What do you think in terms of time and average speed for stage 21? Such a time trial with 650 m ascent and descent was rare - 49 km/h sounds rather fast to me, although this tip would be at the end of the time window.

Do you also plan to make videos for the Vuelta? I would be happy to see more videos. I am particularly interested in the debriefing and your tips for the next day. Greetings from Bavaria

im new to this whole thing and have a few questions- whos the best My Stage Winner Bonus to go with for stage 17 and who are some good picks to go with that aren't obvious

Is there any other way to see how many trades a player has made besides going stage by stage and count them?

Poels v Madouas v Cort v Healy for my last rider? Ive gone with remco vingegaard poggi and have 14 stars to spend

Whats wrong men??, keep up the good job :) I miss your fantasy stats

New video soon?

Thanks for the videos ! Great work there. What’s your mind on Girmay ?

Thank you! I have the exact same team as you, no switches yet, and was contemplating Vinge for Philipsen. I guess I’ll follow your lead and hope the advantage in remaining switches will somehow bridge more than 1k points that I’m already trailing the #1 in my home league. 😅

So what is your rank in the world standings?

with doubts over mads i added another sprinter, greons and doubled him. philipson DQ seemed harsh but gave Mads more points :)

I captained phillipsen today but at least I own groene/girmay

Really nice video!! 😃

Thank you!

Joe, do you host a league some of us could throw our teams into? Thanks for putting these vids together

FDJ will go out for stage hunting in the third week. TotalEnergies is basically the only team that will go on these futile breakaways in week 1 just for media exposure. Of course Abrahamsen is a good bet to be in a break today, but apart from him and TE I don't see anyone else in the break in next two days. Much better stages for breaks are coming

I think Evenepoel for Pidcock is the right move. Remco is the favourite for the TT and he looks good for the GC. For the 2nd week probably changing Van Aert for Rodriguez. giving budget for someone for the breakaways

Do I trade Pidcock for Rodriguez? Edit: just heard what you said at the end

As it looks right now, I'll probably (if he doesn't play a major role in the sprints of stages 5+6) get rid of WvA after the TT where I expect him to do well. Still in the hunt at 25th currently, pondering whether to go aggressive on sprinter trades...

How do you download the results data?

🐌 overtook you :)

not sure tdf fantasy is particularly big but ur content is top quality help for playing the game / cycling insight.

Thank you for this series, awesome work!

Should not be breakaway points at all

Thank you. Next video is gonna be pretty important. Stay with the big guns? Drop second sprinter before we go into sprint heavy terrain after 4? And most importantly - who are the most likely guys to get lots of leading km until the end of the tour?

It will also be interesting to see what they count as a breakaway in mountain stages once the GC guys stay alone in the lead. For example tomorrow Pogačar can easily have 30+ points for breakaway alone. So it can even out a bit. Also rarely do we see a rider in more than 5 breaks per race, let alone 5 leading breaks. I like the new rule

Remco said he got caught in the second group once Yates(?) started pulling and the group split. Had to close the gap alone and the second he got on Pog launched. Said he took a breather before starting his chase, so the fact he dragged it all the way back is testament to his legs at this stage

Loving your videos so far! Any way you could share the spreadsheet you showed?

Thanks Joe.

Agreed 100%. Not sure how such balancing could slip through into release as some simpe math will instantly reveal the absurdness. Just take tomorrow's stage. A rider in front from km 0 to say 15km to go will gain more pts than the winner. I like the idea in general but 1pt per 5km would have been sufficient. It also takes away from the reward of genuinely successful picks like Vauquelin or Van den Broeck as it's not too much of a difference to picking, say, Jegat... Let's hope they change it next year. At least the racing itself has been great, cheers :)

Totally agree with the stance on the new rule. I think the breakaway point should be split between the number of riders on the breakway. That would be more fair and also benefit more the riders that break on their own or in small groups

Great work once again. Since your team is the same as mine, my plan is keeping the same team and on stage 4 (Galibier), we should bring Carapaz and Abrahamsen. Carapaz was good today, and Abrahamsen will be on the breakaway for the montain points. What do you think? And for the next stages we will have Phillipsen, Van Aert and Pedersen for the green jersey. And who knows if Abrahamsen doesnt fight a bit more for the green jersey too, since he´s the leader in that category. What do you think? Keep the good work buddy. Love from Portugal

Scroll down a bit I’m 15th global lol mainly thanks to abrahamsen. Not making him captain today is gonna keep me awake tho 😢 I just went safe

had oliviera in he breskaway :) this rule gives great interest for essentilly a wildcard on riders that its mabe the only tv time they get. great i think but work way better if we could transfer every day

The breakaway points are just too OP. The abrahamsen guy has more points just on breakaways than Pogacar has overall. 99% of races has breakaways and most them survive till at least 20/30km of the end. It’s a guess game based on how much the peloton actually lets those guys survive throughout the race. Now imagine people that actually have inside info on who will go for breakaways on a specific stage. They’re light years ahead of us.

bruh the cycling guys predictions are downright horrendous, no hate but i wouldnt advise trusting him

Watching this back after stage 1 is painful hahaha

These breakaway points bout to ruin the whole game..

damn we really fucked up by not picking abrahamsen and van der bruck. They stood out as well. Romo is also a good rider for only 7stars but i dont believe he will be in a lot of breaks, unlike abrahamsen. it is what it is tho.

These are excellent videos, watched them all from the first one ahead of the tour and looking forward to more - subscribed. Great strategic understanding/analysis! I was very surprised when they changed the rules this year: 1 pt for 1km in break is just insane imo. I got really lucky with my picks, currently at 26th overall in the game with the following team: Pog - obv (will probably swap him out for jacobsen for stages 5-13 for stage leader pts then back in) Remco - yellow + young rider pts, will be up there after stage 4, will get itt stage leader points. is swappable for lots of great gc guys in case he slips around stages 14-15 WvA - obv, gambled on him as my leader for stage 1, it paid off De Lie - my risky pick to save me on stage 3. it could go south but I want to come 1st not a solid 5000th :D. he looked really strong at nationals Pidcock - thought he might have a great start on stages 1+2. might survive stage 4 decently. yields young rider points. likely to be will swapped for pedersen before stage 5 Van den Broeck - my lucky pick. I just looked at procyclingstats and thought him to be massively underrated for 7 given that he can climb and is a young guy as well. also it was clear dsm would attack every non pancake flat stage in breaks Abrahamsen - like you also stated in your videos, a great aggressive rider, clearly undercosted at 7. did not expect it to go THIS well Gachinard - Lanterne rouge :D. If they're right, he might be quite valuable along the way. he can also get the odd young rider point accidently

i did similar bardet is/was one of my 10/12 list but of course didnt do it and went with pederson :) thats bardet done now tho at least

Do you put all the data yourself manually into the spreadsheet or is there a way to extract it ?

Keep the grind. Love your analysis. Went with the same team. Looking forward to see your next moves on fantasy

hi, why in the game my wout van aert has 302 points(with a x2) and in your spreadsheet has 182, is fantasy game bugged right? it makes no sense pogacar has 2 more points that wva

Congratulations on your channel and your tips. I joined your league. The important thing is to have fun!

Hello Joe, any advice for stage 2? 🤜🤛

As of now you wouldn’t be able to switch in vingegaard without downgrading on a second driver. That scares me a little in your main line up.

Great video. I'm a noob and your information was great! Thanks!

Hi, I know next to nothing about cycling, but love watching the Tour, and love playing fantasy competitions. So, if you have a private league would you mind posting the code? Thanks, Noel

shouldnt wout be the captain for first stage?