Regarding my own team, I had quite some hopes in Scotson to score more seeing his palmares in Australian NCs, which basically is full of podiums and wins in past 3 years of U23 and elite in both TT and RR.
Unfortunately BMC somehow screwed up and all Gerrans, Dennis, Scotson were non-finishers.
Not seeing much points by him neither in the TdU, so points must come from others I guess.
A shame Bennett used up his energy to chase down attacks in the last few kms. Comforting to know that Clarke can get lower top 10s for me here too
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." [PT] Xero Racing
The Tour Down Under, Vuelta a San Juan and La Tropicale Amissa Bongo all have pretty good provisional startlists by now, which are unlikely to change a lot. So here the overview which should be 90-100% correct.
Tour Down Under
2018-01-16 - 2018-01-21
jandal7 and ember impressively lead the league in number of riders in the TdU. Nine and eight riders for those teams while AbishekLFC (6), OZrocker & sutty68 (5) follow.
Only non participant in the first WT event of the year is ivaneurope.
Some of the top draftable riders are at the start including the very best with Elia Viviani, hence jaxika also deserves a mention early on just like NicoVirenque with 4 time stage winner in 2017: Caleb Ewan.
Spoiler
BARBERO CUESTA Carlos
AbhishekLFC
DENNIS Rohan
AbhishekLFC
MEYER Cameron
AbhishekLFC
PEDERSEN Mads
AbhishekLFC
ROUX Anthony
AbhishekLFC
VALGREN ANDERSEN Michael
AbhishekLFC
DOMONT Axel
alexkr00
GESINK Robert
alexkr00
TEUNISSEN Mike
alexkr00
MAS NICOLAU Enric
Aquarius97
MCCARTHY Jay
Aquarius97
MINALI Riccardo
Aquarius97
MARCATO Marco
baseballlover312
POZZOVIVO Domenico
baseballlover312
KENNAUGH Peter
Croatia14
LAMBRECHT Bjorg
dominox
MORTON Lachlan
dominox
OSS Daniel
dominox
BEVIN Patrick
ember
CONSONNI Simone
ember
EDMONDSON Alexander
ember
GONÇALVES Jose Isidro Maciel
ember
HAAS Nathan
ember
HOELGAARD Daniel
ember
O'CONNOR Ben
ember
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan
ember
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
hillis91
ARNDT Nikias
jandal7
BAUER Jack
jandal7
BENNETT George
jandal7
BODNAR Maciej
jandal7
CLARKE Simon
jandal7
DE GENDT Thomas
jandal7
DEVENYNS Dries
jandal7
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida
jandal7
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
jandal7
VIVIANI Elia
jaxika
BENNETT Sam
jseadog1
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley
jseadog1
BATTAGLIN Enrico
Marcovdw
CIMOLAI Davide
Marcovdw
LAMMERTINK Maurits
Marcovdw
OLIVEIRA Nelson Filipe Santos Simoes
Marcovdw
SELIG Rüdiger
matt17br
EWAN Caleb
NicoVirenque
GATTO Oscar
NicoVirenque
HALVORSEN Kristoffer
NicoVirenque
BAUHAUS Phil
Ollfardh
DE VREESE Laurens
Ollfardh
LATOUR Pierre
Ollfardh
OOMEN Sam
Ollfardh
DOULL Owain
OZrocker
GERRANS Simon
OZrocker
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto
OZrocker
SLAGTER Tom-Jelte
OZrocker
SÃœTTERLIN Jasha
OZrocker
FERNANDEZ ANDUJAR Ruben
roturn
MORENO FERNANDEZ Daniel
roturn
PREIDLER Georg
roturn
SCOTSON Miles
roturn
DIBBEN Jonathan
sutty68
DOCKER Mitchell
sutty68
EARLE Nathan
sutty68
IMPEY Daryl
sutty68
LAWLESS Christopher
sutty68
GASTAUER Ben
Tamijo
HOWSON Damien
Tamijo
SENECHAL Florian
Tamijo
STORER Michael
Tamijo
CANTY Brendan
trekbmc
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
trekbmc
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas
trekbmc
Spoiler
jandal7
9
ember
8
AbhishekLFC
6
OZrocker
5
sutty68
5
Marcovdw
4
Ollfardh
4
roturn
4
Tamijo
4
alexkr00
3
Aquarius97
3
dominox
3
NicoVirenque
3
trekbmc
3
baseballlover312
2
jseadog1
2
Croatia14
1
hillis91
1
jaxika
1
matt17br
1
ivaneurope
0
- 54% of the TdU peloton are in the Fantasy League
- Top Sprinters: E.Viviani, S.Bennett, C.Ewan
- Top GC: D.Pozzovivo, R.Dennis, E.Bernal, N.Haas, L.L.Sanchez
- Others: G.Bennett, S.Gerrans, G.Izagirre, J.McCarthy, T.J.Slagter, R.Gesink
Vuelta a San Juan Internacional
2018-01-21 - 2018-01-28
ivaneurope might not have been in the TdU but he is sending the most riders to Argentine for the different start into the season. Only trekbmc with 4 coming close, then several with 1-3 riders and in AbishekLFC, NicoVirenque, Ollfardh and roturn 4 non participants.
With Gaviria and Majka some of the best San Juan starters are expected to deliver big points for ivaneurope and baseballlover312.
Different to the TdU, where the Aussies are known to be in top form already, the San Juan starters use to be challenged a lot by the home riders from the South American CT teams, that peak for that race.
- 29% of the peloton are in the Fantasy League
- Top Sprinters: F.Gaviria, J.Keukeleire, A.M.Richeze, G.Nizzolo, K.Sbaragli, M.Pelucchi
- Top GC: R.Majka, O.Sevilla, R.Carapaz, J.D.Atapuma, D.Formolo, C.Betancur, E.Sepulveda, D.Quintana
- Others: T.McCabe, N.Bonifazio, R.A.Torres, F.Gavazzi, K.Siutsou
La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
2018-01-15 - 2018-01-21
The Tropicale Amissa Bongo mainly having a lot of African National Squads but some European teams use to start their season in Gabon for some tough stages with a hard to control peloton.
One name surely is no surprise: Yohann Gene, winner of 2013 and 2017 and record winner with 7 stage wins with couple more podiums is back in 2018 and surely will score again for baseballlover312.
Other than that just 6 riders of the league are here on 5 teams. Petit already a race expoert as well with 1 GC win in 2016 and 4 stage wins and hence yet another top favourite.
Spoiler
GENE Yohann
baseballlover312
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
ivaneurope
GAUDIN Damien
NicoVirenque
PETIT Adrien
Ollfardh
KOSHEVOY Ilia
roturn
MADRAZO RUIZ Angel
roturn
Spoiler
roturn
2
baseballlover312
1
ivaneurope
1
NicoVirenque
1
Ollfardh
1
Other Races
Vuelta al Tachira, New Zealand Cycle Classic
For those Race Result might come at one point but it will be small league participations only and no startlists around until the first stage.
Early season races are always interesting, thanks for that Roturn!
TDU is an interesting race for us, I still think Canty has the right early season legs for Australian racing, ready to top 10, but we'll see. Nava could be an intersting rider too, profiles in this race might suit him quite a bit. Debusschere will be on Lead-out duties I guess as our last rider.
I didn't actually realise we had a good squad at San Juan though, if Nizzolo has the legs he should up for lots of his traditional 2nd places. Atapuma and Siutsou could have a good race too.
Hope to see my Costa Rican übertalent Kevin Rivera show his "better than Bernal" credentials in Venezuela. Happy to have Pippo in San L̶u̶i̶s̶ L̶u̶i̶s̶ L̶u̶i̶s̶ L̶u̶i̶s̶ Juan but he's not going to shine yet.
Hope the TDU went well for me with four in the top 11 but really not expecting loads from the final tallies there - not considering I had 9 riders!
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." [PT] Xero Racing
The Tour Down Under saw a somewhat surprising win by sutty68`s Daryl Impey and hence the South African totally dominated the CQ ranking by scoring twice as much as the next rider Slagter (OZrocker), who did well in his Dimension Data debut followed by Caleb Ewan (NicoVirenque), who was okay but not as dominant as in 2017.
jandal7 then with impressive depth scoring on the next spots with Devenyns, G.Izagirre, Guerreiro, G.Bennett.
This depth gives jandal8 actually the race win over GC winner sutty68 but just by 10 points. Anyway both basically scored twice the amount of the following teams starting with home manager OZrocker and NicoVirenque.
ember and AbishekLFC couldn`t take many points with their big amount of participating riders as jandal7 did, while ivaneurope is the only 0 pointer, though without and participant.
The weakest 5 scoring teams here only had finishing points by their riders and hence need to improve.
Cadel Evans Road Race
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
MCCARTHY Jay
Aquarius97
180
VIVIANI Elia
jaxika
108
IMPEY Daryl
sutty68
92
DEVENYNS Dries
jandal7
78
GERRANS Simon
OZrocker
70
ARNDT Nikias
jandal7
62
LAMMERTINK Maurits
Marcovdw
46
BATTAGLIN Enrico
Marcovdw
40
GESINK Robert
alexkr00
30
DOULL Owain
OZrocker
27
LATOUR Pierre
Ollfardh
24
MEYER Cameron
AbhishekLFC
18
GONÇALVES Jose Isidro Maciel
ember
16
CHEREL Mikael
NicoVirenque
14
LAMBRECHT Bjorg
dominox
12
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida
jandal7
11
EARLE Nathan
sutty68
10
KENNAUGH Peter
Croatia14
9
OOMEN Sam
Ollfardh
8
TEUNISSEN Mike
alexkr00
5
CHAVES RUBIO Jhoan Esteban
Aquarius97
5
MAS NICOLAU Enric
Aquarius97
5
WISNIOWSKI Lukasz
Croatia14
5
MORTON Lachlan
dominox
5
OSS Daniel
dominox
5
BEVIN Patrick
ember
5
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan
ember
5
WARBASSE Larry
ivaneurope
5
BAUER Jack
jandal7
5
BENNETT George
jandal7
5
DE GENDT Thomas
jandal7
5
HANSEN Lasse Norman
jandal7
5
JENSEN August
matt17br
5
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto
OZrocker
5
SLAGTER Tom-Jelte
OZrocker
5
LAWLESS Christopher
sutty68
5
GASTAUER Ben
Tamijo
5
HOWSON Damien
Tamijo
5
STORER Michael
Tamijo
5
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
trekbmc
5
Manager
Points
Aquarius97
190
jandal7
171
jaxika
108
OZrocker
107
sutty68
107
Marcovdw
86
alexkr00
35
Ollfardh
32
ember
26
dominox
22
AbhishekLFC
18
Tamijo
15
Croatia14
14
NicoVirenque
14
ivaneurope
5
matt17br
5
trekbmc
5
baseballlover312
0
hillis91
0
jseadog1
0
roturn
0
After McCarthy cracked in the TdU on Willunga Hill, he showed his class later in Australia by winning the Cadel Evans Road Race. Aquarius97 takes big profit of this. Yet again jandal7 with the incredible depth he had in the Aussie summer races coming close. Devenyns again his top scorer with an great early form but also Arndt did well in the race, he had won last year.
Other than that Viviani scored nicely for jaxika by coming in 2nd and by the look of it, it was just the start of a great season for him.
Last but not least sutty68 with Impey, who podiumed here and was THE rider of the Australian start into the season.
A race hard to predict as South American PCT teams use to be strong here while many top riders usually are not in form yet and just use it as start into their season.
Hence not the biggest surprise to see an undrafted Argentine taking the win here with Gonzalo Najar.
The best league particpant is the always up there and never ending Oscar Sevilla, who was 2nd in the GC and hence a nice pick for ivaneurope. Torres in 4th also his rider and hence a great start into the season for him by winning his first race of the year.
Majka was one of the top riders and by finishing 5th he at least scored some valuable points for baseballlover312 while Benoot had a fantastic race for matt17br as well.
Sprinter wise Gaviria got a stage for ivaneurope while his team mate Richeze (jseadog1) though outscored him. Best sprinter though was Nizzolo for trekbmc.
Vuelta al Tachira
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
RIVERA SERRANO Kevin
jandal7
7
MONSALVE PERTSINIDIS Yonathan Alejandro
jaxika
6
Manager
Points
Riders
Avg. Per Rider
jandal7
7
1
7
jaxika
6
1
6
Tropicale Amissa Bongo
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
ivaneurope
90
GAUDIN Damien
NicoVirenque
79
KOSHEVOY Ilia
roturn
66
PETIT Adrien
Ollfardh
48
GENE Yohann
baseballlover312
4
MADRAZO RUIZ Angel
roturn
0
Manager
Points
Riders
Avg. Per Rider
ivaneurope
90
1
90
NicoVirenque
79
1
79
roturn
66
2
33
Ollfardh
48
1
48
baseballlover312
4
1
4
Small fields in both Tachira and Gabon. More scoring in later though with ivaneurope winning his 2nd January event as veteran Nocentini did very well here while NicoVirenque came close with Gaudin.
Tachira was a close fight between jandal7 and jaxika. Though 7 vs 6 in the end does not deliver much for them.
Trofeo Mallorca
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
DEGENKOLB John
Ollfardh
160
WELLENS Tim
Marcovdw
104
SKUJINS Toms
Aquarius97
80
MÃœHLBERGER Gregor
Marcovdw
80
MOSCON Gianni
ember
68
BASKA Erik
Ollfardh
68
REINDERS Elmar
hillis91
49
ENGER Sondre Holst
matt17br
48
LIGTHART Pim
matt17br
48
DE BUYST Jasper
matt17br
45
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
trekbmc
41
VERMELTFOORT Coen
jaxika
40
DEHAES Kenny
hillis91
36
PRADES REVERTER Eduard
Tamijo
33
BARBERO CUESTA Carlos
AbhishekLFC
32
BENNATI Daniele
Marcovdw
24
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
baseballlover312
20
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente
jseadog1
16
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix
ivaneurope
12
GRMAY Tsgabu Gebremaryam
AbhishekLFC
10
PÖSTLBERGER Lukas
OZrocker
10
LIETAER Eliot
dominox
8
PEYSKENS Dimitri
ivaneurope
7
SPRENGERS Thomas
roturn
7
CAMPENAERTS Victor
AbhishekLFC
6
MONFORT Maxime
baseballlover312
5
ELISSONDE Kenny
OZrocker
5
WIPPERT Wouter
sutty68
5
Manager
Points
Ollfardh
228
Marcovdw
208
matt17br
141
hillis91
85
Aquarius97
80
ember
68
AbhishekLFC
48
trekbmc
41
jaxika
40
Tamijo
33
baseballlover312
25
ivaneurope
19
jseadog1
16
OZrocker
15
dominox
8
roturn
7
sutty68
5
alexkr00
0
Croatia14
0
jandal7
0
NicoVirenque
0
The 4 "classics" on Mallorca saw ollfardh`s Degenkolb taking the crown by winning 2 of them.
Wellens for Marcovdw and Skujins for Aquarius97 were the other winners of one of the races and hence the best individuals behind the German.
Team wise though matt17br did a good job with the depth of Enger, Ligthard and De Buyst and podiums behind Ollfardh and Marcovdw.
GP Marseillaise
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
GENIEZ Alexandre
NicoVirenque
80
EIKING Odd Christian
hillis91
48
CALMEJANE Lilian
Croatia14
40
HERRADA LOPEZ Jesus
jseadog1
36
MARTIN Guillaume
alexkr00
32
GALLOPIN Tony
trekbmc
16
CLAEYS Dimitri
NicoVirenque
12
MEURISSE Xandro
matt17br
9
DUMOULIN Samuel
hillis91
8
OFFREDO Yoann
ember
5
DEVRIENDT Tom
Marcovdw
5
HARDY Romain
matt17br
5
BOUET Maxime
sutty68
5
Manager
Points
NicoVirenque
92
hillis91
56
Croatia14
40
jseadog1
36
alexkr00
32
trekbmc
16
matt17br
14
ember
5
Marcovdw
5
sutty68
5
AbhishekLFC
0
Aquarius97
0
baseballlover312
0
dominox
0
ivaneurope
0
jandal7
0
jaxika
0
Ollfardh
0
OZrocker
0
roturn
0
Tamijo
0
The GP Marseillaise saw Geniez scoring most for NicoVirenque while Eiking and Calmejane did decent as well for hillis91 and Croatia14.
Most races have been covered in the last post. Some additionally with smaller scorings also took place and some went into February and hence won`t be covered in the update below and hence need to wait another ~2 weeks until the 2nd ranking update.
Ranking Update #1 - January
Manager
2018
Last Update
Since Last Update
2017
sutty68
659
0
659
5643
jandal7
620
0
620
7095
NicoVirenque
545
0
545
6149
Aquarius97
533
0
533
6264
Ollfardh
484
0
484
4632
ember
354
0
354
7405
OZrocker
353
0
353
7784
Marcovdw
319
0
319
7720
jaxika
300
0
300
9385
ivaneurope
297
0
297
8804
hillis91
249
0
249
8692
matt17br
227
0
227
8238
jseadog1
207
0
207
9503
trekbmc
186
0
186
6032
alexkr00
183
0
183
7158
AbhishekLFC
164
0
164
8479
baseballlover312
141
0
141
7876
Croatia14
124
0
124
5898
roturn
123
0
123
6806
Tamijo
91
91
0
8875
dominox
59
0
59
7304
sutty68 is leading the January Rankings due to the huge start of the year for Daryl Impey. In fact he already scored 12% of his team`s 2017 total, which is a great way to start the season.
jandal7 coming close due to his depth and is just 39 points behind while hte next teams already have a ~100 points gap.
NicoVirenque, Aquarius97 and Ollfardh all with 9-10% of last years score as well which is the big difference between the actual top5 and all teams behind, who are 1-5% only.
At the bottom dominox, Tamijo and roturn. But gaps are small and races to come are plenty.
Impey is the best in January and in especially when comparing his 2017 CQ at the same time! McCarthy and Ewan about the same as last year actually while the following riders also had a much better start into the season or a different race schedule of course.
Mainly the different race schedule explains why Chaves or Valls belong to the riders that had a much better start into the year 2017, while others struggled to repeat their 2017 performances such as Haas (-235) or Dennis (-119).
Riders
Team
2018
% of 2017
IMPEY Daryl
sutty68
460
190%
MORENO BAZAN Javier
NicoVirenque
121
136%
BASKA Erik
Ollfardh
68
97%
DEVENYNS Dries
jandal7
211
83%
MCCARTHY Jay
Aquarius97
289
76%
EDMONDSON Alexander
ember
107
65%
NIZZOLO Giacomo
trekbmc
33
50%
SLAGTER Tom-Jelte
OZrocker
186
47%
SKUJINS Toms
Aquarius97
80
42%
GAUDIN Damien
NicoVirenque
79
40%
Spoiler
LEBAS Thomas
sutty68
90
40%
KOSHEVOY Ilia
roturn
66
37%
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida
jandal7
91
33%
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney
Aquarius97
35
33%
GESINK Robert
alexkr00
101
32%
CANTY Brendan
trekbmc
32
31%
EWAN Caleb
NicoVirenque
214
30%
PAGE Dylan
Ollfardh
29
30%
REINDERS Elmar
hillis91
49
29%
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin
trekbmc
30
29%
COQUARD Bryan
Aquarius97
60
27%
MÃœHLBERGER Gregor
Marcovdw
80
27%
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
ivaneurope
90
27%
CHEREL Mikael
NicoVirenque
34
27%
BOECKMANS Kris
Ollfardh
5
26%
PACHER Quentin
jaxika
50
24%
O'CONNOR Ben
ember
41
23%
EIKING Odd Christian
hillis91
48
22%
BATTAGLIN Enrico
Marcovdw
45
22%
LAMMERTINK Maurits
Marcovdw
51
22%
SEVILLA RIVERA Oscar Miguel
ivaneurope
90
22%
GERRANS Simon
OZrocker
85
22%
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
trekbmc
41
21%
GENIEZ Alexandre
NicoVirenque
80
20%
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
hillis91
108
20%
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
jandal7
105
20%
ARNDT Nikias
jandal7
67
19%
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres
ivaneurope
61
19%
LIGTHART Pim
matt17br
48
17%
BENNETT George
jandal7
77
17%
Impey and J.Moreno actually are the first riders that passed their 2017 CQ already with their January performances. Quite impressive. Baska and Devenyns already close to it. Will be interesting to see if it was some kind of early season peak or if they can continue with good results over the next couple of months and hence prove to become excellent picks.
Interesting in that list Nizzolo at 50% already due to the gamble on him. Only on 33 points yet and hence hard to say if the team change pays out for trekbmc.
Riders that are expected to perform well in the GTs and already did well early on might be Gesink at 32% or Bennett at 17%.
Information: Right now I need to get myself updated after my vacation and most probably will only post startlists and race scorings for World Tour events and some HC events in future as those use to have biggest starting fields and scorings, while the .1 events usually are strongest in early season races only as preperation.
Depending on fields though I might add those events as well at times. Though I won`t make it for the events having passed already e.g. Dubai Tour, Etoile Besseges or Valenciana.
For the moment next races on my list are probably Oman, Andalucia, Algarve and Abu Dhabi Tour and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (potentially with Kuurne Brussel Kuurne as HC event) later this month. Those are most likely to get startlist information pre race and scoring update post race as also then the February update at the end of the month with all CQ scorings between 28/01 and 28/02 then.
Edited by roturn on 13-02-2018 07:19
Sutty leading with Impey was to be expected. Happy with my top 5 so far, although I don't like being beaten in the % rankings
Thanks for the update! I'm really ok with only previewingthe most important races (and if I had to chose, I'd pick ranking updates over previews).
Edited by Ollfardh on 12-02-2018 09:13
I knew that McCarthy's win in CEGORR would give some great points, but didn't expect to be fourth at this point
And February started well with Chaves winning Herald Sun Tour, and Coquard... well scoring something. And also Dayer's stage win in Colombia yesterday.
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." [PT] Xero Racing
Three 2.HC events just take place with the Tour of Oman actually already had their first stage yesterday.
Then Andalucia with the start of Froome but also the league`s #1 pick Mikel Landa and in fact a strong league line up with most top riders being drafted.
Then Algarve as 3rd race with the opposite as the strongest riders weren`t draftable but still some big names for the league.
Tour of Oman
2018-02-13 - 2018-02-18
matt17br is leading with 6 starting riders, though not the strongest for the GC probably.
In general the top GC riders might be not from this league but some riders surely with a good shot, which would be Kudus (roturn), Roche (OZrocker), Visconti (hillis91) or Devenyns (jandal7).
Sprinter wise a better league field as Cavendish and Blythe both are in form for sutty68, Coquard already won stage 1 for Aquarius97 while also Wippert, Haas, Van Lerberghe, Andersen, Walscheid or Felline could be named.
- 37% of the Oman peloton are in the Fantasy League
- Top Sprinters: M.Cavendish, B.Coquard, A.Blythe
- Top GC: M.Kudus, N.Roche, G.Visconti
- Others: D.Devenyns, J.P.Drucker, E.Theuns, G.Izagirre, N.Terpstra, N.Haas, F.Felline
Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol
2018-02-14 - 2018-02-18
As said a big starting field here for the league. In especially at the top where basically just Froome was undraftable.
jseadog1 with Landa and hillis91 with LL Sanchez probably the big favourites here.
Also ivaneurope with Fuglsang, Marcovdw with Wellens or ember with Poels having good shots of a high GC.
Sprinter wise it might mainly be Modolo vs. Naesen. As both are in dominox`s team, he could be a big scorer as well.
Closer spread throughout the league. hillis91 with 6 riders but then couple others with 4-5 riders. Only matt17br is a non-participant here in Andalucia.
- 41% of the peloton are in the Fantasy League
- Top Sprinters: S.Modolo, O.Naesen, K.Sbaragli
- Top GC: M.Landa, T.Wellens, LL.Sanchez, J.Fuglsang, W.Poels
- Others: S.Kruijswijk, D.de la Cruz, B.Hermans, A.M.Antunes, R.Taaramae
Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta
2018-02-14 - 2018-02-18
Lots of riders were not draftable here with includes GC riders Porte, Kwiatkowski, Mollema or Martin as also the sprinters Demare, Boasson Hagen or Groenewegen. Hence bigger points might be scored elsewhere.
But still some valuable riders from this league such as Degenkolb (Ollfardh) for the sprints or GC wise Thomas (hillis91), Teuns (OZrocker), Meintjes (roturn), TVG (Aquarius97), Jungels (dominox), Spilak (dominox) or Oomen (Ollfardh).
Spoiler
CAMPENAERTS Victor
AbhishekLFC
HOFSTEDE Lennard
alexkr00
KÃœNG Stefan
alexkr00
ROOSEN Timo
alexkr00
SINKELDAM Ramon
alexkr00
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
alexkr00
VLIEGEN Loïc
alexkr00
HERRADA LOPEZ Jose
Aquarius97
KÄMNA Lennard
Aquarius97
LAENGEN Vegard Stake
Aquarius97
VALLS FERRI Rafael
Aquarius97
VAN GARDEREN Tejay
Aquarius97
HOFSTETTER Hugo
dominox
JUNGELS Bob
dominox
PELUCCHI Matteo
dominox
SPILAK Simon
dominox
GESCHKE Simon
ember
GONÇALVES Jose Isidro Maciel
ember
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
ember
OFFREDO Yoann
ember
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan
ember
SEPULVEDA Eduardo
ember
BENTA Joao Ricardo Cardoso
hillis91
KEUKELEIRE Jens
hillis91
THOMAS Geraint
hillis91
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix
ivaneurope
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
ivaneurope
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor
jandal7
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida
jandal7
SMITH Dion
jandal7
BRÄNDLE Matthias
jaxika
DUPONT Timothy
jaxika
KIRYIENKA Vasil
jaxika
KONOVALOVAS Ignatas
jaxika
MARTIN Tony
jaxika
STUYVEN Jasper
jaxika
BACKAERT Frederik
jseadog1
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente
jseadog1
MARTENS Paul
jseadog1
CIMOLAI Davide
Marcovdw
DEVRIENDT Tom
Marcovdw
LAMMERTINK Maurits
Marcovdw
LINDEMAN Bert-Jan
Marcovdw
OLIVEIRA Nelson Filipe Santos Simoes
Marcovdw
PAUWELS Serge
Marcovdw
ROSON GARCIA Jaime
Marcovdw
STYBAR Zdenek
Marcovdw
DE BUYST Jasper
matt17br
CLAEYS Dimitri
NicoVirenque
CONTI Valerio
Ollfardh
DEGENKOLB John
Ollfardh
OOMEN Sam
Ollfardh
DOULL Owain
OZrocker
ELISSONDE Kenny
OZrocker
GERRANS Simon
OZrocker
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto
OZrocker
MULLEN Ryan
OZrocker
PÖSTLBERGER Lukas
OZrocker
SERRY Pieter
OZrocker
SÃœTTERLIN Jasha
OZrocker
TEUNS Dylan
OZrocker
MEINTJES Louis
roturn
ROELANDTS Jürgen
roturn
THWAITES Scott
roturn
MAES Nikolas
sutty68
SWIFT Ben
sutty68
HINDLEY Jai
Tamijo
KUSS Sepp
Tamijo
LAMPAERT Yves
Tamijo
SCHACHMANN Maximilian
Tamijo
SENECHAL Florian
Tamijo
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
trekbmc
Spoiler
OZrocker
9
Marcovdw
8
alexkr00
6
ember
6
jaxika
6
Aquarius97
5
Tamijo
5
dominox
4
hillis91
3
jandal7
3
jseadog1
3
Ollfardh
3
roturn
3
ivaneurope
2
sutty68
2
AbhishekLFC
1
matt17br
1
NicoVirenque
1
trekbmc
1
baseballlover312
0
Croatia14
0
- 41% of the peloton are in the Fantasy League
- Top Sprinters: J.Degenkolb, J.Stuyven, B.Swift
- Top GC: G.Thomas, T.VanGarderen, L.Meintjes, S.Spilak, S.Oomen, B.Jungels
- Others: D.Teuns, Z.Stybar, Y.Lampaert, R.Guerreiro, S.Gerrans, T.Martin
Walscheid as sprint leader in Oman already with a decent start as 5th while I have high hopes that Kudus can be similar strong as last year in February when he got a 4th in the GC.
Andalucia more a hope. De Tier and Pardilla in theory could show something while I have no idea who Owsian is (shame on me) and Sprengers hasn`t shown a lot after 2015.
Algarve then again high hopes in Meintjes for the GC while Roelandts and Thwaites probably won`t score really.
Devenyns, Izagirre, Amador, Taaramae, Anton, Guerrerio and Smith all more than capable in february for us (plus Laporte generally killing it). Don't mind Huffman and Clarkey especially as wild cards in Andalucia
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." [PT] Xero Racing
Tour Down Under 
Vuelta a San Juan Internacional 
La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 
Atapuma and Siutsou could have a good race too.
Vuelta al Tachira
Trofeo Mallorca
GP Marseillaise
Tour of Oman 
Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta 
