VDS Results and Standings!

by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 8, 2009 1:08 AM EST in FSA Directeur Sportif

It's on folks.

First, if you see Monty, bow down in front of him, unless of course he's in a hurry to get back to his desktop and make our spreadsheets even cooler. A mere nine days after starting the contest, and two months after he sent them to me, I now understand and can use the very, very effective little tools Monty created. And the results are what you see here, as well as in the left sidebar.

From this point forward I will probably post on the standings, at least after big races, but the standings will be available 24/7 in the left sidebar box. Also, feel free to bookmark this page, where we will be depositing each race's results and the overall standings afterwards. Though if you don't, you can always find it in the... you guessed it... left sidebar.

So, the updated three-race standings, after Monte Paschi Eroica:

Fromagerie Duval, 960
Cleveland Steamers, 780 (tie)
The Mighty Herd, 780 (tie)
All or Nothing, 775
Leg Breakers, 715 (tie)
Der Deutsche Meister, 715 (tie)
Equipo Guanacos, 715 (tie)

Feel free to play around with the spreadsheets, if you can. I can, but there are a lot of macros involved that may or may not translate through the uploading.

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Is the editors challenge scoring up to date yet?

by Christopher See on Mar 8, 2009 4:01 AM EST reply actions

Behold: The Mighty Herd in the Top 3 (again)

Anatoooooooooole!!

Anatole (Fromagerie….) = Davide Rebellin / Jens (Mighty Herd) = Michael Boogerd

Did your favourite rider just win Montepaschi Strade Bianch Eroica Toscana? OK then.

by Jens on Mar 8, 2009 4:08 AM EST reply actions

Classy dude, Boogerd.

Wear that with pride.

by JFS_PGH on Mar 8, 2009 8:43 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm off to buy novelty-teeth this afternoon

size XXXL

Did your favourite rider just win Montepaschi Strade Bianch Eroica Toscana? OK then.

by Jens on Mar 8, 2009 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions

Herge's lost title:

Tin-Tin and the Teeth in The Ardennes.

by M. Anatole on Mar 8, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions

with Murcia

i bet that i over 600.

by semprenaroda on Mar 8, 2009 7:11 AM EDT reply actions

Top 20!

Won’t last, though. No points for Murcia, and I’m not super confident in my P-N team.

He has no charisma--Thomas Dekker, on Cadel Evans

by majope on Mar 8, 2009 8:50 AM EDT reply actions

Wow. Tied for second.

Pity it won’t last. I took Valverde rather than Contador; I imagine that will hurt me down the line.

Stinky

by pigilito on Mar 8, 2009 9:55 AM EDT reply actions

See the Valverde Tour Thread

It’s starting to hurt……

"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."

Tom Boonen

by Drew Davis on Mar 9, 2009 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Pieter Weening...

… is my first rider to pay himself off. Third overall at Murcia is 100 points — not bad for a one-point guy. Maybe that’s why someone tried to add him on their team twice…

by Noah on Mar 8, 2009 11:09 AM EDT reply actions

Was it you?

My apologize.. Didn’t see this coming but he’s finaly aware of his talent or maybe the pressure is off? It isn’t easy to handle the pressure og a whole country if they think you are gonna win the Tour de France.. Let’s hope so

Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Veni Vidi Vici beats Txirrindulariak and I win a date..

by Frinking on Mar 8, 2009 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions

Not me...

No — one Weeninig is enough for me. I went for the Weening/Boom combo to fill my Dutch quota (aka — my one-point quota)… Lots to choose from in the low-point Rabobank riders — all seem to have potential to do well, but could just as easily do nothing all year. I guess that’s what makes the VDS so fun. Well, that and getting interested in races like Murcia which I’d never paid attention to before…

by Noah on Mar 8, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

ooh tied for 5th

oh and Chris, or Ursula, or whoever controls the almighty side bar, you spelled Deutsche wrong. It’s spelled correctly here but not on the sidebar, just pointing it out.

I don't know if you knew this, CTV is run by Bernard Madoff

by Phil H. on Mar 8, 2009 11:45 AM EDT reply actions

Good work!

There appear to be some small bugs though:
Who is the mystery cyclists that scored 40 at both Volk and KBK for a total of 200 points in line 567 in the riders-tab?

And what is the secret behind the two teams who managed to select Tony Martin even though he was not on the list?

by Lopex on Mar 8, 2009 11:58 AM EDT reply actions

Teething troubles

In both those races a rider not on the VDS list scored 40 points. I don’t know how it got from there to 200, but as long as the numbers for the named riders add up I don’t care.

And I guess a couple of people mailed Chris about having Tony Martin when he posted something a couple of days ago. But do you really want the man who leads out Cav’s leadout man on your team?

by Monty. on Mar 9, 2009 5:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Tony Martin is a very good TT..

He’s gonna get his points so if it’s far to let them have Tony…

Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Veni Vidi Vici beats Txirrindulariak and I win a date..

by Frinking on Mar 9, 2009 5:43 AM EDT up reply actions

But I though my riders were gonna score well but it's dramatic...

Let’s hope on a big improvement

Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Veni Vidi Vici beats Txirrindulariak and I win a date..

by Frinking on Mar 9, 2009 5:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Why not include the missing rider names

So you’ll have a complete points-system for the entry form of the VDS-2010 competition? It is also fun to keep track of the jewels we all missed.

by Lopex on Mar 9, 2009 7:24 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm tracking that on my spreadsheet

Here—scroll down to the bottom, to “Scored but not on list.”

He has no charisma--Thomas Dekker, on Cadel Evans

by majope on Mar 9, 2009 8:10 AM EDT up reply actions

Oy

I need to add them to the rider list.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 9, 2009 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Riders returning points in the elite range (over 67 per point spent)

Through Murcia—haven’t looked at results from Paris-Nice yet. Number is points returned per point spent (PPS).

Kevyn Ista: 100
Pieter Weening: 100
Ruben Plaza Molina: 82.5
Graeme Brown: 80
Xavier Tondo: 80

Couple of other guys at 60: Tom Leezer, Jaume Rovira.

Full here.

He has no charisma--Thomas Dekker, on Cadel Evans

by majope on Mar 8, 2009 2:08 PM EDT reply actions

I pick

Tondo :). And hope for more points of him in Pais BaSCO and maybe Vuelta.

by semprenaroda on Mar 8, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Vive l'equipe magnifique!

Might as well crow about it now, since we’ve got seven (yes,7) French riders and no accountant.

by M. Anatole on Mar 8, 2009 6:57 PM EDT reply actions

129th for me...

At least I’m ahead of Frinking ;-)

by Albertina on Mar 9, 2009 8:36 AM EDT reply actions

l'ouch!

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 9, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, Frinking seems to think he gets a date with me if he beats me!

Though where he got this idea I have no clue…. ;-)

by Albertina on Mar 9, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Double ouch.. But I've updated...

Better chances to have that date :)

My team sucks!!!

Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Franzoi wins Parijs-Roubaix and I win a date with the VDS of Team Txirrindulariak..

by Frinking on Mar 9, 2009 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions