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Podium Cafe VDS
Hello,
At the end of last year I said I'd be setting up an off-site league in one of the other bigger fantasy games. The game is the Podium Cafe VDS and it is a year long squad based game. You get a budget, pick a squad based on a set of rules then that's it. No transfers, no picking teams, nothing. You just have to trust your guys to go out and get you some points.
The game runs across both women's and men's racing the calendar is very extensive covering everything from Grand Tours to national championships.
An intro to the game can be found here - http://www.podiumcafe.com/2014/2/3/5370538/fsa-directeur-sportif-2014-starts-now
And the game itself is here - http://pdcvds.com/
League's don't seem to work too well so if anyone else is interested in competing we'll need to add each other to our own personal leagues, that means if you 're in you need to post your DS name and team name in this thread. I'll keep track of the results through the year.
My details are:- DS name - drheaton Men's team - Mostly Hopeless Women's team - Right-handed OuOuOranges
Competitors: (DS - Men's Team - Women's Team)
TERatcliffe26 - TERatcliffe26
shutuplegs - Avengers:Age of Nick! - Ladies 1st
The Domestique - The Domestique
raysilvester1 - Big Rays Riders
Ghedebrav - Voodoo All Stars
Twybaydos - Topsport Torquay - Topsport Torquay Femennile
chiv30 - Carbon crutches and epo
Pure fantasy - Pure fantasy - Pure fantasy women
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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, vanmarcke, hofland and bardet today. Can't remember if I had lobato
Cheers good Dr
Oh thats a bit shit!?
Thought i'd help and post the weekend results
Mens
DS Team Score ↓
1. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay 870
2. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 720
3. raysilvester1 Big Rays Riders 575
4. Pure fantasy Pure fantasy 470
5. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 420
6. chiv30 carbon crutches and epo 380
7. shutuplegs Avengers:Age of Nick! 250
8. The Domestique The Domestique 130
9. drheaton Mostly Hopeless 100
Womens
DS Team Score ↓
1. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 315
2. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay Femennile 225
3. Pure fantasy Pure fantasy women 185
4. shutuplegs Ladies 1st 100
5. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 40
6. The Domestique The Domestique 40
7. drheaton Right-handed OuOuOranges 0
Bottom of both leagues? The only way is up...
Looks like Tommeke is going to cash in during the spring classics......wonder if he'll ride a grand tour(especially with Le Boucle having cobbles!!)....and he's listed for Paris-Nice
Ok well out of the 7 of you I'm following I'm 5th out of 8 twy is stormsng ahead with roughly a 300 point lead
Edit was missing ghed
Got about 8 in Paris-Nice and 7 in Tirreno-Adriatico according to PCS and teams are not complete yet. Not sure if there's any point playing roadcc just yet until the Grand Tours. Plenty to interest me in this game, even in minor races, and no more headache of choosing and getting it wrong! (Which I have done in the classics so far!)
Boonen doing well but he doesn't race that much after the classics so I thought he was expensive at 18 and there's a very high risk of a crash. I reckon you need to score 80-100 points per point a racer costs to make it worthwhile to choose them. We'll see if Boonen makes 1500 or more by the end of the season. OPQS got more GC interest now with Uran and Kwia and then there's Cav to keep happy so I'm not sure he'll race TdF.
Update the list of teams, mens rankings atm are:
1.Twybaydos - Topsport Torquay - 870
2.Ghedebrav - Voodoo All Stars - 720
3.raysilvester1 - Big Rays Riders - 575
4.TERatcliffe26 - TERatcliffe26 - 420
5.chiv30 - carbon crutches and epo - 380
6.shutuplegs - Avengers:Age of Nick! - 250
7.The Domestique - The Domestique - 130
8.drheaton - Mostly Hopeless - 100
Womens rankings (nice to see I'm rock bottom of both...)
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Quite possibly
Good old 'Boxer' Bouhanni....100pts for 3rd in LeSamyn
womens update
DS Team Score ↓
1. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 505
2. Pure fantasy Pure fantasy women 435
3. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay Femennile 375
4. shutuplegs Ladies 1st 240
5. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 40
The Domestique The Domestique 40
7. drheaton Right-handed OuOuOranges 0
High Hopes for Gerrans,Cunego and Gavazzi in today's GP Camaoire plus DeGendt(overall) and Hutarovich(stages) in the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen.
Plus a bit of a dream team for Paris-Nice to be honest....Busche,Monfort,Jeannesson,P.Velits,Gerrans,Bouhanni,Gavazzi,Boonen,Hushovd
Camaiore - 3) Arredondo, 5) Colbrelli for me!
Ulissi won and Gavazzi came 10th if that is relevant to you
I am getting totally destroyed....
Serves me right for picking mainly stage racers, should have loaded up on classics riders
Hofland in particular looks like a great rider to have picked, 200 pts for 1 credit and likely to get a few other outings through the year.
I'm in the top 10!
To be honest, its my low pried riders who scored little last year, and have raced have done well. Colbrelli already outscored his 100 from last year, Arredondo with nothing last year already has 130, and Bennett again with 100 has already outscored last year. Demare and Greipel have already got there points rolling, so im not too concerned about where I stand. After T-A we will have a better idea of who may do well
Bardet and Kelderman at Paris-Nice is likely to be the benchmark as to whether my rationale of picking lots of cheap young'uns is a better idea than known points scorers.
Just seen the 'similar teams to yours' point on VDS - Hopefully we can share in eachother's success TERatcliffe.
Men's update
1.Twybaydos - Topsport Torquay - 1420
2.raysilvester1 - Big Rays Riders - 875
3.Ghedebrav - Voodoo All Stars - 810
4.drheaton - Mostly Hopeless - 640
5.TERatcliffe26 - TERatcliffe26 - 580
6.chiv30 - carbon crutches and epo - 480
7.shutuplegs - Avengers:Age of Nick! - 410
8.The Domestique - The Domestique - 310
The doctor had a fantastic Strade Bianche and has moved halfway up the table.
Women didn't race today
At last a few more womens points, with 4,7,8
Also 3rd and 5th in Roma, and 3rd place for Meersman
Just Colbrelli for me today, but Lizzie Armitstead won the ladies.
I'm now 6th in Boys, 5th in Girls. It's all downhill from here.
1. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay 1580
2. raysilvester1 Big Rays Riders 921
3. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 850
Pure fantasy Pure fantasy 850
5. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 750
6. drheaton Mostly Hopeless 640
7. chiv30 carbon crutches and epo 526
8. The Domestique The Domestique 475
9. shutuplegs Avengers:Age of Nick! 420
Womens update
1. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay Femennile 730
2. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 630
3. Pure fantasy Pure fantasy women 620
4. shutuplegs Ladies 1st 390
5. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 190
The Domestique The Domestique 190
7. drheaton Right-handed OuOuOranges 80
Ooh - they do combined rankings - http://pdcvds.com/teamscombined.php?mw=0&y=2014
I'm overall first in the women's game - I know nothing about womens' cycling
Results after Paris Nice and the womens' races at the weekend
Men
1. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay 1695
2. Pure fantasy Pure fantasy 1175
3. drheaton Mostly Hopeless 1005
4. raysilvester1 Big Rays Riders 967
5. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 885
6. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 785
7. chiv30 carbon crutches and epo 719
8. The Domestique The Domestique 586
9. shutuplegs Avengers:Age of Nick! 467
Women
1. Twybaydos Topsport Torquay Femennile 2185
2. Ghedebrav Voodoo All Stars 1605
3. Pure fantasy Pure fantasy women 1220
4. shutuplegs Ladies 1st 1195
5. TERatcliffe26 TERatcliffe26 1005
6. drheaton Right-handed OuOuOranges 695
7. The Domestique The Domestique 515
Combined (a count-back of overall place in each game rather than total score):
1. Twybaydos 29
2. PureFantasy 193
3. Ghedebrav 196
4. drheaton 312
5. TERatcliffe26 351
6. shutuplegs 397
7. The Domestique 467
Crikey Twybaydos, you're creaming us.
Nice to get going though and finally get some points on the board. Annoyed that Kwiatowski hasn't managed to keep up in Tirreno, was hoping for a nice haul of points there.
3, 4, 8 in MSR. Better than my roadcc team!
I was wondering if Swift was a good choice but came up trumps today! Lobato looks like a good choice as well if he can come 4th in that. Modolo earnt his keep as well.
Now I need Porte and TvG to do something in Catalonia.
6 and 8 for me, not too bad
Better for my women, 5th in one race (the one that scores more points) and 1st and 2nd in the other
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