Halfords Fantasy Comp.

What I understand is.......last year it was a total shambles and everyone should keep clear. There was no clear results and everything was hidden behind smoke screens.

I think its only team time trials that don't score points! May have to check this though as I seem to recall setting my bonus stage to the 1st time trial in Besancon when I registered my team the other day! Was at work so did it in a bit of a rush and didn't really read the rules!

I've registered a team but don't think I'll bother playing. It's more of a chore than a game!

It was a shambles last year but I did win a Garmin 800 from it!

Agreed, it is not worth the hassle!

on transfers, the FAQ's say

"Can I transfer cyclists between stages?

Yes, but you will not score any points for the new players that you transfer into your team until the following weekend of matches. All transfers which are made by 09.00 BST each day will be eligible to score points for that stage. Any cyclists transferred after this time will not score points until the next eligible stage they ride in."

anyone understand what that means?

I've set up a team, but probably won't be touching it during the tour, as it just seems a bit aggy. FC on here seems infinitely better.

I've picked . . .

Philippe Gilbert,
5.5
Bradley Wiggins,
9.0
David Zabriskie,
6.0
Simon Gerrans,
7.0
Rui Costa,
4.5
Samuel Sanchez,
8.5
Peter Sagan,
6.5
Brett Lancaster,
3.0
Edvald Boasson Hagen,

I sent them an email asking them to change the wording as it sounds like it has been taken from a footy fantasy team.
Sounds like they haven't bothered yet then.

Good god, the tour now consists of 21 matches and 180 players does it?!

I think it means that you can transfer and score the next day. The bit about the following weekends matches is another hangover from a FF game.

My club has set up a league on there, suppose I should give it a go, but not scoring on TTs? I'll just leave out Wiggo and Evans then eh?!

You can't run a road.cc team and Halfords team, it's against the rules.

(kidding)

Giving it a go in the hope that it is better run than last year.....Anyone set up a mini league,then please give me a shout....

Won a stage last year and got a Garmin shirt and bottle, both of which I use. But the prizes for stage wins are good so just go for one of those.

They keep emailing me to play again this year, sending me my username and password, but when I try to login I get "invalid username or password". Can't be arsed.

Does anyone know if the bonus stage counts towards the points for the stage prizes? If it does then it probably means you'll only get 1 chance to win a stage which will be on the day you use the bonus! Can't find this clarified anywhere on the site..

Oh dear, it looks really bad. I've picked a prologue team, I might just log on every few days and make a load of transfers for whatever the next stage is. The road.cc game is approximately 8 million times better.
Good team tho...
Cancellara
Boasson Hagen
Grivko
Chavanel
Larsson
Sagan
Zabriskie
Kessiakoff
Martin (not Dan)
I'm convinced Wiggins is going to win the prologue but for some reason haven't picked him. Only just noticed that. Hmm.

anyone made a road.cc league yet?

im unsure....

Im submitted a team to try and win the prologue, as i know i will give up caring after a couple of days, especially with road.cc TdF and the TdP coming up

Right I have created one, its just called Road.cc

dont know if the password is set or not, but if it is it should just be road.cc

I ran a team last year in the road.cc league only to forget about it after a couple of days and ended up getting shouted at because I was bring our league score down

I doubt I'll bother this year.

the last line of this shows how much they care about the scoring

"No points are scored for any rider or team for Team Time Trial stages. The ONLY results used for the game are those initially reported by the key news agencies. If any decision is reversed from what was initially reported we will NOT amend the points already applied to teams"

Im not bothered about it this year eitehr but just threw together a team as it means not doing any work

Hmm, good plan, I'm bored, might throw together a sprint team and leave it be. I reckon there'll be more competition for the TTs so I might pinch a sprint stage if I'm lucky.

i'm in; it didn't want a password

Seems you dont need a password according to Dave

Your team is in steve i believe although it doesnt show me the teams that are in once they have been accepted

Im in now.....Looks like the site is as efficient as it was last year....

Loving the rider prices, Petacchi costs nearly 4x what Kittel and Rojas cost... likewise Goss is cheaper than Farrar.

Long live road.cc

Me too - picked a prologue team, will probably make 5-6 changes on Sat night and then leave it for a week, assuming I've understood the transfer rules correctly...

Pretty much my plan

Myself and a few guys from work have.

Just added my team to the 'league application queue', is there a prize for the best 'league of leagues'?

i'll drum up some socks for the winner of our league, eh

The two competitions cater for two different audiences Road cc bless its CoolMax socks caters for us velophiles Halfords in contrast caters for those who do not know or care about the difference between a chainring and Qrings.
Disregarding any problems with the actual site. If the halfords game bringings more people to the joys of cycling and gets them on bikes I'm all for it. At the end of the day the more people that cycle the better it will be for all of us.

i can't seem to join the roadcc league. oh god....

whuich league you trying to join? road.cc?
you dont need a password, what is your team name?

I've made my double stage for Stage 3, with Greenedge as my team.

Got:
Gerrans
Wiggins
Cancellara
Boassen Hagen
Hoogerland
Goss
Chavanel
T Martin
Valverde

Why is TERatcliffe26 ranked 99999th?

How long does it take to join the league after it says you've joined?

ter - my team name is pangbourne pedallers. same as on roadcc FC.

Ahh right i see, not sure i remember accepting that name and dont know why it wont let you in

Think everyone will appear at some point today

thos that have been accepted and appeared are

WSR
Geordie Roadies
The Manx Missiles
SODASPORT
Gosforth Granny Rings
STEVE SPRO 79
Les flames rouge
Mostly Hopeless
TERatcliffe26

TER

when I enter the league name and password, I get this message

"The league name / password are incorrect, please try again."

I wonder if Dave can assist?

you leave me out of this. i got troubles of my own

Are you doing road.cc and not roadcc? Should be league name road.cc, and leave password blank. Took me three goes with different combinations! (My team is les flames rouge by the way - was running low on inspiration...)

thanks Chris! mystery resolved.....

TER - I joined your league

NB. Flammes Rouges (not rouge)

Please

Oh yeah - double m - who knew?! (Answer - everyone except me - d'oh...)

ok, loopy tunes has joined the road.cc league. . . hoping to win stage 1, and then forget about it

Right, I've joined in, just so you have someone propping you all up at the bottom of the table.

I've loaded my team for the Prologue, then we'll see how bad it gets

So, is this your team TER?
The security/privacy on the halfords games is 'different'.

Bradley Wiggins,
9.0
Cadel Evans,
10.0
Peter Sagan,
6.5
Gustav Larsson,
3.0
Tony Martin,
5.0
Fabian Cancellara,
5.0
Fredrik Kessiakoff,
3.5
Simon Gerrans,
7.0
David Zabriskie,

Erm yep that is my team

crumbs. mine is almost identical.

the interesting thing about the Halfords game is that the "spending power" as manager seems to be overly generous. This might initially make you think that the game will be easier. But it could make the game much harder as everyone will be able to buy the top riders.

anyone else have a view on that?

I agree, it's going to be incremental gains really if everyone's got the main men. It's also really weird how they done rider values, people like Bozic, Kittel, Rojas and Gallopin and Scarponi are amongst the cheapest riders in the game but are much more expensive in the road.cc game and rightly so. Picking out the cheap superstar will be a solid tactic for the lumpy stages.

anyone got any good ideas on which stage to pick as your "bonus stage". I've currently gone for stage 17 but I think I've called that wrong(?)

Final team:

Wiggins
Evans
Sagan
Cancellara
Martin (T)
Larsson
Zabriskie
Gilbert
Chavanel

Liquigas and Stage 2.

Depends on which you think will be the most predictable and picked by the fewest number of other players if you're after a stage win. I've gone for the first sprint stage as I reckon alot of people will keep their stage 1 riders in for stage 3 before swapping in sprinters for 4, 5 and 6.

TTs and summit finishes may do well if you think you can pick the right guys and plan well to get them in with the transfers you have. Given that points are only finish line and for holding the yellow/green jersey you don't need to worry so much about breakaways.

I have joined Halfords Mini League too. Team is letsgoup2. Hope I don't get black balled...

Re Bonus Stage - I went for the last TT, as I find them easier to call and it should be clear by then who's on form. Plus simple maths - there will be less riders in the race by then!

sounds stupid dave but i cant find the league on the league page....am i being dense....where is it?

Errr, I wouldn't ask Dave about this.

Word.

We can't join the Halfords road.cc league (via sbs version of game). Looks like it's Aussies vs Brits, just like the real thing.

And Nibali.

Oh, and Sagan to win all jerseys.

Do you not just search Road.cc and then click to join that league?

no ter, its just me being a numbskull and trying to enter a league on the wrong website! D'oh!
Grovelling apologies dave!

P.s. Road.cc's game is much better!

The Halfords rules really aren't particularly clear. Am I right in thinking that if I make transfers now my team as it was at 9am will score points and my changes will apply for tomorrow? I'm worried that if I start making transfers for tomorrow only 4 or 5 of my riders for today will be scored rather than the 9 as at 9 this morning.

I think what you say first is right, if you make any transfers now they wont apply till tomorrow. thats how understood it anyway

I think I'm playing too many fantasy games... Anyway, I've applied for the road.cc league - team name is Voigt Club.

Any idea how many weeks it usually takes halfords to update their scores?

they may be done by the 22nd of July at a guess

Has anyone worked out how ma y pts their team won in the halfs game?..

Hahaaaa.

Voigt Club.

Classic name

Officially within forty eight hous of the stage finish...its in their faqs.
What does road.cc say

Officially within forty eight hous of the stage finish...its in their faqs.
What does road.cc say

We focus on 'quick' with 'accurate' a distant second

Did them from the campsite today, very jolly

I think I have 154/164, unless i'm reading it wrong and its only your bonus team that gets you points on your bonus stage?

I've confused by that, Do my riders get double? If not then then it shall be less. So anything from 91-164

I make it 106, kinda wish today had been my bonus day but it isn't.

OR, I could just NOT understand this game at all and i've scored 200

Only 102 behind the leader overall and only 3rd in the mini league

My bonus stage is sunday...team is stacked with puncheurs....who pro bably save their legs for week two

Did you include the 2 points per rider for completing the stage, and Cancellara will have got 9 extra points, 6 for being in yellow, 3 for being in green.

Yeah i did the 2 per rider. I don't see how he get the 6 and 3 because it says "retaining" So that should kick in from today. You can retain something that you didn't have to start with

The rules aren't clear but I'm pretty sure Cancellara gets those as I included them when I worked out my score and got it spot on. I assume they award them much like the road.cc game does and whoever's in the jersey at the end of the day gets the points.

Is there a way to view tables of individual stage scores, or even find out what score the leader has? I can't seem to find anything I want to on the stupid badly designed website!

Wonder why my team did not register until after the prolog yet the prolog was my bonus stage? have mailed them no reply yet! Not very happy but will try joining the Road mini league

Even though I'm not a forum regular, I've joined in the league too, hope no-one minds. I'm a purist in the road.cc fantasy game but trying out this transfer lark in the halfords game. Team name is Rich's Rouleurs

Welcome!

I'm actually kind of enjoying the Halfords game at the minute, having all your transfers in one lump at the start of the week is interesting and a different approach. It allowed me to gut my team after the first two stages and set up a full sprint team but it's going to be really difficult when we get to the changeable terrain, 7 transfers a week is nothing and it'll difficult to balance it all out. Plus, I brought in Kittel and Rojas for stage 2 and have no transfers left

Kind of lost interest in this.

Who's winning?

I'm doing really badly and used up all my transfers - so am just waiting til tomorrow before I log on again and decide what to do...

Pretty sure I have Kittel, which can't be good...

I'm winning!

Not by much though, 90th overall around 80 points back from 1st. Had a cracking bonus stage but been flagging for the past couple of days and I've got Kittel and Rojas who are both out. I'm waiting for new transfers too so I can re-do my team for the weekend/time-trial.

It's not as bad as I expected, a different challenge but still fun, not as good as road.cc overall and the UI is god awful but I'll probably see it through to the end.

I'm doing a lot better in this competition than I'm doing on here. Currently 2nd in the Road.cc league.

Can't believe it, finally managed to top a league and it was on another site! So do I win a pair of Road.cc socks as per??