Really enjoyed watching the video - though was fumig as Guardini seemed to be right there and ran out of legs in last 250m! Still it gave a great insight into the sprint battle thanks for that.
Regarding the team rankings I worked it out based on the top three placings from each stage. This is simply something Cyanide cannot be bothered to work out properly as team rankings have little or no effect to the game. It does work out the first stage properly - but then the overall teams from then on are based on time and in the case of equal time it is completely random. This does not reward the teams that have had consistently the highest three finishers.
Interestingly the teams do race for team rankings many teams for example had exactly three riders in the top 85 (below this riders lost time) on stage 2.
Below is the table of workings.
Italo - Ventilair
62
66
34
44
33
239
UNHCR Pro Cycling
26
135
34
69
113
377
Eurosport - Pepsi
92
58
109
77
68
404
CarbonSports Cycling - Lightweight
116
47
94
91
67
415
Celesio Pro Cycling
109
98
98
67
89
461
Smartone Cycling Team
115
93
76
107
77
468
Saeco - Cannondale
148
51
49
91
130
469
Team Cymru Wales
103
134
79
90
66
472
Team Alitalia
117
103
127
83
73
503
LA - Antarte
86
69
127
144
117
543
TVM Cycling Team
56
136
138
111
170
611
SAP - Bianchi
162
114
109
130
136
651
Ecopetrol - Vivo
146
125
159
154
99
683
Team Taco Bell Cycling
224
145
99
104
120
692
Filliers - Mora Pro Cycling Team
182
131
141
127
141
722
Illes Balears
170
177
73
195
158
773
Bunzl - Centrica
293
146
126
128
131
824
Albert Heijn - Knab
220
131
Lost Time
N/A
Allianz - BMW Cycling Team
Lost time
N/A
N/A
Prorace - La Boulangère
115
Lost Time
N/A
Santos - Euskadi
163
Lost Time
N/A
Team Renova
186
Lost Time
N/A
Vegeta Cycling Team
401
Lost Time
N/A
Itali - Vent were easily the most consistent in terms of numbers in high places. Viviani of course didn't finish higher than 6th, but he had team support you have to say.
Bottom line Italo - Vent should win the team rankings in the Ster ZLM Tour
trekbmc - Damn right you should be happy with that! You probably leave that race with more points than knockout did.
And this is why I'm getting more and more frustrated by pcm 15. The dominance of strong sprint teams seems not possible anymore but we see rather random results. And I'm not referring to the captured video. That stage can happen. My leadout got beaten and then Kittel was slightly boxed in. What strikes me is that on many stages Kristoff is my second best finisher as 60th. Then Kittel is on his own and just gets inside the top team. Too many results link to this kind of finish from my team and it's imo just horrible.
I'll post the results now, as well as the last two stages of South Africa.
For the results afterwards matt again took over some races and you'll get results tomorrow.
Wow, what a great race. I'm loving those video posts, thanks so much Bikex.
Good race by Styby although I wished he'd be a bit more active but a solid classic campaign. It's nice to see Kristoff finally doing something for knockout.
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2-3-5-17-23-46 are you kidding me? Not one of you could win?
Serious note now and WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 4th + 7th on GC + White jersey makes daddy happy. With that boost we are now on track for 3/3 season goals, but thinking maybe too optimistic on don't come last
Seriously, way to protest about too many 1-2s this season, let's have a 2-3. Screw you too, PCM! I mean, it looks like Bevin (wtf is he doing there), Siskevicus and Bennett (wtf is he doing there) are all on opposing teams, if ey would just work together they would have won! Explanation, Bikex ?
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15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Brajkovic 2nd in GC, 2nd in points and 3rd in KoM plus 1 stage and (i think) 3 podiums plus 3rd in teams classification. Really good Tour of South Africa for us. I hope Taaramae gets a top-7 in trentino, being 9th is not bad at all
jandal7 wrote:
Seriously, way to protest about too many 1-2s this season, let's have a 2-3. Screw you too, PCM! I mean, it looks like Bevin (wtf is he doing there), Siskevicus and Bennett (wtf is he doing there) are all on opposing teams, if ey would just work together they would have won! Explanation, Bikex ?
No idea this was in general a very weird sprint, after the peloton slowed down after it was all back together in the downhill. After stage 7 when it didn't load the equipment (all blue) at that stage it didn't load the texture for exactly one rider. You may see that TVM rider in the winning picture all in pink.
Thanks matt for the results. GVA defending his Rheden GP win from last year.
Italo doing well at Trentino so far with Caruso in 5th and 3 more riders from 11th to 15th at the mountain stage.
Expected result in Rheden from Theuns, but would have liked to see top 30 at least. ZLM Tour disappointing from Smith again, still not living up to A
Copa America. Oram continues awesome leadouts but not even top 5 for Smith
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Even by our standards, that was an absolutely shocking fail in Roubaix. Disgusting. Moving on.
So close for Whitehead there . Almost got what would have been a huge victory for him. Very impressed with his effort there even with the nationality bonus.
Next up for us is somehow missing out on a top 10 in Campania despite having two of the top four favourites.
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. Almost got what would have been a huge victory for him. Very impressed with his effort there even with the nationality bonus.
