LLDS wrote:
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I've been a bit quiet lately, but I've also been leading this league for three days in a row now. It's been going pretty well so far, I hope that doesn't change.
Lord Di Lego wrote:
I've been a bit quiet lately, but I've also been leading this league for three days in a row now. It's been going pretty well so far, I hope that doesn't change.
Congrats man, nicely done! I should've picked Sagan but yeah... Also Mezgec did fuck all for me.
Lord Di Lego wrote:
I've been a bit quiet lately, but I've also been leading this league for three days in a row now. It's been going pretty well so far, I hope that doesn't change.
Congrats man, nicely done! I should've picked Sagan but yeah... Also Mezgec did fuck all for me.
Thanks, you too, but I think you were a bit too early. Today's update was really late. Unfortunately for me, I lost the lead in our league right at the end, and just by 32p. Still a nice 2nd place for me, not too bad. Now my result streak from our last few leagues is 4-1-2-4-2.
Yet again, just like in TDU, it was Alakagom who spoiled my fun.
Alakagom, seriously, this needs to stop. This letting me lead the league for most of the race just to snipe it away from me right at the end is just trolling, and you know it!
No, but seriously now, you once again deserve my congratulations. It's annoying, but I did pretty good in TDU and I did very good here, with my overall 24th position across Velogames. Still you managed to beat me both times, this time achieving an overall 21st place. Not bad, not bad at all.
Analyzing our teams, it's difficult for me to take any real lesson away though. Just looking at the profiles and without knowing what would happen in the sprint stages, I still find my team better balanced. But then again, unpredictable scenarios like the sprinter dilemma in this race can happen and this time they did happen. Either way, the results don't lie...
Basically, the difference is I had 3 sprinters - Sagan, Viviani and Modolo - while Alakagom had only one, the relativly cheap Pelucchi. Normally I should have gotten a massive advantage in those 2/3 stages, but because of circumstances, only Sagan was of any use, the other two were dead weight. Modolo and Pelluchi cancel each other out and my Viviani and Alakagom's Sergent as well. Unfortunately for me, Alakagom exchanged Sagan for Quintana, who earned more points. Even though my Pinot slightly edged his Pozzovivo out, thanks to Quintana, he beat me in just the EOT-round by a whopping 295p.
Anyway, congratz as well to Xavier Cantegreil for taking the last podium spot in the league, about 500p behind Alakagom and me, but well ahead of the rest.
Finished pretty high despite picking Betancur for pure hilarity. Hope they do Velogames classics like in previous years (MSR-DdV-E3-GW-RvV-PR-BP-AGR-FW-LBL)
Anyway, congratz as well to Xavier Cantegreil for taking the last podium spot in the league, about 500p behind Alakagom and me, but well ahead of the rest.
Thank you very much!! I'm pleased with my efforts on Paris-Nice (top 10) and the Tirreno after a very poor effort in the Tour Down Under fantasy game.
As soon as I heard about the Team TT being removed, I completely changed my team and had 3 TT specialists (Cancellara, Malori and Castroviejo). I placed 5 riders in the top 10 in both TT (including 1 and 2)
My choices of sprinters cost me though. I had Cavendish and Mezgec who only scored 22 points between them.
Lord Di Lego wrote:
Thanks, you too, but I think you were a bit too early. Today's update was really late. Unfortunately for me, I lost the lead in our league right at the end, and just by 32p. Still a nice 2nd place for me, not too bad. Now my result streak from our last few leagues is 4-1-2-4-2.
Yet again, just like in TDU, it was Alakagom who spoiled my fun.
Alakagom, seriously, this needs to stop. This letting me lead the league for most of the race just to snipe it away from me right at the end is just trolling, and you know it!
No, but seriously now, you once again deserve my congratulations. It's annoying, but I did pretty good in TDU and I did very good here, with my overall 24th position across Velogames. Still you managed to beat me both times, this time achieving an overall 21st place. Not bad, not bad at all.
Analyzing our teams, it's difficult for me to take any real lesson away though. Just looking at the profiles and without knowing what would happen in the sprint stages, I still find my team better balanced. But then again, unpredictable scenarios like the sprinter dilemma in this race can happen and this time they did happen. Either way, the results don't lie...
Basically, the difference is I had 3 sprinters - Sagan, Viviani and Modolo - while Alakagom had only one, the relativly cheap Pelucchi. Normally I should have gotten a massive advantage in those 2/3 stages, but because of circumstances, only Sagan was of any use, the other two were dead weight. Modolo and Pelluchi cancel each other out and my Viviani and Alakagom's Sergent as well. Unfortunately for me, Alakagom exchanged Sagan for Quintana, who earned more points. Even though my Pinot slightly edged his Pozzovivo out, thanks to Quintana, he beat me in just the EOT-round by a whopping 295p.
Anyway, congratz as well to Xavier Cantegreil for taking the last podium spot in the league, about 500p behind Alakagom and me, but well ahead of the rest.
I am sorry mate, can't believe this happened again
To be honest, I am quite surprised, I expected to take lead in last day of TdU but here I was resigned for worthy 2nd place, Sagan winning yesterday, then making the cut on final day after first reports he missed it and Pinot doing extremely well in comparison directly to Pozzovivo on last day, I thought was going get you across the line, seemingly not though
I am bit gutted myself, till the last day I had GVA in the team, but someone mentioned Sergent and I swapped seeing 2 TT's, if I looked at PCS before doing that I am sure I wouldn't have picked Sergent here, but not sure I would stay with GVA either though. But anything would have been better than Sergent... At least though even with GVA there I'd come 2nd overall in the game..so that's okay..only winning it would been really annoying.
About the sprinters, you were very unlucky. If not Cav Viviani would have scored some points at least. My theory on the course as a whole was that I seen only one guaranteed sprint. Stage 2. So I purely disregarded the higher value sprinters with only Pelucchi as the cheap option, and he was very unlucky with that nasty crash. Stage 3 considering how it was raced last year was never going be a bunch sprint and stage 6, well after MTF I thought break had a good chance there..it panned out slightly differently though at the end. This lead me to favour the 5 GC riders approach with only 1 sprinter in the team.
About your team, well it was very good, no real flaws and unlucky with how stage 2 went. Superb pick with Pinot, I didn't even consider him would have been too risky in my eyes, so fair play.
Till next time, hopefully ending in same scenario as Austrlia and here
Alakagom wrote:
I am sorry mate, can't believe this happened again
To be honest, I am quite surprised, I expected to take lead in last day of TdU but here I was resigned for worthy 2nd place, Sagan winning yesterday, then making the cut on final day after first reports he missed it and Pinot doing extremely well in comparison directly to Pozzovivo on last day, I thought was going get you across the line, seemingly not though
I am bit gutted myself, till the last day I had GVA in the team, but someone mentioned Sergent and I swapped seeing 2 TT's, if I looked at PCS before doing that I am sure I wouldn't have picked Sergent here, but not sure I would stay with GVA either though. But anything would have been better than Sergent... At least though even with GVA there I'd come 2nd overall in the game..so that's okay..only winning it would been really annoying.
About the sprinters, you were very unlucky. If not Cav Viviani would have scored some points at least. My theory on the course as a whole was that I seen only one guaranteed sprint. Stage 2. So I purely disregarded the higher value sprinters with only Pelucchi as the cheap option, and he was very unlucky with that nasty crash. Stage 3 considering how it was raced last year was never going be a bunch sprint and stage 6, well after MTF I thought break had a good chance there..it panned out slightly differently though at the end. This lead me to favour the 5 GC riders approach with only 1 sprinter in the team.
About your team, well it was very good, no real flaws and unlucky with how stage 2 went. Superb pick with Pinot, I didn't even consider him would have been too risky in my eyes, so fair play.
Till next time, hopefully ending in same scenario as Austrlia and here
Well, with how it turned out, the way you structured your team was ingenious at the end of the day, that's for sure. I wish I had that foresight.
I actually realized you were a serious threat as soon as I looked closer at your team, after the MTF. However, after Sagan's win, I thought there's still a possibility of winning. Too bad it didn't work out.
I actually considered Pinot a fairly simple pick. He had been in good condition and he seems to have matured a lot lately. Last year he even improved his TT-skills greatly.
Sagan, on the other hand, was driving me insane. On stage 6 he got Modolo dropped and I was swearing at him. He ended up winning, but I think both of them could've done good, which would have given me more of a margin against you. Then, in the final TT, he was almost OTL - which would cost me the final PC-points - and again I was swearing at him, until it was confirmed that he made the cut. He can be really irritating sometimes.
In hindsight it wasn't the best choice...
