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  • January 22, 2013 at 8:17 pm #17752
    enrique

    Love the “Show/hide purist teams” and “Show/hide premium teams” buttons- thanks! 🙂

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  • March 14, 2013 at 5:08 pm #712971
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    northstar

    (No subject)
    :))

    March 14, 2013 at 5:02 pm #712969
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    enrique

    drheaton wrote:Can we change

    drheaton wrote:
    Can we change the name of this thread to “enrique’s” questions?…

    Done! 🙂

    March 14, 2013 at 2:15 pm #712967
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    drheaton

    Can we change the name of
    Can we change the name of this thread to “enrique’s” questions?

    Also, there’s no need to change the automatic roster thread to show the latest at the top, just click on the little number showing how many new posts there are, that takes you to the latest one.

    March 14, 2013 at 2:11 pm #712965
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:…while I

    enrique wrote:
    …while I appreciate the “Fantasy Cycling: The Automatic Roster Changes Forum Thread”, it’s too long… 🙁 …

    Dave, would you consider changing the Automatic Roster Changes Forum Thread so it lists latest posts first? Just so we can see the latest updates first? By the way, is anything updated on that thread immediately updated on the Rankings page? Or is there a delay? Thanks! 🙂

    February 9, 2013 at 9:22 pm #712963
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    northstar

    Thanks guys : )
    Thanks guys : )

    February 9, 2013 at 8:49 pm #712961
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    drheaton

    No, top ten in a competition
    No, top ten in a competition at any point.

    February 9, 2013 at 8:30 pm #712959
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    TERatcliffe26

    northstar wrote:What is the

    northstar wrote:
    What is the high roller award for? Recieved it today but not really sure why.

    Thanks

    Top 10 on a stage I think

    February 9, 2013 at 8:27 pm #712957
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    northstar

    What is the high roller award
    What is the high roller award for? Recieved it today but not really sure why.

    Thanks

    February 9, 2013 at 8:19 pm #712955
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    drheaton

    I quite like the rolling
    I quite like the rolling rider ranking page but is there a way of adding arrows to each rider to show whether they’re moving up or down? It’s not necessarily easy to see who’s gaining in relation to others over twelve months and who’s falling behind. It’d be nice to pick out a rider like Boonen who’s likely to have dropped a few places or Slagter who’s gained a few based on rolling 12 month points hauls.

    February 4, 2013 at 7:07 pm #712953
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    sanderville

    Can I just say that the
    Can I just say that the Dashboard is turning out to be excellent?

    I think I can.

    February 3, 2013 at 4:21 pm #712951
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    TERatcliffe26

    To your second point, I
    To your second point, I believe because of how we upload the scores, you cant just exclude results as you put it. Im not sure how Dave does it exactly to calculate the values though. Also in reference to this point, basically you shouldn’t exclude any points, points are points and there are many ways to accumulate points and those are what he scored. All points in our game count to the total and so should count to how valuable a rider is.

    In reference to you last point, in the riders eyes stage 2 of the TDU was flat. Just because the race didnt end in a sprint shouldn’t mean the way you would class a stage should be manipulated. Same with todays ToQ stage, it was pan flat but it wasn’t sprinters who scored big, in fact some bug sprinters finished 16 mins down, for anyone looking at the results you could have said it represented a hilly stage.

    My point being you get odd results and you are looking at just one stage as we only have that amount of data at the moment for this way of value calculating, but with more and more data eradicates the obscure results and maybe Thomas value wouldn’t be so high.

    But just because there is one rider who you personally think shouldn’t be valued so high, doesn’t mean the calculations are not giving fair values across the board

    February 3, 2013 at 3:14 pm #712949
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    enrique

    Dave Atkinson wrote:mainly, i

    Dave Atkinson wrote:
    mainly, i think you’re a bit put out that there aren’t as many bargains to be had. but that just means the game is doing a better job of calculating the rider values than last year.

    Yeah, you’re right! 🙂 I am! 🙂 Thanks for the thorough and well thought-out answers, guys! 🙂

    drheaton wrote:
    … Thomas scored 52 points on the last stage of the TdU which was flat and the stage where he scored 60 points was also classed as ‘FL’… That means… he has… a high average score on flat stages.

    Ok, now, I know I’m going to extremes, but, for “better” data, wouldn’t it be better to go back to the results and count only 36 of Thomas’s 52 points on Stage 6 of the TDU? That’s because his 52 points include 8 for GC, 5 for PC and 3 for KM and are far more indicative of the nature of the race rather than his strength on flat stages…

    On Stage 2, I would do the same, just count the Finish Line and PC and KOM points along the way… Well for any stage, really, because adding the GC, KM, PC and YR should count for the race, but not for calculations of how many points a rider has scored on a given type of stage…

    I guess I think that if you remove GC, KM, PC and YR standing points from a riders scores for acertain kind of stage, the data is “better”, or, if you will, more “accurate”, since these GC, KM, PC and YR points, depend on the point of the race… Make sense?

    Dave Atkinson wrote:
    GT is the rider with the highest form in the whole game, he’s good on flat stages too. of course he’s expensive for the TOQ.

    drheaton wrote:
    Thomas has done well on flat stage, flat stage make up the majority of the ToQ…

    By the same token, shouldn’t Stage 2, which was classified as flat, be classified as something else? Maybe MM? I know there aren’t a lot of options to classify a stage, but my point is, it obviously wasn’t a “real” flat stage…

    And then (!) maybe Geraint Thomas would not have been worth so much more for the TOQ! Just thinking out loud here 🙂

    January 30, 2013 at 10:54 am #712947
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    Stumps

    Cant fault the game at the
    Cant fault the game at the mo, much better than last year although my scores aren’t :”(

    January 30, 2013 at 10:39 am #712945
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    drheaton

    Dave Atkinson wrote:mainly, i

    Dave Atkinson wrote:
    mainly, i think you’re a bit put out that there aren’t as many bargains to be had. but that just means the game is doing a better job of calculating the rider values than last year.

    Also, last year prices were calculated at the start of the year and left unchanged. That meant that riders like Degenkolb, Bouhanni, Guardini etc who were relatively unknown and unsuccessful at the start of the year were cheap and remained cheap all year despite winning lots of races. Even without the change to the logic and having varying prices their values would have increased this year regardless.

    This year if a rider has a breakout season and wins races early on in the year they’ll get more expensive as the year goes on. This gets rid of a lot of the weird values that start to occur in the mid to late season and Dave is right, more often than not the game logic will do a better job of pricing riders than a person would.

    January 30, 2013 at 10:26 am #712943
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    livestrongnick

    bravo Dave Keep up the
    =D> bravo Dave =D> Keep up the excellent work can’t fault the game! =D>

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