Fantasy Vuelta a espana?

What are the stage prizes?

Based on every startlist I can find, it looks the rider list for the Vuelta has the wrong Ramirez listed for Team Colombia.
It says Carlos, but should be Brayan.

Whoever does come first will lead the race, so there will be a leader, there will just be no time gaps, ie the teams with gc riders will take it easy so expect a surprise for the leader.

Everything will be scored is normal providing the organisers publish the finishing order, the order the teams finish. If they dont we cant score it.

Dave is on it, and i will probably jump on during the week when i can as there is no overtime at thr moment

Final verdict on scoring? Just stage points or will there be GC points as well?

They ARE awarding a leaders jersey, there just won't be any time gaps for the GC.

No way of predicting stage 1 as it is neutralised so I've picked a team for stage 2 and what will be will be.

Unable to execute transfers on Vuelta standard team. It's 3 a.m. here and I have tried many times.
It keeps saying 'Your team is incomplete'. even though it is complete and under budget.

***UPDATE: I finally got it to work.

Funny that, complain about the speed of the site and suddenly it works. I have submitted my team now.

Christopher Froome
Peter Sagan
Tejay Van Garderen
Geraint Thomas
Mitchell Docker
Boy Van Poppel
Yoann Bagot
Tom Stamsnijder
Caleb Ewan

Website still very slow and I cannot pick a team. Hopefully it will be up and running in the morning or at least before the start of the race.http://road.cc/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Yahoo!/surprise.gif

Good luck everyone it should be a fascinating race and I can't wait.

I agree. It's a meaningless stage, and it's impossible to pick a team without knowing how it will be scored.

Dave,

I note that for stages 2 & 3, road.cc stage profiles (and PCS and cycling news preview) seem to be different from official site (and other sources) profiles.

Stage 1 neutralisation will totally change how teams race.

In your email re TTT scoring you state, "If the team rankings are published we will score the TTT as usual. If the rankings are not released then it'll just be GC points."

So we don't know how teams will race and we don't know if the team rankings will be published. Surely this makes a good case for not scoring stage 1 in road.cc and starting at stage 2.

Cheers

looking into it...

Problems too.

Didn't the Vuelta organizers know how much pain they'd be causing fantasy DSes with this route?

Having trouble entering teams tonight on the website which is struggling. Regretting not being organised earlier. I do remember the Giro problems earlier in the year and I should have known better. I can try again tomorrow.

Is it just me or are others struggling?

I am having a lot of problems just getting through to the site.. Anyone else with problems?

That neutralisation changed the whole dynamic for my. Might just pick a team for day 2..

Bit of a fuk up for the organisers! Surely it was obvious that it would be dangerous riding on roads with sand!!
There's just no point in any of them riding the stage tomorrow as might as well save energy etc if their time isn't going to count towards GC.

Got mine done eventually. Just took a bit of patience.

Also having issues with the standard team selection for the Vuelta...I'm guessing everyone is trying to do their teams...

Anyone else having difficulties selecting Vuelta teams?

Basically points will be scored as normal provided we have the information...

Going to use modified scoring, will be in the notes today