2010 Rules and Guidelines

[golevigo]

1. Cost to play: $50
Private message Agent 86 for details.

**The Draft:
Make a list of 200 riders, in the order you want them drafted. List them like this:
Last Name, First Name
Ex: Valverde, Alejandro
Danielson, Tommy
Send a number between 1 and 100 in a private message to Kaiser on February 13. (determines draft order)
Send your completed draft list in a private message to Kaiser on February 20.

2. 2010 Schedule

1. Feb 27 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2. Feb 28 Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne
3. Mar 7 Paris-Nice
4. Mar 10 Tirreno-Adriatico
5. Mar 20 Milan-Sanremo [HHC]
6. Mar 22 Volta a Catalunya
7. Mar 28 Gent-Wevelgem
8. Apr 4 Tour of Flanders [HHC]
9. Apr 5 Tour of the Basque Country
10. Apr 11 Paris-Roubaix [HHC]
11. Apr 14 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon
12. Apr 18 Amstel Gold [HHC]
13. Apr 21 Fleche Wallone [HHC]
14. Apr 25 Liege-Bastone-Liege[HHC]
15. Apr 27 Tour de Romandie
16. May 8 Giro d'Italia [GT]
17. May 16 Tour of California
18. June 6 Dauphine Libere
19. June 12 Tour de Suisse
20. June 16 Ster Elektrotoer
21. July 3 Tour de France [GT]
22. July 31 Clasica San Sebastian
23. Aug 15 Vattenfall Classics
24. Aug 17 Eneco Tour
25. Aug 18 Tour of Ireland
26. Aug 22 GP Ouest France - Plouay
27. Aug 28 Vuelta a Espana [GT]
28. Aug 30 Tour of Missouri
29. Sept 29 World Championships [HHC]
30. Oct 10 Paris-Tours
31. Oct 16 Giro di Lombardia

3. Scoring
regular race aka, Semi-Classics, New Classics, other one day races
Overall:
1st: 50 pts
2nd: 35
3rd: 30
4th: 15
5th: 14
6th: 13
7th: 12
8th: 11
9th: 10
10th: 9
11th: 8
12th: 7
13th: 6
14th: 5
15th: 4
16th: 3
17th: 2
18th: 1
Bonus points: score 10 points for team with most riders in top 18

* Week Stage Races:

Individual Stages:
1st: 10
2nd: 5
3rd: 3
Stage Green/Mountains/Young: 5 pts each

Green Jersey: 10 pts
Mountains: 10 pts
Young Rider: 10 pts


HHC, Super Classics
1st: 75 pts
2nd: 50 pts
3rd: 35 pts
4th: 30 pts
5th: 25 pts
6th: 20 pts
7th: 15 pts
8th: 12 pts
9th: 10 pts
10th: 9
11th: 8
12th: 7
13th: 6
14th: 5
15th: 4
16th: 3
17th: 2
18th: 1
Bonus points: score 10 points for team with most riders in top 18


GT
Overall:
1st: 100 pts
2nd: 65
3rd: 40
4th: 25
5th: 20
6th: 19
7th: 18
8th: 17
9th: 16
10th: 15
11th: 14
12th: 13
13th: 12
14th: 11
15th: 10
16th: 9
17th: 8
18th: 7
19th: 6
20th: 5
21st: 4
22nd: 3
23rd: 2
24th: 1
Bonus points: score 25 points for team with most riders in top 24
Individual Stages:
1st: Giro/Vuelta 20 Tour de France 25
2nd: Giro/Vuelta 15 Tour de France 17
3rd: Giro/Vuelta 7 Tour de France 10


Giro d'Italia stages:
Pink: 5 pts
Points/Ciclamino: 5 pts
Mountains/Green: 5 pts
Young/White: 5 pts
Agressive: 5 pts

Tour de France stages:
Yellow: 10 pts
Green: 5 pts
Polka dot: 5 pts
White: 5 pts
Aggressive: 5 pts

Vuelta a Espana stages:
Red/Leader: 5 pts
White/Combined: 5 pts
Mountains: 5 pts
Green/Points: 5 pts
Agressive: 5 pts


4. No Team Time Trial Scoring

5. Post your roster in the corresponding race thread by midnight the night before the race.

6. Number of riders allowed per team in actual race is the same as the number allowed on your team (9 in a GT, 8 in all others) Also, list all your reserve or extra riders. There is no minimum number required to participate--if you only have 1 rider in a race, use him!
**Reserves
If you have more than the maximum number of riders allowed, you may list them as "reserves," but these riders do not score points and are not traded into the active field. Listed reserves can be slotted into races only on the day of the race, as if a rider on the non-reserve lists gets sick or is injured or is left at home a reserve at the race will be moved up according to the list provided, first reserve available will be inserted not who you pick after the fact.

7. Overall roster size: 30 riders

8. There are three (3) add/drop/trade periods where you can get rid of riders to add new ones, or you can trade riders with another manager. These periods are the week before (Mon-Fri) each grand tour (which each start on Saturdays).
** The week before the season opener on Feb 28 is also an add/drop/trade period.

9. Doping Consequences: If one of your riders is caught doping, he is suspended from competition until a B sample is confirmed. If and when this happens, any points he has accumulated during the season will be subtracted and standings and scoring will be adjusted accordingly. See the 2009 Giro and Tour threads to see this in action.


* End of Year Bonus Points:

Note: You must track your riders to be eligible for Bonus points. Don't wait to start tracking. You can use the race scoring recap threads to track the following information on your riders.

1. Rider Total Points. The total amount of points a rider earns in the season for all races rider enters, including GC points, Jersey Points, overall points, etc...

2. Rider Total Race Wins. The total amount of actual races a rider won, from Classics (one Day races), Week tour stages, GT stages, GC wins do not count, nor Jersey's.

3. Rider GT Total Wins. The total amount of GT's a riders wins. Again...not podiums and not jerseys....just overall win.

[Agent 86]

Rider Lists:

I keep hearing from the rookies mainly, "Where am I to find all the riders? I only know a handful of names! HELP!!!!"

Well I discovered this cool thing called the "Internet" I think some Democrat invented it but somebody else named it the "Inter-tubes"

Anyway, all I do in enter in the following in that box at the top: http://www.google.com
Then in its little box in the middle I enter the magic words: "$#*@*#*$"

Hey, they're magic!

Anyway after a few clicks and reading I found this to suit your lack of rider names:

Official UCI 2010 Team Lists: You can't get more official than that!
http://www.uci.ch/templates/BUILTIN-NOFRAMES/Template1/layout.asp?MenuId=MTU4MTU&LangId=1

But now what, that's a lot of rides how do I know how good they are? I don't want to pick a bunch of wheel suckers and domestices who never win a race in their career! There go my fifty green backs out the door!

Well that same site lists how good they did the previous year here! Note: it does not guarantee they'll be as good this year or that they are even racing 2010, you better cross reference with the list above if you want to be complete, hey no one said it was super easy!

UCI 2009 Rider Rankings
http://www.uci.ch/templates/BUILTIN-NOFRAMES/Template3/layout.asp?MenuId=MTU2MzU&LangId=1

Then there's even more!

Some of us like this site as it is pretty cool! They also rank the riders based on their own ranking system (you'll have to read their site for the specifics).

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/start.asp

What else? Well you can page through your google search and read other items to find additional info and data. Even visit the riders personal websites for extra info like if they just got a two year ban and won't be racing in 2010 (pst... Tom Zirbel, Danilo DiLuca). WikiPedia is very informative as well as people add extra details like the riders traits (sprinter, climber, grand tour rider, doper, ect...), even their birthdays if you're into that calendar karma stuff, numerology?

But most importantly!

Read http://www.chaoscyclingclub.com/forum its the most complete and detailed analysis of everything cycling! Don't believe me? Well post a question and you shall find out! Do it now! Don't hesitate as that will only prevent you from gaining the knowledge you seek.

So how what that?

[golevigo]

Guideline

Check out our schedule for this season and go back to see how these races looked last season. Especially observe what teams were invited to certain races, and always be familiar with the teams that your riders are on. We have 3 add/drop/trade periods this year, as opposed to only one last year (even though I think this expanded a bit with the supplemental drafts we had, which won't happen this year).
So along with the post-draft week you'll get to make changes to your new team, you'll have 3 more opportunities to add guys who you think will be relevant in the upcoming races until the next add/drop period. Put your Topsport-Vlaanderen or Lambourkredit sleeper (but not mine ) on your draft list, but drop him pre-Giro when the classics are over. Then you don't have to draft the Andalucia rider if you don't want to, so don't put him on your list - but write his name down and set it to the side, and hope he is still available the week before the Vuelta.

I didn't boost my roster enough prior to the Giro d'Italia last year. I didn't even enter the race with a full team, and I suffered a lot because of this. NEVER short yourself in a Grand Tour.

I know this is some strategy talk that doesn't have to be shared, but we're all about fun, inclusion, and clarity. Keep this stuff in mind as you're looking at large lists of guys who you think you might eventually put on your roster.

[velowalt]

screw inclusion, I want to win this year

[kimmi]

too bad for you, the Velocipedes are already on a downward spiral...and we haven't even had the draft.

[Timo]

screw inclusion, I want to win this year

Then you best draft Philippe Gilbert!

[golevigo]

Note the incorrect date for LBL on our schedule. I got these right off the cyclingnews calendar in January, I swear I didn't screw them up, and I wonder why they did. They're fixed now, listed below.

Amstel Gold - April 18
Fleche Wallone - April 21
Liege-Bastone-Liege - April 25

[Agent 86]

Note the incorrect date for LBL on our schedule. I got these right off the cyclingnews calendar in January, I swear I didn't screw them up, and I wonder why they did. They're fixed now, listed below.

Amstel Gold - April 18
Fleche Wallone - April 21
Liege-Bastone-Liege - April 25

WHAT! That changes everything!

[kimmi]

I say SEASON BAN for THE BUCKEYES on that one!

[kimmi]

Clarification question regarding bonus points...

see the Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne thread please

[golevigo]

Clarification question regarding bonus points...

see the Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne thread please

Clarification clarified.

see the KBK thread please

[golevigo]

Add / Drop / Trade Periods 2010 (so you know when they're coming)



Monday May 3 - Friday May 7 at 11:59 pm

Monday June 28 - Friday July 2 at 11:59 pm

Monday August 23 - Friday August 27 at 11:59 pm

[golevigo]

REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES, RACES GO ON AS SCHEDULED.

Feel free to list all your reserve riders, in case a rider on your start list drops out before the race for any reason.

HOWEVER, ONCE A ONE-DAY RACE BEGINS, ANY RIDER NOT LISTED AS A STARTER OR RESERVE CANNOT BE ADDED. The Tour de Chaos is not responsible for any points scored by riders that you left at home, regardless of the reason. Either it's bad luck, or it's bad playing by you. Either way, too bad.


**Note: If you do not have a full roster (or you forget to post a roster) in a week stage race or grand tour, you can add rider(s) from your team that you may have missed to your list until it is at maximum capacity. You will not get credit for any points scored by that rider before he was added, but he is free to score from the point of the add until the end of the race.

See the 2010 Tirreno Adriatico thread, and Team Word Up's situation, to see this in action.

[Agent 86]

Update

For Race Start lists Please refer to the following sites in any order but more than one:

UCI ProTour Races:
http://www.uci.ch/templates/UCI/UCI2/layout.asp?MenuId=MTUyMjQ&LangId=1

Cycling Fever Calendar:
http://www.cyclingfever.com/calendar.html

CyclingNews.com, Look for the race you want on the front page and click start list:
http://www.cyclingnews.com

Lastly, search for the Official Race web site: Search on google for "RaceName Start List 2010"
Here's some common ones:
http://www.letour.fr

more later...

[Agent 86]

Clarification on this rule:

9. Doping Consequences: If one of your riders is caught doping, he is suspended from competition until a B sample is confirmed. If and when this happens, any points he has accumulated during the season will be subtracted and standings and scoring will be adjusted accordingly. See the 2009 Giro and Tour threads to see this in action.

This is only for the races they're tested positive for right? Of course if subsequent samples from previous (other) races come up positive we deduct those as well or anything after the positive, but not anything before the positive test.

I call this the Ricco rule we hit back in '08, the Waffles gave up and had all of Ricco's points deducted but he only tested positive for the Giro not any of his previous races, so his previous points up until the Giro should of remained, as was later upheld in a subsequent TdC court case, which I forget who presented

[kimmi]

2. 2010 Schedule

1. Feb 27 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2. Feb 28 Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne
3. Mar 7 Paris-Nice
4. Mar 10 Tirreno-Adriatico
5. Mar 20 Milan-Sanremo [HHC]
6. Mar 22 Volta a Catalunya
7. Mar 28 Gent-Wevelgem
8. Apr 4 Tour of Flanders [HHC]
9. Apr 5 Tour of the Basque Country
10. Apr 11 Paris-Roubaix [HHC]
11. Apr 14 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon
12. Apr 18 Amstel Gold [HHC]
13. Apr 21 Fleche Wallone [HHC]
14. Apr 25 Liege-Bastone-Liege[HHC]
15. Apr 27 Tour de Romandie
16. May 8 Giro d'Italia [GT]
17. May 16 Tour of California
18. June 6 Dauphine Libere
19. June 12 Tour de Suisse
20. June 16 Ster Elektrotoer
21. July 3 Tour de France [GT]
22. July 31 Clasica San Sebastian
23. Aug 15 Vattenfall Classics
24. Aug 17 Eneco Tour
25. Aug 18 Tour of Ireland
26. Aug 22 GP Ouest France - Plouay
27. Aug 28 Vuelta a Espana [GT]
28. Aug 30 Tour of Missouri
29. Sept 29 World Championships [HHC]
30. Oct 10 Paris-Tours
31. Oct 16 Giro di Lombardia

to all you haters The Tour of Ireland #25 is no more

TOUR OF IRELAND CANCELED

[Agent 86]

2. 2010 Schedule

1. Feb 27 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2. Feb 28 Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne
3. Mar 7 Paris-Nice
4. Mar 10 Tirreno-Adriatico
5. Mar 20 Milan-Sanremo [HHC]
6. Mar 22 Volta a Catalunya
7. Mar 28 Gent-Wevelgem
8. Apr 4 Tour of Flanders [HHC]
9. Apr 5 Tour of the Basque Country
10. Apr 11 Paris-Roubaix [HHC]
11. Apr 14 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon
12. Apr 18 Amstel Gold [HHC]
13. Apr 21 Fleche Wallone [HHC]
14. Apr 25 Liege-Bastone-Liege[HHC]
15. Apr 27 Tour de Romandie
16. May 8 Giro d'Italia [GT]
17. May 16 Tour of California
18. June 6 Dauphine Libere
19. June 12 Tour de Suisse
20. June 16 Ster Elektrotoer
21. July 3 Tour de France [GT]
22. July 31 Clasica San Sebastian
23. Aug 15 Vattenfall Classics
24. Aug 17 Eneco Tour
25. Aug 18 Tour of Ireland CANCELED
26. Aug 22 GP Ouest France - Plouay
27. Aug 28 Vuelta a Espana [GT]
28. Aug 30 Tour of Missouri CANCELED
29. Sept 29 World Championships [HHC]
30. Oct 10 Paris-Tours
31. Oct 16 Giro di Lombardia

Updated the schedule, maybe we can add some local races in Spain

[mashjaja]

Next year, maybe we should add the Tour of Luxembourg?

[golevigo]

Next year, maybe we should add the Tour of Luxembourg?

Same wavelength, Mash! I looked at the startlist yesterday and thought, "golly, I didn't know there would be so many ProTour teams here."

It's got my vote.

[Agent 86]

Well I'd be for it if we still have cancellations, next year we should have backup races to keep the total to 30. If Missouri comes back it should be first if not the back up race?