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Post by negru on May 8, 2013 13:00:19 GMT 1
Hello to all and good luck.
I didn't expect to win the first race of the season, and i hope that i will continue to be lucky in the next stages.
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Post by negru on May 3, 2013 13:25:57 GMT 1
I could reach my sponsor page all along, i am just too afraid to click on anything on it! I think it will be an anouncement when it will work again!
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Post by negru on Apr 26, 2013 8:46:23 GMT 1
your actual ranking is 14th, so that would mean you stay in 2nd... Hopefully for you it will change, you deserve to promote. He will promote. The fact that is number 14 doesn't count. In hiss anouncement, Nikeboy confirmed that first two places in division 2 promote and last 4 places in division 1 demote. So things are clear, the first two promote, not depending on the ranking. Plus, it was clear that somebody from div.1 have to demote, it wouldn't make sense otherwise. Being the end of the season, and being clear that the groups will change and we won't be together next season, i say from now: good luck in future seasons, have fun as it is most important with a game and maybe we'll see each other around and have the chance to compete in the same division.
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Post by negru on Apr 16, 2013 12:16:16 GMT 1
I keep the second place at least one more day! Yupiii!!! Really great season! And hoped for but in the same time a little bit unexpected win today.
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Post by negru on Apr 16, 2013 11:54:10 GMT 1
I hope so You ended 2nd in a heavy mountain stage today with your flat-based team It was the least heavy stage in my opinion and i went 100%. So it makes sense. The realg big gap between us will appear only during and after the last tour. For that one i don't really have any chance to anything. I suppose that after Vuelta the gap won't be too big (i hope so at least).
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Post by negru on Apr 15, 2013 22:08:23 GMT 1
I'm not so sure about the mountainjersey... Dinslage is empty, so he won't take any points. Borrego is my man for the general standings now, the other two had a stagewin which is good as well. I'm still on a 3th place though. We both know it's just a matter of time until we exchange places in the division. I'm still fighting, as i always feel this is the way to play a game, but unfortunately i lost two stages in your favour. And the flat stage was also good. I still think that i had better results than expected in the Vuelta, taking in consideration the circumstances and that i have a flat based team. I was really happy that i could keep the second place for one more week. At least i can say i did my best. I lost too many point before TdF, i knew from the beginning that the end of the season doesn't suit me at all. But it is a nice, challenging season and i really enjoy it. Good luck in the remaining races!
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Post by negru on Apr 13, 2013 8:13:44 GMT 1
oh 2nd... what a surprise... Did you really think you can beat Puscasu in this type of race? I had a serier of being second in the middle of the season, so i understand your frustration, but this race simply couldn't be yours!
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Post by negru on Apr 10, 2013 17:38:58 GMT 1
Today was one of the stages I selected. Both cyclists are good on hill, but lack some mountain. Grabbed some points so mission complete For me also. And it worked well today. Unfortunately you have clear for the flat stage in Vuelta, as Filipescu is home, treating from injury, instead of being in the race. So GL for the flat race. You should not have big competition this time, its also only one race.
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Post by negru on Apr 10, 2013 17:37:26 GMT 1
For me it was, last sunday (9 days ago), my BEST flat cyclist, no injuries ever, and one of my best all rounder cyclists who was for Spain. So? If for all arounder is / \ for my best FLAT cyclist 10 2 3 4 3 2 18-15 3-4 how to have injuries with this skills ? You know very well my unlucky series of injuries for this season. After my last complain, the last two weeks two cyclists got injured. So i had one injury in each Grand Tour this year and i had three injuries in the same time at one point. If i add all injuries in the first four seasons is less than half of injuries during this season. So i totally understand the frustration, and first of all the loss of money these things provoke. I am 80% sure that in TdF i lost the yellow jersey winner. But we'll have better luck next season. At least i hope so.
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Post by negru on Apr 9, 2013 22:37:27 GMT 1
3rd victory! Weird tactics. Lezzani wanted to attack, though I just put him as final sprinter. Very weird. Has someone experienced that too before? ... If a cyclist is behind the peloton, he will try to do anything to get back to the peloton. So also attacking from his own group. He will not attack when he is in, or in front of, the peloton. I thought you knew this. As Genomico and Rarau said, if a cyclist is left behind and he is better than his group on a section he will try to attack. It happens pretty often, The last race when it happened to me is Tre Valli Varesine with Valeis, who is pretty bad on mountains but good on flat. If you check the race, after every mountain section he was left behind and every time he attacked again. If the finish wasn't mountain, he would probably have finished in the first or second group. Otherwise, pretty crappy season in term of injuries. My chance for the flat race in Vuelta is gone long before the race. I don't know if i'm really unlucky this season or i was pretty lucky the past seasons. But i've never experience so many injuries in one season like now. I just hope next season the luck will come back with much less injuries.
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Post by negru on Apr 8, 2013 21:08:21 GMT 1
I will, but I can't. Up to De koereurs or Evcont to join you in 1st Div. Closing the gap between joachim, but still need many points to catch him. The attacking system is something weird. My attacker ends 37th where the mountain helpers end before him. As i said before, the calendar doesn't suit me at all. The only possibility to get to first division is if De koereurs doesn't want to promote. Which i think is not the case. Next season there will be also enough flat trainers in first division, so for me it will be probably too much competition, in the same time i learned that chances don't come oftenn, it's just a game and maybe it won't be a next time to get at least for a season to be in the first division. It's just there are too many mountain stages from now on, so i don't have an actual chance as long as De koereurs goes for it. Hopefully, i won't get next season in a group with too many flat trainers.
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Post by negru on Apr 5, 2013 18:43:05 GMT 1
A trainer 15/15 cust $105,256, including an average salary of 7k gives 25x7+105= 280k/week so the value of the sponsor should be near this value I say 200k. I do not really understand this discussion over bankruptcy. Based on what you said, i see the following. In division 2, i think the base supporters is around 7000. Which means 3500 of merchandise sold per week. This would mean: profit merchandise 192,500 per week sponsor 22,500 per week (my case, two seasons old sponsor) Trainer 15/15 (100,000)per week cyclist salary (175,000)per week as per your computation TOTAL weekly (60,000) per week A stagewin is 70,000, without any other results, without bonuses, without anything. So i believe that also with minimal results, there is no problem to be on 0 weekly. Only for the operating part (taking out buying and selling cyclists), i don't know if there were two weeks last two seasons when i was on minus. And i have better trainer than 15/15. In the end, all the time it depends on balancing cost and income. So i don't really understand all this fuss. I have another two problems: 1. Youthscout - too expensive and i feel that good young cyclists are pretty scarce. Something should be done about it, but without hurting the teams that invested until now in it 3. Prices of some cyclists. For example, you gave more than 5 millions for Bregge. How long does it take to recover this investment, taking also in consideration his weekly salary? I believe that anyway over three seasons. I might be wrong, but i don't understand why to buy cyclists over 4 millions, at least from the profitability point of view Sorry for the long post, but i'll add one more point. I didn't play V1, but you say you had over 25 millions after 5 seasons. From my point of view all the surplus is used to buy better players. If people had more money, i believe top cyclists prices were even more outrageous than they are now. Whats the use of it? Does it really make sense? And nobody forces you to have an over 300,000 per week trainer. Only if you actually have the money, and if you have it, why to complain? Moreover, i believe there are equal constraints for everybody, so it only depends on the manager
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Post by negru on Apr 4, 2013 19:09:39 GMT 1
What mountain skills do they have? Because my 7 mountain boys allmost all lost contact. I thought that with their hill and flat skill they were good enough but that was not true I've seen that people are pretty secretive around here. One of the four that finished in the first group is 7 mountain, while the others are a little bit better.
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Post by negru on Apr 4, 2013 18:11:49 GMT 1
1 rider from 7 to 8 in 7 weeks, average 8000 increase per week (different from one week to another) 1 rider from 7 to 8 in 7 weeks, from 8 to 9 in 8 weeks.
Skill between 16 and 19 of the trainer. If necessary i can give more details.
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Post by negru on Apr 4, 2013 13:48:43 GMT 1
mmm... 2nd... 2nd.... 3rd... 2nd... You win and i take points... good for all... I'm not sure if I can keep the lead, but I'll try for sure.. even if i'm not sure to want to go in 1:1... I guess it'll be too much difference with top teams in the game... today I guess HP made the difference also in the final sprint, 4 Evcont's riders vs 2 of mine... otw I can't understand how he can win a mountain sprint... congrats... GL to all in the upcoming Vuelta! What do you want to say ,Why shouldn't i win a mountain sprint? Never expected to win this stage, i can only believe that all the good riders are preparing for Vuelta and for this race only the worst were present and with low fitness. And there were only three helpers, but i never thought i will make it in the first group. Probably the stage was won by me because of the acceptable mountain skill and the good sprint skill of Radulescu. For me the question is now did he win the final sprint, but how did he was able to keep with the first group, taking in consideration the helpers didn't have very high mountain skill. What's more surprising is four of them kept with the first group, i think is the first time something like this happens to me.
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