World Road Races

Aragonite wrote:

120 credits is a really tight budget for the Womens race. Going to be very interesting. Fancy Dion Smith for the U23's race.

Im normally all for tight budgets but think this for the women is too far. I have 5 3.0 riders who you would say are unlikely to score, and so bar an odd surprise, the majority of the top 20 will come from riders with a value of 20+ credits, and without purely taking values, whichever way you package it you pretty much only pick 3 top riders.
Unless you wanted a combo of say 4 riders in the low 20's, but that would be a big risk to not have one of the the top 3 priced riders in my eyes, even extend down to evelyn stevens price, and there are 11 riders who could all win the race at pretty much 30 credits+ and wouldn't be a stretch to predict say 6 or 7 of those being in the top 10.
I think you get less variation of results for the women, less surprises, more the same group of high class riders but in different positions, makes it so hard to call.

I know odds mean nothing in reality, but with the exception of Villumsen, of the other 30 or so riders with odds of 150/1 or more favoured to win than that, the next cheapest pick costs 10.5 credits. now that is tight on 120 credits. when you'd say at least half of those 30 are priced upwards of 20 credits