Not awful for me at all thanks to GB and minor scoring from Alba, Arndt and Anton. Hope we can squeeze some big points from La Vuelta soon to hold on to our top 5 (how we've got that is a mystery to me!)
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The third GT of the season is soon to start and the probably 100% accurate startlist is published. A lot of undraftables as usual in GTs but still lots of high quality starters for the league.
Viviani (jaxika), Trentin (Tamijo) are just some options for the sprints while the GC list of potential top10 finishers is huge:
Miguel Angel Lopez/Henao Montoya (roturn), S.Yates (OZrocker), Kruijswijk (Marcovdw), Kelderman (Tamijo), Bennett (Jandal), Carapaz (dominox), Woods/Majka (bbl312), Formolo (alexkr), Buchmann (NV), Bilbao (ember), de la Cruz (Jaxika), Mas (Aquarius) must be named.
Then lots of big scoring options for stages mainly such as Benoot (matt), G.Izagirre (jandal), Dennis (Abishek), Teuns (OZrocker) and many more.
Spoiler
DENNIS Rohan
AbhishekLFC
CAMPENAERTS Victor
AbhishekLFC
DENNIS Rohan
AbhishekLFC
BOSWELL Ian
alexkr00
FORMOLO Davide
alexkr00
PETILLI Simone
alexkr00
TEUNISSEN Mike
alexkr00
VILLELLA Davide
alexkr00
ABERASTURI IZAGA Jon
Aquarius97
CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan
Aquarius97
CATALDO Dario
Aquarius97
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar
Aquarius97
GARCIA CORTINA Ivan
Aquarius97
HERRADA LOPEZ Jose
Aquarius97
LAENGEN Vegard Stake
Aquarius97
MAS NICOLAU Enric
Aquarius97
MCCARTHY Jay
Aquarius97
RODRIGUEZ MARTIN Cristian
Aquarius97
ANACONA GOMEZ Winner Andrew
baseballlover312
BOOKWALTER Brent
baseballlover312
DE MARCHI Alessandro
baseballlover312
MAJKA Rafal
baseballlover312
MONFORT Maxime
baseballlover312
WOODS Michael
baseballlover312
PERNSTEINER Hermann
Croatia14
VAN POPPEL Danny
Croatia14
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio
dominox
LAMBRECHT Bjorg
dominox
SIVAKOV Pavel
dominox
TUSVELD Martijn
dominox
BILBAO LOPEZ DE ARMENTIA Pello
ember
BOOM Lars
ember
BYSTRØM Sven Erik
ember
CONSONNI Simone
ember
EDMONDSON Alexander
ember
GESCHKE Simon
ember
GONÇALVES Jose Isidro Maciel
ember
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan
ember
MATE MARDONES Luis Angel
hillis91
ARMEE Sander
ivaneurope
GIBBONS Ryan
ivaneurope
ALBASINI Michael
jandal7
AMADOR BIKKAZAKOVA Andrey
jandal7
BENNETT George
jandal7
CLARKE Simon
jandal7
DE GENDT Thomas
jandal7
DEVENYNS Dries
jandal7
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
jandal7
PIBERNIK Luka
jandal7
YATES Adam
jandal7
BRÄNDLE Matthias
jaxika
DE LA CRUZ MELGAREJO David
jaxika
VIVIANI Elia
jaxika
BURGHARDT Marcus
jseadog1
DUPONT Hubert
jseadog1
HERRADA LOPEZ Jesus
jseadog1
BENNATI Daniele
Marcovdw
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
Marcovdw
LAMMERTINK Maurits
Marcovdw
LANGEVELD Sebastian
Marcovdw
LINDEMAN Bert-Jan
Marcovdw
MEZGEC Luka
Marcovdw
OLIVEIRA Nelson Filipe Santos Simoes
Marcovdw
ASGREEN Kasper
matt17br
BENOOT Tiesj
matt17br
FELLINE Fabio
matt17br
BUCHMANN Emanuel
NicoVirenque
GENIEZ Alexandre
NicoVirenque
GOUGEARD Alexis
NicoVirenque
HIRT Jan
NicoVirenque
MOLARD Rudy
NicoVirenque
SARREAU Marc
NicoVirenque
CONTI Valerio
Ollfardh
DE PLUS Laurens
Ollfardh
VANBILSEN Kenneth
Ollfardh
BRAVO OIARBIDE Garikoitz
OZrocker
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto
OZrocker
PÖSTLBERGER Lukas
OZrocker
ROCHE Nicolas
OZrocker
ROLLAND Pierre
OZrocker
SERRY Pieter
OZrocker
TEUNS Dylan
OZrocker
VAN ASBROECK Tom
OZrocker
VAN DER SANDE Tosh
OZrocker
YATES Simon
OZrocker
BOL Jetse
roturn
DE TIER Floris
roturn
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao
roturn
HAIG Jack
roturn
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis
roturn
KUDUS Merhawi Gebremedhin
roturn
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel
roturn
MEINTJES Louis
roturn
MORENO FERNANDEZ Daniel
roturn
PARDILLA BELLON Sergio
roturn
PREIDLER Georg
roturn
WALSCHEID Maximilian
roturn
DOCKER Mitchell
sutty68
VAN BAARLE Dylan
sutty68
GASTAUER Ben
Tamijo
HINDLEY Jai
Tamijo
HOWSON Damien
Tamijo
KELDERMAN Wilco
Tamijo
KUSS Sepp
Tamijo
PRADES REVERTER Eduard
Tamijo
STORER Michael
Tamijo
THOMAS Benjamin
Tamijo
TRENTIN Matteo
Tamijo
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
trekbmc
GALLOPIN Tony
trekbmc
NIZZOLO Giacomo
trekbmc
ROSSKOPF Joey
trekbmc
Spoiler
roturn
12
Aquarius97
10
OZrocker
10
jandal7
9
Tamijo
9
ember
8
Marcovdw
7
baseballlover312
6
NicoVirenque
6
alexkr00
5
dominox
4
trekbmc
4
jaxika
3
jseadog1
3
matt17br
3
Ollfardh
3
AbhishekLFC
2
Croatia14
2
ivaneurope
2
sutty68
2
hillis91
1
- 63% of the peloton are in the Fantasy League
- Top GC Riders: M.A.Lopez, S.Yates, S.Kruijswijk, A.Yates, W.Kelderman, R.Carapaz, G.Bennett, R.Majka, M.Woods, E.Buchmann, D.Formolo, D.delaCruz
- Top Spritners: E.Viviani, D.VanPoppel, M.Sarreau, S.Consonni, M.Teunissen
- To Watch: T.Benoot, M.Albasini, G.Izagirre, E.Mas, A.Geniez, S.Luis Henao, T.G.Hart, S.Kuss, L.Meintjes, R.Dennis, P.Bilbao, D.Teuns, N.Roche
Veenendaal-Veenendaal
2018-08-22
Already starting today! Groenewegen surely wins again but then lots of league riders for the next spots to challenge him. Tough to say, which riders do proper here. J.Koch (Abishek), T.vanderHoorn (trek) or Wippert (Sutty) might be solid bets.
Not yet 100% complete startlist but it`s a weekend race and hence here the provisional startlist. Wellens for Marco might surprise the tougher sprinters while Gaviria (ivaneurope) is a solid bet for a top result as well as also season great Impey for sutty or Degenkolb for Ollfardh.
10 years after the last event, the Deutschland Tour is back with a not yet 100% startlist. For a 2.1 race the starting field is quite impressive on that 1 flat, 3 hill stages race.
No other than TdF winner Thomas (hillis) is a big favourite here alongside undraftables Dumoulin and Bardet!
BinckBank winner Mohoric (dominox) will surely be in great form as well with Caruso (Marco), Martin (alexkr), Vanendert (hillis) and best home rider Schachmann (Tamijo) should do well here.
And the third not yet 100% secured starter field. But Also in 2 days already and hence worth a mention in this post. Gaviria (ivaneurope), Lampaert (Tamijo), Dupont (jaxika) the big favourites with neo pro Jakobsen (dominox) surely as well with his impressive season so far.
Theuns (Tamijo) and De Bie (trek) also outside favourites.
As I had hoped, my impressive Burgos squad moved over to the Vuelta and should hopefully deliver big!
M.Angel Lopez hopefully ready for a big GT appearance while Sky`s no-clear-leader should give Hart and Henao solid chances, even though I guess de la Cruz is their main men, who unfortunately isn`t in my team.
Meintjes and Kudus showed better form again in Burgos and top10ed there. Hopefully similar strong in the Vuelta while Haig had a good US trip but with 2 Yates in his team, more a last men support rider.
Moreno and Pardilla jus like Preidler are good for a stage win while Walscheidt, De Dier and Bol are not that bad neither and could score with a bit of luck.
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First of all, sorry to not having given you late season and final rankings, so at least last bit will be done here.
Job and Private Life really got me busy recently and while surely having little spare time here and there, I hardly was able to check daily as regularly as I would have liked...time will tell if I am able to find more time soon.
Final Manager Ranking 2018
Being best in the late season Ozrocker and Tamijo climbed a bit but actually all but hillis and jandal did pretty similar of the top8 and only seperate ~500 points since the Vuelta start.
In total AbishekLFC takes the close win in the 2018 PCM.Daily Fantasy League competition! But making it really close as dominox is just 37 points off in 2nd.
After a gap of 1000 points Marco takes the final podium ahead of hillis and jandal, who lost all chances on beating Marco by scoring 1000 points less in the last events.
jaxika, Tamijo, OZrocker, trekbmc or jseadog in the middle of nowhere while sutty, ivaneurope and matt find themselves in bottom 3 below talent squads of Ollfardh or Croatia.
Manager
2018
2017
17-18
AbhishekLFC
9728
8479
115%
dominox
9691
7304
133%
Marcovdw
8624
7720
112%
hillis91
8012
8692
92%
jandal7
7759
7095
109%
jaxika
7610
9385
81%
Tamijo
7610
8875
86%
OZrocker
7321
7784
94%
trekbmc
7287
6032
121%
jseadog1
7087
9503
75%
NicoVirenque
7071
6149
115%
ember
7006
7405
95%
alexkr00
6803
7158
95%
roturn
6801
6806
100%
baseballlover312
6769
7876
86%
Aquarius97
6300
6264
101%
Croatia14
5909
5898
100%
Ollfardh
5331
4632
115%
matt17br
5323
8238
65%
ivaneurope
4987
8804
57%
sutty68
4383
5643
78%
Final Rider Ranking 2018
Rider wise OZrocker picked the best individual in Simon Yates and imagine, he hadn`t become valuable in the Giro! He would have been even more dominant.
This way it was a close duel with Elia Viviani for the crown and Tour de France winner Gerraint Thomas as best of the rest ahead of Roglic and Miguel Angel Lopez.
Bernal, who lost quite some time this season also with an impressive top10 and with Terpstra or Valgren some more riders that had a stunning 2018 after not being similarly scorers in 2017.
Impey, who still is a huge improver just drops out of the shown top15 but carried sutty all season long. Just not enough as main team scorer. That said, a brilliant round 13 pick! Valgren as round 4 similar impressive.
On the opposite Cavendish with 125 points being a first round pick was probably a bad idea and also Chaves, Kittel, Nizzolo, Barguil, Trentin or even Gaviria were hardly worth it.
Tour de France fighter Craddock had a huge 2018 in comparison to 2017 but his amount of points is rather low. Still fine for a 15th round pick I guess. De Bie as 12th round at 451 points was an even better pick and the believe in him was just a good thing.
Nizzolo next was a gamble in the first round and while 444 points are easily better than his 2017 66, I am not sure, it was worth it to go that early for him.
Jakobsen might be the best of all picks. 777 points from a 16th round pick is great. Really a breakthrough year for the young sprinter. Similar impressive the jump from Impey from 242 to 1018 points! And it`s not like it was a breakthrough year, he is there for ages already!
Also Schachmann from 221 to 777 is a nice stepup while Terpstra from 417 to 1097 was just in old form again after a weak 2017 and Thomas up to 1961 is due to this big TdF win.
Several others that could be named. One surely deserves. Hofstetter as 24th round inside the top10! Just as impressive as Jakobsen surely and this must be one of the top3 picks this year. Moreno and Serry another last round picks high in that ranking here.
Couldn't come near 2nd again, I thought Nizzolo was going to pull off another big season but he didn't deliver. the 2nd highest percentage of 2017 points kinda proves that I focussed too much on underperformers last year I guess. Still Terpstra, Van Aert, De Bie, Brambilla, Grivko, Debusschere and Bole turned out to be a really good depth of picks for the late rounds, (also Taco beat his 2017 after being zero most the season) we were just let down by Nizzollo and Gallopin).
Congrats Abhishek on the win! You had some really good picks there, 3 in the top 15 really is a lot. And thanks a lot for running this and getting that last update out despite busy times irl Roturn, I always really enjoy this game!
3 in the Top 15 did the trick! Valgren probably the surprise star of the year. Great to continue the upward swing from 4th last year. Great job to dominox as well. That was close!
Thanks for the update roturn and for running the game all year
For sure my worst year. It's not hard to blame my riders though, so I'll do just that. Degenkolb without a doubt the worst first draft pick ever (although he still scores decent somehow now that I checked the rankings - can't remember much of him this season?). Oomen and Latour were ok, but they had to work for Dumoulin and Bardet instead of getting their own big race. Bettiol was invisible, De Plus had a bad crash and the others I considered filler. At least Lawson Craddock gave me something to cheer for.
Congrats Abhishek for the win! Not much can be saiid from my team, obviously Coquard + Van Garderen was a terrible starring duo, at least managed to avoid being Bottom 5 and also get a better result that those riders would have gotten in 2017
Never been especially good at this game. In the end, it's stealing riders that are bound to improve which gets you a good overall result, and I rely on known names too much that are more likely to decline.
Good game everyone! Congrats Abhishek and thank you Roturn!
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Veenendaal-Veenendaal 
Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France 
Deutschland Tour 
Great War Remembrance Race 
Still Terpstra, Van Aert, De Bie, Brambilla, Grivko, Debusschere and Bole turned out to be a really good depth of picks for the late rounds, (also Taco beat his 2017 after being zero most the season) we were just let down by Nizzollo and Gallopin).
