Not Another TDF Fantasy Comp

[Tuarts]

Yes, another one.

Just a quick spruik for those that are doing (or interested in) the SBS TDF Fantasy game, I've created a league for the CN forumers.

Mini League: CN Forum
Password: beetroot juice

Layout is shocking but there's some decent riders in there, some scores are just laughable. One word of advice is to read the rules carefully.

Good luck!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

holy crap those are the worse rankings I have ever seen....

Ryder is one of the best 5 cyclists in the tour apparently...

I think tomalaris made this.

regarding rules,

basically you can make many transfers?

However only your initial team scores for gc at the end. Same goes for the team.

 

[Tuarts]

Since there's only 50 mins left...

You make your 1st team GC biased.

In the first transfer window and before stage 1 lockout you can change up to 6 riders.

After Stage 7, do the same thing.



Interesting concept but the layout this year is horrible!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Since there's only 50 mins left...

You make your 1st team GC biased.

In the first transfer window and before stage 1 lockout you can change up to 6 riders.

After Stage 7, do the same thing.



Interesting concept but the layout this year is horrible!

yeah that is what I figured.

It requires some foresight and how you will manage your transfers.

7 out of 9 is the most I wanna do GC related without screwing up (not enough transfers) for the next part... I don't care too much if I miss out on 10 points in the GC if it means I get an extra transfer in the 1st week.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I also like the fact it requires more involvement.

 

[Tuarts]

Yeah the Involvement is good.

I picked 6 for GC, 2 cheap sprinters I want for St1-7 and Gilbert.

Griepel at 2.5mill is just rofl

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

yeah..
I don't get how they can be so ignorant.

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just made my subs. have 1 left.. in case I wanna use it sometime in the next few days.

from GC heavy to sprint / punchy fest

 

[Tuarts]

I figured to go full out sprintfest. At the start there's 7 stages out of 10 (TTT excluded ofc) you'd expect to end in a sprint, with only 2 really "puncheur" stages. Granted 2-3 of those other stages could end otherwise but I have faith in the sprint trains.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

This looks to be the same as the one marketed in the UK as Garmin-Halfords game.

 

[Gubby Allen]

This looks to be the same as the one marketed in the UK as Garmin-Halfords game.

I'm playing in that one. Thought the deadline was tomorrow morning - came on to transfer out Sagan & one of the mountain guys for the first week & it's alreayd began - 2 down already, although can't see me needing the other 4 in the first week.

 

[Archibald]

This looks to be the same as the one marketed in the UK as Garmin-Halfords game.

literally identical to the RCUK-Trek one that I'm in with some guys from work.

It took me about 5mins to copy my team and submit to this one

 

[Handbrake]

I wished I spent more time reading the rules or saw this thread yesterday. Didn't realise only the initial team scores for the GC at the end. Doh

 

[Tuarts]

Really? Then the company behind this is raking in the money.

Hopefully they can afford to hire decent web developers next year.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

296th overall. would love to win that

 

[Tuarts]

Gah, those who left some of their climbers in (such as Uddles-Cay) definitely have an advantage already over those like me who picked a sprint train

 

[Tuarts]

10th, 58 points off first, Think I've screwed up with my team selection and Swift. Funny story with Swift, I thought I had traded him to Rojas before this started but I guess it didn't go through for some reason. Still got Rojas but not sure if I would have used that extra trade to pick up Swift, would have been out of him, Boonen or Galimzyanov, maybe in Hagen because of all the points left over.

In a good position now so hopefully wont plummet.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I plummeted to 529

 

[Tuarts]

The joker is the make or break of this game. You really need to use it when you have all of your riders in the top 20. I was lucky, Gilbert managed to get 20th. Only had Swift losing his wheel and Pettachi getting caught behind Dumolin, so 7/9. Expect the winner to have 9 riders finish top20 on their joker stage.

 

[Archibald]

The joker is the make or break of this game. You really need to use it when you have all of your riders in the top 20. I was lucky, Gilbert managed to get 20th. Only had Swift losing his wheel and Pettachi getting caught behind Dumolin, so 7/9. Expect the winner to have 9 riders finish top20 on their joker stage.

from where I am at the moment, the joker stage won't make any difference even if I have my 9 in the top 9