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Post by evild on Sept 4, 2014 16:33:39 GMT 1
Rarau i already told you 2 seasons ago, cut your squad. You are lucky to win some stages this year otherwise i would have been a struggle. But if you keep on doing what you are now doing, debts will rise and rise. Why on earth do you need 50 cyclists for? 2nd division will kill you because there you will fight relegation and have less income.
my stats: earned 10.8 mil payed: 10.0 Benefit is 0.8 mil wages : 195k staff: 250k sponsor 28k I am now somewhere around 2million on my savings account.
Another thing, you will promote. I dont see mothers and warner bros win 400 points in 3 races without jerseys. I even doubt that tours will win anything since he only won 2 stages in the entire season. What makes you believe he will suddenly win the last 3?
lose some cyclists, cut your wages and get ready for div.2. Maybe you wont get the price you have in your mind, but everything is better then paying wages for cyclists you will not use. Cause lets be honest, next year you will need points, and young or bad riders will not bring them.
just my 2cents!
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Post by evild on Sept 2, 2014 15:56:38 GMT 1
I knew you would play seabra in that stage kurtinsc, in fact i was planning to join him with van de weghe and go one on one for the green jersey. However thomson his injury forced me to change tactics. Since i already had some points, i saved up some fitness and went for the mountain jersey. With success. It was not the best mountain guy in this vuelta, but i made the right choices.
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Post by evild on Aug 25, 2014 16:17:36 GMT 1
oh god, i made a terrible rookie mistake... i thought empord ended today. I saved fidsky to go for stage and mountain on todays's race, untill i noticed that it actually ended yesterday. Bummer. That will cost me some earnings:-s
i agree with kurtinsc that people overrate TT a bit. Like him i dont have any guy that has double digits in TT. But i already got 15 wins. TT is essential, but it needs to be combined with other skills.
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Post by evild on Aug 16, 2014 22:10:49 GMT 1
+ almost 50k wage for the 2 cyclists;-$
I end with 13440 supporters and 3 jerseys. Not bad. Will result in some nice extra funds...
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Post by evild on Aug 16, 2014 10:03:06 GMT 1
Fl: 5,6 Hl: 4,6 Mt: 6 Dh: 2,6 Sp: 5,6 Tt: 7,2
Those are mine. Might still change a bit as im doubting on 1 cyclist. As you guys probabely already know, hill is my weak skill. So the vuelta will be a hard one for me. I played sironi in the TdF, now im gonna try and bring some other cyclists into play. Might become a big disapointment, but then at least i know what the guys are worth:-)
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Post by evild on Aug 15, 2014 11:41:55 GMT 1
Rarau, when you know TT is your weak skill, why dont you play at 100% to secure the victory? You have like 65 cyclists in your team, but you're not using them well i guess. I think you underestimated your opponents because of the 5 mins bonus laloux had taken. I saw this one coming to be honest.
same for the calendar, it is what it is. We all have to possibility to look at it at the beginning of the season. I can hardly believe that you only have one mountain guy in your big squad, so whats the problem? And like Ab says, when you would have looked into the vuelta schedule, you would have noticed that there are not many mountain stages:-)
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Post by evild on Aug 14, 2014 8:52:56 GMT 1
He does that almost every stage. Why? Because he can with his fitness training. Where others have to save fitness, he can go participate in attacks and take time on tired or save fitness riders. I agree with you that fitness training doesnt decide everything, but it sure gives you a larger amount of tactics. Smart move of rarau IMO is not going for the stage wins like nattramn. That would cost him too much fitness and shrink his chances.
oh well maybe in spain i have to change my view and try to go for the time jersey instead of stages. Another thing which wonders me is the gap between us and the first 2 in GC. I have won 15 stages and 8 jerseys, and look how many points i'm behind. Tours 1 win, rarau 1 jersey. Oke, rarau has like 10000 riders, but tours... how did he do that:-) not that i'm jealous because when i see how semtex and alesana having hard times, i rather stay some longer in 3.1. But i'm just surprised that the gap is that big...
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Post by evild on Aug 11, 2014 14:56:37 GMT 1
its all about tactics this game. For example, i know i cant aim for the time jersey in a big tour because there will always be anyone who uses fitness training. So i have the choice, go for stage wins and commit suicide, or stay low profile and end with riders at 100%. That also means that in some stages i need to save fitness. But i think i cant complain so far:-)
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Post by evild on Jul 22, 2014 18:11:48 GMT 1
Oh and i guess we will see debever and pettini in the TDF, what do you guys think? :-)
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Post by evild on Jul 22, 2014 18:10:26 GMT 1
Interesting to see how natramn is a victim of his own tactic. He saved fitness with pettini, but went on 98% with debever. If he would go 100% and with an extra attacking point, he would have won i guess. All will depend on how many minutes goorts will lose next mountain stage
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Post by evild on Jul 21, 2014 20:46:54 GMT 1
Debever will attack tomorrow, pettini will next thursday. Nobody will be able to follow him since he is at 100% now. Cardei is closest, but lost 8 mins yesterday. He already has 10% less fitness even though he received fitness training and clearly hes not happy at the moment. This tells me that he wont be able to compete. Debever green, pettini mountain. if i was you kurtinsc, i would play goorts in the TT. Natramn's team lacks tt, i know goorts doesnt:-) pettini will be at 65%, thats your chance to win back the time you lost in the mountain stage
dunno what to think bout schelstraete, he has high fitness. But i guess he is just not good enough. The unknown factor for me. As for my wavreille, he is one of the best mountain guys in this giro i think, but too low in fitness to be feared.
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Post by evild on Jul 8, 2014 14:13:21 GMT 1
well in fact, its not that big of a surprise when you see that your captain is the only cyclist that was put at 100%... makes a big diffence. Also you use cyclists with high weight and height, combined with a decent flat and TT skill, you could see that coming:-)
now i'm curious to see what your tactic will be in the mountains:-D
i'm surprised to see that natramn lost more than 2 mins already. Knowing that the last stage is an individual TT, i wonder what pettini will perform. For the rest no participation of nikeboys, he will lose a lot of points and i think this may be the end of him in this division. For the rest you cant say much. Times are very similar to eachother, still have to wait a few more stages.
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Post by evild on Jul 1, 2014 20:05:12 GMT 1
LFW is Fleche wallone and LBL liege bastogne liege:-)
i havnt decided yet which riders will start in the giro. Looks like for the first time in years the tour is pretty balanced. Van de weghe was a possibility but i tried to go for the 3 jerseys today so he is out with low fitness.
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Post by evild on Jun 4, 2014 17:09:50 GMT 1
kurtinsc, i agree with you that the simulating is more interesting, no discussion about that. But where do you draw the line, what is realism? I've heard they want to approach real life cycling as much as possible. Is that realistic, will it ever happen, can it ever happen? I doubt it. Fitness training in a TDF, come on... Invent something else i would say. Give you GC man the benefit of his helpers, let him gain some extra fitness after the update or something like that. Take it to real life. Is it possible for Froome to be at 100% fitness when they arrive in the 3rd week, after ITT and mountain stages? Again, i doubt it, at least not on a natural way:-) i've done some tour cycling myself, i know what it is like to become worse and worse every day.
They've come from far, like you said. Few seasons ago idd you had decent riders who won 9 out of 10 stages in TDF. So changed needed to be done. But IMO they havent found a good balance yet.
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Post by evild on Jun 2, 2014 18:43:38 GMT 1
to be honest i was planning on quitting peloton. I'm really fed up with the lack of info that is not given to us by the builders. Anyway, now the new season has started i will set my cyclists and see where it ends:-)
as for natramn, we know his tactic. He will win probabely all the big tours where he uses the benefit of the fitness training. It's his choice, agree, but not very realistic IMO, and isnt that just what the builders try to reach?
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