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Could we have female riders fantasy league?

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  • January 25, 2013 at 2:09 pm #17777
    Turnernoir

    Most cycling fans want to help raise the profile of the womens race calendar. I think a female cyclist fantasy league woukd really help this. It would make more riders better known to more cycling fans, OK we may not see much of the racing but reading reports and youtube clips are good for this.
    Go on guys, make it so.

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  • January 26, 2013 at 4:20 pm #713511
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    Skibish

    All other fantasy cycling
    All other fantasy cycling games I’ve seen (and indeed all fantasy sport games) have been based on the male game. If road.cc get a womans competition up and running might be worth a bit of publicity as a first?

    January 26, 2013 at 4:05 pm #713509
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    simon F

    You could use the
    You could use the cqranking.com info to make a start perhaps.

    January 26, 2013 at 3:54 pm #713507
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    letsgoup

    ray silvester wrote:I don’t

    ray silvester wrote:
    I don’t think this should count to the overall competition…..far too specialist.

    I agree. It would be good to see some womens races but run as a seperate competition and not counting towards the overall (mens) road cc game as it is now. I would be in favour of a seperate overall league for the womens races/tours. I say this because I’ve always watched the cycling on TV and the game has enhanced my viewing. But the womens races are sadly just not televised so it would be much harder to pick a team. I’ve never trawled the internet researching riders. I’ve always picked my teams based on what I see on the TV. If the womens races were televised more I would watch for sure- any TV companies out there listening in…

    January 26, 2013 at 3:37 pm #713505
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    livestrongnick

    So whilst we wait for it to
    So whilst we wait for it to be set up shall we have a just for fun forum ladies tour of Qatar?B-)

    January 26, 2013 at 3:14 pm #713503
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    Skibish

    It would be great to see a
    It would be great to see a few woman’s races appear in the game and I’d certainly have a go at selecting a team whether or not it counted towards the overall compertition. As Ghedebrav said playing fantasy cycling has helped me get to know more about male riders/teams/races so would be good way of raising interest in female cycling.

    January 26, 2013 at 2:00 pm #713501
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    ray silvester

    I don’t think this should
    I don’t think this should count to the overall competition…..far too specialist.

    January 26, 2013 at 1:36 pm #713499
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    Gkam84

    I can make up historical
    I can make up historical history based on last season’s results if you wanted?

    I’ll go through the races from 2012 and grab the GC results or something like that and make something up? đŸ˜•

    January 26, 2013 at 1:32 pm #713497
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    dave atkinson

    obviously there’s no
    obviously there’s no hostorical form for any of the women, so that’s an issue as rider values are calculated from that now

    January 26, 2013 at 1:00 pm #713495
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    drheaton

    I might lean towards sticking
    I might lean towards sticking to one days classics initially to see what the take up is then expand next year. Stuff like the Tour of Flanders should have plenty of Brit interest too which might help. Starting out with those races most likely to feature the likes of Vos and Armitstead (plus Wiggle Honda) should make it easier to follow for those not as clued up on the women’s side too.

    January 26, 2013 at 12:46 pm #713493
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    Gkam84

    Well you have my email
    Well you have my email address…..I’ll get onto it as soon as.

    All results from last year can be found here

    http://www.uci.ch/templates/BUILTIN-NOFRAMES/Template3/layout.asp?MenuId=MTYzMzY&LangId=1

    If you just click on woman’s elite and then 2012, might help you decide which races you might want.

    I’m thinking, get the teams set up and do ONE race as a test? The tour of Qatar is a bit to soon, it starts it 3 days.

    But the Vuelta el Salvador starts 28th Feb, gives us time to work in the teams and riders and make some values up??

    January 26, 2013 at 12:06 pm #713491
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    dave atkinson

    there’s no reason why the
    there’s no reason why the races and riders couldn’t be added to the current fantasy engine. we’d need to look at what races will have readily available results, and what we can score. also how you access the riders and a bunch of other stuff.

    January 25, 2013 at 10:42 pm #713489
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    livestrongnick

    Why not just run a few big
    Why not just run a few big races on the forum like we did last year for some of the lower mens races? đŸ˜•

    If it works out then maybe look at putting it in to the system :B

    January 25, 2013 at 5:51 pm #713487
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    simon F

    If it was up to me, I’d like
    If it was up to me, I’d like to see at least the World Cup races, the Worlds, and some of the stage races. A lot to ask but women’s sport needs a higher profile. Anything like this can only help.

    January 25, 2013 at 4:44 pm #713485
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    Ghedebrav

    I’d definitely back this.
    I’d definitely back this. Doing then men’s fantasy competition has got me much more familiar with the riders and the competitions; it would be a great way to start following the women’s calendar, even if it was just a couple of one-dayers and the Worlds.

    January 25, 2013 at 4:05 pm #713483
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    drheaton

    I’d assume you can just add
    I’d assume you can just add teams into the main game and just select those for the appropriate races, the way the game works now almost caters for that, it’d just be a large amount of additional work to set up teams/riders and value everyone.

    I guess it’s a time/value call, if road.cc thinks the amount of additional time and server costs are worth it then it’s probably do-able.

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