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Angel Madrazo wins the 2012 ProTour
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GrandTour winners may not have helped their team to a high placement, but they do all take a place in the Top 3 of the Individual Standings.
Angel Madrazo is rightly top after 1st in the Vuelta and 2nd in the Tour. Plus winning GP Liechtenstein in his only other race.
Riccardo Ricco is perhaps the weakest of the 3 GT winners, but he takes 2nd in the standings. He was beaten by Cunego in Colombia, and Madrazo in Liechtenstein. But for him, the Giro was where it mattered most, and he took the title.
The aforemented Damiano Cunego takes 3rd: Tour de France, Vuelta a Colombia and Giro di Lombardia. 4th in Liege-Bastogne-Liege his only 'failure'.
Up and coming puncheur Jan Bakelandts raced through the season to take 4th, beating the dominant in his terrain Tom Boonen.
Juri Trofimov, Taylor Phinney, Aleksandr Pluchkin, Frank Schleck and Emanuele Sella round out the Top 10.
| 1 | Angel | Madrazo | ESP |  | Santander | 2874 | | 2 | Riccardo | Ricco | ITA |  | Bacardi - Ignis | 2540 | | 3 | Damiano | Cunego | ITA | | Café de Colombia | 2506 | | 4 | Jan | Bakelants | BEL |  | Pearl Adidas | 2416 | | 5 | Tom | Boonen | BEL | | Nestlé Cycling Team | 2410 | | 6 | Yuri | Trofimov | RUS |  | Sony Ericsson | 2252 | | 7 | Taylor | Phinney | USA |  | Wikipedia | 2197 | | 8 | Aleksandr | Pluchkin | MOL |  | Team B&O | 2118 | | 9 | Frank | Schleck | LUX |  | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 2039 | | 10 | Emanuele | Sella | ITA | | Webeffect | 1821 | | 11 | Sam | Bewley | NZL |  | Milka - Vittel | 1676 | | 12 | Simone | Ponzi | ITA | | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 1600 | | 13 | Robert | Gesink | NED |  | Jack Wolfskin | 1551 | | 14 | Alberto | Contador | ESP | | Festina - Conec | 1527 | | 15 | Philippe | Gilbert | BEL | | Pendleton's Twicer | 1478 | | 16 | Justo | Tenorio | ESP | | Santander | 1407 | | 17 | Beñat | Intxausti | ESP | | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 1374 | | 18 | Stefan | Schumacher | GER |  | UBS - La Pierre | 1351 | | 19 | Sergio Luis | Henao Montoya | COL |  | Milka - Vittel | 1302 | | 20 | Simon | Spilak | SLO |  | Warner Brothers | 1225 | | 21 | Andrei | Amador | CRC |  | UBS - La Pierre | 1222 | | 22 | Edvald Boasson | Hagen | NOR |  | Team B&O | 1191 | | 23 | Thomas | Dekker | NED | | Spyker Cars | 1181 | | 24 | Filippo | Pozzato | ITA | | Festina - Conec | 1138 | | 25 | Diego | Ulissi | ITA | | Festina - Conec | 1110 | | 26 | Fabian | Cancellara | SWI |  | Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom | 1106 | | 27 | Rubén | Plaza | ESP | | Jack Wolfskin | 1069 | | 28 | Alessandro | Ballan | ITA | | Sony Ericsson | 1048 | | 29 | Tejay | Van Garderen | USA | | Wikipedia | 1044 | | 30 | Tiago | Machado | POR |  | Pearl Adidas | 1035 | | 31 | Aleksandr | Efimkin | RUS | | Milka - Vittel | 923 | | 32 | Ben | Swift | GBR |  | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 914 | | 33 | Rigoberto | Úran | COL | | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 868 | | 34 | David | Zabriskie | USA | | Pendleton's Twicer | 863 | | 35 | Domenico | Pozzovivo | ITA | | Vespa - Aprilia - De Rosa | 844 | | 36 | Andrei | Kashechkin | KAZ |  | Webeffect | 839 | | 37 | Marcus | Burghardt | GER | | Bacardi - Ignis | 817 | | 38 | Jurgen | Roelandts | BEL | | Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom | 784 | | 39 | José Angel | Gomez Marchante | ESP | | UBS - La Pierre | 780 | | 40 | Stefan | Denifl | AUT |  | Nestlé Cycling Team | 735 | | 41 | Rein | Taaramäe | EST |  | Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom | 731 | | 42 | Peter | Velits | SVK |  | Pearl Adidas | 720 | | 43 | Jaroslav | Popovych | UKR |  | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 714 | | 44 | Michael | Van Stayen | BEL | | Bacardi - Ignis | 694 | | 45 | Joaquin | Rodriguez Oliver | ESP | | Nestlé Cycling Team | 689 | | 46 | Sylvain | Chavanel | FRA |  | Jack Wolfskin | 684 | | 47 | Sébastien | Duret | FRA | | Pendleton's Twicer | 656 | | 48 | Stijn | Devolder | BEL | | Spyker Cars | 644 | | 49 | Jerome | Coppel | FRA | | Milka - Vittel | 638 | | 50 | Danny | Summerhill | USA | | Wikipedia | 638 | | 51 | Walter | Pedraza | COL | | Sony Ericsson | 628 | | 52 | Daniel | Martin | IRL |  | Pendleton's Twicer | 588 | | 53 | Gert | Steegmans | BEL | | Bacardi - Ignis | 583 | | 54 | David | Abal | ESP | | Café de Colombia | 582 | | 55 | Francisco | Ventoso | ESP | | Santander | 573 | | 56 | Patrik | Sinkewitz | GER | | Spyker Cars | 566 | | 57 | Vladimir | Karpets | RUS | | Nestlé Cycling Team | 559 | | 58 | Robin | van der Hugenhaben | NED | | Sony Ericsson | 557 | | 59 | Jérôme | Baugnies | BEL | | Webeffect | 553 | | 60 | Alejandro | Valverde | ESP | | Proximus - Trek | 545 | | 61 | Konstantin | Siutsou | BLR |  | Pendleton's Twicer | 544 | | 62 | Matthew | Goss | AUS |  | Wikipedia | 519 | | 63 | Enrico | Franzoi | ITA | | Pearl Adidas | 509 | | 64 | José | Serpa | COL | | Festina - Conec | 506 | | 65 | Raúl | Granjel Cabrera | CUB |  | Sony Ericsson | 506 | | 66 | Geert | Steurs | BEL | | Festina - Conec | 503 | | 67 | Michael | Rogers | AUS | | Café de Colombia | 498 | | 68 | Nico | Keinath | GER | | Team B&O | 495 | | 69 | Romain | Vanderbiest | FRA | | Pearl Adidas | 494 | | 70 | Markus | Fothen | GER | | Festina - Conec | 494 | | 71 | Mauricio | Ardila | COL | | Jack Wolfskin | 489 | | 72 | Jukka | Vastaranta | FIN |  | Pearl Adidas | 462 | | 73 | Sergio | Ghisalberti | ITA | | Webeffect | 461 | | 74 | Maxim | Iglinski | KAZ | | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 454 | | 75 | David | López Garcia | ESP | | Santander | 445 | | 76 | Florentino | Marquez | ESP | | UBS - La Pierre | 441 | | 77 | Timofey | Kritskiy | RUS | | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 441 | | 78 | Marcello | Pavarin | ITA | | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 433 | | 79 | Maciej | Paterski | POL |  | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 430 | | 80 | David | Arroyo | ESP | | Santander | 406 | | 81 | Stijn | Joseph | BEL | | Pearl Adidas | 403 | | 82 | Rasmus | Guldhammer | DEN |  | Team B&O | 403 | | 83 | Bernhard | Kohl | AUT | | Sony Ericsson | 401 | | 84 | Dominique | Cornu | BEL | | Jack Wolfskin | 401 | | 85 | Vladimir | Gusev | RUS | | Spyker Cars | 400 | | 86 | Petar | Panayotov | BUL |  | Pearl Adidas | 398 | | 87 | Pieter | Mertens | BEL | | Pendleton's Twicer | 383 | | 88 | Dietmar | Mehr-Wenige | GER | | Vesuvio-Accumalux | 383 | | 89 | Michael | Albasini | SWI | | UBS - La Pierre | 382 | | 90 | Martin | Reimer | GER | | Spyker Cars | 380 | | 91 | Denis | Menchov | RUS | | Pendleton's Twicer | 380 | | 92 | Tanel | Kangert | EST | | Pearl Adidas | 374 | | 93 | Vitor | Rodrigues | POR | | Webeffect | 361 | | 94 | Martijn | Keizer | NED | | Bacardi - Ignis | 357 | | 95 | Kevin | Fouquet | BEL | | Sony Ericsson | 342 | | 96 | Carlos | Barredo | ESP | | Warner Brothers | 341 | | 97 | Joost | Posthuma | NED | | Jack Wolfskin | 341 | | 98 | Jaime | Suaza | COL | | Carmeuse - Bouygues Telecom | 339 | | 99 | Dario | Cataldo | ITA | | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 339 | | 100 | Tom | Diggle | GBR | | Wiggle - San Pellegrino | 332 |
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Posted on 08-10-2012 20:54
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I'm surprised just how many point Popovych took for me. Goes to show that whilst not being the best Grand Tour rider, two top 10 finishes and a couple of other results actually does pull a few points in.
Also goes to show just how awful my sprinters did this season. 400k odd for Luke Rowe, and he scores just a handful more points than his brother. And neither scored anywhere near what I had expected. I think it'll be investment, or cutting my losses. Hard choices to make this season!
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:00
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Plenty of points scored by Chavanel. But hopefully, when negotiating for a new contract he will remember that he is just a helper and his stats are also heavily declining.
And Plaza wasn't just as good as last year. I guess that's also a reason for my failures this season.
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:01
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Congratulation to Mb and Spain 
Kinda funny, best GC riders = Best individual standings Best Hilly riders = Best team standings
Will be interesting next season though, when Bakelants is the only 84 hilly rider (bar sick training). Maybe he could win the individual standings?
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:02
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alexkr00 wrote:
Plenty of points scored by Chavanel. But hopefully, when negotiating for a new contract he will remember that he just a helper and he stats are also heavily declining.
Completely inconceivable to me. When I had him he accomplished little to nothing, and that was in the CT. I do understand a lot of his points came from his fluke-ish Fleche win (I think it was Fleche, either that or AGR, right?), but even still, it makes me thing it was more of a bad season from him, then a bad signing.
EDIT: Haha, just looked it up. He finished 46th for me, just as he did for you this year, obviously a different division though.
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:05
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Deadpool wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Plenty of points scored by Chavanel. But hopefully, when negotiating for a new contract he will remember that he just a helper and he stats are also heavily declining.
Completely inconceivable to me. When I had him he accomplished little to nothing, and that was in the CT. I do understand a lot of his points came from his fluke-ish Fleche win (I think it was Fleche, either that or AGR, right?), but even still, it makes me thing it was more of a bad season from him, then a bad signing.
Yeah, he won in Fleche.
But he had other good results as well. Top 10 in Paris Nice, while helping Gesink and also a stage win in Le Tour, where he left the other escapes at more than 6 minutes behind him.
He was a very good signing for me, especially when you consider the fact that he only had a wage of 100k.
EDIT: Yeah I guess he had a bad season while riding for you as he also had some better stats I think. Then again I think we used a different PCM while he was riding for your team so that could also count for something
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:07
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alexkr00 wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Plenty of points scored by Chavanel. But hopefully, when negotiating for a new contract he will remember that he just a helper and he stats are also heavily declining.
Completely inconceivable to me. When I had him he accomplished little to nothing, and that was in the CT. I do understand a lot of his points came from his fluke-ish Fleche win (I think it was Fleche, either that or AGR, right?), but even still, it makes me thing it was more of a bad season from him, then a bad signing.
Yeah, he won in Fleche.
But he had other good results as well. Top 10 in Paris Nice, while helping Gesink and also a stage win in Le Tour, where he left the other escapes at more than 6 minutes behind him.
He was a very good signing for me, especially when you consider the fact that he only had a wage of 100k.
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:08
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Deadpool wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
Plenty of points scored by Chavanel. But hopefully, when negotiating for a new contract he will remember that he just a helper and he stats are also heavily declining.
Completely inconceivable to me. When I had him he accomplished little to nothing, and that was in the CT. I do understand a lot of his points came from his fluke-ish Fleche win (I think it was Fleche, either that or AGR, right?), but even still, it makes me thing it was more of a bad season from him, then a bad signing.
Yeah, he won in Fleche.
But he had other good results as well. Top 10 in Paris Nice, while helping Gesink and also a stage win in Le Tour, where he left the other escapes at more than 6 minutes behind him.
He was a very good signing for me, especially when you consider the fact that he only had a wage of 100k.
I wish I still had all my old Man-Game stuff, then I could tell you how much he was on my books for. I want to say it was 200+ though.
Wage of 200k, you bought him for a 500k fee.
(Ive not deleted any ManGame file Ive had on my PC, right back to the start!)
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:12
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Wage of 200k, you bought him for a 500k fee.
(Ive not deleted any ManGame file Ive had on my PC, right back to the start!)
Well, I lost it, didn't delete it.
In the hopeful case that I get back into the game, I don't plan on buying as many riders as I have in the past. I feel like it's smarter to try and build through free agency then transfers... |
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:19
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Deadpool wrote:
SportingNonsense wrote:
Wage of 200k, you bought him for a 500k fee.
(Ive not deleted any ManGame file Ive had on my PC, right back to the start!)
Well, I lost it, didn't delete it.
In the hopeful case that I get back into the game, I don't plan on buying as many riders as I have in the past. I feel like it's smarter to try and build through free agency then transfers...
Going through this is not always cheap and valuable...Vantomme, cough cough... On the other side, Venchi bought Di Maggio for 500K I guess plus his wage of 50K (? I don´t have DB on my laptop) and he finished 2nd or 3rd IN CT 
Congratz to Madrazo and mb2612!
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:27
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I think it depends, in my opinion the best way to "build" a team is by signing talents. Not the best strategy in the short term, but long term... I hope so atleast :-p Apart from being really lucky on free agents (Boonen this year, or Bennati imo), or doing some sick trades (Di Maggio...). Other than that the only way to get "cheap" domestiques and leaders are talents.
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:34
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Heine wrote:
I think it depends, in my opinion the best way to "build" a team is by signing talents. Not the best strategy in the short term, but long term... I hope so atleast :-p Apart from being really lucky on free agents (Boonen this year, or Bennati imo), or doing some sick trades (Di Maggio...). Other than that the only way to get "cheap" domestiques and leaders are talents.
Indeed, it depends...just imagine that Santander gained -+150 points less last season, they wouldn´t be able to keep their super talents Madrazo and Tenorio in team and could still "struggle" in CT instead of shining in PT... I love this game with its unpredictibility 
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:34
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Heine wrote:
I think it depends, in my opinion the best way to "build" a team is by signing talents. Not the best strategy in the short term, but long term... I hope so atleast :-p Apart from being really lucky on free agents (Boonen this year, or Bennati imo), or doing some sick trades (Di Maggio...). Other than that the only way to get "cheap" domestiques and leaders are talents.
That's not always the case though. There are plenty of talents that receive a high wage even if they are lvl 1 experience and are mediocre riders even for the CT.
So, it's a tricky business with talents as well since you could end up paying a very high wage for a rider that will even struggle to score any points at first.
It's easier for a CT team, but it's pretty much impossible for a PT to count too much on that strategy.
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:40
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Happy with Ricco in second. He had an amazing season, and i even feel he under performed in the races after the Giro.
He was my points scorer in both stage races and hilly classics, which was an awful decision looking back at. Cobbles don't quite outweigh the amount of hilly opportunities in PT. (Still glad i got Burghardt nontheless, he'll start to shine when Boonen gradually declines).
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Posted on 08-10-2012 21:41
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I expected Madrazo to beat Cunego even with the Lombardy win.
Nevertheless, Cunego proved he's better at the Tour.
If Cafe de Colombia had been continuing, I think I would have sent Cunego to the Vuelta next year as Madrazo would have been too chicken to ride the Giro.  |
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Posted on 08-10-2012 22:15
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beagle wrote:
Heine wrote:
I think it depends, in my opinion the best way to "build" a team is by signing talents. Not the best strategy in the short term, but long term... I hope so atleast :-p Apart from being really lucky on free agents (Boonen this year, or Bennati imo), or doing some sick trades (Di Maggio...). Other than that the only way to get "cheap" domestiques and leaders are talents.
Indeed, it depends...just imagine that Santander gained -+150 points less last season, they wouldn´t be able to keep their super talents Madrazo and Tenorio in team and could still "struggle" in CT instead of shining in PT... I love this game with its unpredictibility
Yeah, well, last season I loaned Madrazo out for free hoping that the rest of my team would have enough to get promoted without him, and I was right (just).
It's paid off massively this year though, with Madrazo winning the PT. The one blot on his copybook is Cunego. So I will have to arrange a shoot out with Cunego next year to get my revenge. 
 [url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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Posted on 08-10-2012 22:17
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fenian_1234 wrote:
I expected Madrazo to beat Cunego even with the Lombardy win.
Nevertheless, Cunego proved he's better at the Tour.
If Cafe de Colombia had been continuing, I think I would have sent Cunego to the Vuelta next year as Madrazo would have been too chicken to ride the Giro.
I'm currently debating doing the Giro next year with Madrazo. I really would like to race Cunego again at the tour though.
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182] Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
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Posted on 08-10-2012 22:18
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mb2612 wrote:
fenian_1234 wrote:
I expected Madrazo to beat Cunego even with the Lombardy win.
Nevertheless, Cunego proved he's better at the Tour.
If Cafe de Colombia had been continuing, I think I would have sent Cunego to the Vuelta next year as Madrazo would have been too chicken to ride the Giro.
I'm currently debating doing the Giro next year with Madrazo. I really would like to race Cunego again at the tour though.
Yeah, both go to the Tour and Vuelta, and leave the Giro in peace .
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Posted on 08-10-2012 22:28
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Absolutely love how Sebastien Duret got more points than people with 13 times his wage. |
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Posted on 08-10-2012 22:31
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Absolutely love how Sebastien Duret got more points than people with 13 times his wage.
Agreed! Really fun to watch him perform so well. His 2 consecutive stage wins in my FBD Eire Tour were amazing to report on, certainly a rarity amongst stage hunters.
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