World Championships – Individual Time Trial

ray silvester wrote:Will we

ray silvester wrote:

Will we be getting the trade team-mate bonuses or nationality bonuses?

Team mate bonus by country although I doubt that will really come into it unless you want to spend 10 credits on picking up Grabsch/Gretsch for an extra 5 points. I think there are better options though 🙂

ray silvester wrote:

drheaton wrote:

So, what’s everyone thinking?

Drop one of Cancellara, Martin or Wiggins and bring in a couple of mid-priced guys (Castroviejo/Malori etc)?

Pick the probable top three and spread the remaining credits around?

Or pick the probable top four (Phinney/Chava or someone similar) and just go for really cheap others?

I’m leaning towards the latter but if Phinney or whoever I pick as my 4th placed finisher has a bad day I’ll be much worse off than those who edge their bets.

You could say the same for the big three as well though?

True, although I think unless one has a technical problem you can pretty much guarantee that Martin/Wiggins/Cancellara will be right up there.

johnny2names wrote:drheaton

johnny2names wrote:

drheaton wrote:

enrique wrote:

Have you seen the start times for the ITT posted anyhwere? Thanks!

I saw Kwiatkowski is the highest valued rider for the ITT!… Wow! Never expected that!

He’s not the highest priced rider for the ITT, he’s the highest priced rider for all three world championship events. He’s got form in the TTT, ITT and on Medium Mountain stages so across all three events he’s the ‘best’ rider. Riders like Martin and Wiggins have form in one or two of those events but not all three so they are cheaper.

All fair, but perhaps on the basis of unlimited transfers for both standard and purist, maybe the rider prices should change in future world champs for each race to reflect their discipline specific strengths. But that’s prob a nightmare for the administrator to run ;)

Not a nightmare, we’d just need to separate out each race into its own competition.

There are major downsides to that though, namely that prices would be set for every rider in the game on each individual event meaning for the ITT anyone with any ITT form would have a high price. Because the best TTers are all in the race it means that there wouldn’t be much price variation. You’d have everyone who’s scored well in a TT at 30+ credits then all the crap down at 3 credits and naff all in between.

Grouping the three races together gives some variation by averaging values across all the events.

Ghedebrav wrote:I see

Ghedebrav wrote:

I see Cancellara is in – but hasn’t he chosen to concentrate on the road race?

I think he’s got his eye on the road race but after beating Martin recently he might fancy his chances in the ITT.