Tips on getting your Fantasy Le Tour Teams ready

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Win a Cervélo Soloist Carbon(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

With the Prologue on Saturday fast approaching, now is a good time to start thinking about your strategy for your team selection for the Le Tour Fantasy Game. First time player Fantasy manager "Fnagy" from Budapest in Hungary won a Daily Stage prize in last year's game. As a proven winner from the Tour's Stage 5 last year, Fnagy gave his tips for this year's participants.

"I love road cycling, I read Cyclingnews every day, watch cycling events on TV, and of course I am enthusiastic amateur," he said. "This was my second game with Fantasy Game (having played the 2006 Giro d'Italia game). First I analyzed the profile of the stages, now there were so many sprinter stages, then I checked the latest results (e.g. Dauphiné Libéré, Tour de Suisse, Giro, ProTour list and of course TdF 2005). In the first selection there were around 30 riders, who could bring me valuable points, then I created some models to make the final selection...If you would like to win the Grand Prize, you must find out who will stand on the podium."

New ranking and results service, offering new depths of rider statistics on races over the last four years.
See your friends exact selections in the this year's game as it happens.
Look up the winning managers team selections for last year to improve your selection this year.
Follow the progress of the key fantasy managers whilst also tracking your friends' progress in the new "Watch Teams" tool.
Build your own Mini-Leagues.
Try out the Forum/Chat area, which provides new ways to communicate with your fellow players from around the world in real time as the races unfold.

The online game allows you to assume the role of a professional team manager for the 2007 Tour and create your own dream team from any of the real life riders in this year's Tour. In what's set to be the most open Tour in decades, based on the live racing action, you will take up the challenge of using your knowledge and tactical skill as a race team manager to compete with other virtual managers from around the world.

Remember you can play for free for the first three stages! Try the game out and see how best to play. It's easy to play the Tour games - all you need to do is pick your dream team of 15 from the riders racing in this year's Le Tour start list. Then each day pick nine riders to race for your fantasy team from these 15. You'll need a good combination of climbers, sprinters, and general classification riders.