Road race

I gave them the points to save any arguments, seems it caused more.

I have't spoken to Dave, he was going to be scoring these races and I noticed that they hadn't been scored, so I took it upon myself to score them, as Dave would have. So until I hear anything more, those breakaway points will stand.

Against what I believe should be scored.

Guys, I had Kvasina from the break, so you might say I'm biased. But I only finished 12th in the competition and, without Kvasina's points, I would have been 30th or something. It's pretty much the same thing for me, honestly.
But I do think breakaway guys (in general, not just in this race) should be scored even if they don't finish. Those four guys buried themselves upfront all day long, in a miserable weather. That should be rewarded in the game too, I think.

My first competition win!
Last minute changes paid off...changed Costa and Kristoff for Kwiatkowski and breschel.
It´s been a good end of season for me, winning San Sebastian, Worlds Team Time Trial and Road Race. Also secured 3rd place overall in "Overall purist (non premium races)". Maybe if I hadn´t missed one Womans race I could fight for the overall win in Lombadia.
Still a very good year...

Winner today

BINOS PRO CYCLING: ruicarvalho

Simon Gerrans AR Orica Greenedge 40
Michal Kwiatkowski AR Omega Pharma - Quick-Step 50
Georgios Bouglas DS World Champs 0
Greg Van Avermaet AR BMC Racing Team 20
Alejandro Valverde AR Movistar 30
Grega Bole DS World Champs 0
Alexandr Kolobnev DS Team Katusha 0
Matija Kvasina DS World Champs 10
Matti Breschel DS Team Tinkoff-Saxo 25

Also, by scoring 175, they climbed 35 places into 1st place and won the overall

1 BINOS PRO CYCLING ruicarvalho 451
2 Gmancervelo (Purist) Gmancervelo 427
3 BJP Racing Team Ben Phippen 421

I'm seeing the road race as not yet being scored. Is this the case or have I cocked something up?

Yup, I always avoid last minute changes. Not this time though, it must be end-of-the-season nervousness...

The old adage of never changing your team at the last minute...

Damn, just 2,3,5,6 for me. I had Breschel and Colbrelli too, until this morning, but when I was pretty sure it would rain I thought "Hmmm, this is going to be really tough, it's going to be something like Liege Bastogne Liege". So I put Dan Martin and Giampaolo Caruso in my team, thinking they were really good in Liege this year (and going reasonably well recently). The problem is, in my stupidity, I took out Breschel and Colbrelli for that . Ironically, the podium guys were exactly the ones from Liege, yet the Liege performers I took this morning were useless...

Dave Atkinson wrote:

restriction on number of riders per team should be gone now

Does that mean we could have had a Polish heavy team, like the one below? This would have been the best possible team today... But it has 3 Poles on it... I guess none of the breakaway riders get any points 'cause they didn't finish, did they?...

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39.5 Michal Kwiatkowski
23.9 Simon Gerrans
21.4 Greg Van Avermaet
19.6 Tony Gallopin
18.3 Philippe Gilbert
13.2 Maciej Paterski
7.4 Matti Breschel
3.0 Michal Podlaski
3.0

If viable, this team would have come in at 149.3 credits and would have scored 184 points.

Glad Kwiatkowski won! A deserving winner!
Took some balls to celebrate the way he did before the line! They were closing so fast! Think I was more nervous than him!

Just 1 & 2 for my purist team

my wildcard in my standard team damiano caruso let me down, so I reckon my team +16 or 21 points will win it

2,3,4,5,6, think it will outscore you by 2 points

as for my purists i think it scores 10 less than my standard with 1,4,5,6,11

2,4,5,6,8,12 plus 5 teammate bonus.

Just Costa who let me down.

Apart from Gerrans, lots of high-point favorites! Hard to pick a roster.

Sat for 2 hours going over all the riders and the course, picked my team then deleted them and started again ! Now got both teams sorted and unless something major happens i'm not going to check them again until just before closure.

Thanks Gkam - could you get Dave to confirm what you say - that the breakaway riders have to finish the race to get their ten points? If so, it should be noted in the scoring info - no need for any confusion if the scoring info page is thorough (not everyone looks at the forum).

I've picked my teams - one has my 4 favourites and a load of cheap filler, the other has no-one above 24 credits and lots of guys that will feel like they have a chance of top ten. Does it have to be on Ryder Cup singles day?

Yes, just what I said above, the team bonus doesn't matter if they finish, just have to start the race.

Breakaway is different

Team bonus - by country: 5 Points for each participating rider from the same country

The scoring info doesn't say "finishing"...

It hasn't always been if they finish the race, those rules apply to the classics, or were supposed to, until I didn't score them.

Now it is, as long as the rider has started the race, the breakaway points as far as I know are still they HAVE to finish the race. As it is being scored like a one day classic, any group of 10 or under will a minute lead at the half way point will get 10 points, IF those riders finish.

it's always been if they finish the race, not that I agree with it, but hey, those are them rules