All welcome to play

MSR is the 3rd race of the Classics Predictor Game, similar in concept to our GT stage predictor game. There's no commitment to a season-long team of riders here. Instead, you pick 4 riders that you like for each spring classic, one race at a time. There's a season leaderboard for 13 spring cobbled & hilly classics through to Liege-Bastogne-Liege, but you're also welcome to play for any standalone race.

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This is all you need to know to play

Pick 4 riders that you like for this race and post them in a comment below, the order doesn't matter. Riders score points down to 10th place. Less obvious riders are worth considering: if they get a decent top-10 result, they can score more points in this game than a big-name favorite.

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Entry deadline Sunday 13:00 CET

The deadline is about 125km into the race, just before Turchino. If you enter after the race starts you can't pick anyone in a break! Earlier entrants are not disadvantaged - you're free to change your picks (but just once, please) until the entry deadline. Do this in a reply to your original entry.

CyclingFever startlist

Results history

Official guide pdf

Official site

Inner Ring preview

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RESULTS

Our winner for Milan-Sanremo was Toadie, who had this race covered from 20km out with Ciolek, Sagan and Chavanel. Cauterets took second with Ciolek, Sagan & Cav, with Logy and Saltire joint 3rd with the Ciolek-Sagan double. A shout out also for CelticPride with the top 2, although I can't give points for it because the entry was past the deadline.

In the season overall competition, Ed K put scoring riders in 2nd, 3rd and 9th today but that still wasn't enough to hold his lead. Saltire is our new leader, adding the Ciolek-Sagan double in this race to his big points from Paolini in Omloop.

Excel spreadsheet of all results

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Scoring rules

All 4 of your riders can score.

The top 10 finishers score points according to this basic scale from race winner down to 10th place:
100-60-50-40-30-25-20-15-10-5

However, if riders of all abilities scored the same, we'd all just be picking the big favorites all the time. So we multiply the scale above by a rider's payoff percentage based on the number of players that pick him. More picks, lower payoff.

If you're not familiar with this kind of scoring scheme from the Giro & TdF Stage Predictor games last year, just play along for a couple of races and it will soon make sense. All you need to do is pick the 4 riders that you like for the race. A good strategy might be to go for two big names and two outsiders that you fancy for a breakout result.