An optimal team for the Internet Tour de France Game 1999 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 820 points. Game winner Michael Botzet has obtained 743 points.
Name | Stage results in top ten
1. M. Cipollini | 6x: 3 10 1* 1* 1* 1* 2. E. Zabel | 9x: 4 2* 2* 5 2* 8 7 3 2* 3. S. O'Grady | 10x: 9 3* 3* 6 8 2 9 8 10 4 4. T. Steels | 6x: 1 1 4* 2 1 8 5. A. Zulle | 6x: 2 2 4 2 10 2 6. G. Hincapie | 6x: 6* 5 9 6* 9 4 7. W. Belli | 5x: 4 6 10 7* 7* 8. S. Martinello | 5x: 8* 8* 7 5 3 9. C. Capelle | 5x: 7 8 7 9* 9* 10. G. Mondini | 5x: 10* 10* 8 1 10* 11. L. Armstrong | 5x: 1 1 5 4 1 12. R. McEwen | 5x: 7 4 9 2 1 13. J. Kirsipuu | 5x: 2 5 3 3 3 14. F. Simon | 4x: 10 10 2 6 15. A. Vinokourov | 4x: 3 4 10 3
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 the team:
tot 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1. M. Cipollini 102 15 15 18 18 18 18 . *
2. E. Zabel 138 14 17 17 14 17 . . . . 14 . . 14 . . 14 . . 17
3. S. O'Grady 136 13 16 16 13 13 13 13 . . . . . 13 . . . . 13 13
4. T. Steels 74 12 12 14 12 . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . 12
5. A. Zulle 66 . . . . . . 11 11 11 . . . . 11 11 . . 11 .
6. G. Hincapie 64 12 10 10 . 12 10 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . .
7. W. Belli 49 . . . . . . . . . 9 . . 9 9 11 . . 11 .
8. S. Martinello 44 10 10 . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . 8
9. C. Capelle 39 . . 7 7 . 7 . . . . . . 9 . . 9 . . .
10. G. Mondini 36 . . . . . . . . . 8 . . 8 . . 6 6 . 8
11. L. Armstrong 25 . . . . . . 5 5 5 . . . . 5 . . . 5 .
12. R. McEwen 20 . 4 . 4 . . . . . 4 . . . . . 4 . . 4
13. J. Kirsipuu 15 3 . 3 3 3 3 . *
14. F. Simon 8 2 . . . . 2 . . . . 2 . . . . . 2 . .
15. A. Vinokourov 4 . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . 1 1 1 . .
Points: 820 81 84 85 71 71 53 29 16 16 36 2 0 53 25 23 64 9 40 62
Percentiles: 100 92 95 99 77 93 93 67 23 34 98 78 0100 71 92 99 83 95 99
This team would have won one stage in the game: stage 14.
The other cyclists that finished in the top 10 of a stage are:
Name | Stage results in top ten
. J. Svorada | 4x: 7 10 4 5 . N. Minali | 4x: 4 6 7 9 . D. Nazon | 4x: 8 9 5 6 . L. Dufaux | 4x: 10 10 7 8 . A. Olano | 3x: 4 9 6 . R. Virenque | 3x: 6 6 3 . K. Van de Wouwer | 3x: 8 8 5 . F. Escartin | 3x: 3 3 1 . C. Contreras | 3x: 7 10 2 . J. Casper | 3x: 5 6 8 . L. Michaelsen | 3x: 10 6 6 . M. Lelli | 2x: 6 3 . D. Konyshev | 2x: 2 1 . A. Elli | 2x: 3 3 . S. Wesemann | 2x: 4 9 . P. Tonkov | 2x: 2 8 . D. Extebarria | 2x: 1 1 . S. Comesso | 2x: 1 7 . R. Verbrugghe | 2x: 5 5 . M. Piccoli | 2x: 3 4 . A. Casero | 2x: 6 4 . E. Aggiano | 2x: 9 9 . F. Garcia | 2x: 9 9 . A. Gonzalez | 2x: 7 8 . J. Voigt | 2x: 8 9 . M. Beltran | 2x: 5 9 . T. Hamilton | 2x: 5 3 . S. De Wolf | 1x: 4 . C. Lamour | 1x: 5 . R. Meier | 1x: 5 . S. Garzelli | 1x: 7 . R. Forconi | 1x: 7 . G. Guerini | 1x: 1 . J. Jaksche | 1x: 8 . G. Faresin | 1x: 2 . P. Lanfranchi | 1x: 4 . D. Nardello | 1x: 7 . M. Lotz | 1x: 8 . M. Serrano | 1x: 6 . I. Gotti | 1x: 4 . J. Durand | 1x: 5 . F. Bessy | 1x: 7 . P. Chanteur | 1x: 7 . M. Serpellini | 1x: 2 . L. Dierckxsens | 1x: 1 . J. Castelblanco | 1x: 5 . J. Rodriguez | 1x: 8 . F. Cerezo | 1x: 10 . C. Boardman | 1x: 6 . H. Vogels | 1x: 4 . L. Lefevre | 1x: 6 . C. Moreau | 1x: 3 . D. Rous | 1x: 10 . J. Robin | 1x: 2 . S. Heulot | 1x: 9 . C. Mengin | 1x: 6 . J. Arrieta | 1x: 5 . M. Pena | 1x: 7 . T. Bourguignon | 1x: 10 . C. Da Cruz | 1x: 5 . L. Lebreton | 1x: 9