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.
So we’re all going to live or die on Carapaz for the Giro.
Well, it’s going well so far…………..or……………
Teocalli: I thought the Giro started Saturday. Other than the winner, I didn’t see the results of stage one. If I can still make my picks, they are 1. Carapaz, 2. Almeida, 3. Landa, 4. Bardet, and 5. G Martin. Thanks. Dan
OK will (try to remember to) pick those up at the end!
I can just imagine Carapaz looking at the picks here……..
“Oh noooo, they’ve all picked me for the win. I’m DOOOOOMED!”
Well, now that the Lanterne Rouge (me) has also picked Carapaz, his fate is sealed.
In the Tour de Romandie we have a tie between CyclingMonk and Wiscot, Chapeaux. The autobus was well formed behind the winners!
Overall CyclingMonk is looking a bit too strong for the chasing field.
The wheel seem to have fallen off my picks. I think I need to find a new coach!
Picks now open for The Giro.
Totally Delgado-ed Tour of Romandie because we were in the midst of listing our house, lots of showings, open house, accepting and offer, and putting it under contract.
what a ride by Vlasov…Stage 4 & 5 were very good…
Teocalli: For the Liege men, I believe Martinez finished in 4th place. A couple of us picked him, one of us in the 4th spot, but didn’t get points for that. 🙂
Ta will check.
Dang – name confusion again! Daniel Martinez Poveda (Col) Ineos Grenadiers
In Liege Bastogne Liege Timmy42850 saves our collective blushes with a fine win and in a strong finish Chuckp takes the win in the Femmes. Chapeaux.
CyclingMonk responds to the chasing bunch with a slight increase in temp in the overall.
All subject to protest etc………
I’ll hold the Tour of Romandie open till the morning UK time to give you folk in the US time to enter this evening (after midnight UK time). I hope I remember to close it tomorrow morning!
Wow! What a win for Remco! That attack was Merckx or Hinault-like. And to win by 48 seconds against a quality field. Maybe the Remco haters will pipe down a bit now. Big Lefevere must be a bit happier – but worried about Alaphilippe. That was a seriously nasty crash.
My picks were the usual rubbish – a few NITROs and that was it.
Yes, that was a big crash. A shout out of respect goes to Bardet, who gave up his race chances to help Alaphilippe.
We have 2 clear winners in La Fleche Wallone with Timmy42850 taking a strong win in the Femmes and Wiscot taking his second clear win in the Men. Chapeaux.
Overall CyclingMonk retains a strong lead and with Teocalli appearing to puncture we now have a loose chasing group for the remaining podium places. Still a long way to go though!
All subject to the usual cockups and protests!
Picks also open for Tour de Romandie
For those of y’all who have Pog down for LBL, he’s not showing on the start list on Pro Cycling Stats as of 0800 EDT this (Saturday) morning. https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/liege-bastogne-liege/2022/result/startlist
Yup. Cyclingnews is saying he pulled out due to a family emergency.
picks updated
I did not see that the picks were closed so early, so maybe I can have some grace with these being my picks
La Fleche Wallonne Men’s Picks:
Pogacar, Alaphilippe, Matthews, Cosnefroy, Vingegaard
La Fleche Wallonne Women’s Picks:
Longo Borghini, van Vleuten, Vollering, Cavalli, Niewiadoma
Yup I’ll put those in for you.
Teocalli: It looks like the results for the Men’s Paris Roubaix are not correct. Van der Poel did not finish in the top 5. He was 9th. Van Aert is the one who finished second.
Ooops! Will fix tomorrow – and there was me thinking I’d finally got one correct!!
Paris Roubaix sees Haldy34 take both races with a sterling effort. Chapeau.
Overall CyclingMonk continues to make the ace with some tightening of the chasing pack strung down the road in pursuit.
Wohoo!! Chuffed to have pulled off victory two weeks in a row!
So, corrected sees DanCollins take Paris Roubaix, Chapeau.
Little change overall.
I’ll get it right, sometime, soon, maybe………..
When do the Flèche Wallonne picks open up? Is the race on Wednesday of this week?
Doing it now……now open
Dang it – top 3 P-R but NITRO!
Two NITROs in each PR!
Another stupid spectator casing even more woes for Quick Step. If Cav shows any form at the Giro, I think they’ll pull him and send him to the Tour. They’ve had (by their standards) a piss-poor season. Just having Cav at the Tour and the possibility of #35 will get them plenty of PR. And if the wee man gets it, then its massive.
Vos out of P-R with a positive Covid test!
Uh … men’s and women’s Paris-Roubaix picks are combined
Ooops – config error on the page. Can you reenter your Femmes picks and I’ll then delete them from the Mens table. Ta.
I didn’t realise it was possible to do what I configured there! Good to know as it may be of use for something or other, sometime or other……..
Proudly DFL and lobbying for Lanterne Rouge prize!
Several of us should get another point for the Amstel women’s race, we didn’t spell Niewiadoma correctly.
In the UK we have a term for this…….Bollocks! Will pick up before I go zzzzzs.
Then again – please try harder with your spelling!
I don’t want to be prescriptive but the way my scoring spreadsheet works is only on surnames so I have to edit all names to the lowest common denominator when I copy over to the scoring spreadsheet and edit out first names etc and check spelling (badly!). It’s a bit manual and somewhat prone to error and my eyesight!
I’ve fixed the points- part of it seemed to be me not being able to read in straight lines in copying the results from the spreadsheet to the result table for the Men. Fixed the missing spelling in the Femmes. I need to adjust the flags for the men but will do that tomorrow.
I think the points are correct now. Hopefully!
Errr . . two points for me for the Amstel – VdP and Benoot in my top 5 but not in the right order.
Ahhhh….balls! I did notice your quirky spelling on VdP. Will check later when I’m by the other ‘puter thingy.
Must be something up with Benoot as Timmy42850 has the same.
Same for me.
OK will check in a bit
Not such a high scoring weekend for Amstel Gold. In the Mens’ race we pretty much all finished in the Autobus with Haldy34, Timmy42850 and Wiscot just nudging an extra gasp at the front of the Bus. In the Femmes we have a clear winner in Haldy34. Chapeaux. Just waiting on someone to spot my cockups for the week! (Now corrected) Overall we missed an opportunity to pull back some of CyclingMonk’s lead and the field is strung out down the road in pursuit. Picks now open for Paris Roubaix. Were some of the riders holding back last weekend for… Read more »
Also, I just saw that Vos is out of the Amstel Gold Femmes race this weekend.
Thanks for the heads up!
Also Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig. I just changed my women’s picks.
Ronde van Vlaanderen gives us two clear winners in Haldy34 in the Femmes and Timmy42850 pushes a tyre ahead of a bunch sprint. Chapeaux.
Overall CyclingMonk maintains his strong lead.
All pending my usual cock-ups!
That finish reminded me of the 1985 Liege Bastogne Liege when Roche and Criquelion were out in front with a 50-50 chance of winning and then started fannying about . . . until Moreno Argentin barrelled up behind them to steal the win. D’oh!!
Terrible racecraft from Pogacar. Totally boxed in. Strongest guy in the race too.
That race was really exciting to watch for this new cycling fan. Wild how van de Poel kept with Pogacar during those climbs when Pogacar was trying to pull away.
@Teocalli I think there might be some scoring discrepancies as I think I got 14 points in men along with the race winner flag since I had Stefan Kung and Pogacar in the wrong place with van de Poel winning. It looks like the women’s race also had some alternate spellings for Kopecky that gives Haldy and CyclingMonk an extra point.
Dang and I was thinking I’d not missed anything the week! Will fix this evening.
Somehow there was an error in the calc sheet for the mens race and it was only giving 11 for a win. Corrected. For the spelling I correct them (usually) in the excel sheet I use but I copy into the results table the spelling you folk enter. Though sometimes you manage to confuse the heck out of me and other times I just miss the spelling. I think the women’s is correct now too. I could be wrong……..!