Forum's Scorum's Mini League

ray silvester wrote:

2)Can Wig_Billy hold on to the purist Maglia Rosa with only 6 men(DiLuca his third man down joining Gavazzi and Sir Brad)......sounds like chiv30 has been hit even worse so for me northstar may be in a good position having lost only Battaglin whilst letsgoup have only lost Wiggins but are 'Cav-Less'.

Cancellation of todays stage has knackered my purist chances of a top 10. Plus I work for myself and have organised my whole week around being sat infront of the Giro today and tomorrow.

Jonas Lorenzen wrote:

Cheers I actually thought I came 2nd From the mountain TT and on, things weren't going my way, took some chances on some "free for all med. mountain stages" that didn't pay off. Guess the tactics for stage races is: When in doubt, play it safe and bank some transfers for the more obvious stages.

I'll be honest I think without the shortened and cancelled stage I may have closed the gap a bit more , as it says above I was almost 200 points behind at 17 it was then I decided the last 4 stages would be gambles ....unfortunately that turned to 3 stages , still c'est la vie

I'll be looking out for you in the tdf

ray silvester wrote:

Congratulations to nata1ia who got her first win of the season taking the Forum's Scorum's Criterium Du Dauphine by 75pts.....a dark horse for LeTour perhaps?huntdeano took the purist section by 25pts from Jonas Lorenzen who would be my pick to go well in the 'Grand Boucle'.

Yes, I'll definitely peak at TDF..it's all part of the master plan..

ray silvester][quote=stevemarks wrote:

So there I was out in the lead after stage 6 of TDS, I had managed to get a small gap on the peleton, and made the mistake of taking a quick peek over my shoulder. EEEK! The big guns, Wig Billy, TERatcliffe (twice), Drheaton, and chrisstripes gathering behind me. HELP!!!!!!

Well you managed to drop TER,The Doctor and Stripey but yeah.....Wig_Billy has the look of Rui Costa stalking Frank in the real thing!!

Well! Wig_Billy has bridged the gap but I.m not sure Ive anything left in the legs and with his reputationI don't fancy my chances. (could be sandbagging)

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

You could have me in the overall for a while, as I may struggle to make any transfers the next few days, but will try and get on, but lets hope its a ding-dong battle and lets drag each other along and catch Alan and Chris

You hear this Alan? They're ganging up on us!

JAndrewHill wrote:

Oh, a tip for the purists, I predicy that both Froome and Nibali are like to be involved in accidents that mean they will both need to withdraw from the Giro in the first week.

Oh no, I see what you're doing! I'm definitely putting Froome in my team now!

chrisdstripes wrote:

I feel so much better now, thanks drh!

My purist team has 2 GC favourites, 3 good value climbers and 3 cheap guys, leaving me 35ish credits. So a top sprinter like Cav/Goss, or a third GC favourite?

There aren't a huge number of definite sprint stages, but there might not be any really decisive GC stages until the second week either, so I'm stumped as to what would be the better pick...

It's a tough call, there are potentially 5-7 sprint stages (stages 1, 6, 12, 17 & 21 possibly stages 5 and 16 at a push) plus with the TTT Cav may be a good shout but compare that against the number of mountains stages and the potential for GC points and a mid-level GC guy may be a better choice. It could go either way.

I reckon Cav is an expensive banker but he should score well, someone like Pozzovivo though may score more but is less reliable.

For my team, I have two slots to fill, I'm looking at picking up a rider for 20-25 credits and another for 5-10.

My options are

At 20-25 credits - Degenkolb (or Kiserlovski/Uran/Pozzovivo if I want a climber or Viviani/Nizzollo as other sprint options) and

At 5-10 credits - Aru (or Rujano/Atapuma/Appollonio/Sioutsou are other options at that price)

I could make most combinations of two of those work and I don't know what to go for. I don't see Degenkolb winning more than one stage against opposition like Cavendish and Viviani so maybe not him but Pozzovivo doesn't look in form, Kiserlovski had a poor last TT at the TdR and Uran is backup. At the lower price Atapuma/Rujano are 'team leaders', Appollonio is second choice sprinter behind Belletti and Aru/Sioutsou are DSs who may only score by keeping up with their leaders (Aru has a better chance of that as I see Sioutsou being used early in the day).

No idea what to do.