Giro 2014

enrique wrote:arsene

enrique wrote:

arsene wrote:

It’s not exactly the same players doing well. I’m one of the best purist players and I suck with high budgets. It just makes the game more random imo. Plus it takes excitement away anyway. :(

Honestly, I think (and hope! 😀 ) you’ll do much better than you think at the Giro. If you’re good at a restricted Purist, just make a team to fit a 145 budget and then throw in a very popular ‘big gun’ for measure… On the other hand, I really understand your dilemma and if you want, and you miss it that (!) much, I’ll be happy to set up a Forum Competition to play with a restricted budget of 145, 150 or whatever you think would be a challenge. I know it won’t be as pretty as the game interface and you won’t get daily updates, but if you like the idea I’ll even post the results in color 😀 And I’ll join play to keep you company <:P

Yeah let’s see how I go. I’m just worried because the Giro is my favorite race but I have to accept it as it is I guess. :S
And thank you for your endeavors enrique but I don’t want a forum game. I’m accepting the challenge of playing the Giro with a high budget. B-)

chrisdstripes wrote:Blimey.

chrisdstripes wrote:

Blimey. Why don’t we just let them set the budgets, and then get on with it. Sometimes we might think its too high, sometimes too low, but its always the same for everyone.

I for one am looking forward to working out how to adjust tactics accordingly. I’m sure the Dauphine or Tour de Suisse will be back down to 140-odd.

Good move Dave – mix it up a bit!

Well said that man =D>

arsene wrote:It’s not exactly

arsene wrote:

It’s not exactly the same players doing well. I’m one of the best purist players and I suck with high budgets. It just makes the game more random imo. Plus it takes excitement away anyway. :(

Honestly, I think (and hope! 😀 ) you’ll do much better than you think at the Giro. If you’re good at a restricted Purist, just make a team to fit a 145 budget and then throw in a very popular ‘big gun’ for measure… On the other hand, I really understand your dilemma and if you want, and you miss it that (!) much, I’ll be happy to set up a Forum Competition to play with a restricted budget of 145, 150 or whatever you think would be a challenge. I know it won’t be as pretty as the game interface and you won’t get daily updates, but if you like the idea I’ll even post the results in color 😀 And I’ll join play to keep you company <:P

The budget isn’t going to
The budget isn’t going to make it easier , if anything I think it will make it harder as you will have so much choice

It’s not exactly the same
It’s not exactly the same players doing well. I’m one of the best purist players and I suck with high budgets. It just makes the game more random imo. Plus it takes excitement away anyway. 🙁

enrique wrote:ray silvester

enrique wrote:

ray silvester wrote:

I still haven’t got Quintana in purist…

I hope you’re right for your own sake, but for the life of me, I can’t see any Purist team winning this thing without Evans and Quintana on their Purist teams… It will be a damn exciting Giro if I’m wrong though! 🙂 To start off with, don’t you think Movistar will come in Top 3 in the TTT? 😕

ray silvester wrote:

EBH and Matthews are the interesting riders for me….

Matthews is another rider I can’t see anyone leaving out of their Purist squad…
What I worry about with Boassen Hagen is I don’t know if he’ll end up riding in support of Swift 😕

I’m worried about Kittel being dropped on any (!) kind of a hill and, crap, Fernandez? Well, I’ve been hoping he’d return to old glory and place on a Top 20 anywhere and anyhow, but he may good for the points in the TTT and maybe he’ll place Top 20 in a sprint or maybe he’ll go on a break… J Rod on your first day team? Do you expect Katusha to do a really good TTT? 😕 Now you’ve got me thinking…

I will say this, I am very happy to see the competition open so early. It gives us a lot of time to plan and play with our squads. Thank you! :)

(Chiichi,J-Rod,Kittel,Fernandez,Malori,Evans,Roche,Hoogerland,EBH)That’s my purist team!!

My prelim standard team looks like this at the moment;

Matthews,Hepburn,Lastras,Malori,Swift,K.Fernandez,Farrar,Viviani,Kittel….with Bouhanni coming in for Malori or Hepburn depending on TTT results.

Dave Atkinson wrote:I look

Dave Atkinson wrote:

I look forward to seeing exactly the same people doing well…

I’ve been hitting the ‘Like’ button at your post for half an hour already and your post should have about 1400 ‘Likes’ by now, unfortunately, something is wrong with the system and it’s only registering 1 ‘Like’ from me 😕

I don’t know, G. First you
I don’t know, G. First you put in a team in Gent Wevelgem with 5 of the breakaway riders and explain it away by saying:

Gkam84 wrote:

I just did it to see how it compares to others scores

Then you’re rude to people saying things like:

Gkam84 wrote:

… if you are not happy, you know what you can do. I couldn’t care less about your small minded views.

and…

Gkam84 wrote:

… if you are not happy… F*** OFF

Then Dave puts up a budget of 180 for the Giro and you say:

Gkam84 wrote:

… 180 is ridiculous and I’ve decided that I will enter two teams of 5.0 or under because its got stupid now

Then you say:

Gkam84 wrote:

I’m not playing for places or prizes, I just put in a team because I can. I couldn’t care if I score big or 0….

Then you change your mind and say:

Gkam84 wrote:

I’ve decided, I’m going with two fully Italian teams…

After having said:

Gkam84 wrote:

I’m sick of bitching and moaning about this, that and the other…. Lately [the game] is just taking up time that I could be doing better things with… my time is money. ….

I don’t know… 😕