Post-Giro VDS Open Thread

by Chris... on Jun 2, 2008 2:48 AM EDT in Virtual Directeur Sportif!

Barring math errors, check the left sidebar for your final Giro VDS results. Congratulations Vamos Alejandro! It was pretty tight, with Pigs on Wheels falling a mere 22 points short. Nobody wants to check my math... except maybe the Pigs. Anyway, I haven't done much analysis, but I'll be surprised if there's a single team in the top 10 that didn't have Sella, who edged out Ricco for most points. Personally, I have little to say; Ricco kept my squad afloat, but otherwise it was over early. As for the rest of you... Let the recriminations begin!

Whoops! Thanks to a spelling problem, Josep Jufre Pou's points in the Volta had gone missing. And now that they're back, Pigs on Wheels is down to 4th, just, behind Team Davis Wheelworks. Betcha can't guess who figured out my error. Sorry Pigs for misleading you... but it's a long season.

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Just off the podium

in 4th I think for the Giro. Which makes me . . . . oh dear god no! I’m Franco Pellizoti. I’ll just have to make sure I stay away from humid environments for a while. And 2nd overall on the yearlong comp. Which makes me – well, who the hell knows, or cares.

Big scores from Sella, Ricco, with minor contributions from Tony Martin, Greipel and CAS.

by Rothko on Jun 2, 2008 5:55 AM EDT 0 recs

The Giro was on the VDS schedule!?!

No one told me! Or at least if you saw my point totals you’d figure no one told me. :-o

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - G. Marx

by flying dog on Jun 2, 2008 8:08 AM EDT 0 recs

Giro... VDSentry...

together? Why was I not told?

"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore." -- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race

by ELVISGOAT on Jun 2, 2008 10:02 AM EDT up 0 recs

Ricco isms

I just didn’t have the support from my team that I needed to make up the last 22 points. Nobody wanted to help me . Did They Might Be Burritos think they were going to win the Giro VDS? They should have ridden harder to catch Alejandro!

by John.. on Jun 2, 2008 8:25 AM EDT 0 recs

Bennati is coming to the USA

Benna will be racing in Philly, I expect there to lots of swooning in the streets of Philly by the Ladies of PdC. And guys, they don’t call it the City of Brotherly love for nothing. Story is at CN.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - G. Marx

by flying dog on Jun 2, 2008 9:03 AM EDT 0 recs

I worried a lot more about this before I heard of he podiumgirl-scandal

now I’m tranquilo.

by Jens on Jun 2, 2008 10:28 AM EDT 0 recs

the podiumgirl-scandal

by Jens on Jun 2, 2008 10:28 AM EDT up 0 recs

You can call me...

Marzio!

Grazie Grazie!

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on Jun 2, 2008 10:46 AM EDT 0 recs

If I had Bennatti,

I would have been Da Killer of the VDS!!!

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on Jun 2, 2008 10:46 AM EDT up 0 recs

You sound like Ricco

If I’d scored more points than Demoncats I could have finished higher in the VDS

;-)

"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."

by Drew... on Jun 2, 2008 11:07 AM EDT up 0 recs

Giro VDS at a quick glance -

Top 20 Overall:
1 Vamos Alejandro 2377
2 Pigs on Wheels 2355
3 They Might Be Burritos 2048
4 Team North Road 2002
5 Semprenaroda (Giro) 1879
6 Fromagerie Duval 1736
7 The Bike Game 1579
8 Way of the Cross 1566
9 Dreaming of Cobbles 1555
10 Chase Group 1502
11 Arancione Nero (Giro) 1483
12 Belle Gambe (Giro) 1480
13 Didyagetanyonya 1468
14 kCycle 1443
15 Zegno1 1375
16 Square Wheels for Speed 1341
17 WWJD 1307
18 Rudie Can’t Fail 1274
19 Team Arland 1239
20 Multiple Scoregasm 1225

Bottom 5:
126 TeamBornFromJets 85
127 Crazy D’s Chain Gang 42
128 Lions of Flanders 27
129 Team Gunners 26
130 Crevaison 0

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

by nikki on Jun 2, 2008 11:09 AM EDT 0 recs

crevaison =

maglia zero

I couldn’t even get best hair points from karpets thanks to pellizotti

by cmec on Jun 2, 2008 3:50 PM EDT up 0 recs

Enjoyable

Above the lower but below the upper kind of Giro for me. :-)

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

by nikki on Jun 2, 2008 11:14 AM EDT 0 recs

Hey Chris!

On my VDS application I now realize that I misspelled a name! Can you correct it for me? The right spelling is S-e-l-l-a. I spelled it S-o-l-e-r.

Thanks so much! ;)

by ursula on Jun 2, 2008 11:21 AM EDT 0 recs

That's pretty good.

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

by nikki on Jun 2, 2008 1:09 PM EDT up 0 recs

No

You’re welcome.

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

by Chris... on Jun 2, 2008 2:36 PM EDT up 0 recs

48th on the Giro... 88th on the Season Long...

So my Giro placing didn’t improve over the last week, but I moved up 5 places from 93rd on the season long. that means I’m only a mere 3,000 points behind Jered in the overall.

Now, considering that my two VDS studs were @#$%!!! and Leipheimer… I’m pleased that I’m not TOTALLY sucking wind. Those two have combined for a magnificent total 150 points. Cavendish and Gasparotto have combined for 1106 points. The only thing keeping me afloat is Gasparotto’s success at the Three Days of Bread. I’ve got 7 riders that have combined to provide me with absolutely Bupkus: Robbie Hunter, Bert Grabsch, Tomas Vaitkus, Bert Roesems, Danielle Nardello, Dario Cioni and Ludovic Turpin.

Stuart O’Grady, the Australian quintiplegic, was seen still climbing to the finish line… using his lips alone.

by crashdan on Jun 2, 2008 11:57 AM EDT 0 recs

Sorted results?

Is there a sorted version of the season long VDS? I don’t see it in the master spreadsheet. Not that it matters. I just want to see how badly I have done.

by johnw on Jun 2, 2008 1:14 PM EDT up 0 recs

Open Excel... copy the results column... go to a different worksheet and

... select “Paste Special” and paste as values so that you get the actual content of the cells, not the cell reference. Then you can sort to your hearts content.

Stuart O’Grady, the Australian quintiplegic, was seen still climbing to the finish line… using his lips alone.

by crashdan on Jun 2, 2008 2:27 PM EDT up 0 recs

grazie mille

by johnw on Jun 2, 2008 4:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

Year Long VDS Quick look -

Top 25:
1 The Bike Game DS: Jered 6210
2 Team North Road DS: Rothko 5904
3 Pigs on Wheels DS: John 5747
4 Team Davis Wheelworks DS: Bruno 5739
5 Slipshod Hauenstein DS: Dean M 5662
6 The Saint DS: Herman Boer 5634
7 Dreaming of Cobbles DS: Cyclingfan 5471
8 Lactic Euphoria DS: McLovin 5437
9 Down Road Team DS: King of Doping 5390
10 Fromagerie Duval DS: Anatole 5386
11 Didyagetanyonya DS: Frank Effin Zappa 5332
12 Diminutive Vikings DS: Tshawytcha 5040
13 Tarmac ‘n Cobbles DS: DZI 5012
14 TeamBornFromJets DS: Jens 4862
15 Chase Group DS: Chris in SF 4853
16 They Might Be Burritos DS: Demoncats (psst: free beer!) 4748
17 The Down Tube Shifters DS: Noah 4746
18 Team Gunners DS: Sarah 4737
19 South Berkeley Flahutes DS: Bob G 4717
20 St. Domingo DS: Martin 4715
21 Gianluca Express DS: Highroller 4674
22 Square Wheels for Speed DS: Ursula 4663
23 Donkeys DS: Nikonoclast 4549
24 Roller Coasters DS: Veloki 4518
25 Stoempers DS: Pupsel 4474

Bottom 5:
118 Dark Horse DS: Kevin Kimmich 2239
119 Hit You W/The Real Thing DS: Ruthann 2180
120 The 29 Team DS: ER1C612 2072
121 Zabriskie’s Mustache Ride DS: Megan 2044
122 Fernwood/Piuma DS: 2+2=5 1311

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

by nikki on Jun 2, 2008 1:31 PM EDT 0 recs

Just missed it

I just missed the bottom 5. Ouch

by johnw on Jun 2, 2008 1:38 PM EDT up 0 recs

MWAHAHAHA

9th. Now it’s time for Soler to win the Tour and the olympics

by King of Doping on Jun 2, 2008 1:45 PM EDT up 0 recs

Yep... that'll happen...

... just as soon as Cavendish wins the Vuelta for me. I hear the climbing in the Giro really prepped him for it :)

Stuart O’Grady, the Australian quintiplegic, was seen still climbing to the finish line… using his lips alone.

by crashdan on Jun 2, 2008 2:28 PM EDT up 0 recs

Thanks, Nikki

for doing the excel work and posting the rankings, especially when Fromagerie Duval is in them. Just wait till I unleash Sanchez and Sastre this summer and, miffed about his Giro snub, Thor smash Tour!

by huy on Jun 2, 2008 5:45 PM EDT up 0 recs