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  • May 7, 2014 at 10:16 am #21353
    simon F

    Is there any chance of a review of stage deadlines? The Giro ones are mostly 2-3 hours before the stage start with even the long and /or mountain stages being an hour before the start and the TTT is nearly 8 hours before. I don’t seem to remember this being the case in the past. The 2 hours or so before the start tends to be when team info regarding DNS’s comes out which would help for those who wish to leave their transfers late, or want to take penalties to avoid incomplete teams.

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  • June 15, 2014 at 9:16 pm #791037
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    Joelsim

    What we also now need to do
    What we also now need to do Simon is to check that the rider is actually racing every time we make a transfer.

    I put Guardini into my team last night, a few hours after the first stage had been scored.

    This evening I find him blanked out, so I searched for a DNF.

    It’s true he didn’t finish the stage today. Nor did he start or finish the stage yesterday as he wasn’t racing.

    The upshot is that I have been told that it is my responsibility to ensure that the riders are racing. So from now on I need to check that every transfer I make, even after the first stage has been ridden and scored, that the rider is actually not just on the road.cc roster but also on the official startlist roster.

    That’s good news isn’t it?

    June 15, 2014 at 9:05 pm #791035
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    simon F

    And again, the same issue.
    And again, the same issue. Only one TdS stage starts before 11am UK time (apologies to non-UK players) yet they’re all at 9am deadlines. I’m sure it’s convenient for some, but not for everyone – can we not just have a consistent rule for all races whether it be one hour before race start, same time as race start (as it used to be) or whatever, instead of whatever seems to suit the race volunteer for any given race.

    May 10, 2014 at 10:58 am #791033
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    simon F

    Also, I liked having GMT to
    Also, I liked having GMT to avoid those not being sure twice a year days when the clock changes but either your computer or the server doesn’t at least not at the same time)

    May 10, 2014 at 10:54 am #791031
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    simon F

    drheaton wrote:The time and

    drheaton wrote:
    The time and date dealings are still shown on the stages page for the comp, go to the Giro for example and click on stages and you get a list of stages with deadline dates and times.

    And the countdown is on the pick team page. I was aware of both of those and I like Dave’s compromise of showing both on the home page – at least I will when 30 hours is 9 hours after 21 hours instead of 3 before 🙂

    May 10, 2014 at 10:46 am #791029
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    drheaton

    The time and date dealings
    The time and date dealings are still shown on the stages page for the comp, go to the Giro for example and click on stages and you get a list of stages with deadline dates and times.

    May 10, 2014 at 10:40 am #791027
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    simon F

    Is that showing off, or
    Is that showing off, or reasonable compromise? Whichever, Cheers (although it looks like it still relies on us setting the correct timezone). And the ToC times seem to be 12 hours out?

    May 10, 2014 at 10:10 am #791025
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    simon F

    the domestique

    the domestique wrote:
    Sorry,

    But I honestly don’t see what the problem with a countdown is – is it really that hard to understand how far away is 2 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes? Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems pretty straightforward to me, and much simpler than adding/subtracting from GMT.


    It’s not so much that it’s a problem – there will be a mental arithmetic issue whichever way it’s done for those in further flung timezones. It’s more that we already have the countdown on one page, local time on another but GMT is the only one which is a defined absolute (not relative) time and doesn’t rely on your computer’s clock and timezone being set correctly. We had this info and now we don’t. If there are 3 ways to show the deadline, I don’t see why we have to lose one of them. I guess that’s all I’m trying to say.

    May 10, 2014 at 9:52 am #791023
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    the domestique

    Sorry,
    But I honestly don’t
    Sorry,

    But I honestly don’t see what the problem with a countdown is – is it really that hard to understand how far away is 2 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes? Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems pretty straightforward to me, and much simpler than adding/subtracting from GMT.

    May 10, 2014 at 9:48 am #791021
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    francoise

    Has there ever been a race
    Has there ever been a race where a race start has been moved up? I work all night and I would appreciate it if stage deadlines were coordinated to coincide with the race start to give me to the last minute to sneek in my transfers. I can’t see why not

    May 10, 2014 at 9:22 am #791019
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    simon F

    the domestique wrote:I know

    the domestique wrote:
    I know Road CC is a UK based site, but its reach is worldwide. Many fantasy players (such as myself) are not from the UK and don’t operate on GMT

    Even the UK is not operating on GMT at the moment. All time zones are based on hours +/- GMT (or more accurately UTC) so you’ve just got the same problem as us in remembering to add/subtract some hours from the GMT time. It’s still less hassle than working out what time is xd yh zm from now.
    The countdown time is available on the pick team page and your/our local time is available on the race stage list so the home page was the only place where a fixed (not susceptible to daylight savings or timezone issues) time was visible and now it’s not. It just seems like change for change’s sake.

    May 10, 2014 at 9:17 am #791017
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    simon F

    Joelsim wrote:If it says 22

    Joelsim wrote:
    If it says 22 hours and 5 mins until the next deadline, it tends to mean that you have 22 hours and 5 minutes to pick your transfers.

    I know it’s tricky, but if anyone is having any problems then I can always ask my 6 year old to help you out.


    And if the page showed a date and time, I expect your 6 year old would know when to make transfers by pretty quickly but I suspect he/she would take longer to decide if he/she should get up early or stay up late to make transfers in 1d 17h 34m

    May 10, 2014 at 9:16 am #791015
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    francoise

    Joelsim wrote:I know it’s

    Joelsim wrote:
    I know it’s tricky, but if anyone is having any problems then I can always ask my 6 year old to help you out.
    What an ass… Do you have to resort to such stupidity?

    May 10, 2014 at 8:10 am #791013
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    Joelsim

    If it says 22 hours and 5
    If it says 22 hours and 5 mins until the next deadline, it tends to mean that you have 22 hours and 5 minutes to pick your transfers.

    I know it’s tricky, but if anyone is having any problems then I can always ask my 6 year old to help you out.

    May 9, 2014 at 11:51 pm #791011
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    the domestique

    I know Road CC is a UK based
    I know Road CC is a UK based site, but its reach is worldwide. Many fantasy players (such as myself) are not from the UK and don’t operate on GMT, so the countdown clock is much appreciated by us. Please keep it as is – we have enough to deal with staying up to 1.30am on work nights to watch the stages!

    May 9, 2014 at 12:17 pm #791009
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    backflipbedlem

    simon F wrote:Dave,
    Is there

    simon F wrote:
    Dave,
    Is there any chance of having the GMT date/time back for deadlines on the home page. It’s nothing like as immediately obvious (using the image above as an example) that the stages 4 days away are actually different days, nor are the times as obvious without counting hours in one’s head (at least for me).

    Yea i agree, defo find it easier to see that deadline is at 9am 2moro rather than have to work out what the time is plus 17hrs and 50 mins is.

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