jasimon wrote:Go Cuddles!
I don't have him in my team... but I considered it sort of a diversification strategy. If Cuddles goes well I feel good because he's Australian, if he doesn't at least I have my fantasy team performance to console myself with. (Of course Nick and Cameron are showing you can have your cake and eat it too - but I like to delude myself that I'm going to catch them through some stroke of genius later on.)
As much as I like Cadel, I try to choose my team on merit for the game. I considered him in the top 5 of being near the top on GC, so he was in my start team. Then he was a reasonable shot at stages 1 and competitive in stage 4 so I left him in, being happy enough to leave out Cav for stage 1. (Turns out if you picked the right GC contenders you could have done more of this, and thru to stage 4, but at that stage I was thinking that Petacchi wasn't out of calculations for stage 1)
So he then did well in stage 1, and no points were riding on stage two being the TTT, so I waited. Then it was evident he was likely to very well on stage 4 and likely to pick up the yellow jersey (but for the unbelievable ride by Hushovd), so didn't move him out for Cav for stage 3. I wanted to trade Feillu for Cav but I was 500k euro short - thankfully as it turns out. It would have been good for my team had Cadel got yellow, because I would have retained him through the next 3 sprint stages (incl bonus stage), and likely further, and had a trade up my sleeve. But it is good for Cadel that he doesn't have yellow, and hopefully Thor can retain it till the Pyrenees (hmm don't know) or it gets picked up by a breakaway on stage 8.
Todays trades: Gilbert and Evans out, Cavendish and Bozic in.