Sorry about having missed this. But in all fairness I think you have missed the point.
Talking about Drakos he is for me the one and only greek talent. If I'm not mistaken he maxes with 66FL, 72MO, 77HI, 50TT, 69STA, 72RES, 68REC, 63COB, 68SPR, 75ACC, 82FIG, 64DH, 52PRL... This is a rider that is a decent domestique, but he cannot be trained. His FL and physical package is WAY too low to make him anything useful what so ever.
There are already 3 greek domestique puncheurs better than him - and he IS the biggest talent in Greece by quite some margin.
This guy is my Herklotz. The one rider I want to build the future on - and with these stats - I can't! That is basically what I asked for. Either:
But - The first part was my main question. Can he please change his name. Or wait for next season to be added - better?
I have a little bit of time now so will answer quickly, deleted the other parts of the post as I believe I have addressed them in the previous post I wrote already. Since you say this (part of the post that remains) is your main post, I think I should answer to it. First of all calling him not useful isn't correct in my opinion. Then, what I said in my previous post still captures quite well how it went for me:
Apart from this we also added Drakos with nice stats. At least in our opinion. But in the general picture if we speak about deflating the db and then someone would not want to sign a rider from their focus nation that is well rounded and with 77 in the main stat, sounds weird to me. He really doesn't have horrible fl and back up stats as you claim in your post some days ago?
Sure, you can say he should have better tt based on his multiple Greece TT U23 medals (and nothing else I think?), but then why did you give him the worst TT of the three suggestions you made, if his TT is such a big thing? We looked at your suggestion, where he was a hybrid puncheur in his maxed form, and also keeping in mind the amazingly strong Varotsos made him a nice, but not unrealistically strong, rider. He indeed rides for North Macedonian CT Novapor Speedbike Team irl, so I hope he gets a nice irl career out of it as well, and well rounded hybrid puncheur stats should do him justice.
The problem I guess is, if you (and I mean this not directly to you, but any person who suggest (multiple) riders for his/her home country/region) mostly suggest several very strong riders, you can't get them all like you suggested them. If people of any obscure country/region keep 'receiving' decent and strong signable riders year through year (which is my goal as well, at the same time of keeping the DB not getting more inflated), it doesn't make sense to me to immediately make a rider 80+ or similar because he has DNF'ed in some 1.2 or U23 races whereas others from his country didn't get so far. Still trying to give those decent stats as well of course.
Specifically to your suggestion post, it wasn't that clear to me that Drakos meant that much to you. I respect that, this shows you are really following the talents up close. Part of the problem for me probably was it wasn't as clear that he was this talented, as the name of his team and his results in general didn't mean/seem like that much/strong to me.
I don't see the use in keeping this going back and forth now, and I assume neither do you. I also can't make any promises on what will exactly happen, the timing is far from ideal now with transfers starting in a couple of hours.
SotD - I've been exactly where you are already. Abner Gonzalez is my Drakos. Abner was on Movistar for three years - yes there was a genuine Caribbean in the WT for three seasons! He even has some nice .1 race level results. I even went about NOT suggesting Abner at the initial timing, with the aim to wait a little longer and have a solid basis to suggest an actual PCT level contender.
So i 200% understand your feelings and desire to get Drakos upped/changed/delayed.
But, i'm also with the DB team on this one. They did not change Abner (who will max out weaker than Dimitrios Christakos btw), and for me that's enough precedent to back them up. As well as the overall DB work to better control inflation (which you neatly pointed out has not been well handled in the past with the likes of Ranaweera or Choi or so on).
Honestly i really think in the last few years the DB team has done a good job to get ontop of the inflation problem, whilst keeping the uniquness and diverstiy that makes the MG special. As pointed out there are still good Greeks out there, and Drakos can still be a usable rider. Stick to the project, keep it going, maintain that dedication, and the DB team will eventually have to add that big talent (well, that's my plan at least, but i'm equally having a ton of fun just hovering around the CT with my dumbass project, it's really not about the winning).
SotD - I've been exactly where you are already. Abner Gonzalez is my Drakos. Abner was on Movistar for three years - yes there was a genuine Caribbean in the WT for three seasons! He even has some nice .1 race level results. I even went about NOT suggesting Abner at the initial timing, with the aim to wait a little longer and have a solid basis to suggest an actual PCT level contender.
So i 200% understand your feelings and desire to get Drakos upped/changed/delayed.
But, i'm also with the DB team on this one. They did not change Abner (who will max out weaker than Dimitrios Christakos btw), and for me that's enough precedent to back them up. As well as the overall DB work to better control inflation (which you neatly pointed out has not been well handled in the past with the likes of Ranaweera or Choi or so on).
Honestly i really think in the last few years the DB team has done a good job to get ontop of the inflation problem, whilst keeping the uniquness and diverstiy that makes the MG special. As pointed out there are still good Greeks out there, and Drakos can still be a usable rider. Stick to the project, keep it going, maintain that dedication, and the DB team will eventually have to add that big talent (well, that's my plan at least, but i'm equally having a ton of fun just hovering around the CT with my dumbass project, it's really not about the winning).
you're okay with being fucked out of a marquee name?
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