July is getting near, so it must be time to think about this again. Last year it all came down to being decided by 7th place in the sprint on the Champs Elysees: what can you do to make it even closer this time around?
Pick eight riders, and watch them get points, or not, for stage finishes, GC ranking, Yellow Jersey wearing, KoM and Sprint category placement, or simply for reaching Paris.
Scores will be posted after each stage (real life permitting).
Team of exactly eight riders (a change from last year, reflecting the UCI rule change) If you pick someone who is not riding, I'll replace him with the next cheapest of his team, or the next cheapest in the race if there is not one in his team. (but if you get your entry in in good time, I'll do my best to alert you to it rather than do that)
Budget Budget will be 4000 points, the same as before, so more points per rider than previously. If you are over budget, I'll take out the cheapest rider who can be replaced with a cheaper member of his team that will bring you into budget, or the next cheapest in the race if there is not one in his team (first in alphabetical order if two or more meet that definition) (but see note above about my willingness to help if you don't leave it too late).
Please send the team with names formatted as per CQ. (Surname[space]Forename and nothing else: Spanish/Portuguese names need particular care, as do accents or other diacritics) Please do not include riders' teams and prices in your PM. It makes an enormous difference to the efficiency of adding teams. If you use the dropbox spreadsheet it will be a simple copy and paste job for me.
I have lodged my team with the first person to submit a team.
Deadline
When they start pedalling in Noirmoutier, at 11:00 local time on 7 July.
Scoring
Points issued according to the points tables of CQ (column GT1). Note there are no points issued for the young rider category. As CQ seems rather unstable at present, it is also on the Team selector spreadsheet.
Entries (to be updated once a day unless real life interferes. If your name is absent 24 hours after you send in your team, get on my case)
As of 23:30 (BST) Friday 6th:About 11 hours to go
AmisVelo
Armchair_Cyclist
BicycleBoy
BikeRacer33
BluesInTheBottle
Bminchow
Carlo_Algatrensig
Comodoro
Del1962
Evans_is_the_Best
Fauniera
Googolplex
Gotland
GPBlanco
Hakkie2
JustSomeGuy
Kazistuta
Koronin
Leadbelly
LosBrolin
Mellow_Velo
Minessa
Nathanptz
NorthAmericanScum
Rote_Laterne
Ruvu75
SafeBet
Salvarani
Scrool07
Search
Shalgo
SportingNonsense
Squire
ThePirate81
Tigerion
TotalPackage
Vladimir
Yellow_Knight
Good luck to all.
(Edited for change of price data)
Edited by Armchair Cyclist on 06-07-2018 23:35
Good news: all teams bar one are now confirmed, and the final one (Sky) seems fixed according to speculation.
Bad news: CQ didn't download the update yesterday (it normally goes up late afternoon on a Monday) to establish the prices, and late last night and this morning I was getting a "SQL Server does not exist or access denied" message. If the download is not in place by 8pm (UK time) this evening, I'll use the prices as of 24th June instead (they are the prices currently on the team selection spreadsheet).
CQ recovered this morning, but still hadn't uploaded the weekly spreadsheet that we see normally see on a Monday by about 8:30 pm (BST) when it went offline again, so the game will run on the basis of the 24th June data. Good news if you want to select someone who did well in their National Championship last weekend, but probably not much price change for most riders. But please use the team selection spreadsheet to be sure you are spending within budget.
A few teams in already: I'll cobble one together to send to Comodoro (the first to submit a team) shortly.
These are the points for top ten placements on stages, and for wearing the Yellow Jersey. They cannot be lost even if the riders fails to finish the tour.
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 100pts (incl 20 for getting Yellow Jersey) 21 teams
SAGAN Peter 50 0 team
KITTEL Marcel 35 8 teams
KRISTOFF Alexander 25 0 team
LAPORTE Christophe 15 1 team
GROENEWEGEN Dylan 10 4 teams
MATTHEWS Michael 5 0 team
DEGENKOLB John 3 5 teams
FUGLSANG Jakob 2 5 teams
MAJKA Rafal 1 5 teams
1 TotalPackage 135 (Gaviria and Kittel)
2 Josedin 116 (Gaviria, Laporte and Majka)
3 Koronin, NorthAmericanScum 103 (Gaviria and Degenkolb)
5 Rote_Laterne, SemirS 102 (Gaviria and Fuglsang)
7 Other Gaviria teams 100
22 RattaKuningas 45
Yellow points
This is the main classification. It includes the green points, but also points for GC position, and the mountain and points classifications (which get points as per a stage), and 20 points for every finishing. It is best read a the standings if the race were to finish here and know: it becomes steadily more relevant as the race goes on, and can see dramatic changes after important stages.
Riders' GC positions, and so most of these points, are virtually the same as the stage, so I won't bother posting them.
So very few green points today:
1 Koronin 7
2 AG, Kazistuta, NorthAmericanScum, Postmanhat 2
Koronin has both Valverde and Degenkolb, the other 4 have Degenkolb alone.
Standings
1 TotalPackage 135
2 Josedin 116
3 Koronin 110
4 NorthAmericanScum 105
5= Rote_Laterne, SemirS 102
7= 15 other teams with Gaviria 100
Koronin and NAS were already joint third in this category yesterday.
Yellow points
So this always needs a bit of explaining for those who are new to the game on stage 2. Geraint Thomas didn't actually gain any real points today, but at the end of yesterday he was 15th in GC, so he, and the teams that selected him, were credited with 100 provisional points for GC position; now he sits in 7th, and if he is still there in Paris it will be worth 230 points. So his projected points have increased by 130.
Equally Laporte was 6th on GC (260pts) and 7th in the points classification (5 pts) yesterday, along with his 15 points (that can't be lost) for coming 5th yesterday: Josedin had 280 points from him yesterday. But now he is out of the top ten in the points classification (so zero points there), and has dropped to 57th in GC (getting the minimum 20 points that all finishers get); add in the 15 place points (green points) from yesterday and he is now only worth 35 points to poor Josedin, so he has a daily loss of 245 points.
THOMAS Geraint 130 4 teams
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro 39 1 team
JUNGELS Bob 36 3 teams
BARDET Romain 24 3 teams
ZAKARIN Ilnur 23 9 teams
CAVENDISH Mark 22 34 teams
...
DEGENKOLB John -18 5
NIBALI Vincenzo -65 2
FUGLSANG Jakob -72 5
BOUDAT Thomas -78 1
MAJKA Rafal -79 5
KITTEL Marcel -90 8
GROENEWEGEN Dylan -150 4
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando -180 21
LAPORTE Christophe -245 1
Far more riders than this gained or lost points: I only include those who were selected by at least one team for our game, and not those with a small amount of change. The threshold for that will vary each day.
There will be days like today when there are huge changes: there will be other days when most teams' scores don't change at all. And of course if the riders can have negative day scores, so can teams. And daily winners can be undeserved flukes.
Standings
Although Gaviria and Kittel lost a fair few points today, they are still among the top scoring riders in the game at the moment, and are the highest that anyone has selected, so Total Package's unique pairing of them remains at the top. Bminchow is new in the top ten as, rather more dramatically with the day's biggest jump, 17 places.
Green points
Different distribution of points for a TTT:
VAN AVERMAET Greg 40(incl Yellow Jersey points) 0 team
PORTE Richie 20 36 teams
BEVIN Patrick 20 3 teams
and CARUSO Damiano and VAN GARDEREN Tejay 20 0 team
THOMAS Geraint 12 4 teams
also BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley, FROOME Chris, KWIATKOWSKI Michal and MOSCON Gianni 12 0 team
JUNGELS Bob 8 3 teams
also ALAPHILIPPE Julian, GILBERT Philippe and LAMPAERT Yves 8 0 team
YATES Adam 6 7 teams
Also BAUER Jack, HEPBURN Michael 6 and IMPEY Daryl 6 0 team
HAGA Chad 3 2 teams
also ANDERSEN Søren Kragh, DUMOULIN Tom, GESCHKE Simon and MATTHEWS Michael 3 0 team
ROLLAND Pierre 2 27 teams
SCULLY Tom 2 2 teams
also MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe, URAN URAN Rigoberto and VANMARCKE Sep 2 0 team
MAJKA Rafal 1 5 teams
also MÃœHLBERGER Gregor, OSS Daniel and BODNAR Maciej 1 0 team
Wow: I was at the top of a list yesterday too.
1 Armchair_Cyclist 54 (Porte, Bevin, Thomas and Rolland)
2= Comodoro, Salvarani 42 (Porte, Bevin and Rolland)
4 BikeRacer33 34 (Porte,Thomas and Rolland)
5= AG, SemirS 32
7= SafeBet, Search 30
9= Mellow_Velo, Minessa, Tigerion 28
12 BluesInTheBottle 27
13 BicycleBoy 26
14 Leadbelly 25
15= LosBrolin, Del1962, Hakkie2, Josedin, LosBrolin, Squire 23
20= 10 teams with Porte and Rolland 22
32= The rest of the Porte teams 20
37 RattaKuningas 10
38 SportingNonsense 8
39 Postmanhat 6
40 AmisVelo 2
41= 29 riders got green points today, but five of us missed them all! 0
Collective_Wisdom 22
I'll normally only put up the top ten in this minor ranking, but to celebrate us all being off the mark, here are everyone's green points thus far:
1 TotalPackage 157
2 Comodoro 142
2 Salvarani 142
4 Josedin 139
5 SemirS 134
6 Search 130
7 Mellow_Velo 128
8 NorthAmericanScum 127
9 BicycleBoy 126
10 Leadbelly 125
11 Rote_Laterne 124
12 Carlo_Algatrensig 122
12 Shalgo 122
14 Axl 120
14 Bminchow 120
14 Gotland 120
17 Koronin 110
18 SportingNonsense 108
19 Evans_is_the_Best 100
19 Fauniera 100
19 Yellow_Knight 100
22 AG 72
23 Minessa 63
23 Tigerion 63
25 Kazistuta 62
26 RattaKuningas 55
26 Scrool07 55
28 Armchair_Cyclist 54
29 BikeRacer33 44
30 AmisVelo 37
31 Googolplex 32
32 SafeBet 30
33 BluesInTheBottle 28
34 Del1962 24
34 Hakkie2 24
34 JustSomeGuy 24
34 Nathanptz 24
34 Squire 24
39 LosBrolin 23
40 Laarsland 22
40 Ruvu75 22
40 Vladimir 22
43 ThePirate81 20
44 Postmanhat 13
45 GPBlanco 10
Collective_Wisdom 122
Yellow points
These are changes since the original set of results published yesterday, not the later, corrected positions.
JUNGELS Bob 168 3 teams
THOMAS Geraint 162 4 teams
PORTE Richie 110 36 teams
MAJKA Rafal 80 5 teams
YATES Adam 58 7 teams
PHINNEY Taylor 57 1 team
...
CAVENDISH Mark -37 34 teams
GROENEWEGEN Dylan -62 4 teams
DEGENKOLB John -107 5 teams
KITTEL Marcel -300 8 teams
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando -430 21 teams
Don't panic, sprinters' teams, you will get points back another day.
Standings
Scores turned around almost entirely: there are 8 teams who moved either up or down by 20 or more places, Safe Bet going 27 places in the right direction. The top 3 were respectively 2nd, 5th and 6th yesterday, but otherwise on ly one of yesterday's top ten remains(Bminchow). The 4 Geraint Thomas teams (who probably were expecting to reap the first of several yellow jersey bonuses today: I did at least) are all in the top 5, but Search, with most of his points coming from Porte, Gaviria and Jungels, is ahead of most of us.
Jungels loses 30 points purely on accumulated finishing positions, but otherwise the main negative change was Zakarin's misfortune. We see the first of our selected riders DNFing in g Domont, with the loss of 20 points. Of course, when riders move down the GC, others move up to replace them and take their projected points, so riders gain points today while not obviously havins improved their race position or placing highly today.
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 80 21 teams
GROENEWEGEN Dylan 26 4 teams
KITTEL Marcel 20 8 teams
DEGENKOLB John 18 5 teams
BARDET Romain 13 3 teams
NIBALI Vincenzo 12 2 teams
ROGLIC Primoz 12 1 team
MARTIN Daniel 11 11 teams
YATES Adam 10 7 teams
ROLLAND Pierre 10 27 teams
NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel 10 1 team
HAGA Chad 10 2 teams
...
DOMONT Axel -20 1 team
JUNGELS Bob -30 3 teams
PHINNEY Taylor -57 1 team
ZAKARIN Ilnur -71 9 teams
Semir maintains that impressive lead (courtesy of Thomas, Gaviria, Porte and Fuglsang), and the top 5 remain intact, with 4th and 5th swapping. Zakarin and Jungels based teams fall out of the top ten, leaving space for North American Scum, Mellow Velo and Salvarani, and the rise of the day is shared by the as yet unseparable teams of Evans is the Best and Yellow Knight.
Yesterday might bring slightly more change to the tables, but I suspect that the riders most likely to have a dramatic day are not selected in the game.
I haven't posted the spreadsheet yet: here it is. I probably won't post that link everyday, but that is where it will be staying.
Green points
SAGAN Peter 80 0 team
COLBRELLI Sonny 50 0 team
GILBERT Philippe 35 0 team
VAN AVERMAET Greg 25 0 team
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro 25 1 team
ALAPHILIPPE Julian 15 0 team
MARTIN Daniel 10 11 teams
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 3 0 team
PASQUALON Andrea 2 0 team
NIBALI Vincenzo 1 2 teams
Yeah, we weren't really aiming for the expensive puncheurs in our selections, were we?
Yellow points
Gilbert overtakes Thomas, lots of non-climbers slide down the table allowing those we ppicked to move up
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro 45 1 team
MARTIN Daniel 28 11 teams
ZAKARIN Ilnur 22 9 teams
MAJKA Rafal 20 5 teams
PORTE Richie 20 36 teams
FUGLSANG Jakob 20 5 teams
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 20 34 teams
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion 15 5 teams
TOLHOEK Antwan 15 2 teams
...
KISERLOVSKI Robert -20 1 team
HAGA Chad -21 2 teams
DEGENKOLB John -47 5 teams
THOMAS Geraint -60 4 teams
Today's top three all have Martin, Zakarin, Porte and Quintana: those last two are very popular picks, so help most people to have a good day.
1 Laarsland 97
2 ThePirate81 90
3 Vladimir 86
4 Hakkie2 78
4 JustSomeGuy 78
6 Del1962 71
6 Squire 71
8 Josedin 68
9 Ruvu75 67
10 SafeBet 66
11 BluesInTheBottle 64
11 Comodoro 64
11 Rote_Laterne 64
11 Shalgo 64
15 Nathanptz 63
16 Bminchow 62
17 LosBrolin 61
18 Gotland 57
19 BicycleBoy 52
20 Googolplex 51
21 Mellow_Velo 48
22 Search 47
23 SportingNonsense 46
24 Carlo_Algatrensig 43
24 Leadbelly 43
24 Minessa 43
24 Tigerion 43
28 Axl 36
29 TotalPackage 31
30 Scrool07 28
31 Salvarani 26
32 Fauniera 24
33 Evans_is_the_Best 22
33 Yellow_Knight 22
35 Postmanhat 15
36 GPBlanco 11
37 RattaKuningas 10
38 Koronin 5
39 AmisVelo 3
40 NorthAmericanScum -1
41 Armchair_Cyclist -9
41 Kazistuta -9
43 SemirS -28
44 BikeRacer33 -30
45 AG -92
Collective_Wisdom 43
Standings
Search closes the gap to the leader pretty dramatically, while Josedin overtakes most of the Geraint Thomas teams. Rote Laterne, and, rather less dramatically, Mellow Velo also move the right way among the top ten, which is joined by Comodoro and Bicycle Boy. Comodoro's 6 place jump is impressive, but beaten by Just Some Guy.
Isuspect that the riders who might have slipped tomorrow on GC might have already have slipped today, but the time gaps should be more than today, and so the possibilities for the more expensive picks to move about relative to each other are greater.
Highest GC change is at 47th place, and there are only minor changes in the minor categories, so very little to report not accounted for above.
GROENEWEGEN Dylan 95 4 teams
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 50 21 teams
LAPORTE Christophe 15 1 team
DEGENKOLB John 10 5 teams
KANGERT Tanel 2 17 teams
CAVENDISH Mark 1 34 teams
...
LATOUR Pierre -1 2 teams
MARTIN Daniel -2 11 teams
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar -2 3 teams
KITTEL Marcel -2 8 teams
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro -3 1 team
So this is basically the green points of the day with slight tweaks:
1 GPBlanco 98
2 RattaKuningas 96
3 BikeRacer33, Googolplex 94
5 Josedin 65
6 Koronin, NorthAmericanScum 58
8 Carlo_Algatrensig, Fauniera, Salvarani 53
11 Bminchow, Evans_is_the_Best, Leadbelly, Mellow_Velo, SemirS, SportingNonsense, TotalPackage, Yellow_Knight 51
19 Rote_Laterne, Search 50
21 Axl, BicycleBoy, Comodoro, Gotland, Shalgo 49
26 Postmanhat 10
27 Kazistuta 9
28 AG 8
29 Armchair_Cyclist, Hakkie2, Ruvu75 3
32 SafeBet 2
33 AmisVelo, BluesInTheBottle, Del1962, JustSomeGuy, Nathanptz, Squire 1
39 Laarsland, ThePirate81 0
41 LosBrolin, Minessa, Scrool07, Tigerion, Vladimir -1
Collective_Wisdom 53
Standings
I think the GC standings I used for the stage 6 update must have been published before Dumoulin's 20 second penalty was applied, so teams with Roglic and Nibali have a 6 point bonus in these standings not accounted for in the daily points above.
I drop a couple of places off the podium, and AG drops 5 in the top ten: Total Package and Ratta Kuningas get 6 place rises.
Stage 8 Another stately approach, except for Dan Martin, to a head-bump and a sprint.
Green points
GROENEWEGEN Dylan 80pts 4 teams
SAGAN Peter 50 0
DEGENKOLB John 35 5
KRISTOFF Alexander 25 0
VAN AVERMAET Greg 20 0
DEMARE Arnaud 15 0
BOUDAT Thomas 10 1
ARNDT Nikias 5 1
CAVENDISH Mark 3 34
LAMPAERT Yves 2 0
PASQUALON Andrea 1 0
Degenkolb has been quietly collecting minor points on several stages, and giving some value to the teams that picked him. Groenewegen might yet prove a better investment than the rather cheaper Gaviria as an expensive sprint option, especially if the latter continues to get relegated.
The drop of Alaphilippe hurts no team, but gives a sizeable GC point boost to many. Dan Martin's fall is also, more modestly, good for others, but there are some teams that pay for that. Again, there are minor changes in the other classifications that contribute to today's gains and losses.
GROENEWEGEN Dylan 100 4 teams
DEGENKOLB John 38 5 teams
JUNGELS Bob 30 3 teams
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro 28 1 team
MAJKA Rafal 20 5 teams
FUGLSANG Jakob 20 5 teams
PORTE Richie 20 36 teams
BOUDAT Thomas 11 1 team
...
PAUWELS Serge -7 2 teams
BOUET Maxime -12 1 team
MARTIN Daniel -20 11 teams
A couple of wins for Groenewegen list BikeRacer to be the closest challenger to Semir's dominance, and in the top 10 Josedin and AG head in the right direction, while Rote Laterne joins the party. Ratta Kuningas is the fastest riser (10 places) on his own today, having shared the honour yesterday.
Green points
ALAPHILIPPE Julian 80pts 0 teams
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion 50 5
VAN AVERMAET Greg 45 0
TAARAMÄE Rein 35 0
PAUWELS Serge 15 2
CALMEJANE Lilian 10 0
MARTIN Daniel 5 11
ROGLIC Primoz 3 1
GAUDU David 2 20
THOMAS Geraint 1 4
1 LosBrolin 55
2 Del1962, NorthAmericanScum 52
4 Armchair_Cyclist 51
5 Koronin 50
6 Laarsland 20
7 GPBlanco 17
8 Martin + Gaudu 7
12 Dan Martin teams 5
18 Gaudu teams 2
30 Thomas teams 1
33 The rest 0
Standings:
Gaviria and Degenkiolb got Koronin and NAS to the top of the table: they also share Izagirre to extend their lead.
1 Koronin 482
2 NorthAmericanScum 437
3 Comodoro 371
4 BicycleBoy 365
5 Googolplex 364
6 Bminchow 356
7 Leadbelly 354
8 Gotland 351
8 Shalgo 351
10 TotalPackage 308
Yellow points
No real progress for anyone, but as Gilbert, Kragh Andersen etc drop, others gain points. There were real losses, however, for Jungels and Majka.
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro 90 1 team
FUGLSANG Jakob 90 5 teams
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion 77 5 teams
PAUWELS Serge 76 2 teams
YATES Adam 50 7 teams
NIBALI Vincenzo 50 2 teams
ROGLIC Primoz 43 1 team
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 36 11 teams
LATOUR Pierre 27 2 teams
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 27 34 teams
GAUDU David 22 20 teams
BARDET Romain 22 3 teams
MARTIN Daniel 17 11 teams
GESINK Robert 10 3 teams
...
BOUDAT Thomas -17 1 team
ROLLAND Pierre -26 27 teams
JUNGELS Bob -30 3 teams
MAJKA Rafal -140 5 teams
We now have 2 front-runners rather than one, but with very different tactics, while Search moves onto the podium behind them. Postmanhat and NAS were in the first two places outside the top ten, know they are in it. GPBlanco's jump of 14 places is the best of the day.
Today it was Majka and Jungels: who will lose time and position on tomorrow's first summit finish. Or might somebody actually move forwards other than by default?
THOMAS Geraint 100pts 4 teams
DUMOULIN Tom 50 0
FROOME Chris 35 0
CARUSO Damiano 25 0
NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel 15 1
MARTIN Daniel 10 11
HERRADA LOPEZ Jesus 5 0
BARDET Romain 3 3
NIBALI Vincenzo 2 2
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 1 34
Standings
1 Koronin 482
2 NorthAmericanScum 437
3 Comodoro 382
4 BicycleBoy 375
5 Googolplex 374
6 SemirS 371
7 Bminchow 366
8 Leadbelly 365
9 Gotland 362
9 Shalgo 362
Semir is the only Thomas team to barge into the ten: all the others bar the top 2 at least have Dan Martin.
Yellow points
So those who look like they will be top ten at the end of the race get themselves into the serious GC positions, and those who won't vacate those positions with a big loss of points.
Cavendish and Kittel represent a modestly expensive loss of any future points for a large number of teams, and an significantly priced loss for a smaller group respectively.
THOMAS Geraint 250 pts 4 teams
NIBALI Vincenzo 142 2
ROGLIC Primoz 130 1
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 130 11
BARDET Romain 93 3
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 87 34
MARTIN Daniel 82 11
NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel 62 1
ZAKARIN Ilnur 38 9
...
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion -19 5
KITTEL Marcel -20 8
CAVENDISH Mark -20 34
RENSHAW Mark -20 2
MAJKA Rafal -55 5
YATES Adam -136 7
FUGLSANG Jakob -190 5
JUNGELS Bob -190 3
VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro -240 1
There will be significant changes to follow, but probably no day with as big a range of daily changes as today.
So much for my suggestion yesterday that Koronin had joined Semir in a breakaway pair: he dropped 16 places today.
The 4 Thomas teams occupy the 4 top places, with those of us in 2nd to 4th having risen by 6,2 and 8 places respectively; GPBlanco, Fauniera and Carlo Algatrensig follow AG into the top ten with even bigger jumps, but they are all in the shade of 20 place jumps for Los Brolin and Ruvu75.
Geraint Thomas teams now in 2nd, 4th and 5th, probably with a few more yellow jersey bonuses to come, but Degenkolb (AG, Koronin, NAS and 2 other teams) is about as good a sprinter as anyone still in the game (Laporte and Arndt are on one team each, Guarnieri (if we have really looking that far down the list of sprinters) is on 6)
Yellow points
After the huge shake-up yesterday, there wasn't much left to filter today, but a couple of notable position swaps and the downward drift of Caruso, Yates, Pozzovivo and Pauwels gift some points. Otherwise non-finishing sprinters losing their putative green jersey and finisher points are the main impact of the day.
THOMAS Geraint 125pts 4 teams
BARDET Romain 95 3
ROLLAND Pierre 27 27
GAUDU David 26 20
KANGERT Tanel 23 17
LATOUR Pierre 22 2
DEGENKOLB John 20 5
GESINK Robert 20 3
JUNGELS Bob 20 3
FUGLSANG Jakob 13 5
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion 12 5
ROGLIC Primoz 10 1
...
ZAKARIN Ilnur -10 9
MOINARD Amaël -13 2
YATES Adam -29 7
PAUWELS Serge -31 2
GROENEWEGEN Dylan -55 4
KRUIJSWIJK Steven -57 11
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando -70 21
Standings
Well, I though someone might dislodge Semir eventually, but I didn't expect that...
The Thomas teams pull out a bit of a gap on the rest of the field, but Froome may have it in him to remove 150 points from their tallies when SDB gives the command. Evans is the Best and Laarsland appear in the top ten, EitB with the daily best 12 place hop.
Stage 13 Out of the Alps, a sprint with few sprinters left
Green points
The popular sprinters are no longer in the race, but Degenkolb continues to be reliable.
SAGAN Peter 80 0
KRISTOFF Alexander 50 0
DEMARE Arnaud 35 0
DEGENKOLB John 25 5
THOMAS Geraint 20 4
VAN AVERMAET Greg 15 0
LAMPAERT Yves 10 0
CORT NIELSEN Magnus 5 0
PASQUALON Andrea 3 0
COLBRELLI Sonny 2 0
PHINNEY Taylor 1 1
1 AG 45
2 Koronin 26
3 Kazistuta, NorthAmericanScum, Postmanhat 25
6 Armchair_Cyclist, BikeRacer33, SemirS 20
that's it
AG, Postmanhat and Koronin, who are by some distance the lowest three on in the popularity rankings, all feature today (and have done throughout the race)
Yellow points
Other than everyone bar Thomas, Froome and Dumoulin moving up one due to Nibali's DNF, the highest GC change is in 23rd.
BARDET Romain 30pts 3 teams
ROGLIC Primoz 30 1
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 30 11
DEGENKOLB John 25 5
THOMAS Geraint 20 4
FUGLSANG Jakob 20 5
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 20 34
MARTIN Daniel 19 11
JUNGELS Bob 10 3
NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel 10 1
ZAKARIN Ilnur 10 9
...
NIBALI Vincenzo -320 2 teams
See those 2 at the bottom, the only Nibali teams? They were first and second overall in this game last year: how the mighty have fallen.
Standings
Poor Fauniera and Amis Velo lost 33 and 20 places respectively.
AG bumps BikeRacer33 off the podium, Los Brolin gets in the top ten, and Ruvu75 is the 7-position jumper of the day.
KRISTOFF Alexander 80 0
DEGENKOLB John 50 5
DEMARE Arnaud 35 0
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald 25 0
LAPORTE Christophe 15 1
RICHEZE ARAQUISTAIN Maximiliano Ariel 10 0
COLBRELLI Sonny 5 0
SAGAN Peter 3 0
PASQUALON Andrea 2 0
DE BUYST Jasper 1 0
No yellow jersey points on the final stage.
Degenkolb gives AG a last minute lift up into 2nd in the minor competition, and consolidates NAS as the best of the rest.
1 BikeRacer33 796
2 AG 788
3 SemirS 754
4 Armchair_Cyclist 724
5 NorthAmericanScum 660
6 Koronin 615
7 Comodoro 539
8 Leadbelly 522
9 Gotland 519
9 Shalgo 519
11 BicycleBoy 485
12 Bminchow 450
12 Googolplex 450
14 Axl 440
15 LosBrolin 403
16 Evans_is_the_Best 402
17 Salvarani 400
18 TotalPackage 391
18 Yellow_Knight 391
20 Mellow_Velo 390
21 Kazistuta 387
22 Josedin 384
23 SportingNonsense 379
24 Search 371
25 RattaKuningas 357
26 Carlo_Algatrensig 352
26 Postmanhat 352
28 Rote_Laterne 342
29 Fauniera 325
30 Laarsland 307
31 GPBlanco 302
32 Vladimir 298
33 ThePirate81 290
34 Del1962 246
35 Minessa 212
36 Tigerion 210
37 Squire 204
38 BluesInTheBottle 195
39 Scrool07 182
40 Hakkie2 153
41 AmisVelo 149
42 Ruvu75 144
43 SafeBet 135
44 Nathanptz 127
45 JustSomeGuy 123
Collective_Wisdom 354
Unlike in the real green jersey competition, all stages score equally, and yellow jersey wearer points are also included in these guaranteed CQ points, as are some points from the TTT.
Of these, green competition winner BikeRacer33 has Thomas, Groenewegen and Fraile;
AG has Thomas, Degenkolb and Kittel;
SemirS has Thomas and Gaviria;
Armchair Cyclist has Thomas, Izagirre and Quintana;
and among the best without Thomas:
NAS has Gaviria, Degenkolb, Izagirre and Fraile
Koronin has Gaviria, Degenkolb, Izagirre and Valverde
Comodoro has Gaviria, D Martin and Quintana
(all those Izagirres refer to Ion, Gorka was unchosen)
The team with the biggest sprinter spend, Total Package (Gaviria, Kittel and Cavendish), ended up 18th in this classification.
