the end I just picked what I thought was the best team.
Anyway, you're probably correct, but don't tar everyone with that brush. I mean, you can trust me, I'm a guy on the internet...
The Hitch said:As i said the good thing about the 200 guys is that they have it a lot easier to regain their points from last season. See my examples with Henderson and Tangeli (or whatever) getting 90 and 60 points just from finishing in the 145 in the tour and 100th in MSR etc. and those are just 2 random examples i picked. There are definately guys out there who got 200 or so points from mediocre finishes.
As for picking riders you like, well ill be cheering on the riders i like anyway. Choosing lesser riders you dont neccesary feel anything for means you will be cheering them on as well![]()
Agreed with cheering for riders I like, I find these games to be a good way to expand my appreciation for sports that I follow.
As far as your point about regaining points, I get it, I just had a different method. For example, I'd rather have a guy like Cunego (600+ points), who had some mediocre results by his standards last year, and has the potential to swap some 9th places for podiums, than have 2 300 point guys who might have the potential to swap a 'just for finishing' 5 points for something just slightly higher. There's a bigger difference between 10th and 1st than there is between not finishing and 10th. And then I can take an almost free rider who will probably be a solid finisher and get 200 more points this year, so instead of spending 600 points on 2 solid guys who probably won't go up by much, I spend it on one guy who will probably get at least 600 and maybe double, and another guy who might go from about zero to 2-300. That's just my approach.