2018 FSA DS Draft League: Tgartner is victorious!
Tgartner’s Dark Angel Velo is the winner of the 2018 draft league, with a score of 16,535, besting the second place Fausto Coppi’s Handsaw’s Where’s Points, HAL, by over 1,000 points. In some drama near the end of the season, fantasy cycling savant, TH WHISTLER’s It Makes No Difference (whom Holms picks) takes the 3rd podium position, besting randomeur’s The Guild of Futile Pursuers by 20 points, who can at least take solace in being victorious in Group A. Group B was won by tgartner and Group C by Fausto.
It was a tough year for the draft as a whole, as the collective ignorance teams did better than 25 of the draft teams. You can blame too much devotion to Ursula’s pricing this year, which left many good picks on the board as 1 or 2 pointers, or you can blame alcohol, but really why not both?
The maglia nera belongs to Pablo, whose all-Columbian draft strategy, even with Egan Bernal, did not quite work out. Vlaanderen90 saved face and defeated his zombie pursuer.
Even though no team in Group A could get on the podium, we were the champions of the monuments:
Milano-Sanremo - LooseHorse
Ronde van Vlaanderen - randomeur
Paris-Roubaix - DEdwards85
Liege-Bastogne-Liege - randomeur
Il Lombardia - Zombie Vlaanderen90
Grand Tours:
Giro d’Italia: Holmovka
Tour de France: frans verbiage
Vuelta a Espana: tgartner
Tgartner will be wearing the rainbow jersey next year in the road races, while Brad D will have it in the time trial.
Here’s the link to the final spreadsheet.
| Team | VDS | Score | |
| 1 | Dark Angel Velo | tgartner | 16535 |
| 2 | Where's Points, HAL | Fausto Coppi's Handsaw | 15515 |
| 3 | It Makes No Difference(whom Holms picks) | TH WHISTLER | 15029 |
| 4 | The Guild of Futile Pursuers | randomeur | 15009 |
| 5 | Aspiring Pod Bay Entrants | straw dog | 14268 |
| 6 | I'm just a Formolo, and everywhere I go | m_m | 13582 |
| 7 | "Look! Squirrels!" Ⓒ Holms | MOUA | 12988 |
| 8 | Ghosts of Intxausti | Vlaanderen90 | 12194 |
| 9 | Team Camsco | Camsco | 12111 |
| 10 | Team rmeloa | rmeloa | 12061 |
| 11 | Tuna N Eg Tacos | frans verbiage | 11851 |
| 12 | Zombie Vlaanderen | Zombie Vlaanderen90 | 11742 |
| 13 | Galloping out of the Woods and onto the beach, with a Hart afire, and some sick Theuns on the soundtrack, Charlton Heston becomes Mads and screams, "Jesus! What Haas you done, you dirty apes, you drafted Dani Moreno!" | shawnm4747 | 11581 |
| 14 | Tardy Stormdrafters | holmovka | 11462 |
| 15 | Vanishing Points | Aquatarkus | 11290 |
| 16 | Schizophrenia Rebels with a Cause | Kurt Stoebel | 10940 |
| 17 | Superman's Armee | CelticPride | 10932 |
| 18 | Team Puns are McLayme | Mjkittens | 10789 |
| 19 | Russian Dashcam Footage | sebastiandeluded | 10784 |
| 20 | Does this bike make my butt look fast? | SGT_vaniersel | 10468 |
| 21 | Anonymous Dauphine | rubesANdbabes | 10289 |
| 22 | Who Are These Guys? | yeehoo | 10185 |
| 23 | Train to Trento | LooseHorse | 10102 |
| 24 | Team msbee | msbee | 10020 |
| 25 | Wizards & Prophets | taustar | 9734 |
| 26 | KAMN An THOMAS, AR U SSCHERE we GANNA need a WARRENcy on this one? MARTIN, told me that we'll do BERTter than last year ‘cause we have TALL HAWK on board -€” and he's a BARGUIL | WzK | 9667 |
| 27 | Peter Sagan and the Coattail Riders | DEdwards85 | 9606 |
| 28 | Team Brad D | Brad D | 9206 |
| 29 | Old Age and Treachery | stubob | 9127 |
| 30 | Knowing Dries, Knowing Rui' - Benny & Bjorg Go It Alone | Larrick23 | 9125 |
| 31 | Team aubievegas | aubievegas | 8804 |
| 32 | HAL | Draft Bot 9000 | 8756 |
| 33 | The Kung in the Norf! | seemsez | 8599 |
| 34 | It's a Simple Question of Weight Ratios | timbasile | 8174 |
| 35 | Equipe de grandes esperanças | MrSneaky | 7725 |
| 36 | Pablo's Draft Team | pablo777 | 7545 |