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January 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm #17631enrique
Things you may want to ask for.
1. Can you add sortable columns to the ‘Rankings’ page so you can click on the Rider ‘Value’ column and have the list sorted by rider value instead of its current sort by points scored?
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I’m not necessarily a fan of
I’m not necessarily a fan of the new system. I’ve just fallen from first to third in Tirreno in the very last stage, because I only had 2 transfers left and the guys behind me had one or two extra transfers left. It felt cruel to have nothing to do in the face of almost certain defeat. My heart is broken. For good…Just kidding. I say let’s give the new system a year to see how we adjust to it. It has changed every year since I know the game, so nothing lets us believe that the new system will remain in place for next year.
That being said, what I really miss is the system from my first year in the game, when rider values were changing during each competition, depending on their results. It was, of course, pretty crazy and it was probably pretty unfair, because the better you were, the easier the competition became for you (because your total credits in a GT, for example, were increasing as a result of your good picks). Nevertheless, it was hugely fun, because it was like buying riders and stocks at the same time. It was two games in one, really. That, I loved. And I’m sure that you, enrique, being a number lover, would love that one too…backflipbedlem
Hey Enrique!
Here’s my 2
Hey Enrique! 😕Here’s my 2 pence!
Things I Miss.
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I also miss the penalty transfers, I understand planning your transfers, but as seems to happen I plan but end up having to compromise or run out towards the end of the race.
Maybe if we increased the penalty to 20 points per transfer, it might limit people.
Just feel that some stages I end up with no riders to cheer on! And it moves the standard nearer to being a purist comp.2.
When clicking on a riders name in the selection, we get to see what scores they recently got, and what date, but no longer what type of stage it was. Which used to be a good help.3.
Having a running total for certain badges over the season, such as Top 10 stage finish, and Top 20 Tour Finish etc. To give an indicator how you have done over a season.4.
Also miss the prizes from last year. I understand they caused lots of problems last time, with lots of people not receiving them etc. But it did add a lot more incentive to the game.
And having just won the Tirreno Purist comp, am a little gutted 🙁 Love me some freedbies!Things I like.
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The addition of stage profiles for each stage.2.
I like the new bonus comps, embracing the more obscure mini comps that used to run, such as 3 frenchmen etc.Hmm Think thats it for now! 😕
Overall still the best game out there!
And mucho Kudos to everyone that runs it!! B-)enrique
Well, what a dilemma… The
Well, what a dilemma… The year is not even half way through and I’m already thinking about what things I either miss from the ‘old’ game or always wish had been there… :WHere are my unabashedly honest, albeit truly insignificant, in the grand scheme of things, requests… based on a post I just commented on (http://road.cc/content/forum/145935-au-revoir#comment-336684)
1. We must tweak the rider value algorithm to allow for more mid level riders to be able to be added to teams. When the mountains come along, invariably, because of the high cost of the favorites, you end up with 3 or 4 ‘Stars’ and 3 or 4 3.0 riders. Who wants a gaggle of non-scoring 3.0 riders on their team? (Admittedly, it takes a lot of planning to plan around these circumstances, which many of you seem to enjoy 😕 ) I live for the thrill of having many (!) riders to root for! 😉
2. I think we should go back to 9 man teams again…
3. I really miss the penalty transfers… Like I ‘ve said before, that ‘Last throw of the dice’… 😐
4. I miss the rider stats that said how many teams had a particular rider on their team… On the Oman stage which Valls Ferri won, on the Tirreno stage which Debushere won and on the mountain stage which Nairo won, it would have been nice to see who, or how many, were ‘smart enough’ or ‘bold’ enough to have picked those riders….
So there they are… My pet peeves about the game (again)… Feel free to do some intelligent moaning about me if your heart so desires… I can’t help but feel the love… But (!) I do (!) love this game! And Gkam of course….
enrique
You know, looking at the
You know, looking at the results for the U23 Road race, I thought next year it might be fun to have the Worlds Championship Competition include all the race categories, women’s, Jr’s, U23, etc…That’d be a lot of 3.0 riders to choose from! 😀 I’d help with the start lists of course, but with the Tour of Beijing gone for next year, it would be a hell of a way to close out the Road.cc Fantasy Cycling Season! 🙂
enrique
Twybaydos wrote:… Formolo
That’s interesting… does that mean the algorithm just takes a look at points per type of stage but ignores number of days of racing in the last 12 months?… 😕 That could explain why they’re more expensive I guess… 😕Twybaydos wrote:… Formolo has done 12 stages… yet he is 17.9…Twybaydos
I have an issue with the
I have an issue with the algorithm for working out points for new riders, specifically those who have a few races under their belts.Looking at Tour of Poland Formolo, Arredondo and Seb Henao are very expensive. Formolo has done 12 stages within the competition (9x Suisse, 3x Trentino) yet he is 17.9 cost on the back of one moderately successful event (and pulling out of Trentino). On a twelve month basis he has scored less than, Riblon, Siutsou, Jungels, Capecchi, Ion Izaguirre, Barguil etc. But costs more than them.
Arredondo has done two very good events but had a bad volta catalunya. Is he really worth so much more than Cataldo and D. Caruso in a race to be decided on the time trial?
Same earlier in the season, Simon Yates was prohibitive on the back of only doing tour of britain, but Adam was cheap. IIRC Hofland and Coquard cost silly amounts in their second competition in the game because their first was so good.
It would be good if these up and coming riders could have their scores smoothed until they get enough races under their belts to accurately gauge their cost. Is this achievable?
ray silvester
chiv30 wrote:ray silvester
chiv30 wrote:ray silvester wrote:I have plans next season to have a forum’s scorum’s two tier league….possibly calling it pro tour and continental…..with promotion and relegation perhaps?I like the idea but how will the pro tour teams be selected for next year ….ie players per league?
It’ll probably be Top thirty and all equal scorers in the Pro Tour level and everyone else in Pro Conti with 5 promoted and relegated each season?
enrique
TERatcliffe26 wrote:I use the
I guess I never check my overall standings, especially during a competition… I could probably do without seeing my overall standing for the whole time a race is going on… Well, Dave, maybe you could rename the ‘Home’ tab ‘Overall Standings’… or maybe you could have a checkbox somewhere that – if selected – would take you staright to your rider selection page every time you log in. I guess I’m just lazy and don’t want to click 1 time to get to the competition and then another to select the riders…. It’s too many clicks and my fingers hurt… 😕 I guess I’m just annoyable.. and annoying… and unreasonable… 😕TERatcliffe26 wrote:I use the home tab to check my overall standing, and to switch those standings between my normal and purist teams…TERatcliffe26
enrique wrote:enrique
enrique wrote:
Dave, I don’t think we need a ‘Home’ tab, honestly, I don’t think anybody ever really stops there except because it’s where you land when you log in…. It’s just a click-through page to get to the current competition in my opinion… Why don’t you change the ‘Home’ page to a ‘Badges’ page and stick that in the background somewhere? I don’t think badges are a talking point anymore, really, and, well, old people like me just want to go to the current competition to get our fix of our daily adrenaline rush… 😕 I hate to sound demeaning, but could you get rid of the ‘Women’s World Tour’ Tabs, too? Not the races, just the tabs… In my rush to get to the TDF and the constant jiggling of tabs and the jiggling of the page layout due to the huge ads wreaking havoc on the page design I have to wait more than 1 second to click on the TDF tab, which is quite annoying in this day and age… In my haste I have been forced to go to the Women’s World Tour on more than one occasion because of my haste in clicking… 😕 Something should be done about that… :Wenrique wrote:Dave, can we have an option next year of having our first page to come up in the game be the rider selection page of the current competition?…I use the home tab to check my overall standing, and to switch those standings between my normal and purist teams. I find it useful anyway
enrique
enrique wrote:Dave, can we
Dave, I don’t think we need a ‘Home’ tab, honestly, I don’t think anybody ever really stops there except because it’s where you land when you log in…. It’s just a click-through page to get to the current competition in my opinion… Why don’t you change the ‘Home’ page to a ‘Badges’ page and stick that in the background somewhere? I don’t think badges are a talking point anymore, really, and, well, old people like me just want to go to the current competition to get our fix of our daily adrenaline rush… 😕 I hate to sound demeaning, but could you get rid of the ‘Women’s World Tour’ Tabs, too? Not the races, just the tabs… In my rush to get to the TDF and the constant jiggling of tabs and the jiggling of the page layout due to the huge ads wreaking havoc on the page design I have to wait more than 1 second to click on the TDF tab, which is quite annoying in this day and age… In my haste I have been forced to go to the Women’s World Tour on more than one occasion because of my haste in clicking… 😕 Something should be done about that… :Wenrique wrote:Dave, can we have an option next year of having our first page to come up in the game be the rider selection page of the current competition?…enrique
I just thought of this while
I just thought of this while playing NBC’s Fantasy Cycling Challenge… 😕 Could we have a sort for riders on the Team Selection page next year based on their total score for the running competition? At first I didn’t like it, it’s the default sort for riders in that game, but having riders sorted by their total score in the NBC game made me realize I was about to leave someone out that was scoring a boatload of points so far in the competition and suddenly I started liking it… 😀enrique
Dave Atkinson wrote:so what
It’s not just that, it’s the rolling of the eyes, too… Could you get rid of the women’s competition tabs for me?… That might make it less confusing… I’m very sensitive and so geared to the Tour de France that every time I click on the Women’s World Cup, which happens every day practically, I puke, I just can’t help it, I just can’t control the mouse like I used to back in the day… Maybe I’m getting too old for this… 😕Dave Atkinson wrote:so what you’re saying is you have to click two buttons? the humanity.
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enrique wrote:enrique
enrique wrote:
Dave, what I mean is this… Here I am… tired… dispirited… and I’m thinking about doing my transfers and then I realize I have to go sign in, land on the ‘Home’ page, to see my information for the whole year, which I’m not particularly interested in right now, then look up at the tabs to make sure I don’t click on the women’s comp, which will probably be there all season, then click on ‘TDF’and then click again to ‘Select Team’, it’s like a marathon… It takes almost as long to get to do my transfers as it does to read one of my posts! 🙂 Agh, I’m just a grumpy old man… :?enrique wrote:Dave, can we have an option next year of having our first page to come up in the game be the rider selection page of the current competition?…so what you’re saying is you have to click two buttons? the humanity.
enrique
enrique wrote:Dave, can we
Dave, what I mean is this… Here I am… tired… dispirited… and I’m thinking about doing my transfers and then I realize I have to go sign in, land on the ‘Home’ page, to see my information for the whole year, which I’m not particularly interested in right now, then look up at the tabs to make sure I don’t click on the women’s comp, which will probably be there all season, then click on ‘TDF’and then click again to ‘Select Team’, it’s like a marathon… It takes almost as long to get to do my transfers as it does to read one of my posts! 🙂 Agh, I’m just a grumpy old man… 😕enrique wrote:Dave, can we have an option next year of having our first page to come up in the game be the rider selection page of the current competition?…VVV73
VVV73 wrote:ray silvester
VVV73 wrote:
Yeah for sure, Chava is one of the toughest riders I ever seen, so many times I seen him go down think he is out of race, then next minute he is at front attacking , ripped jersey flapping in wind LOL absolutely love him.ray silvester wrote:Chava for IAM has a stage win in him somewhere too but he may well save his best for the French crowds and is not as good a value as HH?
P.s. ALL the IAM squad are peaking so hard atm. after the Suisse, I really like Brandle and bit less Hollenstien for future. -
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