As Ollfardh’s Classics Fantasy Game is coming to and end, I thought it would be nice to have a GT prediction game as well. Might do it at the Tour if it turns out to be fun during the upcoming Giro d’Italia.
In this game, you can make a top-10 prediction (once) for the GC, the KoM-jersey, the points jersey and the U25 jersey. Obviously before the Giro itself starts. Apart from that you give ten names per stage as well, before that particular stage starts. You can send a new list every day, you can send a list for the upcoming three stages, you can already give a list of all stages now (and edit later), it doesn’t matter. Just make sure you have a list of a stage posted sometime before that stage if you want to score points in that stage.
The thing is, I don’t expect you to give the exact top-10 in that order, but just the ten riders that you think will finish in the top-10. How does the scoring work? Well, for example, this is what the top-10 in a stage will score: 1 – 100p, 2 – 90p, 3- 80p, etc. until 10 – 10p.
So let’s say Van Aert wins a stage, and 5 out of 10 people in this game had him in his top 10, those 100 points are divided between five managers. That gives five managers 20 points. If, on the other hand, Roglic is second in that stage, and only one manager selects him for that stage, that team scores 90 points. The same system for GC and other classifications. Important note about the scoring: you must score a full point to earn it. For example: if 6 managers score 11,8 points each for a rider during a stage/classification, they earn 11 points in the ranking.
Some extra point-scoring questions allow you to score as well, as they give you 25 points per question. These point are not shared with anyone. Apart from that you can also appoint a team captain before the start of the Giro. The points that rider scores for your team will be multiplied by 1.5 at the end of the race.
Captain: 1.5x the points you scored with that rider at end of Giro.
Bonus questions:
1) What team will have the most stage wins?
2) What rider will be part of the first breakaway of the Giro? (simply a breakaway attempt will not count, must be ‘long’ enough)
3) What rider will lead the U25 classification during the second rest day (after stage 9)?
4) What team will win the team’s classification?
5) On which stage will there be the biggest time gap between the first and second place finishers?
6) What rider will win back-to-back stages? (Write no rider or sth if you think it won’t happen)
7) How many stages will be won by an Italian rider?
8) Will the final Giro podium (Top 3 overall) include a rider who has never before podiumed at a Grand Tour? Yes or no.
9) Will there be a stage where the peloton finishes more than 12 minutes behind the breakaway winner? Yes or no.
10) Will someone get Zabel’d for any stage victory? Yes or no.
Let's find out if there are some people interested to join Edited by Nemolito on 09-05-2025 08:48
Nice to see that we're with seven already (including myself)! Others are free to join still of course. I'm also slightly changing a bonus question, as with Tarling in the race it might be a liiiitle bit too easy to predict who will wear the white jersey after the stage 2 ITT
Reminder the deadline for GC's/captain/questions is tomorrow before the start of the giro, which starts tomorrow and not on Saturday
My captain: Tiberi
Bonus questions:
1) What team will have the most stage wins? - Visma
2) What rider will be part of the first breakaway of the Giro? (simply a breakaway attempt will not count, must be ‘long’ enough) - Fiorelli
3) What rider will lead the U25 classification during the first rest day? - Ayuso
4) What team will win the team’s classification? - UAE
5) On which stage will there be the biggest time gap between the first and second place finishers? - 19
6) What rider will win back-to-back stages? (Write no rider or sth if you think it won’t happen) - nobody
7) How many stages will be won by an Italian rider? - 4
8) Will the final Giro podium (Top 3 overall) include a rider who has never before podiumed at a Grand Tour? Yes or no. - Yes
9) Will there be a stage where the peloton finishes more than 12 minutes behind the breakaway winner? Yes or no. - No
10) Will someone get Zabel’d for any stage victory? Yes or no. - No
Bonus questions:
1) What team will have the most stage wins? Team Visma | Lease a Bike
2) What rider will be part of the first breakaway of the Giro? (simply a breakaway attempt will not count, must be ‘long’ enough) Zana
3) What rider will lead the U25 classification during the first rest day? Tiberi
4) What team will win the team’s classification? UAE Team Emirates-XRG
5) On which stage will there be the biggest time gap between the first and second place finishers? 16
6) What rider will win back-to-back stages? (Write no rider or sth if you think it won’t happen) Van Aert
7) How many stages will be won by an Italian rider? 2
8) Will the final Giro podium (Top 3 overall) include a rider who has never before podiumed at a Grand Tour? Yes or no. No
9) Will there be a stage where the peloton finishes more than 12 minutes behind the breakaway winner? Yes or no. No
10) Will someone get Zabel’d for any stage victory? Yes or no. No
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On phone now, but the bonus question about u25 will be changed to second rest day, which is after stage 9. Didn't realize there was a rest day after 3 days in Albania
U25:
Tiberi, Pellizzari, Aysuo, Del Toro, Poole, Arrieta, Frigo, Steinhauser, Piganzoli, Brenner.
Captain: Tiberi.
Stage 1:
Kooij, Van Aert, Groves, Del Toro, Pedersen, Pidcock, Roglic, Aular, Magnier, Strong
Bonus Questions:
1) What team will have the most stage wins? Visma
2) What rider will be part of the first breakaway of the Giro? Fiorelli
3) What rider will lead the U25 classification during the second rest day (after stage 9) Tiberi
4) What team will win the team’s classification? RedBull
5) On which stage will there be the biggest time gap between the first and second place finishers? Stage 10
6) What rider will win back-to-back stages? None
7) How many stages will be won by an Italian rider? 3
8) Will the final Giro podium (Top 3 overall) include a rider who has never before podiumed at a Grand Tour? No
9) Will there be a stage where the peloton finishes more than 12 minutes behind the breakaway winner? No
10) Will someone get Zabel’d for any stage victory? No
Edited by alexkr00 on 08-05-2025 17:49
Bonus questions:
1) What team will have the most stage wins? - Visma
2) What rider will be part of the first breakaway of the Giro? (simply a breakaway attempt will not count, must be ‘long’ enough) - Zana
3) What rider will lead the U25 classification during the first rest day? - Ayuso
4) What team will win the team’s classification? - UAE
5) On which stage will there be the biggest time gap between the first and second place finishers? - 16
6) What rider will win back-to-back stages? (Write no rider or sth if you think it won’t happen) - Roglic
7) How many stages will be won by an Italian rider? - 2
8) Will the final Giro podium (Top 3 overall) include a rider who has never before podiumed at a Grand Tour? Yes or no. - Yes
9) Will there be a stage where the peloton finishes more than 12 minutes behind the breakaway winner? Yes or no. - Yes
10) Will someone get Zabel’d for any stage victory? Yes or no. - No
