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Post by Ab Normaal on Jan 22, 2018 12:27:41 GMT 1
That's a pretty nice spread of the points. I'm starting to feel some of my guys are losing their magic and some of the younger riders are starting to turn up in front of the races. New champion next season? And what are you going to do? Buy new riders? You must have a huge amount of money.
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Post by davidandre on Jan 22, 2018 13:27:39 GMT 1
Fun to see what my place is in division 1. In some races I am able to compete with some of my best cyclists like Tappa and Chitul, but overall division 1 is very hard with all of the great cyclists in it.
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Post by eboese on Jan 24, 2018 19:56:51 GMT 1
That's a pretty nice spread of the points. I'm starting to feel some of my guys are losing their magic and some of the younger riders are starting to turn up in front of the races. New champion next season? And what are you going to do? Buy new riders? You must have a huge amount of money. Yeah, can't complain about the state of my finances... But especially with the small player base we have now it will be challenging to buy a lot of great riders. All the talented ones are with the guys who went for long-term development plans, so it seems quite unlikely they will sell any of their best riders. I'm probably just going to ride this out till Guth (my leader) retires and I will be forced to start from scratch. In the meantime I will try to keep an eye on the transfer market as well (Bohn looks interesting ).
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Post by eboese on Jan 25, 2018 13:13:15 GMT 1
Damn Loic Wyffels. I thought Coman was finally going to beat him today, but unfortunately the fall cost him too much time (he came close again though!). Nice one BAM, you seem to come up with some super talent each season
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Post by bam on Jan 25, 2018 13:31:08 GMT 1
Yes, without a fall you definitely would have won. Wyffels seems to lack a bit sprint to make the difference on the attack points, I expected that I could get some advantage on the long flat parts in the start (part 3 to 6), but Coman was in the same group. Although Coman didn't loose too much time on the flat parts anyway, only 3 seconds per 5 km part.
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Post by eboese on Jan 25, 2018 14:39:28 GMT 1
I actually expected him to be long gone after attack point 1 (Coman was still in the Peloton), but to my surprise Coman was able to jump to the front of the race at attack point 2. I think his sprint skill is still a little bit too weak as well, but I've been training it for the past weeks, it seems to help. Coman is pretty good on Flat, but his weight doesn't help, so I was happy to see he didn't lose too much time there. They'll probably meet again later
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Post by Zberg on Jan 25, 2018 14:39:30 GMT 1
Strange that none of the attacks of my mountain youthie was actually successful..
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Post by eboese on Jan 25, 2018 14:41:01 GMT 1
Poor sprint skills perhaps?
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Post by evild on Jan 26, 2018 8:35:47 GMT 1
eboese, bam, can you tell me the total amount of skill points of wyffels and coman please? I see that coquelet is 1 min behind your guys, i want to figure out why exactly (pm if necessary)
i'm having fun in div1. It's funny to watch how the top riders from bam, heppie and eboese are just that 1 step better if it goes for stage wins. I guess that's the difference between a good team and an exceptionally one. All the credits for you guys. You have found the better cyclists in the past, trained them well, and now it's the time to gather the rewards for it.
For myself, glad that i have won the giro and i keep chasing for that one victorie :-)
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Post by Zberg on Jan 26, 2018 9:10:10 GMT 1
Poor sprint skills perhaps? Well, his sprintskill is not very well developed, but I expected him to be able to successfully attack at the mountain attack points, since his mountain skill is almost 8. Bad tactics again, by not letting him attack at the first attack point and, with that, missing the decisive attack.
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Post by eboese on Jan 26, 2018 9:53:52 GMT 1
evild - Coman is at 23 total now. And congrats on your Giro win! Zberg - Sprint seems pretty key for a successful attack. I'm not sure how low 'not very well developed' is, but even with a very high main skill it will be difficult to pull off a successful attack if you rider doesn't have a half decent sprint skill. I think in youth races skipping the first attack point is not necessarily bad tactics (I actually did the same), with the low amount of tactical points you have to make some choices, but you gotta be pretty damn sure your rider is strong enough to bridge (most of) the gap at the next attack point. In the 'adult' races it's usually suicide though as the time gaps already grow way too big in the early sections.
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Post by bam on Jan 26, 2018 10:48:09 GMT 1
Wyffels also has 23 skill points. But now I am quite curious about Coquelet
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Post by rarau on Jan 26, 2018 12:48:24 GMT 1
Poor sprint skills perhaps? Well, his sprintskill is not very well developed, but I expected him to be able to successfully attack at the mountain attack points, since his mountain skill is almost 8. Bad tactics again, by not letting him attack at the first attack point and, with that, missing the decisive attack. Tiberiu Bratu (138506) My Tiberiu have already 8 mountain finish in the same time with Coquelet i attack in only 4 (from 6) points because my LS is only 4
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Post by Zberg on Jan 26, 2018 14:13:54 GMT 1
Haha, first time forget to select a squad this season. Bummer, it is during the first race of the Tour de France..
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Post by eboese on Jan 26, 2018 15:35:03 GMT 1
Haha, didn't you do the exact same thing in the Tour de France last year? And if I remember correctly Coquet actually won the Yellow. Same goal this year?
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