[backflipbedlem]

Well, I Can’t really believe the end of the season is almost upon us!

I must say I’ve had a really fun year with the fantasy cycling! A Highlight being a stage win in a grand tour, (Stage 14 of the Tour De France.) As well as some other really close calls.

How has everyone else enjoyed the season? What were your High’s and Low’s?

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[Stumps]

How about this for enrique
How about this for enrique ????????

[chrisdstripes]

I like to imagine Enrique as
I like to imagine Enrique as someone famous that has it in for cyclists and enjoys winding them up on forums like this. Maybe he’s Jeremy Clarkson. Or Lance.

[cgipryan]

Allan Bremner wrote:I don’t

Allan Bremner wrote:

I don’t think Enrique is a real person. I believe it is a computer program capable of generating 229 winning teams in a billionth of a nanosecond. Its main purpose is to keep people amused whilst the game is updating. ENRIQUE actually stands for Enormous Number of Road.cc Incredibly Quirky Update Excuses

Darn, now you’ve gone and changed my image of him completely. I’ll have to picture him like one of those Matrix agents now, which is certainly not what I previously had in mind… Agent or not, I miss him…

[Allan Bremner]

I don’t think Enrique is a
I don’t think Enrique is a real person. I believe it is a computer program capable of generating 229 winning teams in a billionth of a nanosecond. Its main purpose is to keep people amused whilst the game is updating. ENRIQUE actually stands for Enormous Number of Road.cc Incredibly Quirky Update Excuses

[Joelsim]

stumps wrote:On a personal

stumps wrote:

On a personal level I have little or no interest in the WWC and, due to working shifts, multiple races over weekends / days are a nightmare for me to catch deadlines, but that’s my concern to sort.

My only major gripe is the multiple races at one time which , if you want to do well, takes ages to prepare for. Otherwise everything is cool.

Just imagine having 229 teams…

[Stumps]

On a personal level I have
On a personal level I have little or no interest in the WWC and, due to working shifts, multiple races over weekends / days are a nightmare for me to catch deadlines, but that’s my concern to sort.

My only major gripe is the multiple races at one time which , if you want to do well, takes ages to prepare for. Otherwise everything is cool.

[Joelsim]

The US races and the WWC hold
The US races and the WWC hold the least appeal to me. Would like all of the Classics to be in there.

[TERatcliffe26]

Yup its nice to be able to
Yup its nice to be able to pick different riders, and its from the American races I had Thuens in my ToB purist team, as id seen how well he had done. Also as many of the riders in those races are cheap it means much more varied teams from a normal WT race where differences in points scored can be very close due to potentially picking 3 or 4 riders from a small group and the cheaper riders being more like filler riders, which is less of the case in those races.

Or maybe that just highlights a potential for slight change in budget calculation? But again as startlists are not uniform and involve constant change and differences in depth its a difficult balance for all races without it becoming alot of work, especially when races need to be opened with just partial startlist info available

[cgipryan]

American races are fun. One
American races are fun. One of their charm for me is that I’m forced to check out the guys from the smaller American teams, and go through the results of all those races that are never really visible for us (Gila, Beauce etc.), but that are nonetheless there. And then, all of a sudden, two normally isolated cycling landscapes come together in the American races, and you see all these American guys you know only/mostly by name mixing it up with all the guys you usually see in any race on TV. (The reason for this, of course, is that organizers wisely keep away from world tour status, so they can invite so many of the smaller local teams). For me, that is always a thrill :B

[TERatcliffe26]

My major disagreement from
My major disagreement from what has been said above is re. the American races. I love them and think they should be in the game, certainly when wanting more classics in autumn, when we’ve just had such a busy week with classics, Vuelta and ToB all in one monster weekend. ToC is when the Giro is, USA pro is when the Vuelta is, and if you saying they detracts from the GT, shouldn’t we then axe ToB too then?

Having said all that won’t there be even less overlap with proposed real life calender changes?

Also re. rider values, im not sure how easy it is to tweek or employ an algorithm for that as it is all based on game data, so if a rider races and wins straight off, thats all the game data he has. (i don’t know any more than that on hoe exactly it works) But im sure its already something to be considered on Dave’s list

[backflipbedlem]

ray silvester wrote:Never

ray silvester wrote:

Never even saw this questionaire….but then i tend to delete the e-mails without looking at them to be honest.

Ok, just found mine, sent on Spetember 12th

[ray silvester]

Never even saw this
Never even saw this questionaire….but then i tend to delete the e-mails without looking at them to be honest.

[Joelsim]

Twybaydos wrote:I’ve just

Twybaydos wrote:

I’ve just done my questionnaire. Rated loads highly and made following comments – anyone agree?

Re races:
More Autumn Classics. We could have one race every weekend. Plus all these Italian races on at the moment. It would be good if we could pack in a lot at the end of the year.

Scheldeprijs in spring classics. I love a flat track bully challenge

Women’s races – can we have some stage races – Tour of Britain, La Course. This could be in place of some of the women’s world cup. The tour of chongming Island is a waste of time. I would like women’s races to stay in the game, I just feel you picked the wrong ones

US races are of a poor standard and the USA pro challenge detracts from the Giro. I would ditch these for more European races

re gameplay:
Riders who have not had 12 previous races, but won in their first few (yates, Formolo, Hofland, Coquard), get incredibly high costs in their next race. It would be good if they could build up gradually.

re leagues:
a table of points per stage in my mini leagues.

Agree with all of those. There do seem to be some low scorers who are really pricey. Not sure why. As well as neo pros getting expensive quickly.

[Twybaydos]

I’ve just done my
I’ve just done my questionnaire. Rated loads highly and made following comments – anyone agree?

Re races:
More Autumn Classics. We could have one race every weekend. Plus all these Italian races on at the moment. It would be good if we could pack in a lot at the end of the year.

Scheldeprijs in spring classics. I love a flat track bully challenge

Women’s races – can we have some stage races – Tour of Britain, La Course. This could be in place of some of the women’s world cup. The tour of chongming Island is a waste of time. I would like women’s races to stay in the game, I just feel you picked the wrong ones

US races are of a poor standard and the USA pro challenge detracts from the Giro. I would ditch these for more European races

re gameplay:
Riders who have not had 12 previous races, but won in their first few (yates, Formolo, Hofland, Coquard), get incredibly high costs in their next race. It would be good if they could build up gradually.

re leagues:
a table of points per stage in my mini leagues.

[Stumps]

Highs – got to be my FS
Highs – got to be my FS Criterium win.

Lows – Quintana crashing out of my purist Vuelta team which meant i had no hope of getting anywhere near the top of the leaderboard.

Thoroughly enjoyed it but fingers crossed there is much less bickering next year.

[Author]

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