Impressive to win the points jersey with 72 SP. I guess you took a lot of advantage from the hilly stages, like Gilbert in 2011 (except that he didn't make it, ofc ).
Also, nice video Saw the 2006 P-R video also, such a pity that Hincapie didn't take it, he was certainly faster in that finish. Is that a career as well or single race?
Btw, the flags in the screen with the limits (still Statoil team) look better
Well in to my 3rd season now after a surprise consecutive promotion. I ended up getting two sponsors.. I didn't know it was possible so I was pleasantly surprised when I got additional offers after signing the first contract. The budget is a total of 2.4m pr year for 2 years, although I'm only spending half of it in the first year.
I signed mostly young riders to bring my squad to decent size of 27, but I also managed to lure Henao and Roelandts to sign, so hopefully they will win me some points. I didn't want to sign Henao again, but he was the only decent climber I could afford. He will ride Romandie, Giro, Dauphine, Vuelta and Beijing. I'll only go for KOM and sprinter jersey in TdF. It will be a very different GT attempt for me, because the best mountain climber I'm bringing with Henao only has 72 mo, so he will be pretty much on his own. If I'm in a position to win I'm thinking I'll try and only go for the GC win on the last couple of stages. There's no way I can defend a lead.
Keirsbulck has developed to a very decent cobblerider with 78 cobb, 79 sta, 76 fla and 71 hill. And he still has room to improve, possibly 82 cobb/sta. I'm struggling in the cobbles though. It might be the increase to hard difficulty, but it's strange. I keep up with the strong group easily, but this group rarely chases the break away enough, so my options are to attack, to chase or to just sit there. If I attack they chase like crazy and I can never get more than 20 seconds gap, if I chase I can reel in the breakaway, but then I don't have riders with enough energy to win a sprint. If I just sit there the main group usually comes in 2 minutes behind. It wasn't like this last season, but so far it's been like this in every cobble race
Best this season is 4th in G-W. RV and P-R is just around the corner, but I expect that will be much more difficult.
Sounds good!
Chase with low effort(< 40), They think you're chasing, and help you most of the time. As a result, due to your low effort, you never have to lead the group while chasing, and you don't lose that much energy
Impressive to win the points jersey with 72 SP. I guess you took a lot of advantage from the hilly stages, like Gilbert in 2011 (except that he didn't make it, ofc ).
Also, nice video Saw the 2006 P-R video also, such a pity that Hincapie didn't take it, he was certainly faster in that finish. Is that a career as well or single race?
Btw, the flags in the screen with the limits (still Statoil team) look better
Yes, I edited his stats to maximum, just to show ho his full potential would've been, but I also safed the original .cdb file Degenkolb was my biggest thread in the point classification, so my team mates set a very high pace to drop Degenkolb.
At the transfer market, it's a big letdown that Iglinskiy refused to renew his contract. This will make the sponsor very unhappy, as he is by far the strongest and most famous rider from Kazachstan. Kessiakoff, Guardini, Seeldraeyers and Huffman will be leaving the team too. We got some young and talented replacements though:
- Sagan: classics superman
- Pomoshnikov (young Russian climber)
- Bazhkou (young Belarussian puncher)
- Yurkov (Ukrainian sprinter, 2nd on u23 rankings)
- Oreshkov (stage racer from Kazachstan, 8th on u23 rankings)
So the future looks bright, but for now we are focusing on the Tour de France. Brajkovic and Fuglsang survived the first week without any damage, but now the first mountain stages are coming. Goal is to get Brajkovic in the GC top-10, Fuglsang will be supporting him from now on.
Jesleyh wrote:
Yes, should do the trick...
Works in breakaways etc. at least, so I'd say you can always give it a try
So far the situation has not come up again. The last two races were completley different as the break was caught very very early. I did try it wth a domestique on Ronde Vlaanderen though. I set him to 50 and he immediately went to the back of the peleton (which is a risk when a cobble section comes up). They were already relaying though, so I guess that test wasn't all that much to brag about.
There is one thing with the relay function that bugs me and I tend to not use it because of it - I normally use dot instead. If I have a guy relaying solo at say 60, then all of a sudden the peleton starts relaying and ups the pace dramatically, what usually happens is that the rider relaying will fall far back in to the peleton, but because he is set to relay he will spend unlimited amount of energy to get back to the front. In my opinion it should limit his effort the same way as maintain position does with bpm tied to percentage effort.
I could avoid it by micromanaging, but who has time for that? I speed through the races on 8x and by the time I notice something like that it is already too late.
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In other news the season is over and I'm about to start my 4th. Signed De Gendt and Aru (WOW, he looks like he can become fantastic!)
GTs were a big lesson for me last season. Before I used to play normal difficulty, with training camps and recon' camps.
This time I did none of that and had it on hard. What a difference! Before I would easily sit with the strongest riders and then get away on the final climb. I don't know if this was a special kind of giro, but on many occasion Henao, with close to 100 fitness I should add, ran out of steam on the 2nd to last climb. I do not know what was going on with the other guys. He ended 4th which is not too bad, but he was something like 12mins behind Rein Taaramae and 6 minutes behind Pozzovivo. In previous games it would have been the opposite.
Nah, it doesn't work on a big group, and/or when there's already someone relaying when you're not on relay.
I prefer dot as well, but my solution was to only do that when your in a small group(e.g. 8) and when it doesn't matter that you fall back in the group a bit(From 8th place in the group it's easy to get back in front, especially with the energy you save with fake-relaying
Playing on Hard is way more fun than Normal. You'd get a lot more of satisfaction from a good result on Hard
Bringing my real PCM12 playing to a close. Finished off the Tour with Vodafone.
Cavendish bagged 6 stage wins and the Points Jersey. Martin won 2 stages. Kelderman finished 4th GC and won the White Jersey. Total of 9 stage wins and 2 Jerseys. Pretty decent way to wrap things up.
TheManxMissile wrote:
Bringing my real PCM12 playing to a close. Finished off the Tour with Vodafone.
Cavendish bagged 6 stage wins and the Points Jersey. Martin won 2 stages. Kelderman finished 4th GC and won the White Jersey. Total of 9 stage wins and 2 Jerseys. Pretty decent way to wrap things up.
Not. Good. Enough.
Just kidding, sounds like a nice little Tour for Cav, actually quite realistic
Jesleyh wrote:
Nah, it doesn't work on a big group, and/or when there's already someone relaying when you're not on relay.
I prefer dot as well, but my solution was to only do that when your in a small group(e.g. 8) and when it doesn't matter that you fall back in the group a bit(From 8th place in the group it's easy to get back in front, especially with the energy you save with fake-relaying
Playing on Hard is way more fun than Normal. You'd get a lot more of satisfaction from a good result on Hard
And nice signings...
Makes sense
Yeah, it's great fun when I actually win now. I raise my fist in the air in joy. After Eneco tour I had to get up and do a little dance as well.
It was one of my sponsors goal. I initially took the lead with Phinney after a ITT and held it, but that annoying fella Gilbert took a minutes lead on the GC after the only hilly stage. With another short ITT and two flat stages it was going to be close but probably too difficult.
After the ITT the lead was down to 25 seconds. Next stage I relayed very fast until the first sprint and then attacked, earning a few seconds for a whole lot of work. Wasn't going to win me the tour.
On the last stage I had sort of given up winning, when I noticed that towards the end, with like 15-20 km to go, the road suddenly became very narrow. I put all my team on dot 86 and managed to get away, Then I relayed heavily until Phinney could sprint the rest. They were closing in quickly on the sprint. As Phinney crossed the line, Keiserbulck was about halfway between the goal line and the sprinters. I realized he was probably going to split the gap, so I put him on dot 10. Somehow I timed it perfectly because he came in 2nd, a few centimeters ahead of Nr 3, and he was exactly 21 seconds behind. With the added bonus seconds it meant
Just in time for 2013, I finished my season with Argos. It was really successful, I won all team rankings mainly thanks to John Degenkolb, who also won all the individual rankings. His spring was decent with 4th places in Down Under, T-A and MSR as well as the win at Gent-Wevelgem. But really it was the autumn that was so awesome, culminating in the World Championship title. Here are his other achievements:
The great stuff began at the Vuelta, where I won 5 stages (the TTT, 2x Veelers, Kittel, Barguil). But more importantly, Warren Barguil, who increased to 80 MO just before the first real mountain stage, finished on the podium, with Thomas Peterson on 11 and my neo-pro Haynes on 15 (with 73 MO, you can imagine the weak competition).
In addition, Janse Van Rensburg did great as Degenkolbs main lead out and helper with 4th places in Plouay and Quebec and a second place in Montreal, plus a suprising 3rd place and the ITT Worlds (which Kristof Vandewalle won O.o). Linus Gerdemann finished fifth in the Pais Vasco, 4th at P-N and Catalunya, 9th in Poland, 11th at AGR and 9th at LBL while Koen de Kort had his highlight with a 6th place at the Fleche Wallonne.
All in all a very nice season, much better than I imagined. The only real let-down was Marcel Kittel, who didn't accomplish anything at the Tour and celebrated his only victories of the year with two stages and the overall at the Tour of Elk Grove (well, and the Vuelta stage).
TheManxMissile wrote:
Bringing my real PCM12 playing to a close. Finished off the Tour with Vodafone.
Cavendish bagged 6 stage wins and the Points Jersey. Martin won 2 stages. Kelderman finished 4th GC and won the White Jersey. Total of 9 stage wins and 2 Jerseys. Pretty decent way to wrap things up.
I lied, actually topped off really late last night by finishing the season in triple quick time
Porte won the Vuelta thanks to a tt heavy route (well, for the vuelta), with Sagan 10th GC who got 8 stage wins and the Points Jersey and Youth as well.
Sagan also won Eneco tour and San Sebastian.
Markus podiumed in Vattenfall and Quebec.
Chelyakov stole a breakaway win in Montreal, awesome!
Cavendish won 6 stages in ToB to take that GC as well.
Martin lead a Vodafone 1-2-3-4-5 at the WCITT. 2nd Kelderman, 3rd Porte, 4th Thomas, 5th Phinney
Sagan won his third Road Race in a row, as Swifty grabbed 4th!
Aru finished 2nd in Lombardia.
Thomas won 2 stages in Beijing and the GC.
Ended up with Sagan number 1 rider in rankings, and Team number 1 (suck it Quickstep!).
Perfect way to say good bye to PCM12
Wow, amazing results, especially the WC ITT 1-2-3-4-5! How did you managed to do that? Also, couldn't you just let Kelderman win the WC, to make me happy?
Jesleyh wrote:
Wow, amazing results, especially the WC ITT 1-2-3-4-5! How did you managed to do that? Also, couldn't you just let Kelderman win the WC, to make me happy?
Martin 85TT, Kelderman 83TT, Porte 83TT, Thomas 80TT, Phinney 81TT and all with 88-92form
The only other 80+ TT'ers are Cancellara (out injured), Van Garderen (6th) and Froome (62form, 11th)
Couldn't do anything about Kelderman, computer controled. I managed GB obviously. He did finish 12th in the RR, and could have won the 2016 Tour if i gave him the proper support, instead of Cavendish
(I guess in the other screen you edited his stats to show his limits?)
