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Post by punkska on Aug 2, 2015 16:23:01 GMT 1
Congrats on the youngster jersey today ElG. Hillen nearly caught Quintal, 11 seconds! Poor tour/week for me overall (or maybe an average week, and my first few were good ones. I guess..) I'm just short of the money for a Bourel bid I think I have it really it's just a quirk of the timing. I should be able to add a cyclist to the bid, a part exchange.
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Post by eboese on Aug 4, 2015 13:11:51 GMT 1
Happy with the win today, it sucks that Veland and Beaucourt were able to compete again though as a result of the double fitness update. I hoped to gain some more points on Franconia as I expect to lose quite a bit of ground in the weeks to come. At least we are well on track for another podium spot this season. Trying to reshape my team a bit at the moment as I have way too many guys focused on flat. First one out of the door is Boitel, who was actually one of the first riders I bought, so a bit sad to see him go
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Post by ElGringo on Aug 5, 2015 12:20:19 GMT 1
This guy is familiar to me Cecil Bregge great win.
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Post by eboese on Aug 5, 2015 13:10:49 GMT 1
Bleh, who was also able to compete again due to the double update, pretty annoying. Franconia taking the full advantage so far, bye bye number one position.
Way too many mountains today, all my guys in the back of the pack.
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Post by ElGringo on Aug 5, 2015 13:38:41 GMT 1
Bleh, who was also able to compete again due to the double update, pretty annoying. Franconia taking the full advantage so far, bye bye number one position. Way too many mountains today, all my guys in the back of the pack. If you want, I sell you a mountain rider My bad option of attacking points made my mountain rider lose many time :s It seems that the fight for number 1 is between both of you, the rest for now are fighting to avoid relegation. I am waiting for some U21 stages to see if I can win more stages and climb in the classification.
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Post by eboese on Aug 5, 2015 14:19:49 GMT 1
I don't think I will really be able to challenge Franconia to be honest. He has put together a much better balanced team and also invested in several U21 riders, something I failed to do when the number of U21 races went up several seasons back (only bought a couple of youngsters last season). In addition we also lost the competition of Ab who managed to challenge him on all terrains last season and grab a lot of points. I do hope Ab will be up there for the U21 races though, that might help a bit I do have some good mountain riders to be honest, Malton used to be a legend, but I ruined them by not getting their mood up when I contracted them, so they have become pretty useless now. Waste of talent. I currently find it quite challenging to decide what to do with my money. I don't really want to buy expensive 29+ year olds, as they are getting pretty close to their retirement age, but buying younger guys doesn't help as well as they won't be able to challenge for now. Will be really interesting to see what will happen to all of our teams in 4 to 5 seasons when the current top riders have become old.
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Post by Slayer772004 on Aug 6, 2015 12:13:18 GMT 1
Hüsker Du's team got confused and did a team time trial today
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Post by ElGringo on Aug 6, 2015 12:24:10 GMT 1
I made a bad choise today, I put a mountain rider with sprint to win but helpers didn't do their jog to get him in the front :S
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Post by eboese on Aug 6, 2015 15:33:23 GMT 1
Hüsker Du's team got confused and did a team time trial today Haha, it looks pretty cool, quite an achievement to find 5 riders that are able to stick together in this race. Seems they even didn't allow Lickiss to join them, he ended 1 sec behind the Hüsker Gang. Pretty bad result again. My sprinter didn't have enough mountain skill and my mountain rider didn't have enough sprint skill, resulting in a 4th and 7th place. And Franconia is on fire.
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Post by punkska on Aug 7, 2015 0:40:00 GMT 1
Hüsker Du's team got confused and did a team time trial today Ha, trueeeee. We all get it wrong sometimes I guess. I just watched the report, my 5 were in a group of 23 until the first mountain part and then it broke up, so they did some good work making the peloton smaller on the other race parts at least. My sprinter isn't completely useless on mountain, I'd be interested to replay that race with one more mountain focused helper to see if that made any difference or if this sprinter was just never getting to that finish in the front group.
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Post by Ab Normaal on Aug 7, 2015 22:59:59 GMT 1
Bleh, who was also able to compete again due to the double update, pretty annoying. Franconia taking the full advantage so far, bye bye number one position. Yes, for some reason, all bugs are always in favour of Franconia. I know it 100% sure it is not on purpose, otherwise it would have been very suspicious. But it annoyed me the last seasons. Anytime something went wrong, the one profiting the most was Franconia. The reason Franconia is so good, is simply because he understands the game 100%. He is a top player, tactically very good. He saw me having a fitness trainer last season and he immediately trained it too. What I also did last season is upgrade the mood of my better cyclists by renewing their contracts for short term. Grazziotin for example is a fantastic rider, but with mood OK, he won't win a lot. The other reason is that Franconia is one of the best teams in hill and sepecialized in it. No other team in 1:1 is that good on it, except Rats. You see Rats stealing a lot of points there from Franconia. I found the way to beat Franconia, but it will cost anyone at least two seasons in the right training per rider to do it. And without fitness trainer (to use in grand tours), you're not going to do it. If you need more tips, just PM me. Oh, and yes I am going to compete in the U21 races, but since almost all of them need mountain, I won't be very competitive.
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Post by ElGringo on Aug 9, 2015 16:43:24 GMT 1
Position | Team | wins | Yellow jersey | White jersey | Sprint jersey | Mountain jersey | Points | Week Points | Stages Week | Week rank | 1. | Team Franconia | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1572 | 592 | 2 | 1 | 2. | De Droeftoeters | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1302 | 347 | 3 | 2 | 3. | Rats | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 962 | 265 | 1 | 3 | 4. | Schizmano | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 748 | 182 | 0 | 4 | 5. | Slayer772004 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 639 | 157 | 0 | 5 | 6. | Hüsker Dü | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 585 | 53 | 0 | 10 | 7. | PAN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 556 | 114 | 0 | 7 | 8. | Nightbiker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 532 | 129 | 0 | 6 | 9. | Lions of Avalon | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 447 | 86 | 0 | 8 | 10. | Melres United | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 426 | 60 | 0 | 9 | 11. | De Kasseienstoempers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 318 | 35 | 0 | 11 | 12. | De Koereurs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 218 | 26 | 0 | 12 |
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Post by ElGringo on Aug 18, 2015 19:38:35 GMT 1
Position | Team | wins | Yellow jersey | White jersey | Sprint jersey | Mountain jersey | Points | Week Points | Stages Week | Week rank | 1. | Team Franconia | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1817 | 245 | 1 | 1 | 2. | De Droeftoeters | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1511 | 209 | 1 | 2 | 3. | Rats | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1171 | 209 | 1 | 2 | 4. | Schizmano | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 923 | 175 | 0 | 6 | 5. | Slayer772004 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 846 | 207 | 1 | 4 | 6. | Nightbiker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 703 | 171 | 2 | 7 | 7. | Hüsker Dü | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 670 | 85 | 0 | 9 | 8. | Lions of Avalon | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 638 | 191 | 0 | 5 | 9. | PAN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 594 | 38 | 0 | 12 | 10. | Melres United | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 477 | 51 | 0 | 10 | 11. | De Kasseienstoempers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 446 | 128 | 0 | 8 | 12. | De Koereurs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 257 | 39 | 0 | 11 |
This was a balanced week but some groups are now formed, the fight for the division, for 3rd spot and to avoid relegation.
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Post by eboese on Aug 18, 2015 22:12:18 GMT 1
Very balanced indeed, thought I did a lot worse last week. Franconia still sneaking away a bit though. Hope I can keep Rats of my back in the next weeks.
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Post by punkska on Aug 18, 2015 22:24:08 GMT 1
Hmmm, I'm pretty bored of various things. Does no-one have anything to saay here? (and while I was typing eboese posts. Well, good) One day Feringa and Loete won't be my most productive cyclists, but I'm not sure when that'll be (enter: mood is too powerful rant). Seriously though, it is. Really hard to make bought cyclists worth the same as older ones (who have the mood from being in weaker divisions previously) But maybe it's designed this way, and I want to use the transfer market too much. Humm. I guess things are going ok then. I thought I had a really bad week last week, but I got more points than 3 other teams according to the above table. So maybe I can stay up. If I do it'll be in 8th though, Lions and Nightbiker will surely overtake me at some point. Then, well I'd say Melres might be more of a challenge than PAN, but I really don't know what your squad is like and how you feel about it. My Giro selection is weird, I'm not entirely sure what I was trying to do. I guess we'll see how Iorga can do in some kinda GC way. Would anyone like to pick the 5th member of my Rheinland-Pfalz-Rundfahrt squad for me? The one who has a go at the 3rd stage. I have like 4 options fit and I have no idea. The best hill option has the worst flat and mountain, but also best tt. The 2nd best flat has better hill and sprint than the 1st. The 3rd best flat has the best mountain, and sprint of the 4. Worst hill. Better tt than all but the best hill guy.
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