OTR League
The On The Rivet League is open to registered members. It is a fantasy league of World Tour events (Men and Women). The OTR League will start with the Spring Classics and end with the Tour of the Falling Leaves (Giro de Lombardia).
Events will be scored 12, 9, 6, 4, 3 for correct picks in the first 5 places. A pick in the first 5 but not in the right place will score 1. No substitutions will be allowed once an event starts.
To change your picks simply submit a new set and we will pick up your latest set. Pick close at 00:00 UK time on the day of the event start.
End of season prizes pictured on the right – they may change if I find anything more fun on my travels through the season. There may also be a few spot prizes.
Spoiler alert – Femmes La Flèche Wallonne result
Picks are closed, but the race hasn’t started yet (~5pm my time in USA April 20), so I’m listing them here in case they are accepted. Got busy with a stupid all-day work thing, grumble grumble…
Cheers!
It’s fortunate that the committee is soft!
I’m not sure I can ignore Roglic and Pogacar………the finish up The Mur would be up their street if they are in contention. Choices, choices…….
Pogacar, Hirschi and UAE Team Emirates out of La Flèche Wallonne – bit of a shame for my changed picks!
Hmmm – looks like a couple of false positives amidst a number of negative tests for the two in question. Shame they can’t go with the science.
@Teocalli I am not sure if it is my ADD or my computer that continues to put my women’s picks under the men’s. I am going to blame the latter with full knowledge that it is likely the former. I believe my picks should be in order. Please let me know if you need me to update anything.
Ha Ha! It all looks good now.
Ok, I’m calling BS on the Amstel photo finish (*and not because it would have been better for me in the OTR League. Pidcock clearly had his tire ahead of van Aert’s on the line. Yeah, it was close, but I’ve seen closer.
GCN pick it up in here…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gj8UNw5TBE
Pending any protests for my transposition errors (and possibly your spelling!), PhilPlumb59 takes Amstel Gold Men while Sthilzy and Teocalli share the win for the Femmes. Chapeaux.
What a finish in the Men’s race!
Overall PhilPlumb59 remains out in the lead with a fairly tight pursuing bunch.
Don’t forget we have a midweek race in La Flèche Wallonne coming up.
Also, I have managed to source Kwaremont beer glasses for the 2021 prizes. The excitement builds!
I feel pretty bruised and bloodied after my picks in the men’s AG.
Double check Cycling Monk’s score, it seems like he should have more points – 3rd, 5th and a NITRO.
Ta – will take a look when I go down to my desktop.
One of those pesky training spaces again. Fixed thanks.
So Wiscot takes Rode van Vlaanderen Men in a 2 man sprint from Rick and in the Femmes Teocalli (woohoo that’s me!) takes it, nipping out from a bunch sprint. Chapeaux.
All subject to me spotting mistypes etc and my cockups transferring to the spring spreadsheet!
Overall still has PhilPlumb59 in the wind from MangoDave and Wiscot with a tight pursuing bunch following on.
With Paris Roubaix postponed we have a lull till Amstel Gold. I’ll have to get round to my Stelbel build update in the articles.
Question for the committee…I had 3 of the top 5 correct( Asgreen, Stuyven, Vanmarkce) but only got 2 points….
Yikes – looking now……ah one of those poxy spaces after Asgreen on your pick. Updating now.
Whoa! Not a lot of love for Asgreen today! Points allocated will be interesting!
And what’s with Elegant Q-S? What happened to Deceuninck?
Will do the points when I’ve drunk my morning coffee (and cake). Dang and I nearly picked him with MvdP second! Initially I did have MvdP second and then dithered. Must be a lesson there somewhere…….
From DQS web site…..
“Quick-Step! Elegant is Deceuninck’s ultimate window concept, a series that amazes through its technicality and design. No race more suited than the Ronde van Vlaanderen, the most iconic of the Flemish cobbled classics, to witness the launch of Deceuninck’s Elegant series in collaboration with our team, which has always aimed at displaying its quality and achieving the best possible results during the classics season”
I’m on a Belgian hot streak apparently…three flags in the results now. Guess the pressure is on to continue to the haul.
Well it looks like we are all being decisive with our picks for RVV…………
@Rick @Cycling Monk Stybar is out of RVV
And the most “out there” picks for Flanders goes to @Rick who has Annemiek van Vleuten winning the men’s race!
It is so hard to tell these days! It is all so confusing! Binary, nonbinary, whatever happened to the simpler time when there were only two genders?
Obviously, this is my mistake. I entered men’s picks and women’s picks, I just put the femmes picks in the wrong place.
Admins, let me know if you would like me to repost or if this error can be fixed manually. Sorry….and thanks Chuck for pointing it out.
@Rick – it saves me a bit of messing about if you could repost please.
Ok, I will be happy to do so.
Well, ref Dwars door Vlaanderen we mostly didn’t trouble the scorer (as is said in Cricket). Our total blushes were saved by CyclingMonk, Haldy34 and Sthilzy. Chapeau.
No surprises that there were no radical changes to the overall as a result of that!
Teocali: I received my prize for the podium finish last year. Thank you very much. It is definitely an upgrade from the baggie I use for carrying my phone. It will be put to good use right away!
Excellent!
Just saw the news tidbit that Trek is racing Dwars, but Pedersen isn’t. Some of you have him in your picks.
Thanks for this. I made an 11th hour morning of swap of Stuyven for Pedersen and hope the race committee will allow it.
No problems. You seem to have done it via the normal picks and that has a cutoff timer. So anything entered that way gets in.
Made no difference in my pathetic performance
Ha Ha – not sure any of us picked up much from Dwars!
Flippin heck! – entered picks into wrong race! Dwars door Vlaanderen is doned!Ronde van Vlaanderen ……..
I just did the same thing. Entered my Flanders picks in Dwars (I’d already picked for Dwars).
@Teocalli – Please ignore my second set of picks for Dwars. To be clear, these are my Dwars picks:
1 – MvdP
2 – Senechal
3 – Pedersen
4 – Nizzolo
5 – Trentin
I don’t know if it will be accepted by race committee, but I made a morning of substitution of Stuyven for Pedersen (kept all my other picks the same) since Pedersen isn’t starting. Different rider but same team so hope it counts.
@Teocalli Thanks for the prize from last season, got it today and no spoilers for the others, but it is exactly what I needed..!!…Thanks Again….
Excellent!
Bring back the black jersey! For years, the last man on GC in the Giro wore a black jersey. (I think they discontinued it in the 80s).Should be an easy emoticon/symbol to source.
Didn’t they discontinue it as folk were intentionally riding for it?
Yes! Giovanni Pinarello was the last “winner” of the Maglia Nera
So is there a Lanterne Rouge prize for OTRL? Because that’s what I’m vying for this year!
Ha Ha! I’ll have a think – though I seem to be heading that way myself!
So, pending me missing a few of the usual typos etc, results from last week are: e3 Saxo Bank Classic Haldy34 takes the win. Gent Wevelgem M is a tie between DanCollins and PhilPlumb34. Gent Wevelgem F is a tie between MangoDave and Wiscot. Chapeau to all. In the overall PhilPlumb59 has a tyre in front of MangoDave with Haldy34 in the wind ahead of the rest of the pack. So much for me going against the grain of favourites to make up ground sees me back in the AutoBus. Time for a regroup back here! Don’t forget we have… Read more »
Dwars door Vlaanderen picks now open. I’ll update results on Monday.
Doesn’t look like E3 will be a high scoring round at first glance…..
1 Kasper Asgreen (Den) Deceuninck-QuickStep
2 Florian Senechal (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep
3 Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix
4 Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team
5 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Deceuninck-QuickStep
I think a few of us get 1 point NITRO for MvdP.
I MIGHT snag the win with having VdP and Asgreen in my picks.
I’ll sort all the results over the weekend.
I think you will if you’re the only person who got two of the top 5. If only MvdP had finished fourth and I would’ve gotten him in the right place!
Holy cow! Have you seen the parcours for the next three Catalunya stages? Brutal. Even the last stage in Barcelona does laps of Montjuich. It’ll be a climber that wins. The sprinter boys might as well jack it in.
Esteban Chaves, the best smile in the pro peloton, just won today and for that I’m truly happy. He comes across as such a great guy in the Michelson-Scott videos. Well deserved and long overdue.
Hmm – lots of pick forms confusing me there as to which event was which! Cripes and I config’d the thing.
2020 Podium prizes are in transit. Had to substitute for the originally intended prizes.