Road Cycling - Fantasy de France

My friends are all glued to their fantasy football and fantasy basketball stats. It has started me kicking around the idea of a fantasy Tour de France. You could have a draft to pick your teams, and as the race progresses your team fares as well as your riders' stats. Does this exist? I have never heard of one, but I don't pay a lot of attention to racing because I cannot afford the euro magazines, I don't have cable to watch any racing at all, and I cannot pronounce most of the riders names.

Before the grand tours, I dont know about other races, but velonews.com does a fantasy tour/giro/vuelta. I dont know how you pick people or the rules but I know they have one.

Cyclingnews.com also does one before each of the grand tours. I believe it's $7-8 dollars and you can modify the members of your team up until the 5th stage in case they drop out or generally suck. Plus you don't have to pay until about the 5th stage either, so it's kind of a risk-free trial, and you can have as many teams as you want.

The way their game works you have 9,000 UCI points to pick your team from, and you choose 15 riders, and then for each stage you pick the 9 that you want to score that day, keeping in mind mountain and sprint points as well as GC.

It's kind of fun, I did it for the Vuelta this year. My team didn't do so well though, a bunch of them went home early but after the cutoff to change the team so I was kind of stuck...:(

Performance bike has had a free one for the last 3 or 4 years. It's for the 3 major tours only, I think. Top prize is a bike. One year I was in 5th place at the end of the first week, but I've never come close to winning overall!
http://www.performancebike.com/inform/fantasy/index.cfm

Yeah, and there was some guy who used to spam one of the road cycling sites last year with one. Haven't heard much from him since, so I'm assuming either he gave up, or got booted.

I'd like to do a spring classic fantasy game. I'd be willing to organize it. It should be simple to score. Pick 5 riders and whoever has the highest combined race placings wins. i.e. if your riders finished 1,2,3,4,5 you'd have 15 points for that race.

I'd like to do a spring classic fantasy game. I'd be willing to organize it. It should be simple to score. Pick 5 riders and whoever has the highest combined race placings wins. i.e. if your riders finished 1,2,3,4,5 you'd have 15 points for that race.

How about we pick ten riders and then choose 5 out of those ten for the points after each classic? So your ten riders doesn't change for the entire spring, Milan-San Remo thru Liege-Bastogne-Liege, but after each classic you can choose the 5 from your ten that will give you the best results?

That's kinda how Cyclingnews.com does their Fantasy Tours-you pick 12 riders, then after each stage you get points for the top nine finishers plus bonus points if you pick the winner and more bonus points if you pick the leaders jersey, in this case it would be the World Cup jersey.

Either way, if you organize it, they will come.

check out fantasybikerace.com

All three Grand Tours and the World Cup (including the Belgian Classics Ghent-Wevelgem and Fleche Wallone).

How about we pick ten riders and then choose 5 out of those ten for the points after each classic? So your ten riders doesn't change for the entire spring, Milan-San Remo thru Liege-Bastogne-Liege, but after each classic you can choose the 5 from your ten that will give you the best results?
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Great idea.