The Great Grand-Tour-Game 2012

[FoxxyBrown1111]

I started out with 60 potential top-20 guys...

The stage picks were tough. There are some stages which can pan out several ways, and the whole who's-dropping-out-because-of-the-Olympics thing is quite a challenge.

Wow, your 60 tops even my high 50´s i started with....

Yeah this Olympic drop outs is confusing.

I sent yesterday... this is going to be gruesome.

Gruesome. Exactly. I expect super tight standings in the end...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Lucky loser this time. I did prepare my picks in advance though when FoxxyBrown told me I could be in

I think picking both stage winners and top 20 were incredibly hard. There's so much potential candidates...

 

[al_pacino]

Lucky loser this time. I did prepare my picks in advance though when FoxxyBrown told me I could be in

I think picking both stage winners and top 20 were incredibly hard. There's so much potential candidates...

considering the people missing the competition is very strong.

 

[DominicDecoco]

My expectations for this years Tour actually went a little bit up while making that top-20 GC. So many decent stage race riders!

 

[Sylvester]

I've been too busy to make my picks, I haven't been checking any forums recently. Very sorry!

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

bah was very hard.

too many potential top 20 guys. Just based my guesses on instincts on who would fail.

again i kinda rushed

 

[jsem94]

Maybe for this Tour, it was best not to think about the picks too much - just go with hunches.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Might be right. My head was exploding, and i think i left out the right guys and kept the wrong ones.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Next time I make 5 sockpuppets accounts so I can cover all bases

 

[Sasquatch]

I went with hunches.

One major one too.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Picks are online now!

Links:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CwPkwaBLj9nD22F9Urj0fEmC5LCAU0DAFq_70VhMETw/edit (Europe-Division)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o7nJoS18UjIXP3zZUC1hE3lrmIyinFSeCzNehUebDl8/edit (World-Division)

Also linked in post #1.

I am travelling tomorrow, so i can´t answer questions until sunday.

Enjoy the tour and the game.

 

[Ferminal]

Many thanks Foxxy.

Now where is our boomcie

 

[boomcie]

Here are the crosstabs for the stages:

Stages Europe:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArPqrRgs_XfudGsxMXRDN19uQlZub2Q5SGtCN3pVOUE

Stages World:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArPqrRgs_XfudDNLVjRYME5Md2wzTUVLdkFERU1NSnc

 

[boomcie]

And the GC pick frequencies:

GC picks Europe:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArPqrRgs_XfudGVmdHpKbFRYNmFqcXRXTHRyelJKd2c

GC Picks World:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArPqrRgs_XfudEtSeE1PVm03b0tRYVMyVXZudFNFNFE


That's it mofos. Enjoy.

And a first big round of applause for Foxxy.

 

[Tuarts]

Fyi, my picks need to be corrected on the spreadsheet when Foxxy eventually comes online. No Velits and there's a shuffle around 4,5,6 - goss,cav,kittel i think

 

[Ferminal]

Easy one down, but seems that most of my picks differ to the consensus, boom or bust.

 

[jsem94]

Starting off excellently! Seems that everyone in Europe division did too, except for the two guys with Martin.

 

[The Hitch]

What. I chose Martin for the 2nd tt and Wiggins for the first. What was i thinking

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Standings after the prolog are online. See my posted links of saturday morning and in post #1.

Boomcie´s Stats are now all linked in post #1 too.

So all important infos are always easy to find.

What. I chose Martin for the 2nd tt and Wiggins for the first. What was i thinking

I did the same.My theroy was that Martin "soft pedales" trou the mountains thus being fit for olympics and the last ITT, while Wiggins is exhausted after defending all the attacks. Sounds good, but will it work?

 

[Hartog]

Yeah, chose Martin for both long tt's for this reason. He said himself those are his main goals, he won't try for a good gc.

Hopefully today's fall won't bother him too much.

 

[jsem94]

2/2. Don't expect it to last much longer though, who knows what might happen with crashes and stuff in big sprint stages.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Standings after Stage 1:

Europe;
2,0 FoxxyBrown1111 (23)
2,0 The Hitch (22)
2,0 Sylvester (22)
2,0 Froome19 (21)
2,0 jsem94 (20,5)
2,0 Eshnar (20)
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2,0 search (19,5)
2,0 AntonioRossi (18)
2,0 Hartog (18)
2,0 mortand (WC) (18)
2,0 Dekker_Tifosi (17,5)
1,0 DominicDecoco (19,5)
1,0 minessa (19,5)
1,0 Kazistuta (19)
1,0 al_pacino (17)

World;
2,0 Timmy-loves-Rabo (22,5)
2,0 Jakob747 (22)
2,0 barmaher (20,5)
2,0 boomcie (20,5)
2,0 aarnold517 (20)
2,0 Ferminal (19,5)
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2,0 Duartista (19,5)
2,0 18-Valve. (pithy) (19,5)
2,0 gerundium (19)
2,0 Mellow Velo (19)
2,0 Tuarts (18)
2,0 FF'Wilco (17,5)
1,0 Sasquatch (18)
1,0 Vitapen (18)
0,5 roundabout (21,5)

() = 1st tie breaker step (total points after the Giro)

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

2/2. Don't expect it to last much longer though, who knows what might happen with crashes and stuff in big sprint stages.

Depends on Greipel. You have a good chance going 3/3.

12 for Cav tomorrow, 9 Greipel, 7 Kittel, 2 Goss.... I have Cavendish, so i´ll root for the englishman instead of german to go 3/3.

 

[jsem94]

Lost a few top 20 guys already. Froome, Peter Velits and Horner already lost quite some time. Cobo and Kruijwijk also lost a little.

I need to do good on the stages.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Same on me. The guys you mentioned, but not Horner. OTOH; my "sleeper" De Weert already lost big. To make it worse, i am the only one losing points with him.