Top 100 rankings | Complete rankings
Top 100 rankings | Complete rankings
In a game which has been dominated by participants from The Netherlands, Michael Botzet is the first non-Dutch winner. His total of 743 points is only six points short of the game record of 749 set by Kees Winder (The Netherlands) in 1997. However, the 1997 edition of the Tour de France included one more stage than this edition. The all-time lowest score of Erik Waal (The Netherlands) was not threatened in this edition. The final place in the game was acquired by Dwarshuis of The Netherlands with 65 points which is somewhat more than Waal's 1996 record of 39 points.
Congratulations to Michael Botzet and the other participants that did well can be put in the TdF Game guestbook: read | write.
Of the 180 cyclists that have started this edition of the Tour, only 39 have failed to arrive in Paris. This is a record low in the history of the game. On average about 70 cyclists drop out during the race. Until this edition, 1994 was the best edition with only 58 cyclists failing to reach Paris.
Despite the low number of dropouts, no participant has managed to arrive in Paris with a complete team this year. Four people have restricted their loss to one cyclist: Atletico Bintang (Italy, finished 797th), Ken Eato (USA, 598th), Steward Craig (Antarctica, 781st) and W.A. Kortleever (The Netherlands, 513th). The participants that have suffered most from this year's dropouts have lost nine riders. They are Justitian (The Netherlands, 280th), Mart Vrijmoed (The Netherlands, 445th), Martijn Wertwijn (The Netherlands, 617th) and Paolo Quaglia (Belgium, 526th). Strangely enough the teams that have most cyclists have done better in the game on average than teams that have lost the least number of cyclists. The smallest team to arrive in Paris is the one of Rui Silva (Portugal, 758th): five cyclists are left of his original nine-men team. Game winner Michael Botzet arrived in Paris with eight of his fifteen-men team.
At the first rest day I presented three average country teams and compared their scores with the overall average team Jan Modaal. The final results of the teams are as follows:
place points 149. 616 Team UK 191. 600 Team USA 219. 589 Jan Modaal 299. 566 Dutch Team
Of the three countries that have been examined the participants from the United Kingdom have been the best in constructing a fantasy team. Their team has acquired more points than the other two teams and was also better than the average participant team Jan Modaal.
In the remarks made at the second rest day, I have presented a scoring system for the three jersey rankings in the Tour de France. After the final stage the top ten for these jersey rankings are as follows:
Top ten yellow jersey rankings after stage 20
1. 65 Boet Kokke (The Netherlands)
2. 64 Kris Stapleton (USA)
3. 60 Oliver Choo (Canada)
4. 59 The Toumaster (The Netherlands)
59 Tony Tullio (Canada)
6. 58 Albert Viale (Spain)
58 Karen Bayne (USA)
58 Wouter Olivier (The Netherlands)
9. 57 Marie Holjer (Sweden)
57 Pascal Arts (The Netherlands)
Top ten green jersey rankings after stage 20
1. 84 Gosse Darbe (The Netherlands)
2. 80 Jeroen Van Koert (Australia)
3. 79 Rien Post (The Netherlands)
4. 78 Mike Johanson (USA)
5. 77 Anton Cozijnsen (Australia)
77 Carlos Girao (Portugal)
77 Herman Klaassen (The Netherlands)
77 Jose Maria Olazabel Da Silva Smith Jr. (Mozambique)
9. 75 Eric van Balkum (The Netherlands)
75 Erik Raeymaekers (Belgium)
75 Matz Venga (The Netherlands)
75 Roine Söderström (Sweden)
Top ten polka dot jersey rankings after stage 20
1. 55 Boet Kokke (The Netherlands)
2. 54 Carrotman (The Netherlands)
3. 53 K. van Hoof (The Netherlands)
4. 52 Kris Stapleton (USA)
5. 50 Tony Tullio (Canada)
6. 48 Peter van Gils (The Netherlands)
48 W.A. Kortleever (The Netherlands)
8. 47 Oliver Choo (Canada)
9. 46 Dirk Kissing (The Netherlands)
10. 45 M.J.C. Kortleever (The Netherlands)
45 Mark Biggs (USA)
45 Paulissen (Belgium)
45 The Toumaster (The Netherlands)
Michael Botzet has won the game in the third year that he participated. In the previous two editions he finished between the 200th and the 400th spot. It is difficult to perform well in different editions of the game. Shane Moore (Ireland) is the only top twenty ranked player of last year (6th) that has managed to finish within the top twenty this year (19th). The only other player that has managed back-to-back top twenty positions in this game is Wilko Zweers (The Netherlands): 15th in 1995 and 5th in 1996. Here are the 1999 results of other players that have done well in the game (position and score):
12. 707 Erix Schokker (New Zealand/The N.) won stages in 4 editions 37. 675 Dick Blom (The Netherlands) stage score record holder 41. 673 Klaas Reijne (The Netherlands) second in 1996 48. 670 Rob Spaans (The Netherlands) third in 1998 91. 534 Bas Zwaan (The Netherlands) third in 1995 127. 625 Wim Hoefs (The Netherlands) third in 1997 133. 624 Frank Koper (The Netherlands) 1995 winner 284. 572 Hans Splinter (The Netherlands) third in 1998 336. 553 Tako Molanus (The Netherlands) 1998 winner 361. 545 Lee Rusk (USA) second in 1998
Seven of these ten participants finished within the top 150. The other three finished outside this group but within the top half.
The optimal team for the game can be found on a separate page.