2011 FGBC Tour de France Pool

The pool is open for business. The official rosters have all been submitted and the FGBC Dept. of Hair Splitting has sorted through all the riders and assigned them with their respective values. Your task is to assemble a team by picking nine of them. This will allow you to follow along vicariously as the Tour presents us with three weeks of highs, lows and all manner of emotions in between.

Things are a little bit different this time around. So even if you have played before, please read through the following rules carefully, especially the criteria for assembling your team.

1. Pick a team of nine riders and send them here. Your team must be submitted before Saturday, 7am Winnipeg time (CDT).

2. Entry into the pool is free. Save your money for cyclocross races.

3. New for this year is a prize for the overall winner: a pair of the hot new FGBC wool socks.

4. The pool is open to all. Feel free to invite others to participate.

5. Points will be awarded based on the scoring system below (scroll down).

6. Any rider who is disqualified from the race for a doping violation (during the race) forfeits all his points. Survive the race and your points stay.

The list of riders can be found here.

Picking Riders: Here's where things get really different than in previous years. So please read these five criteria very, very carefully. This exercise will require some basic math skills and an understanding of simple logical operators (esp. "and," "or," and "not"). Past experience suggests that Criterion #3 will be especially tricky to navigate, since it requires the simultaneous negotiation of three different lists. I'm looking at you, Fraggle. Pay attention to the words in bold and it shouldn't be too hard. The timeline is tight. I won't have time to check over your teams for you. Screw it up badly and you might not get to play.

1. Pick two GC riders. Their combined values (the numbers to the right of the rider's name) must add up to eight or more. And no, the list of riders ranked as 7s is not a joke. If you elect to go with Contador, your other GC man must be one of these three.

2. Pick two sprinters. Combined values must add up to five or more.

3. TT Men, Climbers, and Stage Hunters - Pick one rider from each list. Their combined values must add up to seven or more.

4. Pick two Wild Cards. There are no values assigned to these guys. Pick any two from the list.


Scoring

Individual stages:

150
125
100
90
80
75
70
65
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5


Final GC:

600
500
400
350
300
275
250
225
200
175
150
135
120
105
90
75
60
45
30
15


Final Points Classification:

120
90
60
40
20


Final Mountains and Classification:

120
90
60
40
20


Final Young Rider Classification:

120
90
60
40
20