if you pick a rider and he gets banned during the race, you keep all the points he's accumulated to that point. it's no different than if he abandoned or crashed out.

stage 4 looks like a fun one.

and the opening tt/prologue looks wild. thinking froomie, kiriyenka, dennis or dumou.

^well well well, lookee who woke up from a 7 month nap...

last day to register before the deadline! lurkers commit!

yeah...contemplations...
all rounders-dennis for his all round capabilities but still miffy about the goose egg he threw out in the last giro where i did pick him. i'm not bitter. i'm not bitter!

climbers-poz, g bennett, formolo, meintjes, nieve. especially nieve but couldn't quite squeeze him in.

spinters-mareczko, s bennett, gibbons, debusschere,
bionafazio, modolo. opted for viviani given quick step's dominating spring campaign and altho there aren't a petacchiesque amount of spring stages, there's enuff + one or two more where i thought he could be in the top ten placings. given the underwhelming amount of sprinting firepower, opted not to use the wildcard on a sprinter as i occasionally do.

unclassed-this is where the agony was. ll sanchez, lutsenko, de la cruz, roche, pantano, atapuma, o'connor, visconti (always seems to have a sneakily excellent giro), villella, this woulda been a pretty decent climbers team on its own. roche and nieve are the two riders i wanted most but couldn't quite fit. kept polanc thinking he's gonna pull out a top ten gc performance at some point...prob wishful thinking tho.

[QUOTE=slcbob;20322067]So here are the guys that I left on the cutting room floor as i jiggled around to get the right mix under budget:

Woods, George Bennett, and Lopez for GC points at a reasonable velobuck value
Aru for that or maybe a podium (but pricey)
Viviani or Sam Bennett for a sprinter, but I needed to shave a few V$ off their V$14 and V$12, settled for V$10 and a prayer with Marezcko
Wellens and Brambilla, somewhere in the mix

I wrote these down so I have a ready reference of all the folks that I can NOT lament about not picking if they do really well. Some years it seems like every name I've ever heard of who does well but wasn't on my team winds up cutting me deep at some point in my post mortem. Ha ha ha.

I never really gave much thought to Froome, Pinot, Chavez, Poz. All in with Dumou and Yates, hoping to get some good scoring from the rest of the team. I will consider it a huge personal victory if all nine of my guys score at least 50 points.

Interesting to see that we're still rolling with 9 man teams here in fantasy land.[/QUOTE]

strangely okay with it. it's not like we all haven't had a dq'd, ns, crashed-out, dnf rider here and there.

^mountains are right around the corner and with froomie, pinot and lopez, your prospects look to improve quickly.