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.
OTRL prizes are in the post. Expect it to take 3 weeks (at least) to get to the USA. Hopefully they will arrive in one piece!
Fingers crossed it arrives safely! Many thanks for all your efforts!!!
Got back from vacation yesterday to find that my prize had arrived safely!!
Good to know that it has arrived safely.
Thanks to Teocalli for the time and effort it takes to put this on. Cycling is such a great sport to watch and participate in. If you look back on my past performance in this competition it has been miserable so it was fun to finally get some picks correct.Looking forward to next season.
Yup, you clearly bought the right crystal ball this year! Chapeau.
Thanks to Teocalli for all his hard work in making for a fun OTR season. We’d all watch these races anyway, but the OTR adds a little frisson of excitement to the proceedings.
This are a bit quieter at work for me so I’ll try and throw together some thoughts on stuff. I think I might have a couple on the boil.
@Haldy34 and @philplumb59, hopefully you received an email asking for your address for the OTRL Beer Glass prizes? If not maybe you could send me your address via the Contact Us form on the Soigneurs page. I’ll delete it from the site database as soon as received. Thanks.
Not that I can find, will drop that info on the Contact Us form now. Cheers!
Congrats to all the winners. Teocali, thanks for all the work that you do for the OTR league. The races are always more fun to watch when we have some skin in the game. I’m already looking forward to next year.
Hear! Hear!
Thanks Teocali for getting us in the races!
Yes, Thanks for all you do Teocalli and for all the rest of you for keeping this going…Good Times….
Final results for the season are (finally) in! Sthilzy and Teocalli share the win in Il Lomabrdi, both just nudging out of the collective Autobus. Teocalli takes a low key win in the Women’s Tour. Overall Philplumb59 has stormed the season, chapeau. Second is a tie between Wiscot and Teocalli. Third is Haldy34. Chapeau to all. I’ll be in touch via email to confirm addresses for the prizes of a Kwaremont Beer Glass to the top 3. Many thanks to everyone for your support through the season. I’ll try to think up some articles to keep things ticking over through… Read more »
Sweet! Squeaked out a result despite missing 2 of the races completely! Wohoo!
Always fun. But certainly there can’t be a tie for 2nd? Isn’t there photo finish technology to make a determination? Even if it’s just mm’s?
I think the first year we looked like having a close finish “the committee” (me) said it would be on count back of win flags – in which case Wiscot takes second. Also, when it come to podium prizes Teocalli is disqualified for alleged illegal drafting of the team car or some such similar device.
More like holding onto the team car a la The Shark!
Dang, I didn’t realise the heli-cam was up there……….
Phil: Thanks for the vote of confidence in picking me for 5th in Lombardia. I was so busy training for the race that I forgot to make my picks. I was in the lead group for at least the neutral start. Dan
Sorry I’m late, 5:30am Sat. my time, but here you are… Alaphilippe, Roglic, Pogacar, Evenepoel, and Nibali…
Oh, go on then!
Picks now open for Il Lombardia
As the dust from the weekend settles……..sorry…….as the mud from the weekend flows away. What a weekend. Well, 20 years wait for a wet Paris Roubaix and then it delivered a wet one with a vengeance! Chapeaux to every rider.
Overall DanCollins and Haldy34 share the cleanest jerseys in the men’s even and Philplumb59 has a pristine jersey in the femmes. Chapeaux.
In the Season Standings Philplumb59 maintains a firm grip on his crystal ball and is now cruising to a season win.
Math query…if I had 133 points, how did I get to 141, if I picked up 9 and 6 points in the mens and womens PR?
The running total is correct (I think), I made a complete balls up of copying over the scores into the PR results. Now fixed……..I hope……..
Similar question to @Haldy34. I previously had 131 points. I got 3 points for women’s Paris-Roubaix. 131 + 3 = 134. I’m showing only 132 points. Not that it makes a difference in the standings, but math is math FFS!
Per the reply to Haldy34………..
Picks open for Women’s Tour. Picks will be open today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday).
Hitting the deck before they even get to the first Cobble Sector. Going to be a hard day……
To finish first, first you have to finish.
Is disc pad wear going to end up being a factor? Who’d have guessed that would rear up to be a problem?
Holy crap! What a ride! 50+ miles solo, fending off a hard charging Vos. Fortune favors the brave it seems!
Trek must be hoping for a hat trick tomorrow: Nibali in the Tour of Sicily, Deignan at P-R Femmes, maybe Stuyven?
Lizzie can’t, can she?
YEEEESSSSS!
Forecast for Sunday? Messy. In other words, P-R is going to be a bigger crap shoot than usual. Can’t wait!
Philippe Gilbert “Whoever stays upright the best, will win Paris Roubaix”.
Given the apparent fallout in Belgium after the worlds I’m banking on Van Aert and Van der Poel marking each other out of it. I could go down in the Broom Wagon…….
Arg, spelled Asgreen wrong in my PR selection
Just ignore me, please. I changed picks enough that I just confused myself. Please replace my Valgren and put Asgreen in place for my #5 selection.
I pickup your last Picks – so that will be the Asgreen one.
I’ll open Paris-Roubaix (M&F) picks this evening.
Picks now open for Paris Roubaix
https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-road-world-championships-2021/men-under-23-road-race/results/
Alright! Chalk one up for Eritrea! Result!
And Baroncini’s blue Cinelli bike? Swoon!
Well, the WC Men’s RR isn’t on the OTR schedule, but here goes:
Wout
Magnus
Julian
Kasper
Mads
PhilPlumb59 takes another fine win in a bunch sprint for the finish of La Vuelta. Chapeau.
Overall PhilPlum59 maintains his season long fine form.
Good to see RobSandy back!
If Roglic had crashed out like he did TdF, PhilPlumb59 would’ve still won with a single point since he picked Mas in the top 5. 🙂
Just as well he didn’t, to show up our collective genius (or lack off!) on picks for minor places!
Interesting start to the Vuelta! Roglic on form. Nice to see Taaramae get red as that kind of win/publicity is incredibly important for smaller teams like Inter Marche. And then Jakobsen getting a sprint win! The jitters he has overcome to get back in the mix for sprints were immense. And that was a super fast sprint today. Chapeau Fabio!
Plenty to play for though!
Van Aert to win the Tour of Britain.
Well it looks like it’s Roglic’s to lose. Oh wait…………..
Seems like we’ve seen this before from him. This time was a better outcome.
It’s me! I’ve been meaning to drop by. Just entered some nonsense picks for the Vuelta.
Remco kicked ass today. Maybe the Giro failure will see a strong run in the last part of the season? P-R, Lombardy? He’s gotta be pretty fresh compared to some of the other legs out there.
So Froome was identified by French TV as a “randonneur.” Ouch.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/chris-froome-mistaken-for-leisure-cyclist-on-french-television-news/
I know he’s not been on top form, but . . .