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No Hopers
After a relatively poor Giro…I was thinking how difficult (or easy) would it be to pick a team of “no-hopers”
e.g. for the Tour de France pick a purist team that that scores the fewest points
But you have to use up all of the available credit (or leave less than 5)
(no 3.0 riders throughout!)
Canvasing support for the idea/ forum competition
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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Finally, Stumps scores some serious points... I was about to suggest independent testing for him...
All change - after a couple of mountains
5 teams with less than 100 points (and 2 with more than 200!)
Latest tables are attached - below
Unfortunately I am going on holiday for 2 weeks!
)
So not sure if I can do any more updates until after Paris
(Should have thought about this before
Anyone else want to take over... ?
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Well, at least I'm leading in the abandoned riders competition...
my no-hopers are doing almost as well as my frenchies
My frenchies have 14 points less than my no hopers
But my frenchies have made top 10 in one stage despite having made just 3 points on that day 
Another update - a little shuffle near the top
Last one for a while...
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I've got a feeling I may be winning this now!! EEEEK
No, no, no, Bennett will soon give you a string of last places... Valls may also come around and attack... I keep my hopes up!!!
AG2R's Jan Bakelite-Pants has turned my lycra brown this week... as my hopes have gone up in smoke.
JC, any update on the final standings?
A bit rubbish, sorry
Still on holiday and no access to my super spreadsheet!
Next week I'll post the final standings
If my maths is correct. rcorbin has won by a distance, with myself and cgipryan tied for second. Unofficial of course.
Think I should have made 5th (again Unofficial!)
You can... here is the post Stage 2 update.
4 teams on 0 points
My team on 28
Next update will be on Wednesday/ Thursday
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It's amazing, Steve... You made me laugh for a minute... Then it hit me... you have such bad luck... and I got sad... It'll get better... I promise...
I have faith that they will be more visible in the mountains. I imagine that would be to my advantage at least..
Ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! 
Oh, my, that was beautiful! 
Great quote! 
Oh, god, I'm in tears.
Stop it! 
lol, i always knew I was shite at this game and now its official.
Haha... My frenchies are only 65 points better than the no hopers.
Thanks for letting me know... I was getting anxious
Looking again I think some points from the overall game are missing
Zero for Boom - but Astana scored in the TTT...
looks like a few missing, re-updating
Update - with some minor changes
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Peraud 18.7
Mollema 21.8
Sanchez 18.0
Rogers 15.1
Sieberg 5.9
Total = 79.5
Here's my team. I call it Team Lead Out (in all the meanings of the words).
D. Caruso
L. Boom
M. Renshaw
D. Bennati
G. Henderson
Total: 79.1
thanks for doing this. Very good idea, especially not being allowed just to pick 3.0s and the like - an alternative picking system I thought of whilst doing this would be to pick a single rider from each of pages 1-5 of the race.
Gesink 20.2
Debusschere 15.4
Peraud 18.7
Farrar 16.5
Zubeldia 8.6
79.4
THOMAS DE GENDT (LTS) 20.2
DARYL IMPEY (OGE) 20.1
ROBERT GESINK (TLJ) 20.2
CYRIL GAUTIER (EUC) 15.7
RETO HOLLENSTEIN (IAM) 3.5
Total = 79.7
N.ROCHE 16.3
A.YATES 9.3
J.FUGLSANG 24.5
S.CHAVANEL 21.2
S.LANGEVELD 7.4
TOTAL = 78.7
Yates and Chavanel are really nice picks...
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