Women's VDS Results Week 1
by Jens on Feb 27, 2011 11:37 AM EST
Email
PrintThe first results are in. The Tour of New Zealand and the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad are in the books and we have a first leader and it is ....... bethie !! Congratulations on your virtual jersey. With a strong Arndt, Corset, Gillow combo she cleared up in New Zealand and saved us all from the embarrassment of having Sui Juris take the early lead.
The full results are here. A short version follows below:
Top 10 looks like this:
|
1 |
Belle Femme Vélo |
bethie |
823 |
|
2 |
NTWWEDT |
Sui Juris |
713 |
|
3 |
Rock Wallabinas |
Platypus6inUSA |
693 |
|
4 |
ratsastaa kovaa |
florigoessmann |
673 |
|
5 |
Team Smash |
Shauna Staveley |
668 |
|
6 |
Tearing Tortoises |
Creeping Tortoise |
628 |
|
7 |
Top Trumpery |
Pigeons |
548 |
|
8 |
The Canadian Connection |
mathieug |
538 |
|
9 |
bexter |
Bec |
528 |
|
10 |
Fatboy Fillies |
Adelaidefatboy |
500 |
Top 5 in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad :
1. Citius Altius Fortius Merry Crankster 360 points
2. Action Potential bikepig 325
3. Fieldys wishlist/superstars janvandervelde 320
4. Grupetto Connaisseur Spot of Bother 305
5. Corinthians cotman 280
Top 5 Tour of New Zealand:
1. Belle Femme Velo Bethie 823
2. NTWWEDT Sui Juris 713
3. Team Smash Shauna Stavely 668
4. ratsasta kovaa florigoessman 643
5. Tearing Toirtoises Creeping Toirtoise 598
Next week sees a light schedule with the women taking on the Cat 5 Omloop van Het Hageland Tielt-Winge which will draw a similar field as the one in Het Nieuwsblad. Good luck!
88 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
Oooh, results! That's a pretty big lead bethie's got there!
Thanks so much!
by Sarah Connolly on Feb 27, 2011 12:02 PM EST reply actions
This is a great game
Thanks for putting it all together. I can’t believe you have to score it by hand. Now thts dedication! I’m handing out virtual Leffe’s since that’s what we do here now. Here’s a six pack for bethie – but once we hit Europe, I’m coming after you!
Monty and Jens
are doing the scoring. Pretty awesome. I would cry if I had to look at spreadsheets as often as they do ;)
By hand makes it sound harder than it is
I suspect that the data entry bit for the men’s game takes about as much effort as this does.
True
The dude’s game does require data entry too. But it also spits out standings and updates and such automatically. And well, you do a lot of work, so I’m going to keep saying you’re awesome :)
by Jen See on Feb 28, 2011 1:33 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
+ everything
The skills really do go away if not practiced, and I don't mean to brag but I was getting very mediocre. - Tejay Van Garderen
Hmmm...I'm guessing you gave jersey points to Arndt for the crit day, even though it wasn't part of the Tour of NZ?
Okay. Questions:
Where did Villumsen’s 6 points come from?
Also, 6 extra points on your sheet vs. mine for Teutenberg and Andruk—pretty sure Arndt was race leader throughout?
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
Gah. You also have only 124 teams listed--I have 131 (not counting the team that was all X's).
What happened to the other 7?
Not trying to be a pain, just want to reconcile my spreadsheet with yours.
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
I can say from experience
The teams with no points are not listed. What is the prize for the Laterne Rouge?
Riding in the lucrative post WVDS season crits
While wearing the Scarlet \o/ Kit.
"Does that mean over or resolved?" Arkady Renko
by frans verbiage on Mar 1, 2011 5:14 PM EST up reply actions
What I have
ToNZ was basically 4 stages in the end. Then there were crits that are counted as separate races. Arndt got 3 X 6p for holding the jersey throughout. Villumsen got 6 points for 4:th in the first crit, Arndt 6p for fourth in the second crit.
Only the teams that have scored end up on our result sheet so the donuts will not appear until one of their riders score.
Because Monty told me too :-)
Long story. Players got some bonus points for fourth place this week. In the future Cat 3’s only top 3 will score. :-)
Beware the Buttons of March
or something like that
You're just making shit up as you go along, then.
Okay, just warn people in advance next time you decide to change the scoring rules.
So, 6 points for 4th places added to:
Stage 1 Joanne Hogan
Stage 2 Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
Stage 3 Alana Andruk
Stage 4 Jeanne Kuhajek
Crit 1 Linda Melanie Villumsen
Crit 2 Judith Arndt
Right? (And yes, I see that you aren’t tracking riders who weren’t picked by anyone—I just want to keep track for next year’s picking purposes).
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
it's easily done
but honestly , who gives a shit about 6 extra points in the grand scheme of things?
My team is eternally grateful, thank you very much.
The skills really do go away if not practiced, and I don't mean to brag but I was getting very mediocre. - Tejay Van Garderen
it's a thankless job
Better to have zero transparency (it’ll be easier to receive your Swiss bribes too)
moo
i knew something was wrong,
i’m in the frickin top 20. I couldn’t find my team anywhere – looked in all the usual places. Had to do a search to find it.
I'd suggest either scoring all Cat 3s down to 4th place now
or if you want to pick certain races to do that for, pick them now and post a list of the Cat 3A races that will be scored differently.
Just doing it off the top of your head could come back and bite you on the ass if scoring ends up close, and you don’t have any good answer for why you chose to reward certain teams over others.
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
down to 4th gives more people points
and so would keep people interested… although it also gives the SSRs more influence on the game than they would do in the men’s. The real life importance of the Tour of NZ, f’rinstance is different to the actual – but we suffer from a lack of races in general (sob, I miss l’Aude and the Grand Boucle!) – so if we did score down to 4th, I’d say do it across the board, so the big races are still more important than the smaller ones
I’m possibly not making explaining myself well!
by Sarah Connolly on Feb 27, 2011 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
It was not done randomly
It was due to a misunderstanding of how the scoring sheet worked.
Since it seems to be a huge issue the sheet is now updated to confirm with the scoring outlined in the rules. 6×6 points are gone. Order is restored in the universe.
Swedish-Made, Dutch-Designed?
For this is cycling where suffering and success travel inseparably together - Jen See (poet)
by omnevelnihil on Feb 27, 2011 4:10 PM EST up reply actions
Unfortunately no,
this being the southern hemisphere the ones from Sweden pump in the wrong direction. It’s known as the cockeolis effect.
For this is cycling where suffering and success travel inseparably together - Jen See (poet)
Although I guess that technically means
yes… once
For this is cycling where suffering and success travel inseparably together - Jen See (poet)
All the riders show up on the third tab
and all the teams, including the egg cups are on the second. It’s just that they aren’t included in the ranking on the front page
Oops--I was the one who wasn't keeping track of all the riders.
My bad.
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
Whoo hooo!
34th I’m thrilled. Now for the downward spiral
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
72nd...
…this is, not terribly awful. I totally forgot I had Loes, so that was a nice surprise.
Renn and Stimpy
35th and headed down.. ;-0
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist has a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Feb 27, 2011 3:11 PM EST reply actions
A disgusting first week performance.
Even if I am not the only one with zero points, just don’t like not having any points on a scoreboard. Oh, to hell with it, decided to drop out and buy a couple of boxes of beer. The team is up and running, lets celebrate.
yes, being one of nine ø point teams does suck
I guess things might pick up, but when I see some teams have 800 already on the board I begin to wonder if Vos can pull me out of this hole…
by gait_analyst on Feb 27, 2011 3:45 PM EST up reply actions
Well, we could make a competition to see who gets out of the hole first.
Your Vos puts you in the driving seat, but I have significant believe in Pooley.
Vos isn't necessarily a plus in this race
Because of track worlds she won’t be at the first WC race Alfredo Binda.
But to be fair, it's not her fault.....
… rant rant rant UCI no need to schedule track Worlds against Alfredo Bind & RvV, the bastards, rant rant etc etc
by Sarah Connolly on Feb 27, 2011 4:46 PM EST up reply actions
Me too!
Imagining the moment when she steps onto the track & the crazy Dutchies all go crrrrrraaaaaaaaaaazy!
by Sarah Connolly on Feb 27, 2011 5:00 PM EST up reply actions
She remains
the Cam Meyer + of Womens Points Racing – unbeatable on form.
And pound for pound – for a woman of her age to win that medal as she did, may just be the most extraordinary piece of cycling I will ever watch.
If we have a fast car
standing by at the finish after watching Dwars door Vlaanderen we can just make the evening session with the points race in Apeldoorn. We can’t be troubled by petty matters such as “traffic rules” and “speedlimits” though or we might not make it.
Like the way you think
(Sadly having been to Cheltenham will be busy working so I can get to Aintree – following two sports can be hell etc…)
Will be a great day though. Go if you can I say
The Wed eve also has Mens TS, TP, Scratch race & Womens 500m TT gold races
Tickets available for €17-23
Am I helping?
I was kidding
I did look at going down to watch Dwars -Worlds(thu-fr) -(E3 perhaps) but the timing and logistics weren’t optimal this time.
Assumed you were.
Sounds a bit like my attempt to get there. Even got as far as bookmarking the ticket site, but never quite made it past the planning stage for other reasons.
(On the bright side – a FW/LBL trip is now a go. Now just hoping FW races are half as good as last years)
The Vos dilemma
She comes to road racing later than a lot of them…. but is likely to bring in points by the bagful, once she’s back
by Sarah Connolly on Feb 27, 2011 4:48 PM EST up reply actions
I assume that if we can't our names, it means we're sitting on zero?
Or rather, I’m sitting on zero. Last place.
Ahh, ’twas ever thus.
Look at the tabs at the bottom
all the teams and riders are listed on the next pages. We just tried to avoid rubbing in how badly some people are doing.
Hello Everyone, it's me!
The person in first place! Hello! Pay attention I have something important to say.
The very first year the VDS was held here at Podium Café, I was in first place the first week.
From there I plummeted to last, never to recover. hahahaha
It’s quite an honor though to hold first place in this new competition. I’d like to thank all the little people who I stepped on to get here. xo
I asked myself, why is that frisbee getting bigger, and then it hit me.
I knew I was going to end up being the victim in this feud
(apart from getting the slippers, that is)
If we were both beating Jens!, it would say "We're both beating Jens!!"
If in any universe we could both beat Jens!.
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
This is very distressing bethie
I thought my season was going to just get better from here. Looking on the bright side however, I am doing really badly in the mens VDS, so it might come good, and more importantly, I also am beating Jens (!)
800+ point lead.
I mean what was the max point allocation for the first week? 1300 or so?
Serious business.
Officer, I swear to drunk I'm not god.
Jealousy does not become you Sui Juris. :P
I asked myself, why is that frisbee getting bigger, and then it hit me.
It's about damn time
someone recognized my infinite wisdom. You may kiss my ring, Jens.
I asked myself, why is that frisbee getting bigger, and then it hit me.
Wohoo..! Top 10 in the first week!
The Aussies won’t be getting to Europe until after Oceanias generally. Obviously there’s one or two there early. Interesting to see how many picked Southern Hemisphere riders. Not sure if that means they’re good riders or they just ride for themselves
Now I've dared to look I see
I ACTUALLY HAVE SOME POINTS!! :-)
"There is nobody doing it for the money. Everybody is doing it because they want to ride bikes." Lizzie Armitstead
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
Related FanPosts on Podium Cafe
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Recommended FanPosts
Recent FanPosts
Celebrate the Giro d'Italia at Podium Cafe!
Check our Giro Section for race updates, on-the-scene reports, and other hijinx.
Featured Stories
FanShots
Quick hits of video, photos, quotes, chats, links and lists that you find around the web.
Recent FanShots
