fantasy doping draft

[ciranda]

Re:

two Italian teams for the fdd. distribute following sponsor names randomly: Ceramiche Refin, AKI Gipiemme, Panaria, Alessio, Gaerne, De Neri, Mecair, ZG Mobili

Roberto Pistore (Vuelta '95)
Michele Scarponi (Giro '11)
Rodolfo Massi (Tour '98)
Massimiliano Lelli (Vuelta '99)
Roberto Sgambelluri (Giro '99)
Stefano Faustini (Giro '96)
Mauro Santambrogio (Giro '13)
Wladimir Belli (Giro '94 / Tour '99)
Pietro Caucchioli (Giro '01)


note: some of this team's guys are there because of awesome names

Ermanno Brignoli (Vuelta '95)
Giuseppe di Grande (Tour '98)
Federico Giabbecucci
Giusvan Piovaccari
Angelo Lopeboselli (Lombardia '03)
Mirko Celestino (Lombardia '99)
Franco Pellizotti (Giro '08)
Mariano Piccoli (Vuelta '00 / Giro '00)
Niklas Axelsson (Giro '00)

 

[Tonton]

Always cool to see this thread popping up at the top of the list

 

[Cannibal72]

To echo comments up thread, a classics version of this thread would be amazing.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

This thread is awesome! Too bad I missed it, would have been fun participating in. I'm in for a classics edition!

 

[Red Rick]

This thread is a thing of beauty.

 

[railxmig]

@ciranda. Great list but if i remember Belli wasn't that unknown in 90's and Scarponi had really very good 2010-2012 period (2nd, 2nd or 1st, depends on view, and 4th in Giro).

I just had an idea to try to predict the future. I was fightning back and forth to post it or not but ultimately devil won and i've decided to post it. This post may be highly controversial so please don't take it seriously (or at least too seriously). My cycling knowledge isn't in best of shapes so it can contain some rookie errors. I think this this thread is right to post it but i'm unsure so if it doesn't belong here then i'm sorry for that and i will delete it.

So my entry would be:
Amador, Geniez and maybe Trofimov curtesy of Giro '15 and Kruijswijk, Hesjedal in the same Giro for giving Voigt a lesson on breakaways. Geniez would make an additional combo thanks to making top 10 in Giro and winning Tro-Bro Léon in the same season.
Maybe another one could be Nibali from Tour '14 thanks to being the best simulation of Hinault we can propably get unless The G will step up his game.
Another entry that i can think of is Wiggins in span of his whole career thanks to having almost legendary elasticity (relatively close fight with Hincapie) and maybe i would add Kwiatkowski from Tour '13 for being propably the closest we can get to Sean Kelly in last at least 10 to 15 years (i think Valverde is slightly lacking in sprint department and mostly in cobbles one while Alaphillipe basically just begun racing).

 

[burning]

I was curious where some of the more recent GT riders would end up in this draft. Also, this was the best thread ever in the clinic.

 

[Netserk]

Now that it was linked to, let me note that the proper order is add the opposite of all previous rounds. If 123...789 = A, and 987...321 = B, then:
A
A+B
AB+BA
ABBA+BAAB
ABBABAAB+BAABABBA
ABBABAABBAABABBA+BAABABBAABBABAAB
etc.

 

[BigCoward]

Necro - which performances since this thread would be drafted high? How high does Pog 2021 go?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I feel Tour 2018 Geraint Thomas gets picked by somebody as a helper, and probably 2021 Tour Wout van Aert for stagehunting or domestiquing. 2015 Giro Mikel Landa seems like a safe bet, probably for somebody like zlev who went all panache all the time.

 

[Sciatic]

Wow, I never knew this thread existed

 

[shalgo]

I also can't believe that I somehow missed this thread at the time. I think that in any GT with a decent amount of TT, Libertine Seguros's team would be the favorite, not only because of Big Mig but also on account of the support team around him. But my favourite team is Zlev's, which would create complete chaos in the mountain stages.

 

[burning]

Bumping this thread considering what happened in this year's tour. I would probably pick Pogacar as definite no 1, and Jonas in 4-6. I would think both Indurain and Lance may fare better than Jonas, but I can easily see him slotting above them too

 

[Nomad]

1. LA
2. Indurain
3. Pantani
4. Ullrich
5. Riis

 

[Forever The Best]

Bumping this thread considering what happened in this year's tour. I would probably pick Pogacar as definite no 1, and Jonas in 4-6. I would think both Indurain and Lance may fare better than Jonas, but I can easily see him slotting above them too

Jonas definitely above Lance after PdB imo.

 

[burning]

Yeah, I think Jonas is better than Lance based on power levels. I may still pick Lance over him based on Lance's insanity, but its a toss-up for me