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| nutter453 |
Posted on 28-05-2014 10:56
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Ah okay, thanks. I have been simming flat stages at week long stage races if I haven't got a sprinter as I don't see the point, the bunch normally finishes together so I'm not going to loose time.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-05-2014 10:56
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Went with Orica, and i have lucked out in terms of contracts! Only going to loose Chaves and Meier this season, plus Porte Rogers Bobridge and Sergent are all out of contract at the moment. Hopefully i can get hold of two of them. And the obvious signings of Ewan and Flackmore from Free Agency.
Also i've had a great start to the season. Hepburn AUS ITT NC. Gerrans RR NC. Albasini 4th in TDU. 5th-12th in Qatar GC. Clarke 1st Oman GC with stage wins on the mountain and following hill stage (beating Quintana, Froome, Purito, Valverde and Nibali in that order!!!). Meyer won the opening stage of Paris-Nice and i hope he can hold in to a Top10.
Really fun so far
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| Selwink |
Posted on 28-05-2014 14:53
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My latest challenge:
Mwenye should max out at 76-77Spr, Masiga at 75-76HI, I. Jengo at 73-74MO/HI and Mulama at 73-74COB. Objective is to only sign Africans, only regens. Promotion is only a target in 3-5 years.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 28-05-2014 15:03
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Nice Selwink , good luck I've always like those kind of challenges and thats exactly how you get better at this game , and have fun
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 28-05-2014 22:24
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rogvi97 wrote:
Playing with Leopard Trek here! Should I set Cancellara or Nizzolo as leader in Milano-San Remo?
Updated this question and I'm going to ask again.  (Hate forgetting things)
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 28-05-2014 22:26
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Lets get some advice. Don't know which career to start so here are my options: (Looking to go about 3 seasons only)
Sky
- Can't have both Froome + Wiggins
- Can't have Cavendish with either Froome or Wiggins
- Can't keep EBH
- Can't have Porte + Froome
- Increase to min. 15 GB riders
- Increase to min. 25 GB/US/AUS/IRL/NZL riders
Garmin
- Increase to min. 15 USA riders
- Keep to 'clean' riders
Orica
- Go 100% AUS/NZL
Lotto
- Go 100% Belgian
- Can't have Greipel + VDB
Cannondale
- Go 100% Italian
- Can't keep Sagan beyond season 1
Can't decide which one to go with. Put more thought into Sky as i use them more often, with the rest just being additional guidlines to add some more fun.
In terms of ProTour and contracts I'd take Argos! Kittel and Degenkolb doesn't require so much, but FDJ or Europcar are also good, as the for stage wins and breakaways are the core. 
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| Martial1 |
Posted on 28-05-2014 22:56
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rogvi97 wrote: rogvi97 wrote:
Playing with Leopard Trek here! Should I set Cancellara or Nizzolo as leader in Milano-San Remo?
Updated this question and I'm going to ask again. (Hate forgetting things)
What do you think?
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 28-05-2014 23:02
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My Lotto career is progressing nicely. After Pais Vasco Roelandts got 7th at Roubaix to cap off a good cobbled season. Then the Ardennes came, where Vanendert lead. 8th and 14th at Amstel and Flèche weren't great result, but a fourth at LBL made up for it.
Meanwhile preparation for the Giro was underway. After 7th in the Basque Country Monfort grabbed 5th overall at Trentino. Was in 18th before the last stage but a solo breakaway win got him a top five. Romandie was a bit of an anticlimax though, with him only getting 15th.
After a 3rd at Rund um Eschborn-Frankfurt from Debusschere, the giro began with him and Monfort as leaders. I was hoping for a stage win and top 15 beforehand, one of which was completed on stage 2! Debusschere took the stage to Belfast surprisingly after profiting from a great lead out from Boekmans, holding off kittel.
Into the second week now, Monfort is in a solid 13th ahead of the TT. Nibali won the first mountain stage by five minutes after a solo attack and now it's a battle for second place really between the likes of Uran and Betancur. Maybe a top ten could be achieved, as Monfort is looking quite strong and fitness is still improving.
Meanwhile, freed up 100k to spend on new riders, by cutting some older riders contracts down to cheaper prices and letting Boekmans and Henderson + some others go. Will keep you updated, likely to go for some mountain talent. |
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 29-05-2014 16:44
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Martial1 wrote:
rogvi97 wrote: rogvi97 wrote:
Playing with Leopard Trek here! Should I set Cancellara or Nizzolo as leader in Milano-San Remo?
Updated this question and I'm going to ask again. (Hate forgetting things)
What do you think?
Well, I won with him, so thank you But Nizzolo only managed to get 7th despite having the best position in the peloton
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| Martial1 |
Posted on 29-05-2014 18:57
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@rogvi97: Spartacus will always prevail! |
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| ulle94 |
Posted on 29-05-2014 20:18
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Pretty excited about next season with my CCC team. Exciting to see what the sponsor goals for the coming season will be
Niemiec is a bargain, i think. Hoping to get a wild card for the Giro, so that he can unfold his potential at highest level
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 29-05-2014 23:05
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Martial1 wrote:
@rogvi97: Spartacus will always prevail!
I hope so, because Schleck x2 and Nizzolo are injured and unavailable for one month, so I'm setting everything on stage wins. :/
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| nielsboy1998 |
Posted on 30-05-2014 08:16
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Just started a awesome carreer with Team Europcar, only I have edited the whole team: Its now French+Polish based with some Dutch and Namibean riders! The leaders are Voeckler, Rolland and Majka. And further the team has riders like Marcynzski, Ruijgh, Ruktiewicz, Thurau, Quemeneur, Y.Martinez, and that kind of riders. I have dropped Coquard, Malacarne and some other French riders but They are replaced with a lot of talents! Its a Nice carreer so far! Later a bigger report
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 30-05-2014 13:51
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Lotto career now at the Tour. Monfort got 10th in the Giro in the end, not bad considering he lost 6 minutes on a hilly stage. 2nd on Val Martello to Nibali thanks to a break was enough to catch back up, and Rolland fell on the final stage to put him into the top ten.
Dauphiné was quiet except a Greipel stage win. In Suisse VDB managed 7th, which was ok as he was only on 3 form and is preparing for the Tour. The Tour of Luxembourg was great though, Greipel took 3 stages including the two hilly ones to take the overall.
The Tour has began, and I've got a dilemma regarding transfers. Freed up 100k by reducing Greipel and VDB's wages and letting go some others. So far this has been transfers:
| In | Out |  Dennis |  Henderson |  Vandewalle | Boeckmans | | Benoot | Vallée | | Willems | | Dockx | | Broeckx |
As you can see, got some more TT power which was missed this year along with Benoot, who looks like a great talent. Now have a dilemma regarding 70k of the remaining budget, with my priority being mountains:
Option 1 - Sign Kwiatkowski as a big leader for the stage races but no more big names, and just add a couple more low level domestiques and talents.
Option 2 - Sign Tony Martin and dominate TT's and have enough left to sign some mountain domestiques like Barguil for VDB, though miss out on a mountains leader.
Option 3 - Sign lots of mountain depth with people like Kiserlovski, Kangert and Fuglsang available.
Any opinions? Not sure which way to go at the moment. |
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| Abelbaba |
Posted on 30-05-2014 14:05
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At the start of the Vuelta with my Greenege career and things are going well.
Won both AUS championships ofcourse, won MSR with Santaromita from the early break, and Gerrens was 3th, won AGR with Gerrans, and podiumed FW and LBL.
Matthews won the points jersey in the giro.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 30-05-2014 14:40
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
Lotto career now at the Tour. Monfort got 10th in the Giro in the end, not bad considering he lost 6 minutes on a hilly stage. 2nd on Val Martello to Nibali thanks to a break was enough to catch back up, and Rolland fell on the final stage to put him into the top ten.
Dauphiné was quiet except a Greipel stage win. In Suisse VDB managed 7th, which was ok as he was only on 3 form and is preparing for the Tour. The Tour of Luxembourg was great though, Greipel took 3 stages including the two hilly ones to take the overall.
The Tour has began, and I've got a dilemma regarding transfers. Freed up 100k by reducing Greipel and VDB's wages and letting go some others. So far this has been transfers:
| In | Out | | Dennis | Henderson | | Vandewalle | Boeckmans | | Benoot | Vallée | | Willems | | Dockx | | Broeckx |
As you can see, got some more TT power which was missed this year along with Benoot, who looks like a great talent. Now have a dilemma regarding 70k of the remaining budget, with my priority being mountains:
Option 1 - Sign Kwiatkowski as a big leader for the stage races but no more big names, and just add a couple more low level domestiques and talents.
Option 2 - Sign Tony Martin and dominate TT's and have enough left to sign some mountain domestiques like Barguil for VDB, though miss out on a mountains leader.
Option 3 - Sign lots of mountain depth with people like Kiserlovski, Kangert and Fuglsang available.
Any opinions? Not sure which way to go at the moment.
Option 2. Barguil should actually be decent enough to be a decent leader in a few years I think and TTs are the easiest way to get good results since the rest of the AI cant directly influence your results.
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 30-05-2014 14:50
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valverde321 wrote:
FroomeDog99 wrote:
Lotto career now at the Tour. Monfort got 10th in the Giro in the end, not bad considering he lost 6 minutes on a hilly stage. 2nd on Val Martello to Nibali thanks to a break was enough to catch back up, and Rolland fell on the final stage to put him into the top ten.
Dauphiné was quiet except a Greipel stage win. In Suisse VDB managed 7th, which was ok as he was only on 3 form and is preparing for the Tour. The Tour of Luxembourg was great though, Greipel took 3 stages including the two hilly ones to take the overall.
The Tour has began, and I've got a dilemma regarding transfers. Freed up 100k by reducing Greipel and VDB's wages and letting go some others. So far this has been transfers:
| In | Out | | Dennis | Henderson | | Vandewalle | Boeckmans | | Benoot | Vallée | | Willems | | Dockx | | Broeckx |
As you can see, got some more TT power which was missed this year along with Benoot, who looks like a great talent. Now have a dilemma regarding 70k of the remaining budget, with my priority being mountains:
Option 1 - Sign Kwiatkowski as a big leader for the stage races but no more big names, and just add a couple more low level domestiques and talents.
Option 2 - Sign Tony Martin and dominate TT's and have enough left to sign some mountain domestiques like Barguil for VDB, though miss out on a mountains leader.
Option 3 - Sign lots of mountain depth with people like Kiserlovski, Kangert and Fuglsang available.
Any opinions? Not sure which way to go at the moment.
Option 2. Barguil should actually be decent enough to be a decent leader in a few years I think and TTs are the easiest way to get good results since the rest of the AI cant directly influence your results.
I think that's wise. Having a highest TT rider of 74 this year was quite tough and strengthening there could bring higher rewards than in the mountains.
That said, I did make a low offer for Kwiatek, and if he accepts will be able to afford Barguil. That way I can have both TT and Mountain improvement. Martin will be the next on the list if he wants more. |
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 30-05-2014 14:59
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Ive started with Cannondale.
Had wins so far in Laigreuglia with Gatto, Strade Bianchi, Camaiore and K-B-K with Sagan.
Currently at Paris Nice where Sagan and Moser lead the team. Sagan currently has the yellow jersey after a 2nd on the prologue and 2nd on stage 2 behind Degenkolb. Gatto is here to help him. Sponsor goal here is for stage wins.
Leaders for Tirreno are Caruso and Basso with Viviani going after the very few sprint stages. I need a top 3 here.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 30-05-2014 15:11
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I guess it's time for an update on
Who the hell is Merckx?
If you don't remember: Winning all three jerseys at the Tour as often as possible with Quintana.
To keep my motivation up, I decided to only sign Spanish and Colombian riders. Exclusively. Not even if Herklotz was available
2015
Froome wasn't far behind before the final TT, but luckily it was hilly and with good daily form, I managed to not lose any significant time. The TTT helped a lot though as Froome was up to 85 MO while Quintana maxed out at 84.
(TTT team: 79 78 78 77 76 74 73 71 71)
2016
The advantage looks rather comfortable here as well, but I tried a sneaky pace increase on the last hill of the last stage before the final TT, and Contador was caught out losing 1'02 on that day. So without that, only 7 seconds advantage!
Another year, another TTT. This time >60k though, so 2 minutes on Conta and 3 on Porte that way.
(TTT team: 80 80 78 78 77 76 75 74 74)
Froome had a hard time early in the race and never quite recovered.
2017
The easiest win so far. This was the 2005 variant with a stage finish in my home town, so special memories here
Again a huge TTT, this time 67.5k. Basically 3 minutes on everyone again 
(TTT team: 81 80 78 78 78 76 76 75 74)
Urrutia in 6th is a scouted talent only missing out on the podium because he lost 1'10 in a first week untimely puncture.
He's only 21!
80 MO, 72 HIL, 76 TT with 1/2/2 stars left 
So the result of all this for now...
And Quintana's stats for 2016 and 2017:
Fun fact: I just went past the date when I stopped my Stölting career after winning the TdF, so this is my longest career in probably quite a few years by now.
Mind you I'm not too thoroughly interested in anything but the GTs and hilly classics with a 82 hill Izagirre.
I do care about the other GTs though in terms of lineups and achieve regular Top 5's there.
Fun fact #2: I spend 200k per month less on rider salaries than I receive since 2015 now. I could've signed all of Betancur, Henao and Uran by now, but I want to keep this as close to possible reality as possible. Betancur will come as a replacement for Intxausti next season though.
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 30-05-2014 17:29
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Just won Paris Nice with Peter Sagan, 17 seconds ahead of Kwaitkowski, held the leaders jersey since stage 2 and taken two stage wins, one each for Sagan and Gatto. Had to fight hard to keep it on the final stage.
Marcato currently sitting 4th in the Tirreno- Adriatico too after Villella drop out out of contention on the long stage to Chieti.
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