Atlantius wrote:
That doesn't stop Marcovdw from taking a superior win over all though with a total of 41 pts against SSJ2Luigi and Jesleyh's 29 pts on the shared 2nd place.

Chosen by the Jury of the Ultimate Grand Tour (aka me).

Kern gets the reward for being a constant attacker over all three Grand Tours even holding the mountain jersey for a couple of days. Kern attacked in all kinds of terrain no matter how unlikely the break seemed to succeed. A few times he helped the break last to the end, but never got the stage win he fought for.

The fact that he's finishing 20th in the points competition (9th in the Tour) and 5th on the mountain classification goes to show just how much time he spent out in front.

The Combination Jersey goes to the most consistent rider on the three major classifications. It is calculated by summing the individual positions resulting in one number.

Vincenzo Nibali wins it with 5 pts ahead of Contador with 6 pts.

Not surprisingly Mark Cavendish ended up as the rider with the most stage wins. As many as Greipel, Degenkolb, Sagan and Kittel share between them. OK Kittel didn't even get one win but nonetheless an impressive show of dominance!
And then people might not be so surprised to see Cancellara clocking in 6 wins as well. It is quite surprising though that only one of them came from a time trial. Still he shows in the 2007 Tour's stage 3 that this kind of attacks are not that surprising from Spartacus.

Naturally the efforts from Cancellara and Cavendish makes their teams take the top positions for the teams, but on 3rd place we have the most impressing effort: Movistar proves to be the team with the most depth with 6 wins from 4 riders and a Team Time Trial.

In terms of Nationalities it's not surprising to see Britain, Spain and Italy. Belgium will be thrilled with 6 wins and the Netherlands should be happy with two wins after some bad years in GT's. The only nation with any real reason to not be reasonably satisfied has to be France. 1 win is just not good enough!

7 stages ended up with the same winner as in real life. 1 in the Giro. 2 in the Vuelta and 4 in the Tour.

13 days went by without one of the GC-favourites in the lead. From then Nibali took full advantage of his home ground to build a solid lead before leaving Italy. Then the GC lead gave him the advantage of always being placed near the front of the peloton thus not losing any time to wind or crashes while having the jersey.
In many ways this was the foundation of the Italians success along with a nose for grabbing the occasional half minute when his opponents where unaware.
The Tour was fairly close even though the gap got smaller. But then came Spain...

Contador made just as good use of his home GT as Nibali did of his and when Nibbles lost the jersey he lost his luck as well and crashed out of the battle for 1st place.

Froome was perhaps the most consistent of the top GC riders placing 3rd in every single Grand Tour...

In spite of only three riders actually wearing the jersey this was perhaps one of the most exciting battles.
Nibali held it after the Giro, Sagan took the most points in the Tour and Contador was the strongest in the Vuelta. Nevertheless it was Cavendish who most of the time was closest to snatching at away from Nibbles and it really was only in the final 2 stages that the competition was closed.

Another jersey held by Nibali after the Giro and then slowly taken away by Contador. The biggest surprise here has to be the fact that Italian veteran Ivan Basso was named the best Climber in the Tour.

This one became much less exciting than expected. Van Garderen pretty much got his chances destroyed by being forced to work for Evans even though the seasoned Australian looked the weakest of the two most of the Giro. Guess that's pretty much like in real life then.
Pinot took full advantage and grabbed a solid lead in the Giro. Solid enough that nothing really changed when Van Garderen was the fastest young rider in France only to throw it all away again in Spain, where Quintana suddenly emerged as the 2nd best young rider after Pinot.

In many was symptomatic for French cycling in recent years that Pinot was the strongest away from home...

This one was actually quite exciting - until Wiggins cracked and lost his podium chances and Sky Wiggins decided to send guys in breakaways thus both doing decently in the mountain stages and gaining time almost every time a breakaway held to the finish.

With Nibali dominating the Giro and Contador dominating the Vuelta it seems that the home-country-bonus is fairly important in PCM11. At least when it comes to the top riders.

And then this is the time where it becomes unreasonably easy to assess the predictions of the stat-makers. This DB has stats made for 2013, but the results are not that similar to the real world of cycling in 2013.

Contador has disappointed massively IRL compared to his stats, while both Kittel, Quintana and Sagan saw their big breakthroughs.

Atlantius wrote: