Halfords mini-league

Crap is a word that springs to mind....

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

even in the road.cc league i was 3rd yesterday and now having had 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th all in my team ive somehow managed to drop to 5th or something and my rank overall has dropped even further

im just confused by it

I'm assuming that someone has played their joker for that day's stage.

It's going to be a long wait till Alpe d'Huez, when I've got the chance of a double pointer.

dave_atkinson wrote:

You're all enjoying *our* game though, right?

Indeed, if i was in charge of Halfords league i would shoot myself cause its shocking

Gkam84 wrote:

Any chance the league admin can kick out the 0 scorer "Mostly Hopeless" cause that team is bringing the avg score in the league of leagues right down

I think not, I bet the effect is insignificant due to the laws of averages

Sanderville wrote:

I had a look, Gkam, but there's no way to kick a player once they're in the league. The game is about as good as Halford's bike department.

Give the game credit, at least it pretends to know what its talking about

The guys in Halfords just shrug and give up on questions

Sanderville wrote:

Last night on the RCUK game it said I was ranked 771st, today I'm 919th. Have I missed a few bonus stages?

Halfords final rank: 4210 (or is it?), best rank: 2

As for this game, I retract what I said about letting us choose whomever we like. However, I do think we should be able to make changes in advance. E.g. I should be able to set my changes for stage 3 while stage 2 is still on, just in case I forget during the window (like I forgot to change for the ITT). It's my hard lines if my picks don't actually ride the next day.

96th overall on the Halfords game, 2nd in the road.cc ex-pats league behind Gmancervelo. Still no idea who the winners are, mind.
I think everyone officially has a best rank of 2 (except for their sample team, which was ranked 1st), but that only applied before the TdF started.

Well, we're the guys who run it so would like to take some "constructive" criticism before shooting ourselves!

We thought it quite simple as per the game rules, give people 6 transfers per week to use at their discretion and one bonus circuit. Swap in Riders to suit the terrain.

We wanted to make it accessible to those who aren't cycling mad enthusiasts, (Hence Lucky Dip) but involve enough knowledge to make it so the people who really know what their talking about should win, which I guess is what's happening.

Your first team selection really counts as that's who will pick up the bonus points at the end. It's been so far, a very successful game that we have brought over from Australia, but happy to get any feedback on how we could make it better.

Thanks guys,

Cheers,
Paddy

Timbo13 wrote:

Re the Halfords game:
Anybody have any idea how to:
1.check your scores for a specific day
2.see how others did that day
3.see who won the daily prize

It's not good, is it?

1. no
2. no
3. no

"It's not good, is it?"
no

Sanderville wrote:

As for this game, I retract what I said about letting us choose whomever we like. However, I do think we should be able to make changes in advance. E.g. I should be able to set my changes for stage 3 while stage 2 is still on, just in case I forget during the window (like I forgot to change for the ITT). It's my hard lines if my picks don't actually ride the next day.

I like the idea of making changes in advance but how about instead you 'schedule' changes (pick changes in advance and the game automatically makes them after a stage) or even let us reset our changes whilst still in the transfer window so, for instance, I might have a couple of changes in mind for the next stage but I'm not 100% sure so I make them so I don't forget to make any changes at all (like I did on the last two days of the TdF ) then when I get into work the next morning I have the option to reset them and then make new ones if I want to. If I don't reset them then whatever is in place at 11am is taken as the changes and are enacted.

More work I know but good functionality and may cut down on the number of times someone makes rubbish/illegal changes and has to ask dave to reset everything.

dave_atkinson wrote:

thanks for all the positive comments on the road.cc game. Any suggestions to make it better are also welcome!

Hey Dave here's a suggestion... The regional tables are good but it'd be great if you could see your overall ranking within the home countries, UK, and Europe aswell.

Cheers, keep up the good work

Raleigh wrote:

And how come Geraint's tips have dried up?

They haven't - as we say in the intro to the TDF Preview, we're adding those in within the next day or so.

Not sure why you have the impression they've dried up though - true, we didn't have tips from him for the last race, the Tour de Suisse, but that was because he was riding the Dauphine at the same time (which he did give tips for).