Based on the idea of Le Trik in PCM 11. I am setting up a similar version of this in PCM 12 with one vital difference. Instead of Teams though, it'll involve National Teams.
Basically, you act like a Director Sportif, except instead of running a Team, you season plan and organise the country. As the best way to do this is in Stage Race/Classic mode rather than Career, there will be no fitness hence the 70 day limit and a maximum of 2 Grand Tours per-rider. This stops, for example, the manager of Spain just sending Contador to all three Grand Tours and making it unrealistic. (as those who know the original idea, the increase from 60-70 days is due to the increase in races)
While I will run each race one at a time. In terms of team selection they will run in regards to where they stand in the real-life 2012 calendar.
For Example: I will race Paris-Nice in it's entirety before I start Tirreno-Adriatico. However, because these two events took place at the same time in real life, No rider can race both events.
You get given points for how you do over the season and at the end of the season we end up with a World Team Champion and World Individual Champion.
I will also award a 'Director Sportif of the season award'. This will go to the player I feel has done best with the resources available. Therefore, if Slovenia or Norway finish 5th in the World Team rankins, that is more impressive than the manager of Spain or the UK winning the World Team Championship.
These 21 countries have big enough squads in PCM 12 to complete this season on a limit of 70 days per rider:
AUSTRALIA - Marcovdw
Spoiler
Paris-Nice squad:
Jonathan Cantwell
Zakkari Dempster
Mitchell Docker
Matthew Goss
Brett Lancaster
Robbie McEwen
Wesley Sulzberger
Matthew Wilson
Tirreno-Adriatico squad:
Matthew Hayman
Leigh Howard
Trent Lowe
Richie Porte
Mark Renshaw
Rory Sutherland
Christopher Sutton
David Tanner
BASQUE COUNTRY - maxime86
Spoiler
Paris-Nice squad:
Zubelida
Ion Izaguire
Grate
Uratsun
Fernandez
Khadri
Anton
Galdos
Lars Boom
Robert Gesink
Reinier Honig
Steven Kruijswijk
Wout Poels
Joost Posthuma
Laurens Ten Dam
Kenny Van Hummel
Tirreno-Adriatico
Theo Bos
Wilco Kelderman
Sebastian Langeveld
Bauke Mollema
Niki Terpstra
Maarten Tjallingii
Jos Van Emden
Lieuwe Westra
NORWAY - sutty68
Spoiler
PARIS-NICE
EDVALD BOASSON HAGEN
LARS PETTER NORDHAUG
FREDERIK WILMANN
CHRISTER RAKE
SONDRE SORTVEIT
KRISTIAN FRIVOLD
Erik Kasa Jarlseth
Stian Remme
TIRRENO-ADRIATICO
THOR HUSHOVD
ALEXANDER KRISTOFF
GABRIEL RASCH
VEGARD STAKE LAENGEN
FREDERIK KROGH-LARSEN
JON BERGSLAND
MAGNUS ESPELAND
OLE HAAVARDSHOLM
Paris-Nice
Yury Trofimov
Nikolai Trussov
Vladimir Karpets
Evgueni Petrov
Alexander Serov
Alexander Khatuntsev
Evgeny Sokolov
Alexei Markov
Tirreno-Adriatico
Mikhail Ignatiev
Boris Shpilevsky
Alexander Efimkin
Vladimir Efimkin
Artem Ovechkin
Nikita Novikov
Alexander Porsev
Vladimir Gusev
SLOVENIA - SSJ2Luigi
Spoiler
Paris - Nice
Janez Brajkovic
Borut Bozic
Kristijan Koren
Aldo Ino Ilesic
Gregor Gazvoda
Miha Svab
Jani Music
Jan Tratnik
Tirenno-Adriatico
Simon Spilak
Grega Bole
Jure Kocjan
Matej Gnezda
Benjamin Cujnik
Primoz Segina
Aljez Hocevar
Robert Vrecer
SPAIN - JAXIKA
Spoiler
Alberto Contador
DAvid Arroyo
Juan Antonio Flecha
Francisco Ventoso
Constantino Zaballa
Alejandro Marque
Enrique Mata
David Blanco
T-A
Joaquin Rodriguez
Luis Leon Sanchez
Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil
Ruben Plaza
Jose Ivan Gutierrez
Juan Jose Cobo Acebo
CArlos Barredo
Luis Pasamontes
SWITZERLAND - francopell
Spoiler
Cancellara, D. Wyss, Albasini, Elmiger, Zaugg, Tschopp, Rast and Schjar for P-N.
Morabito, Dietzieker, M. Wyss, Vitoria, Addy, Kusztor, Aregger and Kohler for Tirreno.
USA - Jakstar22
Spoiler
Paris Nice
Chris Horner
Levi Leiphemer
Jake Keough
Peter Stitina
Danny Pate
Taylor Phinney
Alex Howes
Jeff Louder
Tirreno-Adriatico
Tejay Van Garderan
Tyler Farrar
Christian Vande Velde
Tom Danielson
John Murphy
Andrew Talansky
David Zebriskie
George Hincapie
CALENDER OF RACES: (Races that overlap appear on same line)
Tour Down Under (6)
Paris-Nice (8), Tirreno-Adriatico (7) MILAN-SAN REMO
Vuelta ciclista a Catalunya (7), E3, Gent-Wevelgem (overlaps Catalunya not E3) TOUR OF FLANDERS PARIS-ROUBAIX
Amstel Gold Race
La Fleche Wallonne LIEGE-BASTOGNE-LIEGE
Tour de Romandie (6) GIRO DI ITALIA (21), Amgen Tour of California (8)
Criterium de Dauphine Libere (8)
Tour de Suisse (9) TOUR DE FRANCE (21), GP de Pologne (7)
Eneco Tour (8)
Classica de San Sebastian VUELTA A ESPANA (21)
(next 4 races all clash with Vuelta but not each other)
Vattenfall Cyclassics
GP Ouest-France
GP de Quebec
GP de Montreal GIRO DI LOMBARDIA
Paris-Tours
Tour of Beijing (5)
The Danes will be going for the unexpected victories. We will try and surprise people. As we are not a country with lots of potential GT-winners we will chose our targets carefully and take what we can get. Be it GC, stages, mountain jerseys...
- For the classics Matti Breschel will be captain
- Jakob Fuglsang will be leader in stage races
- Chris Anker Sørensen will ride his chances in mountainous races with only a few km of TT
A lot of other riders will be given their chances to chase the surprises on the routes suiting them.
Atlantius wrote:
Perhaps. Could you perhaps elaborate a bit on the idea?
Edit: You should perhaps edit the "French" flag in the country list
Done
Basically, you act like a Director Sportif, except instead of running a Team, you season plan and organise the country. As the best way to do this is in Stage Race/Classic mode rather than Career, there will be no fitness hence the 70 day limit. This stops, for example, the manager of Spain just sending Contador to all three Grand Tours and making it unrealistic. (as those who know the original idea, the increase from 60-70 days is due to the increase in races)
You get given points for how you do over the season and at the end of the season we end up with a World Team Champion and World Individual Champion.
I will also award a 'Director Sportif of the season award'. This will go to the player I feel has done best with the resources available. Therefore, if Slovenia or Norway finish 5th in the World Team rankins, that is more impressive than the manager of Spain or the UK winning the World Team Championship.
EDIT: added this into the top post.
Edited by Welwyn on 27-10-2012 11:51
Perhaps an Excel file with the PCM12 stats could be uploaded?
Might need help with how to do that but yeah, might be best
Thoughts about team strenght:
Perhaps it would even make sense to split some of the larger nations into smaller ones to make the game less skewed. As it is e.g. Spain will be able to produce a favorite for every single race on the calendar. Perhaps if split into two or three parts by region number. In PCM11 Spain consist of regions 801-817. Then perhaps we could have two teams on regions 801-808 and 809-817. Similarly on other big nations with several regions and favorites for every race?
AUSTRALIA - Marcovdw
BELGIUM - IAN BUTLER
CANADA - Pinktay3
COLUMBIA - FERNANDO97
DENMARK - Atlantius
FRANCE - sammyt93
GERMANY - FroomeDog99
GREAT BRITAIN - TheManxMissile
ITALY - Neillster
HOLLAND - OLLFARDH
NORWAY - sutty68
PORTUGAL - MIGUEL98
RUSSIA - Stromeon
SLOVENIA - SSJ2Luigi
SPAIN - JAXIKA
SWITZERLAND - francopell
USA - Jakstar22
