An optimal team for the Internet Tour de France Game 2000 is a team that would have achieved the highest possible number of points in this edition of the game. There are different teams that achieve the same score so the team presented here is not unique. I cannot guarantee that the team shown here cannot be improved so if you are able to construct a team that achieves more points you can send it to erikt@stp.ling.uu.se . Please include the score of your team.
The team presented here would have achieved 730 points. Game winner E. Gaas has obtained 525 points.
Name | Stage results in top ten
1. L. Armstrong | 6x: 2 2 7 4 8 1* 2. E. Zabel | 8x: 3 2* 3 5 10 2* 1 2* 3. C. Moreau | 7x: 8 10 6 9 9 10 3* 4. R. Vainsteins | 7x: 9 9 4* 6 8 4* 3 5. S. Botero | 6x: 2 5* 1 6 10 9 6. R. McEwen | 5x: 6* 6* 5 2 8 7. R. Virenque | 5x: 4 7* 5 10 1 8. R. Heras | 5x: 7 6 8* 3 3 9. J. Beloki | 5x: 9* 3 10 5 5 10. E. Magnien | 4x: 10* 3 8 6 11. S. Commesso | 4x: 5 8 1 9 12. S. Zanini | 4x: 3 8 9 1 13. J. Ullrich | 4x: 4 9 2 2 14. F. Escartin | 4x: 6 4 8 4 15. A. Piziks | 4x: 5 8 7 10
A cyclist gets (16-his place) points if he finishes within the top 10 of a stage. Bonus points are awarded if the place of the cyclist in the team is equal to his place in a stage (3 points for a top 3 cyclist and 2 for the other top 10 cyclists). Behind each cyclist you will find the number of times that he finished in the top-10 and the rankings he has achieved. If the cyclist has finished at the same place as his place in the list, a star is appended to the place.
Here is the score sheet for this team. It contains the scores per cyclist per stage:
tot 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
1. L. Armstrong 93 . . . . . . 15 . 15 . 15 15 15 . . 18 . .
2. E. Zabel 121 14 17 . 14 . 14 . 14 . . . . . 17 . . 14 17
3. C. Moreau 94 . . . . . . 13 . 13 . 13 13 13 13 . 16 . .
4. R. Vainsteins 88 12 12 . 14 . 12 . . . . . . . 12 . . 14 12
5. S. Botero 68 . . . . . . . 11 13 . 11 11 11 . . 11 . .
6. R. McEwen 54 . 12 . . . . . . . 12 . . . 10 . . 10 10
7. R. Virenque 47 . . . . . . 9 . 11 . 9 9 9 . . . . .
8. R. Heras 42 . . . . . . 8 . 8 . 10 8 8 . . . . .
9. J. Beloki 37 . . . . . . 9 . 7 . 7 . 7 . . 7 . .
10. E. Magnien 26 . 8 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6
11. S. Commesso 20 . 5 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . 5
12. S. Zanini 16 . 4 . 4 . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . 4
13. J. Ullrich 12 . . . . . . . . 3 . 3 . 3 . . 3 . .
14. F. Escartin 8 . . . . . . 2 . . . 2 2 2 . . . . .
15. A. Piziks 4 . . 1 . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . 1 1
Points: 730 26 58 12 32 0 31 56 25 70 12 70 58 68 52 5 55 45 55
Percentiles: 100 19 77 98 87 0 99 98 97100 73 99 99100 99 86 98 88 99
This team would have won 3 stages in the game: stages 12, 16 and 17.
Apart from the 15 cyclists of this team, the following cyclists finished in the stage top tens:
Name | Stage results in top ten
. F. Rodriguez | 3x: 4 3 4 . E. Dekker | 3x: 1 1 1 . M. Pantani | 3x: 1 3 1 . M. Wust | 3x: 2 1 2 . J. Koerts | 3x: 4 7 7 . G. Trentin | 3x: 4 7 10 . V. Garcia | 2x: 3 1 . J. Jimenez | 2x: 3 2 . F. Mancebo | 2x: 5 8 . M. Beltran | 2x: 5 9 . P. Bettini | 2x: 6 1 . D. Nardello | 2x: 5 8 . T. Steels | 2x: 1 4 . M. van Heeswijk | 2x: 5 5 . A. Vinokourov | 2x: 6 2 . C. Agnolutto | 2x: 1 9 . M. Mori | 2x: 7 6 . D. Pieri | 2x: 10 5 . S. Knaven | 2x: 4 7 . D. Millar | 2x: 4 7 . M. Aerts | 2x: 8 6 . J. Durand | 2x: 9 3 . E. Cassani | 2x: 9 7 . P. Herve | 2x: 3 6 . N. Larsen | 2x: 9 6 . S. O'Grady | 2x: 5 8 . Z. Klemencic | 2x: 5 10 . D. Rous | 2x: 7 4 . T. Hamilton | 1x: 4 . G. Hincapie | 1x: 9 . A. Zulle | 1x: 10 . J. Arrieta | 1x: 10 . J. Ochoa | 1x: 1 . J. Vidal | 1x: 3 . M. Bartoli | 1x: 9 . L. van Bon | 1x: 1 . M. Wauters | 1x: 10 . M. Zberg | 1x: 2 . L. Jalabert | 1x: 6 . D. Etxebarria | 1x: 7 . N. Jalabert | 1x: 2 . A. Elli | 1x: 6 . J. Kirsipuu | 1x: 8 . P. Savoldelli | 1x: 2 . G. Magnusson | 1x: 10 . M. Lelli | 1x: 7 . N. Mattan | 1x: 9 . R. Verbrugghe | 1x: 3 . T. Marichal | 1x: 8 . G. Verheyen | 1x: 2 . S. Heulot | 1x: 5 . X. Jan | 1x: 2 . C. Mengin | 1x: 10 . J. Blijlevens | 1x: 3 . B. Voskamp | 1x: 6 . B. Hamburger | 1x: 10 . M. Sandstod | 1x: 10 . F. Gougot | 1x: 7 . A. Morin | 1x: 8 . J. Voigt | 1x: 4 . M. Radaelli | 1x: 8 . J. Robin | 1x: 5 . D. Nazon | 1x: 6 . O. Perraudeau | 1x: 9