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Spring Classics issue

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  • March 4, 2012 at 3:26 pm #15256
    arsene

    Dave, Im worried about the Spring Classics: As a purist its pretty difficult to build a competitive line-up for 7 single races. We will just know whos racing at Milan-SanRemo when we have to choose our 9 riders. It might be a little late now, but hopefully you can change something about that. I’d highly appreciate it.

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  • March 8, 2012 at 1:21 pm #668275
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    dave atkinson

    Gkam84 wrote:dave_atkinson

    Gkam84 wrote:
    dave_atkinson wrote:
    Raleigh wrote:
    The game needs to work on its rider mugshots though. :D

    only so many hours in the day ;)

    Would you like a zip file of as many riders mug shots as i can get?? Organised into folders for each team??

    it’s being done.

    March 8, 2012 at 12:56 pm #668273
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    arsene

    dave_atkinson wrote:okay. so

    dave_atkinson wrote:
    okay. so how about making the two transfer windows that are 6 transfers (Gent and Amstel Gold) into unlimited windows and keeping the rest at four.

    MSR kind of stands on its own, then you have two lots of three. they’re still all counted as one comp.

    Ok thats a good compromise. Thank u Dave for being so flexible. 🙂

    March 8, 2012 at 10:53 am #668271
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    livestrongnick

    aarggghhh gonna be in Egypt
    :”( ~X( :W aarggghhh gonna be in Egypt from 16th April till 26th April! nooooooooooooo X(
    Classics up the swanny for me!!!

    March 7, 2012 at 11:52 pm #668269
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    Gkam84

    dave_atkinson wrote:Raleigh

    dave_atkinson wrote:
    Raleigh wrote:
    The game needs to work on its rider mugshots though. :D

    only so many hours in the day ;)

    Would you like a zip file of as many riders mug shots as i can get?? Organised into folders for each team??

    March 7, 2012 at 9:56 pm #668267
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    dave atkinson

    Raleigh wrote:The game needs

    Raleigh wrote:
    The game needs to work on its rider mugshots though. :D

    only so many hours in the day 😉

    March 7, 2012 at 9:31 pm #668265
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    Raleigh

    Yes; my cobblers will be very
    Yes; my cobblers will be very different from my ardennesers.

    Thanks for the good work; team.

    The game needs to work on its rider mugshots though. 😀

    March 7, 2012 at 8:58 pm #668263
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    drheaton

    Sounds like a plan.
    Sounds like a plan.

    March 7, 2012 at 7:34 pm #668261
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    dave atkinson

    okay. so how about making the
    okay. so how about making the two transfer windows that are 6 transfers (Gent and Amstel Gold) into unlimited windows and keeping the rest at four.

    MSR kind of stands on its own, then you have two lots of three. they’re still all counted as one comp.

    March 7, 2012 at 7:01 pm #668259
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    Gkam84

    fhoupg wrote:I totaly agree

    fhoupg wrote:
    I totaly agree with gkam84. There should be unlimited transfers after every single race.

    So you agree with me but disagree at the same time??

    I’m not saying unlimited transfers, just a bit more flexible that just now, with maybe a mid classics unlimited period

    March 7, 2012 at 6:26 pm #668257
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    drheaton

    I wouldn’t go as far as
    I wouldn’t go as far as requesting unlimited transfers between every stage, I like that you need to pick a ‘Classics Squad’ as the pro teams will do, but the chance to significantly refresh your team mid-classics would be great and is really needed for purists.

    March 7, 2012 at 2:21 pm #668255
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    fhoupg

    I totaly agree with gkam84.
    I totaly agree with gkam84. There should be unlimited transfers after every single race.

    March 7, 2012 at 3:11 am #668253
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    Gkam84

    I’m not playing pursuit, but
    I’m not playing pursuit, but by grouping the classics, its making it into one big race, each should be treated as a separate race with the transfers between them reflecting this, not totally unlimited, more than just a couple here and there, because they are not stages in a race, you cannot just pick a couple of GC guys and then a couple of AR’s, each race is different and therefore requires different types of riders

    March 6, 2012 at 9:54 pm #668251
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    drheaton

    I agree that as a part time
    I agree that as a part time purist it makes it very difficult to pick a team for a group of such disparate races over such a time-span. Last year for me at least it almost seemed to end up more luck than judgement with me striking it lucky on a couple of riders racing most classics and few just doing one or two.

    I understand that for everyone else you don’t want to drop an unlimited transfer window into the middle of classics season which might reduce the difficulty but it would be nice for purists to make some kind of change to their team in the month that runs from 17/3 for the Milan-San Remo to 22/4 and the Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

    As a compromise I’d suggest swapping the 6 transfer window ahead of the Amstel for an unlimited one. That way you’ve still got to pick unchanging teams for 4 and 3 races at a time and the last three, the Amstel, Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege make for a sensible selection of races to pick riders for.

    EDIT: Just thinking about it, for the window between the Paris-Roubaix and the Amstel I think most of the better normal (non-purist) teams wouldn’t make more than 5-6 transfers anyway with or without an unlimited window so it could act as a help to purists and those who’ve not had the best start to the classics season allowing them to gain some ground.

    March 6, 2012 at 9:11 pm #668249
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    dave atkinson

    it certainly will be
    it certainly will be difficult. but there doesn’t seem to be a big thread of +1s here. anyone else got any thoughts?

    March 6, 2012 at 7:14 pm #668247
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    arsene

    So is there any chance?
    So is there any chance?

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