Thank you, I will try this once I get home.

Not sure if needed to say this, but no steals from me.

Nothing from me of course.

Of course nothing from me.

no steals for coldeportes

I could do my yearly steal of Geyer, but seeing it will fail anyway, we decide against it.

No steals for me as well.

won't steal cause of two reasons, can't think of anybody I would steal (getting Kwiatkowski while letting Majka go seems counter-productive and a worse deal overall) and the deadline is too tight

No steals for me either, even though I will continue to cry about losing De Marchi.

No steals for me.

When does transfer season start? I only ask because I am on holiday from the end of this week for 2 weeks, and don't want to be the one who holds it up and also I'll miss out on a lot of riders

Sounds like pretty bad timing :/

I guess it´s Renewals next and then we´re starting...

Maybe you can do the renewals fast then send a list to Bikex with transfers targets and max. salarys.... maybe ...

DB is without rider cuts but the fa market is huge. I am sure you can send bids already now.

I guess I missed steals, but I'll be following more closely from now on

You can still send in steals until I upload the Renewals files, which will be tonight.

Excellent.

Maybe Story Games Forum could be a bit higher up? With PCm16 up now, it's hard to find the subforum.

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/download/ju7...ewals.xlsx

This is how the renewals work: A rider demands a certain wage of you. You can then decide whether you want to accept that wage and re-sign him for the next season, don't prolong his contract or wait. You have three chances to make an offer before the negotiations end.

How does the file work:
1 Put in C3 your team ID. If you forgot it, check it in table "teams".
2 In "Renewals" you see your riders listed. The first thing you want to do is to fade out the empty rows. To do so Click on the arrow in K1 and untick empty cells.
3 In column H the riders current wage is listed in row I the minimum wage that has to be paid. In column K you see the demand of the rider. In the cell on the left of that you usually see a 0. There are three possible exceptions. If there is a "!!!" then you have to agree to the riders demand in your first offer as he is in a danger of a steal. If you don't agree then your rider will leave for another team. Is there only one exclamation mark then also a team is interested in a steal but the offer of that team is not good enough for the rider to accept right away. If that's the case you can do the negotiations as usual. Just when the negotiations fail, the rider will consider again to go to the team that attempted the steal. If there is "IN" written then that rider is already on your team next season as you contracted him through scouting.
4 In N you make your first offers. If you agree to the wage the rider wants just write it there. If you want to make an offer with a lower wage than put in there how much you offer instead. If you want the rider to leave the team put a 0. If you want to wait with negotiations to a later round put a "W" in there.
5 In row 42 you see how much budget you'd have left with your offers. It is allowed to be over your budget after the renewals but you'd have to pay a fine that is double as high as you're over your budget.
6 If you made your offers go to "PM" copy for round 1 cells B-C and send them to me in a table. In round 2 you will send me F-G and in round 3 J-K.
7 After sending me a pm you will get an answer from me asap with the riders reactions. Go to "Renewals" sort the riders after their ID and put the list you get into row R for round 1, for round 2 that'd be row S and for round 3 row T. If a rider is out the list will tell you "OUT", if the rider agrees to your offer it will say "IN". If you didn't reach the min wage he'd accept you will either get 1,2 or 3 +. If it's only one the lowest wage he'd accept is within 50. If there are 2 then it is between 50 and 100 and with three + it is more than 100 away.
8 If you get +s back then you can continue negotiations in column O (round 2) and column P (round 3). If you get back an "IN" or "OUT" than you can't continue negotiations as you already came to an agreement with the rider.
9 If you didn't come to an agreement with the rider after 3 rounds then he'll leave the team.

Mediator

Some Teams have put some money in last season's research into mediator. In the spoiler below you can see how much. With each mediator unit you can lower the minimum a rider would accept by 5-15 (One unit costed 10). Just tell me when sending in the first renewals round on which rider(s) you want to spend your mediator. You can't use mediator on riders that have a steal attempt on themselves and also can't go below the minimum wage of that rider with that.



I hope everyone understands how it works.
If you want, you can wait after the first round of renewals, so I can tell you if your steal attempts went through, so you can calculate better with your budget. If you wish to wait please tell me that in your PM.
Because of that, I hope to get the first round of renewals within 24 hours, maximum you have 48.
This season in general riders are a little more gready then what they used to be, to bring them closer to for what FAs get signed.
If you wish to make the renewals via dropbox, it's also possible, I did that last season also with some already. Some already have a shared dropbox folder with me, others would need to tell me their email.
New teams don't have to do anything in this round, obviously, FA signing will start directly after renewals.

Sweet Jesus, not sure if it was like this last year as well and I certainly don't remember but 72 mb of an Excel file

Took two minutes to open

That sure shouldn't be like that, last year it was 210 kb not sure what I put in there, will upload a smaller version to the same link later.

Edit: Updated: https://www.mediafire.com/download/ju7...ewals.xlsx (same link)