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Suggestions for 2012 season

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  • September 5, 2011 at 12:29 pm #14182
    drheaton

    Seeing as the 2011 fantasy season is now winding down I figured I’d start a topic for everyone suggestions/requests for next year. I know a few have been given through the season but I thought it’d be more helpful for us to have our suggestions and requests for next season all in one place.

    Other than having a little more flexibility on who I can pick (up to 3 ARs, 2PC etc) my suggestion is:

    – Have a team reset button when doing transfers –
    Basically be able to reset my own transfers if I realise I’ve messed up. While this is the basic reason it would also allow people who perhaps can’t always make their transfers at 10:55 to make two transfers immediately when the window opens and then if they have a change of heart or realise that one of their riders has abandoned/crashed/been done for drugs they can reset their team to how it was at the end of the last stage and redo their transfers. Also this might stop people having to keep asking Dave to reset their team if they mess up.

    On variable rider values despite being against it at first I like that the riders change in value a little throughout the season but I think variations might be better if they were slightly more noticeable than they are now. How it was during the Giro was probably a bit excessive, how it was during the TdF was hardly noticeable and a bit pointless (other than to mean that I was always 0.1 short of having the team I really wanted) so either no changes or more noticeable changes would be better.

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  • September 6, 2011 at 9:02 am #653533
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    simon F

    My sixpennorth of gawd help
    My sixpennorth of gawd help us :-

    If the GT’s are still to be separate comps, then a value reset at the start seems fair but maybe, after the GT finishes, your team value could be reset to the greater of it’s value at the end of the tour and it’s value before the reset for those who [b]are[/b] taking part for the whole season.

    drheaton wrote:
    Maybe a max of two transfers carried over so you can only ever have four and all carried over transfers are reset on rest days?

    This seems good, and fair, to me.

    I would also like to see more races (particularly more of the one week races) but I wasn’t mad keen on the overlapping so that could be difficult. Maybe having a larger budget and running two teams? You could choose to spend it all on one race or split into two lower value teams.

    On similar lines, I would like to see some women’s racing included. Perhaps everyone should have to have a women’s team as well? If that would put people off, maybe it could be a separate competition, running in parallel. There are some very good women racers around with not much support and maybe 4 or 5000 road.cc competitors wanting to know about the races would boost the profile a little.

    September 6, 2011 at 8:19 am #653531
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    drheaton

    Gkam84 wrote:Yeah the team

    Gkam84 wrote:
    Yeah the team values need to be sorted out and hopefully its a SEASON long credits system, non of this re-setting nonsense, if your in at the start, good on you, if you start late thats your tough luck

    To be honest I completely disagree on this point, the way the prizes are dished out means that really it’s not a season long game. You get the big prizes, bikes worth £1k+, for the three GTs and the season long prize is ‘just’ a £200 Evans voucher so in prize terms the season long comp isn’t as important as the three GTs. As far as I’m concerned the Giro, TdF and Vuelta feel like separate competitions with major prizes and the season long prize tacked on the end.

    If you don’t reset then going into the TdF the top 50-100 players from the Giro will have a massive advantage over everyone else and you run the risk of the same people winning every GT. If you reset then players who only want to play the GTs or even the TdF (and who are we to discriminate against them?) will have as much chance as anyone else to do well. Whatever happens those who make the right picks will do well but the reset evens the playing field for the start of each GT. ‘Forcing’ people to play the whole game would be counterproductive for the site and the game and if people feel like they’re not being given a chance they won’t play.

    thefatcyclist wrote:
    I would like to be able to carry 1 transfer over once per small tour. 3 times per grand tour.

    I agree on carrying over transfers, if I choose not make transfers on one stage it’d be nice to have those to use later on and it adds another element to the game, choosing not to make changes one day in order to carry them forwards to later in the game. Maybe a max of two transfers carried over so you can only ever have four and all carried over transfers are reset on rest days?

    Another option might be to have a ‘wildcard’ where, if you play it in a transfer window, you get double transfers. That means if you were to play your wildcard during a normal Grand Tour transfer window you’d get four transfers instead of two BUT you can also play it on a rest day and get eight transfers instead of four thus adding a skill element to choosing when to play it.

    September 6, 2011 at 12:20 am #653529
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    thefatcyclist

    A separate league table where
    A separate league table where our choices get points for the time not the position over the line on stages. So if the first 50 riders have the same time they get the same points whatever that might be. Then the next group gets less points etc etc. This makes up for riders sitting up and being placed lower down than if the had continued to ride. But it would have to ba a stand alone separate competition.

    One would think that unlimited choices within budget would make the game easier but it does not(halfords). I would not go there.

    I would like to be able to carry 1 transfer over once per small tour. 3 times per grand tour.

    Maybe have a wild card section where we could pick 1 rider from any speciality.

    I would not like to see a reset button, even though there are times when I could have used it, like inadvertantly having 3 riders from same team and having to take one out. It allows us to banter more on the forum, and avoids people changing due to that chat.

    September 5, 2011 at 9:06 pm #653527
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    Gkam84

    Yeah the team values need to
    Yeah the team values need to be sorted out and hopefully its a SEASON long credits system, non of this re-setting nonsense, if your in at the start, good on you, if you start late thats your tough luck đŸ‘¿ I feel if it had been that way right through i could have had more points as i would have been able to pick the team i wanted with the amassed credits and not limited because the game was reset

    Also, as many more races as you can and more overlaps aswell because that was great having to balance two races between your nine riders

    I would like to see more flexible choices, but still so you can only have one GC guy and then pick what you want a bit like this

    Want 2 sprinters, then fine, you can only have 1 AR, same with climbers

    But if you want 3 AR them you can only have 3 DS, slightly flexible, but not hugely

    I dont want to see a team reset button, because thats just a cop out, if you make a mistake, thats your fault, dont go making it easy

    September 5, 2011 at 8:11 pm #653525
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    JAndrewHill

    …and let me win some time
    …and let me win some time

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