Fantasy Cycling Budgets and Change in Rider Values

okay, a bunch of stuff to note here:

1) rider values aren't changing this season. because we're concentrating on the individual competitions, and not so much the overall season, it's important that everyone that's playing feels that they're on level ground. changing rider values benefit/penalise players at the start of each tour relative to new players. so we scrapped them.

2) the team value is 150, not 175 - based on having to pick fewer categorised riders (4, not 5) and making it a bit tougher to get all the big guns in. not a big deal, just sayin'

3) if riders drop out, you'll have to transfer other riders in. that'll cost you a transfer. bad luck...

4) ...except you don't *have* to transfer them. if riders drop out, they'll still be in your team. you just won't get any points for them. it isn't possible to have a team of less than nine riders at any point during the game. Sometimes it's advantageous to have a cheap throwaway rider in your squad to make room for the big guns. There's no star riders worth under 10 credits this year though, and only four star rider places to fill, so i suspect it'll be a less used tactic.

yup it may do, but for example in the giro after all the sprint stages and it was all mountains a sprinter called hans dekkers only cost 4 credits so people put him in to free up credits elsewhere so can be used tactically. or in your scenario if 3 exited on the same day but you have 2 transfers you are allowed to continue to compete

Do'h
Seems a bit pointless having team members in a race that are not racing

when it says a team of 9, it means 9 people need to be in your team but they dont have to be racing, just a rider selected if you get me

Well my team that i had planned before the official start list had come out and is still the same without even knowing who was going to cost what has come in right on budget 175 credits and its going to be almost the same team right through, i might even hang out with the pursuits till the ITT

Is it best to use the max. 175 credits to pick the team, or save some for team changes at each stage?

Yeah if you take someone into your team at 15.0 and they go up to 15.2 then you have the extra .2 in your budget

But they cant go up or down 6 credits anymore after that was sorted out, they rarely get above .4 up or down

If one of your riders goes up or down in value there's no need to worry as your team value just goes up. So for instance if you pick say Uran who had a great tdef then his value goes up. But if he had crashed 2 stages from the end you could have changed him for someone of similar value and your team would be worth more.

When the next grand tour comes along your team value would be reset at 175 regardless what you were on previously.