Hello Pance Pickers! I hope you’re as excited as me for the 2018 Fantasy Tour de France! The clock is ticking for you to make your team selections at Velogames and then sign up to the trusty Tour de Pance league with the code - 09499413 - and then take on the might/shite of the Bile Beans.
Team selection this year is giving me even more sleepless nights than usual. There’s certainly some quality riders who will be lining up at the start on Saturday. It looked for a while like Chris Froome might not be racing, but now his inconvenient Adverse Analytical Finding has been swept under the carpet resolved with the support of sound analytical data and statistical analysis, he’ll be looking to take his fifth win – he’ll cost you 26 credits though.
3-times-in-a-row World Champion and King of the Wheelie, Peter Sagan will surely be up there in the Green Jersey competition, (if he doesn’t get DQ’ed again, or crash, or get sick) – but he’ll cost you 20 of your precious credits.
Not to mention some climber, who will probably have a crack at taking the Polka Dot Jersey as no one else seems very interested in it – prices for climbers vary from a Costly Quintana at 18 credits to a more Frugal Frank for 8 credits.
And of course, don’t forget to pick some talented domestiques to back-up your big names.
So, use your points wisely and try not to spend them on someone who will leave the race in an ambulance before the end of Stage 1. If it all seems a bit much, you can always brush up on the race with the handy guide produced by that paragon of journalism, the Daily Mirror. Unfortunately it’s been updated since it was first posted, but here’s some of the insights they gave for the 2018 race.
