Womens World Cup

chrisdstripes wrote:
Will it

chrisdstripes wrote:

Will it be same as Men’s classics – eg unlimited transfers for purist?

Actually, forget it – I just did what I should have done before and looked at the competition stage info.

Sorry for troubling you all.

The information is out there
The information is out there if you go an look for it.

I’d always followed cycling but to me that was just watching as much of the TdF as I could each year and that was it. It wasn’t until I started playing this game as it expanded into more race than just the TdF that I actually started to learn about the scene, the different races and more importantly any of the riders.

This game taught me the difference between a Jesus Hernandez and a Jesus Herrada, until I played this game I knew next to nothing about the pro-peloton outside of a small handful of household names.

This is the position that a lot of people will find themselves in with the Women’s races to start with but a little digging will tell you plenty about form riders and before long we’ll all know the difference between Giorgia Bronzini and Elisa Longo Borghini or Anna Van Der Breggen and Annemiek Van Vleuten.

drheaton wrote:Everyone needs

drheaton wrote:

Everyone needs to calm down a little bit. I think most people would welcome the addition of the women’s races and it was a feature many people have requested but I also think those people who think the game is getting too big have an opinion which is worth listening to. Not every race we’ve added over the past couple of years has worked and the women’s races do need to justify inclusion so we’ll see how they do. I hope from a racing and organisational point of view they work but if results are non-existent it’ll be hard to keep running them in the future.

On the point about not knowing women riders I think for nearly all fantasy players that point was true about the men before they started playing. Past about a dozen riders very few are known names to those who don’t follow cycling religiously so I think adding the women’s races into the game will really help with that.

Can’t speak for others, but the whole point of the game seemed to me to be about predicting results of races in which we know most riders (and even before starting playing, this was the case, at least for me). As for women, Vos is the only name I know from the Worlds of previous years: as I was waiting for the men’s races to begin, there were always reruns of women’s races and the commentary I always heard was that Vos had yet again missed her chance of becoming world champ (I think that spell ended last year, but I’m obviously not sure since I know nothing about it).
On the other hand, introducing these races was probably discussed on the forum last year (wasn’t paying attention much) and was probably agreed by most, so there’s nothing to do. But for those aiming at a placing in the year-long overalls in the game it will be kind of weird to do so by simply guessing, i.e. by relying on abstract information about previous races’ results and not on their personal experience about what a rider can do on a particular terrain…
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to say that women’s cycling is useless, all I’m saying is that I don’t even have time to watch many of the men’s races that I want to see, let alone women’s races…

Fantastic, thanks GKam –
Fantastic, thanks GKam – you’re a star

Fairly low prices, what’s the
Fairly low prices, what’s the budget?

So I’m really pleased we’re
So I’m really pleased we’re doing some women’s races – they’re always exciting to watch. But will it be open soon? I know very little about the riders so might need a fair bit of time to pick my team. Maybe you have a list of rider values you could publish? Just a thought.

Will it be same as Men’s classics – eg unlimited transfers for purist? Sorry if I sound impatient but the first race does start in about 36 hours’ time… 😉

Everyone needs to calm down a
Everyone needs to calm down a little bit. I think most people would welcome the addition of the women’s races and it was a feature many people have requested but I also think those people who think the game is getting too big have an opinion which is worth listening to. Not every race we’ve added over the past couple of years has worked and the women’s races do need to justify inclusion so we’ll see how they do. I hope from a racing and organisational point of view they work but if results are non-existent it’ll be hard to keep running them in the future.

On the point about not knowing women riders I think for nearly all fantasy players that point was true about the men before they started playing. Past about a dozen riders very few are known names to those who don’t follow cycling religiously so I think adding the women’s races into the game will really help with that.