Virtual Directeur Sportif: Standings, At Long Last!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 22, 2009 3:02 PM EDT
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At long last, your VDS update:
- BF&S, 8950
- Portinado, 8723
- Castrogiovanni (blahblahblah), 8613
- Brian Clough's Nose, 8442
- Team Beer Lao, 8399
- Vlammende Vedetten, 8254
- Muk's Maybes, 8237
- More Cobbles Please, 8130
- Crazy D's Chain Gang, 7972
- Down Tube Shifters, 7961
Peruse the whole standings here. First, this is incredibly wide-open, which makes me (and undoubtedly Ursula) very happy. A thousand points separating the top ten... it's a noticeable spread, but except for BF&S' stunning rise the splits are rather narrow. The point of our scoring structure this year was to present a lot of pathways to victory... and a lot of agonizing choices, so as to make for more robust and varied competition. So far, so good.
Next, congrats so far to BF&S, a/k/a Big, Fat and Slow, who have relied on an interesting mix of riders including most notably Danilo Di Luca to rise to the top. These are the ten top-scoring riders to date:
- Menchov, 1425
- Di Luca, 1314
- Contador, 1076
- Hushovd, 1070
- Valverde, 1043
- Boonen, 1025
- Cavendish, 991
- Gilbert, 990
- Haussler, 982
- Garzelli, 845
Obviously the Giro has had a lot to do with the scoring, but it gets pretty interesting from #4 on down. Of the top 10, only Portinado, More Cobbles and Crazy D's Chain Gang are without Alberto Contador. They'll look like geniuses if the Accountant can't seal the deal in France; otherwise, the post-Tour lead will come down to secondary scoring.
Feel free to scour the results for errors, though know that I have my email set to block any messages containing the words "team time trial" or "tony martin" in any sequence. I apologize for the delay, it was one of those things where I got incredibly busy, put the scoring on the backburner in order just to keep up with substantive (ahem) postings about the Giro, and once I fell behind it was a bit of a project to catch up. Now we have full standings... but it may be a while before I can input race-by-race totals. Majope has been posting these in real time, however, so just search VDS and her ID and you'll find what you need. And hopefully the Tour will not coincide with any major real-life projects (besides my annual camping trip scheduled for the penultimate stages) and we will be able to offer regular updates. Finally, I will be making an announcement later today w/r/t a Tour-only comp. Look for the words "glutton" and "punishment" somewhere in there.
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boy, i'm bad at this!
even team angel gomez gomez gomez has moved ahead of me.
can I scratch my team and just enter the tour only version with a clean slate? (oooh – maybe i need a new alias!)
Are you above the Snakeboat line?
I guess it’s still a moving target.
Hey, I still lead my brother by a few points!
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 22, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh had I taken Menchov and Haussler, this year is a goner now.
I’m just going to enjoy the racing and not torment myself over my sorry ass VDS team. Until next year.
Today, I was fired as manager of Team Les Marmottes
fu*** 153rd …. I am “do the opposite” guy
New manager is moooving in new direction:
sometimes life is a false flat
Oops...
From 4th to 17th. Oh well, no surprise.
And I think Ayn Rand is spinning in her grave.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja min who know how to twirl.
Ehrmmm.... Make that 15th
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja min who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Jun 22, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Already received an extra homework to do
There goes my vacation.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja min who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Jun 23, 2009 5:15 AM EDT up reply actions
My brother's still beating me, too
And he’ll slaughter me in the TdF. Looks like that beer is as good as gone.
Thanks to all who put this together.
I'm just grimly hanging on to whatever dignity I can salvage...
…by being in the upper third of the packfill.
Well.. There are teams who are doing worse than me....
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Frining "It's what he thinks.. But he always do.. I eat my shoe if he ride top 15 in le Tour" about Devolder
Could I slip?
Crashdan: "Veni Vidi Vici beats Wing Kong Exchange... … and I’ll change my signature to a backwards smile for a month."
Frining "It's what he thinks.. But he always do.. I eat my shoe if he ride top 15 in le Tour" about Devolder
Woo hoo!
Out of more than 300 riders who have scores, we have different points for maybe a dozen. Am checking now to see where the differences happened, but I’m relieved to be that close.
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
uh oh
Hopefully very few of them are on anyone’s team.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 22, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Eh. The differences aren't huge.
I think there are 5 of them affecting 8 riders—three cases of riders getting awarded someone else’s points, two where I think you might have missed a few points. Biggest difference is 40 points. Email on its way.
Not that I didn’t have things to fix on my spreadsheet…turns out I gave out some stage points incorrectly in Catalunya (those Spanish stage races have it in for me!) and Crit Int.
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
Or...
perhaps YOU who got overly enthusiastic about awarding points! Not to point fingers or anything.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 22, 2009 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm up to 117th!!!
So, technically, I could suck more.
Plus, my squadra was contaminated with a couple dopers – Colom and Caucchioli. Good riddance, Nippleheads!
Oooh look at that, I've still got the jersey!
Damn, I suspect that I should have kept my mouth shut….
From 2nd to 13th
Not too bad. Lots of guys in the Tour (minus Contador) so hoping for some stunning upsets there. My only chance is an Shleck the younger victory or 2nd and holding the jersey for a lot of days.
Frosties hanging in at 46th after getting as high as 21
Well if I can stick in the top 50 I’ll be fine with this year. Now if my three 0 guys would just SCORE SOME POINTS!!! I’ll be pleased.
Kurt-Asle Arvesen
Chris Anker Sorensen
Baden Cooke
Svein Tuft
Trent Lowe
John Gadret
Sandy Casar
have a combined 132 points between them – they need to get moving, or it will be no soup for them!
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
Congratulations Kim
Looks like Di Luca came through for you in a big way.
I was expecting (hoping) for more from Simoni, but ….
My goals now are to catch Bruce and stay ahead of you
I wouldn’t put any money on either of those things happening.
More Muur...
Delighted I've sunk no lower than 53rd!
After the Giro I had, that’s a minor miracle.
Adrenalina Italiana!
looks like Cav may be short 10 points...
Should Cav get 10 points for holding the Best Young Rider jersey after stage 1 of the Giro? If so, his total seems to be missing those points.
by Merry Crankster on Jun 22, 2009 5:40 PM EDT reply actions
you know
I wasn’t sure if they awarded those??? Might need a ruling there.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 22, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I finally came to the point
where I can sleep the night before a race because I’m not worrying about my riders scoring points the next day. Hopefully, even with the update I can continue to sleep.
Me
that moment happened in March. The long, restful sleep of the resigned…
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 22, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions
What, you're no longer hearing the words "Heinrich Haussler"...
…every time there’s a quiet moment and nothing else is distracting you?
oh Lord!!
i knew that Giro went good, but 2nd!! With this name, my team could only achieve sucess. :P
Haussler, Hushovd are been great surprises, Menchov too, he saved my Giro.
Despite i don’t have Contador for the Tour, i think Menchov, Rogers or even Gesink are secure plans B. And for early yellow jersey i’m hoping for Caisse d’Epargne’s friendship with ^Contador, and give to LLSanchez the yellow in the early days. :)
LL would have to do a very good opening ITT then.
I think Contador is eyening that ITT. But he could decide to suck strategically to keep the pressure low.
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
Unfortunately
not all of us are in a position to laugh at your misfortune, much as we might like to.
Abruzziamo!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 22, 2009 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions
No Contador
Crazy D’s Chain Gang does not have Contador but I’m counting on points from sprinters (Davis, Hushovd, Haussler and a verdict for Boonen) and good GC placings from Gesink, Andy Schleck, Kreuziger, Daniel Martin, and Nibali.
my rankings
up to 45th from about 100, nice job team.
since everyone has Bert for the tour, I have no idea what it will be like in August….maybe I can do something in the vuelta…
No
You only lose points if any race that he (or any other rider) participated in kick him out and remove him from the official results. So Colom keeps his Pais Vasco and Paris-Nice points, and any other points that he had.
Maybe we should call this the Ricco rule. Last year Ricco lost his points from the Tour, as they removed him from the results, but he kept his points from the Giro, which still says he came in 2nd.
If it will help to assuage your guilt
You can donate your points to me.
"I get paid to hurt other people. How good is that? How good is that?
I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, that's good." Jens!
Sorr I haven't commented before
but I have been busy sacrificing virgins to Tourbecco (freakish goatlike creatures like virgins, right?) so that I may one day move past Drew in the rankings again.
4th!
Wow. I knew I had a decent Giro and was hoping maybe to be hanging around the lower reaches of the top 10, but this has just made my morning…
Mark
Bollocks...from 3rd to 25th....rubbish
this is worse than when CN changed their format….way worse!
Bah....Cavendish?!
I thought I was 25th!
I’ll have to check that now…
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
Ah, row 25 rank 23
Yay!
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
Thanks Chris
For making time to do the VDS standings. Much appreciated!
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.": Alberto Contador, shortly after waking up from brain surgery.
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