An optimal team for the Internet Tour de France Game 2001 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 overall score of your team.
The team presented here would have earned 789 points. Game winner Reinier van Olderen has obtained 651 points. The team format has benefited from a suggestion of David Marshall (Australia) which enabled it to obtain an extra point.
Name | Stage results in top ten
1. L. Armstrong | 7x: 10 1* 1* 3 1* 4 1* 2. S. O'Grady | 9x: 5 8 5 5 6 9 7 2* 3 3. J. Beloki | 6x: 3* 3* 7 3* 6 6 4. E. Zabel | 7x: 1 4* 4* 8 6 1 2 5. D. Nazon | 7x: 3 2 5* 10 5* 7 6 6. S. Teutenberg | 5x: 6* 6* 10 4 4 7. J. Ullrich | 6x: 2 2 4 2 3 3 8. I. Gonzalez | 5x: 8* 6 6 10 2 9. A. Petacchi | 6x: 5 9* 3 9* 6 5 10. C. Capelle | 5x: 7 8 10* 9 10* 11. R. Laiseka | 4x: 9 4 2 1 12. O. Sevilla | 4x: 5 5 6 7 13. J. Svorada | 4x: 3 4 5 1 14. L. Jalabert | 3x: 1 1 7 15. D. Etxebarria | 3x: 6 2 5
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 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1. L. Armstrong 117 . 15 . . . . . 18 18 15 18 15 . . . 18 . .
2. S. O'Grady 129 14 . 14 14 . 14 14 . . . . . . 14 14 . 17 14
3. J. Beloki 87 . . . . . . . 16 16 13 16 13 . . . 13 . .
4. E. Zabel 88 . 12 . 14 . . 14 . . . . . . 12 12 . 12 12
5. D. Nazon 81 . . 11 11 . . 13 . . . . . . 11 13 . 11 11
6. S. Teutenberg 54 . . 12 . . 12 10 . . . . . . . . . 10 10
7. J. Ullrich 54 . . . . . . . 9 9 9 9 9 . . . 9 . .
8. I. Gonzalez 42 . . . . . . . 10 8 . 8 8 . . . 8 . .
9. A. Petacchi 46 . . 7 . . . 9 . . . . . 7 . 9 . 7 7
10. C. Capelle 34 . 6 . 6 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . 6 8
11. R. Laiseka 20 . . . . . . . 5 5 5 . 5 . . . . . .
12. O. Sevilla 16 . . . . . . . 4 4 4 . 4 . . . . . .
13. J. Svorada 12 . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . 3 3
14. L. Jalabert 6 . . 2 . 2 . . . . . 2 . . . . . . .
15. D. Etxebarria 3 . . . . 1 . 1 . . 1 . . . . . . . .
Points: 789 14 33 46 48 3 26 61 62 60 47 53 54 7 37 59 48 66 65
Percentiles: 100 73 83 99 82 50 97100 95 89 79 89 94 75 99 98 78 97 99
The team top ten is a nice mix of sprinters (O'Grady, Zabel, Nazon, Teutenberg, Petacchi and Capelle) and GC contenders (Armstrong, Beloki, Ullrich and Gonzalez). The team of game winner Reinier van Olderen contains eight of these ten cyclists. This optimal team would have done reasonably well in all stages rather than very well in a few stages. The team would have won one stage in the game: stage 9.
Apart from the 15 cyclists of this team, the following cyclists finished in the stage top tens:
Name | Stage results in top ten
. A. Vinokourov | 3x: 7 10 9 . S. Garzelli | 3x: 3 10 5 . S. Botero | 3x: 7 8 8 . F. Bouyer | 3x: 8 10 8 . J. Casper | 3x: 6 10 8 . R. Vainsteins | 3x: 10 8 3 . R. Heras | 2x: 4 5 . M. Serrano | 2x: 8 5 . C. Moreau | 2x: 4 8 . I. Basso | 2x: 8 5 . M. Boogerd | 2x: 9 7 . E. Dekker | 2x: 10 1 . M. Wauters | 2x: 1 4 . R. Verbrugghe | 2x: 7 1 . S. Baguet | 2x: 9 1 . G. Mikhailov | 2x: 6 7 . A. Kivilev | 2x: 10 9 . N. Mattan | 2x: 7 5 . J. Voigt | 2x: 2 1 . L. Roux | 2x: 3 7 . J.E. Gutierrez | 2x: 8 10 . D. Rous | 2x: 8 4 . L. Dierckxsens | 2x: 2 9 . R. Hunter | 2x: 3 7 . B. McGee | 2x: 3 2 . S. Knaven | 2x: 4 3 . A. Sivakov | 2x: 9 8 . L. Perez | 1x: 5 . A. Pretot | 1x: 2 . F. Baldato | 1x: 4 . W. Belli | 1x: 2 . S. Ivanov | 1x: 1 . N. Loda | 1x: 10 . M. Tossato | 1x: 9 . B. de Groot | 1x: 8 . P. Van Hyfte | 1x: 9 . I. Cuesta | 1x: 4 . M. Lelli | 1x: 3 . D. Nardello | 1x: 10 . P. Bettini | 1x: 7 . D. Bramati | 1x: 6 . F. Mancebo | 1x: 6 . L. Piepoli | 1x: 10 . B. Julich | 1x: 7 . I. Chaurreau | 1x: 9 . A. Botcharov | 1x: 3 . J. Kirsipuu | 1x: 1 . N. Jalabert | 1x: 6 . J. Piil | 1x: 2 . N. Sorensen | 1x: 4 . L. Brochard | 1x: 8 . E. Seigneur | 1x: 7 . F. Cardenas | 1x: 1 . Ai. Gonzalez | 1x: 2 . S. Chavanel | 1x: 4 . F. Simon | 1x: 5 . M. Serpellini | 1x: 9 . M. Pinotti | 1x: 2 . S. Montgomery | 1x: 9 . J. Durand | 1x: 7 . E. Magnien | 1x: 2 . M. Milesi | 1x: 9 . F. Rodriguez | 1x: 4 . M. van Heeswijk | 1x: 9 . S. Heulot | 1x: 6