VDS Updates!

by Chris... on Jun 16, 2008 7:19 PM EDT in Virtual Directeur Sportif!

The new post-Dauphine standings are in, with little change. Congrats to Herman for sneaking back onto the podium, for now, and to Jered for his continued excellence in lucky fake-bike team decisionmaking. One thing about picking a Tour de France contender for your team is knowing that they can also score some easy points in June while they tune their form... as all four Valverde owners know. Whether this is enough to propel the likes of Crevaison and Pigilito up the standings remains to be seen.

Full year-long and Dauphine-only spreadsheets at the links in the left sidebar.

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Top 10:
1 The Bike Game DS: Jered 6455
2 Team North Road DS: Rothko 6169
3 The Saint DS: Herman Boer 6068
4 Team Davis Wheelworks DS: Bruno 5884
5 Pigs on Wheels DS: John 5747
6 Slipshod Hauenstein DS: Dean M 5662
7 Lactic Euphoria DS: McLovin 5602
8 Fromagerie Duval DS: Anatole 5568
9 Dreaming of Cobbles DS: Cyclingfan 5551
10 Down Road Team DS: King of Doping 5535

Bottom 5:
118 Dark Horse Kevin Kimmich 2299
119 Hit You W/The Real Thing DS: Ruthann 2280
120 Zabriskie’s Mustache Ride DS: Megan 2209
121 The 29 Team ER1C612 2192
122 Fernwood/Piuma DS: 2+2=5 1586

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Jun 16, 2008 7:29 PM EDT 0 recs

Nikki, my buddy, will you PLEASE

stop posting the Bottom 5 as long as I’m down there? I finished, like, in 18th place (from the TOP) in last year’s year-long VDS, and my smug sense of pride is crushed every time I see it. I mean, there were, what, 81 teams in contention last year? Oh, how the mighty have fallen! :-)

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. -Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'

by Ruthann on Jun 16, 2008 10:19 PM EDT up 0 recs

I'm so sorry dear...

Someone in an earlier thread had asked for it. I can stop. I can. I really can….

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Jun 16, 2008 10:25 PM EDT up 0 recs

Motoescapism has moved up seven spots from 88th to 81st...

Provided this VDS season extends to … uh… 2012 I might actually be getting somewhere! Still with the 7 fat donut-holes on my roster though. Blech!

When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?

by crashdan on Jun 16, 2008 8:45 PM EDT 0 recs

Roll call for your worst VDS pick

Mine was counting on Andy Schleck to rack up points in the Giro.

by dheadrick on Jun 17, 2008 12:52 AM EDT 0 recs

Oh yeah

I’m still counting on him for the rest of the season. Go Baby Schleck!

by dheadrick on Jun 17, 2008 12:53 AM EDT up 0 recs

Gerdemann

I was so looking forward to watching him race, instead he’s spending the season recovering from an injury, and…may I add…NOT racking up VDS points for me.

60% of the time, it works every time.

by bethie on Jun 17, 2008 10:23 AM EDT up 0 recs

Hmmm...

... %$#@!!! is definitely my most painful. Contador is my hands down worst non-pick, and reason #1 why there will need to be a substitution system devised in the offseason…

When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?

by crashdan on Jun 17, 2008 10:47 AM EDT up 0 recs

18 points

And the little runt hasn’t even started a race this year that I can remember.

by Monty. on Jun 17, 2008 2:56 PM EDT up 0 recs

Go me!

Zabriskie’s Mustache is on the bottom.

I am so proud!

by Megabeth on Jun 17, 2008 9:46 AM EDT 0 recs

In a confluence of poor decision-making, five of my eight top riders

have 0 points so far this season: SamSan, Burghardt, Ciolek, Kolobnev and Haedo. I’m bad: very very very bad.

A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness. -James E. Starrs, "The Literary Cyclist" (1997)

by Ruthann on Jun 17, 2008 10:44 AM EDT 0 recs

Well, Ciolek will get some points from his TdS. 2 third places will give him…..well, more than zero.

by Hons on Jun 17, 2008 1:49 PM EDT up 0 recs

10

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jun 17, 2008 4:41 PM EDT up 0 recs

woops

x2=20

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jun 17, 2008 4:42 PM EDT up 0 recs

this is ridiculous

how is it possible that i am leading? i wish i would have used this good luck for something profitable…like the lottery or something. ha.

by jered on Jun 17, 2008 1:10 PM EDT 0 recs

Look on the bright side

Everyone here resents you now and dismisses your success as pure luck. Nice job in your race though!

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jun 17, 2008 1:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

He probably prepared for the VDS at the beach as well

then he swoops in and robs the rest of us off our rightful victories. I feel a strange urge to toss my bike.

by Jens on Jun 17, 2008 2:40 PM EDT up 0 recs

That's ok... I sent my teammate Jimbo ahead in a breakaway

and now I’m going to rally everyone to chase him down.

When Leipheimer is done mating with his Time Trialing bike... does he bite its head off and eat it?

by crashdan on Jun 17, 2008 10:28 PM EDT up 0 recs

Hey

It got you a most aggressive jersey didn’t it? Nice job btw.

"Hey, hey, settle down boys and girls or Krusty will have to bring out his old friend Corporal Punishment again."

by Drew... on Jun 18, 2008 10:34 AM EDT up 0 recs

Fourth-place finishes our spe-ci-al-i-ty...

to continue with the London Calling theme for team Rudie Can’t Fail.

Today marks the third Tour de Suisse stage in a row that someone from Rudie Can’t Fail has finished fourth, aka, just out of the money. This season-long phenomenon is getting old. At least I can look forward to some variation on the theme during the Tour de France, when my guys will no doubt shift from fourth on the stages to sixth.

by Tifosa on Jun 18, 2008 1:29 PM EDT 0 recs