Men's Road Cycling UCI Tour de France 2018

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

By the way, that's two riders out of it so far, Grmay's DNF taking the Ethiopian pride out on the first weekend  and LL Cool S is screwing half my prediction contests because he's a sure thing to go on the attack at least 36 times

 

That's what you get for your Vachon scheme. Good riddance.

[heywoodu 16,146]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

That's what you get for your Vachon scheme. Good riddance.

On a Dutch forum we've got another game that we definitely should introduce here but I forgot  A pick'em game, where every stage you simply choose one rider (you can choose every rider only once) and his finishing position in that stage is your number of points for that stage. Player with the lowest number of points wins  

 

It can hardly be easier to organize (people count their own points in plain sight, so everyone can easily count if you're not messing up) and it can be both fun and horribly frustrating (like if you choose Gaviria for today  ).

[Federer91 3,080]

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

Oh, that. Yeah that was not Sagan's smartest move ever  

 

But still, not for a DQ decision, which was completely overblown by organizers. But let's not dwindle in that situation again, they will have to live with their sins.   

[heywoodu 16,146]

Just now, Federer91 said:

 

But still, not for a DQ decision, which was completely overblown by organizers. But let's not dwindle in that situation again, they will have to live with their sins.   

Yep, we can only hope he learned from his mistake  

Edited July 8, 2018 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

On a Dutch forum we've got another game that we definitely should introduce here but I forgot  A pick'em game, where every stage you simply choose one rider (you can choose every rider only once) and his finishing position in that stage is your number of points for that stage. Player with the lowest number of points wins  

 

It can hardly be easier to organize (people count their own points in plain sight, so everyone can easily count if you're not messing up) and it can be both fun and horribly frustrating (like if you choose Gaviria for today  ).

 

We should have that here.

[heywoodu 16,146]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

We should have that here.

I really wish I thought of that a few days earlier  

 

Now that I think of it, we could have that for more stuff, like a biathlon/alpine skiing season or whatever, there's easily 20+ races in which to choose one athlete  Nothing official or something, it's super easy and it's fun  

Edited July 8, 2018 by heywoodu

[bestmen 2,909]

what if everybody pick Sagan ?

 

[Gianlu33 5,374]

Adesso, heywoodu ha scritto:

I really wish I thought of that a few days earlier  

 

Now that I think of it, we could have that for more stuff, like a biathlon/alpine skiing season or whatever, there's easily 20+ races in which to choose one athlete  

And maybe pick Adam Zampa for have 31 points at 100%?  

[heywoodu 16,146]

By the way, my start in that pick'em competition:

 

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1. Dylan Groenewegen (6) - 6
2. Marcel Kittel (162) - 168

 

Your 1 worst result will be scratched at the end (to have one 'wildcard' for stuff like DNF's or falls), but this is gonna be hard 

 

One more result like this and I'm gonna start picking Florian Vachon, Oliviero Troia, Thomas Scully and Marco Minnaard.

 

[heywoodu 16,146]

2 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

And maybe pick Adam Zampa for have 31 points at 100%?  

 

 

 

This is the kind of game where Fourcade gets 15 consecutive podiums and then you pick him (because you 'saved' him to not use all the best athletes at the beginning of the season) and right in that race he misses 6 shots and finishes 68th or something