· Total Members: 54,980 · Newest Member: hisokamanager
Fantasy Tour de France: Update
As some of you may have noticed, SportingNonsense has gone on vacation, leaving this stuff to a guy who's in no way an Excel-wizz - me. That said, we'll hopefully get through this, and so far, it seems like I've managed to update the rankings from the Rest Day until and including today's stage.
I won't go in the same detail as SportingNonsense did, at least not today, but in short: Andy Schleck did a reasonable time trial, and that combined with with his points in all other classifications meant that he was today's top scoring rider with Contador right after him. Nibali is third, Klöden fourth and surprisingly, Roche takes fifth.
More importantly, there's the Team Rankings. I'd just like to point out that this is provisional - I have to go through and check for some problems that I have undoubtely made, but overall, the rankings are probably correct, it's just a matter of a few points here and there.
In the top, it's still Eoin leading with jack888 second. SportingNonsense isn't home to see his team rising to 3rd with trueatfirstlight staying at his 4th spot and former 1st place holder Kami 5th.
Here are a couple of Fantasy Tour de France stats to go with today's rest day.
Currently, the leading team has 15130 pts. But had you selected the perfect lineup (so far), you would be on 18,502. The current 'perfect' team is as follows:
MARTIN Tony
Columbia
2503
KLÖDEN Andreas
Astana
2237
CONTADOR Alberto
Astana
2215
SCHLECK Andy
Saxo Bank
2011
KREUZIGER Roman
Liquigas
1978
WIGGINS Bradley
Garmin
1977
HINCAPIE George
Columbia
1892
ROCHE Nicolas
Ag2r
1855
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
Ag2r
1834
Note that these are not the 9 top scoring riders. Nocentini (11th) is included rather than Nibali (7th) in order to fit under the 100 point limit.
But who is currently the most efficient rider - earning the most pts in comparison to their cost. Well, its Christophe Riblon - just ahead of teammate and former race leader Rinaldo Nocentini.
Rider
Team
Pts
Cost
Pts/cost
RIBLON Christophe
Ag2r
1118
2
559
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
Ag2r
1834
4
458.5
ROY Jérémy
FDJeux
770
2
385
DUMOULIN Samuel
Cofidis
764
2
382
HINCAPIE George
Columbia
1892
5
378.4
MONDORY Lloyd
Ag2r
1060
3
353.3333333
OROZ Juanjo
Euskaltel
700
2
350
AUGÉ Stéphane
Cofidis
694
2
347
VANOTTI Alessandro
Liquigas
341
1
341
BOUET Maxime
Agritubel
988
3
329.3333333
FROEHLINGER Johannes
Milram
988
3
329.3333333
Read the extended article for the Pts/cost table for all riders.
It should come as no surprise that Alberto Contador topscored today - but only by 3 pts over Andy Schleck. Kloden 3rd, Wiggins 4th and Brice Feillu still going strong in 5th.
EDTeam are the leaders, but Malvern Star Test Team close in by nearly 100 pts as they move up into 2nd place. LDF - Velingnews.com are also going well, breaking into the Top 5.
On the 8th of July, Hannes68, the guy behind Hannes Editor for PCM08 and Hannes Converter for PCM07 and PCM08, announced that he'd not update his editors to work with PCM09, simply due to lack of motivation - saying that when he came home from his programming job, he'd rather not do more programming.
But luckily for everyone, 8 days later, he's changed his mind and released Hannes Editor and Hannes Converter for PCM09. For the news one around here, Hannes Editor is an easy-to-use editor to change a lot of the basic stuff such as rider names, stats, team names, shirts, and a lot more. It also has several save game options, such as changing budgets. And I'd also say that it's even easier to work with than Cyanides standard DB Editor.
Hannes Converter is kinda like the Advanced Editor. It can edit all tables of the database, but unlike the Advanced Editor, you can also choose to only load one specific table. This makes it very useful when making small changes and fixes, especially when it comes to save games which the Advanced Editor has some problems dealing with.
George Hincapie may have missed yellow, but he is the day top's scorer. He does so ahead of Brice Feillu, Andreas Kloden and Nicholas Roche.
EDTeam are building up a dangerously strong advantage as far as the other teams will be concerned - the lead is up to 766 pts over Team We shall Fail!, the new 2nd place team. However, Malvern Star Test Team are up to 3rd and scored 77 more pts than EDTeam in this stage. There are 2 big movers in the top 10 as Team Matt493 fall 3 spots to 5 and LDF-Velingnews.com rise 3 spots to 7. Lagetcher's Team Pathetic are the biggest gainers of all teams, as they have increased their position by 7 places.
