10 Juil 2015, 17:33
What I have been seeing is very close tours between Contador and Nibali, always with Contador winning by under a minute.
I have watched the AI finish with this result, and I have played it out myself controlling Contador.
Quintana usually wins a mountain stage or two but he is not close at all in the overall standings, struggling with Pinot for 4th and the white jersey in my experience. He loses too much time on the flat and hilly stages.
Froome doesn't do much of note and finishes 3rd at least a minute behind 2nd. Nibali usually beats him in the mountains despite his lower mountain rating
Nibali and Pinot get around 2-3 minutes on everyone else on the cobble stage.
It's then close between those two until the mountains where Contador starts gaining bit by bit, eventually leading around the last mountain stages.
This is all just the AI from my experience, of the favorites on Champion difficulty I have only tried out Contador winning with 40 seconds ahead of Nibali.
It probably looks different playing as the different favorites.
Possibly a player controlled Valverde or Rodriguez could be strong as you can gain a good amount of time on the hilly stages.
I have tried Bardet in Pro Team but he loses too much time in the mountains.