Spring Classics 2015

MinardiM189 wrote:Very

MinardiM189 wrote:

Very disappointed with the transfer policy for this series.

I’ve just discovered that there are a limited number of transfers and only have 2 transfers left with 5 races to go, and most of my team from Sheldeprijs are not competing in Paris Roubaix.

Ruined the whole series for me.

Thank you for organising the game but this is a bad policy and should be changed.

All competitions have a limited number of transfers. How on earth have you used so many? I still have 24 left.

I wish I could find riders on
I wish I could find riders on Giant and BMC to pick for my team in the Paris-Rioubiax race. They aren’t on the list!

chiv30 wrote:Surely stumps

chiv30 wrote:

Surely stumps got extremely lucky today especially looking back over the last few years results for Ghent , still top marks to him =D>

Luck maybe, i like to think its the effort i put in checking form and the weather to see what it was like etc, but your probably right !!!!!!!!!!

Nix wrote:… we have…
– a

Nix wrote:

… we have…
– a 5 rider… comp with 140 credit budget.
– plus a 3 rider purist no trade comp with 10 credit budget…

It certainly feels that way. Today was a beautiful day of racing. Bet there’ll be a ton of low scores. Looking at the pre-race favorites, say Sagan, Degenkolb, Kristoff and Cavendish, you could only fit in those 4 and 4 3.0 or so riders… :/ I hope next year we get a chance to have rider values lowered to the point we can have 7 or 8 riders and not have half the team be 3.0 or so riders if we choose the favorites…

Stumps did mighty well today, though:

stumps wrote:

3,4,6,7,9 + 5 for winner, not bad.

I just wish we had more riders to cheer on for our team… 😐

chiv30 wrote:

Great tv bad fantasy day :(

And that we didn’t have to skimp on a good team for lack of transfers:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

…Bottled bringing in Paolini… to save transfers…

It is fun, though… In a weird way… :”(

Nix wrote:Cretin30 can’t

Nix wrote:

Cretin30 can’t string two words together so has to resort to inane pictures.

Nah after your last comment about not beinG able to understand my posts I took it as you struggle to read so gave you pictures to look at instead that conveys perfectly what I think of your post

Now crack on with yet more whining :H

Nix wrote:Trades are

Nix wrote:

Trades are unlimited now.

The idea we could plan ahead lasted 1 race when prices and the number of trades changed. As I predicted, we can’t get reliable future startlist info or weather info so it is dumb to try to plan even a week ahead with trades.

Instead we have 2 competitions cobbled together.
– a 5 rider unlimited trade comp with 140 credit budget.
– plus a 3 rider purist no trade comp with 10 credit budget.
Scores from both comps are added together.

An unlimited trade game with an 8 man team is easy to play – to put in a team. But hard to optimise because of the large number of combinations. Then you have to try and correctly try to optimise that over 13 weeks; it is very hard to win. Just because it is easy to put in a starting team for new players doesn’t mean it is an easy competition to finish in the top 100. But at least your time is spent thinking about cycling and races (interesting sfuff), instead of tedious trawling through startlists and news reports (boring stuff).

:”( :”(

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Alls I can say is for the
Alls I can say is for the spring classics, check startlist information yourself and dont rely on it being correct on here as startlists change and we only get the same info as anyone else.

You are able to select all riders so there is no problem, and thus no excuse, surely if you take the game seriously enough to query whether a rider is riding, your able to look at the info and make your own judgement? At the end of the day if a rider rides he will score if places, so pick a grey rider if you have info suggesting he is riding, whether we think he is or not because we ultimately go off the results come the end.

And saying about having to wait until the last minute to make transfers, and I know the rosters dont change, but its not much different to having to allocate time the night before each stage of a GT everyday for 3 weeks to make transfers, and in those races riders drop out the morning of the race like roster changes can happen for these races. Thats just the nature of cycling and if transfers were unlimited the spring classics would be no challenge whatsoever imo