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Fantasy Olympic Track Cycling
It was suggested a few months ago that some people on the forum might want to try a fantasy track cycling competition for the olympics.
The idea's simple, pick an athlete/team/nation for each track event and we score the results, the best overall result is the winner.
The ten olympic events are:
Men's Keirin
Men's Omnium
Men's sprint
Men's team pursuit
Men's team sprint
Women's Keirin
Women's Omnium
Women's sprint
Women's team pursuit
Women's team sprint
Schedule is here: http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/schedule-and-results/
Athlete details will be available here: http://www.london2012.com/cycling-track/athletes/
Deadline for entries is 8pm Wednesday 1st August.
Rules are:
1) Fantasy teams limited to one individual or team from any nationality i.e. you can't have more than one Brit or British team in your own team.
2) Scoring based on the Omnium where 1st scores 1, 2nd scores 2 etc down to 12th scoring 12. Any placing below 12th scores 12. Lowest overall score after 10 events is the winner.
3) DNFs, DQs or withdrawl's of an athlete count as finishing last and will score 12 points.
4) Where non-medal positions are not ranked (see 2008 men's team pursuit and team sprint) the time's from qualification will be used to rank teams for fantasy purposes.
5) Where it is not possible to rank a group of teams or individuals each will be given the score of the highest unranked position i.e. if 5-12 cannot be ranked by any of the above methods each will score 5 points.
6) Tie-breaks - first tie-break is number of Gold medal winners picked, then total medal winners picked then the lowest highest score i.e. one team has a highest event score of 8 (for 8th place), another has 10 (for 10th) then the winner is the team with the score of 8. Final tie-break is a coin-toss.
7) No prizes, although we could ask Dave nicely for a pair of socks 
Any questions/comments? Happy to tweak the rules/format as suggested.
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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Damn totally forgot to put a team in on this. Ah well.
Or in my case I have 2 out there, Awang and Irvine
Feel free to put one in for the last races if you like, will add you onto the spreadsheet and just award you max points for the first two races. I won't count you towards the overall but will include you in for fun.
Thats a bit harsh...altho the chinese were relegated thay were not dqd...and got silver... or am I missin something... and the gb ladies sprint were relegated too, not dqd... is this sour grapes?..
No, just joking really, the teams on 5 and 6 points would have been reversed had China won the gold and Germany come second, that's the point I was making really.
Good stuff. Russia in the men's TP are my hope to pick up some points later - should counteract the fact that I don't have any Chinese women in anything which was definitely a mistake! Thanks drh, doing this makes it (even) more exciting - I'll certainly be supporting Krupeckaite later on (whoever she is!)
Aye, today should shake things up, there's a load of different picks for the women's Keirin and there's a few different Team Pursuit nation's picked too, hoping for a good result from the New Zealand men and Olga Panarina who was my wildcard pick for the Keirin.
FWIW the order in qualifying was:
GB
Australia
New Zealand
Denmark
Russia
Spain
Columbia
Netherlands
Semi's are GB vs Denmark and Australia vs New Zealand but I have no idea how they work out who's going for bronze as wikipedia suggests that the fastest of the six teams not going into the gold medal match go into the bronze round rather than the losers of the semi's which means that in theory Russia can still come third but no higher and even though they're in the semi's New Zealand can still come 8th!
Just been trying to work it out...this from the BBC website - "Eight teams will take part in the first round on Friday, with the top two qualifying for the gold medal match and the next two battling for bronze."
Which would indicate that all 8 teams above will race between 16:18 and 16:43 this afternoon, but qualifying for the medal finals is solely on time. But its pursuit, so if you get caught, do you carry on riding to post a time? I don't really geddit.
I'll stop guessing now and just wait until this afternoon...
Olympics website and Wikipedia both say that the gold medal match will feature the winners of the two races between GB/Denmark and Australia/New Zealand but I agree, it's not clear.
ie, winners of the two semi's (the races between the fastest four teams, in this case GB v Denmark and Australia v New Zealand) go through to the gold medal race, fastest two of the remaining six teams go through to the bronze race.
Is it not, Time for the first 8, top 4 times go though, with 1/3 meeting each other and 2/4
Then its all about winning rather than time, Winners into gold and losers into bronze
Ok, maybe I was slightly off with my thoughts
Ignore me, i'm still confused by this
So I think I got last and dnq today....might be going for the stage wins now.
You got 3rd with NZ for the men's pursuit
Ah brilliant! my womens team pursuit is last and my womens kieran didn't go!
Its ok, I've dropped points on having Krupeckaite in the Keirin, best she can do is 7th
Well she got 7th ahead of the Russian in 8th which a few people had aswell
Holy crap, Mears home in 5th
I had 2nd though, and 1st for the mens pursuit, good day for me
I scored 8 points to your 3 then
drheaton, you should start another thread for points only and keep this for discussion because its getting a little crowded
:So I think I got last and dnq today....might be going for the stage wins now.
My fun team:
Men's Sprint: Bauge (FRA)
Men's Keirin: Awang (MAS)
Men's Omnium: Zachary Bell (CAN)
Women's Sprint: Anna Meares (AUS)
Women's Omnium: Sarah Hammer (USA)
Women's Team Pursuit: Great Britain (GBR)
Thanks drheaton!
Apologies, out on the lash tonight
will take a look at the scores in the morning! Don't know where Panarina finished but managed a creditable 3rd in the Team Pursuit.
Raleigh, will add you in with max scores for the first two days.
I can tell you.......She came 15th
Rank Athlete
1 PENDLETON Victoria
2 GUO Shuang
3 LEE Wai Sze
4 SANCHEZ Clara
5 MEARES Anna
6 SULLIVAN Monique
7 KRUPECKAITE Simona
8 GNIDENKO Ekaterina
9 LARREAL Daniela Grelui
10 VOGEL Kristina
11 HANSEN Natasha
12 KANIS Willy
13 GUERRA RODRIGUEZ Lisandra
13 SHULIKA Lyubov
15 PANARINA Olga
15 MUSTAPA Fatehah
17 GAVIRIA RENDON Juliana
17 LEE Hyejin
Oh dear, 12 points for that then
Will try and get some points up in a bit.
GRRRRR Doh!!!
bloody Russians, oh well shit happens........ another day tomorrow
OK, here's mine...
Men's Keirin - T Mulder (Hol)
Men's Omnium - E Viviani (Ita)
Men's Sprint - G Bauge (Fra)
Men's Team Pursuit - Russia
Men's Team Sprint - Germany
Women's Keirin - S Krupeckaite (Lith)
Women's Omnium - T Whitten (Can)
Women's Sprint - V Pendleton (GB)
Women's Team Pursuit - New Zealand
Women's Team Sprint - Australia
Can't wait til tomorrow...
Ok, I think I have mine sorted out....
Men's Keirin - Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysia)
Men's Omnium - Zachary Bell (Canada)
Men's Sprint - Gregory Bauge (France)
Men's Team Pursuit - Great Britain
Men's Team Sprint - New Zealand
Women's Keirin - Ekaterina Gnidenko (Russia)
Women's Omnium - Sarah Hammer (USA)
Women's Sprint - Simona Krupeckaitė (Lithunia)
Women's Team Pursuit - Australia
Women's Team Sprint - China
MIGHT not be my final line up as it is only 1 rider per country for all the sprint events, but the Olympics site had 2 for some
Another question that I don't know if it'll work. Say I pick Bauge as above, but he goes and wins another event, Do I get any bonuses
It's a good idea but no, I don't think so. It'll be too difficult to work out bonuses for events where you've picked Team GB or Australia and it'd mean everyone would pick Bauge, Mears, Hoy or Pendleton etc, basically any athlete competing in more than one event. As it stands there's no benefit to picking athlete's in two events so it encourages different selections.
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