PCM Career Explorer is a new tool, it's a combination of some of my already existing tools from the toolset together with some new ones - all in one application this time.
The PCM Career explorer is no editor, you can only view things from your savegame (or database), you cannot edit. --> actually, since V7 there are functionalities that can edit the savegame like editing the shortlist
The tool might come in handy for some that make reports or stories about their career or for people who want to analyse their savegame without opening the game.
Version 17 Added support for PCM16
Savegames for PCM16 can now be loaded with the PCM Career Explorer.
New screen: See cyclist's results for each year for a specific race
Via the Race menu -> Cyclist year-by-year results you can now see how a cyclist did in a specific race over the years. Like this you can easily see how a cyclist did in that specific race over the past years, or see how a young talent is evolving and getting closer and closer every year to winning that big event.
New mode: Sideline Team
Sideline team is a mode I developed so you can play a career in "spectator mode".
In 5 easy steps your game will be setup so you can view all the races in 3D you want without you having to takeover or take control of a good team.
Step 1: you'll be put in charge of the weakest team in the database (non U23) so the impact on the savegame is very small. (you don't want to sacrifice a protour team offcourse)
Step 2: You'll be given 30 cyclists (all called 'Fake Cyclist' of different nationalitites (to support viewing the national championships in 3D) with just below average stats (good enough to finish within time limit, but not to good so they don't get any results, after all these fake cyclists are just here so you can view races). The cyclists are also automatically signed until the year 2040.
Step 3: You can select from what team you want to copy the race calendar. This are the races that you'll be able to view in 3D.
Step 4: Take over the worst national team: just like in step 1 the tool will put you in charge of the worst national team. This way you can view the world championships and the negative impact on your savegame is small because the cyclists of your national team probably won't have had any chances on winning.
Step 5: run this option a few times during the season, because your bad sideline team will be added to alot of races it normally wouldn't compete in, some races can have to much teams subscribed. this option automatically fixes the races with to much subscriptions by removing the worst team (not your sideline team offcourse)
The main difference between this mode and with taking over a good team and putting all cyclists on automatic is that in thise "sideline team" mode you have 0 impact on the race, you are a true spectator. the automatic mode in cycling manager is flawed, it does not thread player cyclists the same way it does with AI cyclists altough they are put on automatic. (and the TT automatic option is just plain stupid, and there isn't even an automatic mode for TTT).
For those interested in using this feature, I would suggest that in single stage races you abandon all your cyclists at the start of the race (dot, 0%) and in stage races you put them on Keep position 99% and remove the sidepanel with "F2". (you cannot abandon your fake cyclists in a stage race, because if all your cyclists are abandoned, the 3D race will crash).
Version 16
Snapshots to retain retired cyclists & removed results
A new feature has been added that each time you load a savegame (with pcm career explorer) a snapshot is taken. This way results of previous season, record holders, ... stay intact and don't contain gaps when a cyclist retires. Retired cyclists that are removed from the game will still be visible in the PCMCE tool and their entiry palmares and history will be visible and apart from their stats their entire profile as well. The full stage result of the entire year will also be visible (if you load the game at least every two months with the tool). So in december you will still see every single stage result of the Giro and the "Summary" screen with the stage-by-stage evolution.
Note: if you activate this feature, the savegame will be updated to assign it a "unique id"so the tool recognizes the savegame each time you load it. It's recomended to create a backup first.
Added new columns to transfer view
In the transfer screen, the view of free riders has been updated with Average, Age and Country columns to help you better select what cyclists are interesting for you to attract.
Version 15.2
New screen: Transfer Helper
A new overview screen that helps you doing your transfers and manage your budget. it shows you an overview of the current state, the cyclists that have signed a new contract, cyclists that you offered a new contract, cyclist that are about to leave, or already signed another team, and a new summary of how your team salary expenses and averages will look like if all offers would get accepted. With this screen you can easily manage how much transfer budget you'll have left (if you want to keep it the same) and how much cyclist you still need to sign/let go and what the effet of your transfers is on the average rating/age of your team.
New modifier: Assign national champion
A easy-to-use overview screen of all countries that have cyclists but no national champion. You can assign them manually or use the "random" button. The random button is not entirly random, but uses the average ratings of the cyclists. the better they are, the higher chance they get selected as national champion
Loading of PCM11 & PCM12 savegames now supported
Officialy I don't want to put to much energy in supporting PCM11 & PCM12 savegames, but saves from those 2 PCM games can now also be loaded (At least the 2 test saves I got from community members) Not all features will work, but alot of them do work.
Version 15.1
New team overview page
A new overview page for each team where you can see general information, the season best results, the major transfers and the season records.
Team pages with new navigation
Just like the RACE & CYCLIST pages, the TEAM pages now have a new navigation bar so you can easily switch between the different pages of the same team.
Links activated in cyclist profile page
The links in the cyclist profile page to the races in the section "best career results" are now activated.
Version 15
Added Media Content container for each race/year
Ever wanted to see that special screenshots you took for a certain race, wanted to find back that shot you took of the narrow sprint that took place last year on the champs elysees, or just wanted to organize your screenshots, documents and race reports:
A new screen is added for races. You can now drag & drop screenshots, excel-, word- or text-documents onto the PCM explorer to link them to a certain race & year. This way you can organize your screenshots, reports or any other documents related to a race. You can easily go back to a race and see all documents or screenshots attached to it, filtered by year.
(this option is not linked to a certain savegame for the moment, because I'm trying to find a way to identify what save you've loaded, and I don't want to base it on the filename. for now if you add content for "Giro - 2015" it will show it in all the saves you load and check "Giro-2015"
Added new cyclist profile screen
There is a new cyclist overview screen that gives you more information then the cyclist popup screen and shows you alot of information about the cyclist on one single page.
Added new Race Overview screen
A new screen where you have all the general information about a race in one single view, together with the results of the current year and the results of previous years. and the current record holder of that race.
Added search in top navigation bar
You can now search for any race, team or cyclist from the top navigation bar by just typing the name. hitting enter will bring you to the detail page of the race/team/cyclist.
The textbox also presents you "suggestions" while you are typing.
Updated Cyclist Navigation
When you're in a cyclist detail screen, you can now easily navigate between the different cyclist detail screens of that same cyclist (palmares, history, profile, planning).
Updated Race Navigation
When you're in the detail screen of a race you can now easily navigate between the different race detail screens of the same race (Overview, Results, History, Summary, Planned cyclists, Cyclists with that race as objective)
Updated dropdownlists with suggestions
The cyclist and race dropdownboxes have been tuned so they now give you suggestions while you are typing, so you can easily navigate to other cyclists/races.
Added nationality in U23 screen
In the grid with all U23 cyclists there is a new column added so you can now see the cyclist's country.
Fixed bug with averages
Fixed bug with average and team average calculations on systems with "." as default decimal seperator.
Added resistance and baroudeur
the resistance and baroudeur (Attack) stat are now visible in the new cyclist profile screen. In the cyclist popup screen the baroudeur stat is also added
Version 14
New Modifier: Update contract length of staff
Also tired of having to renew your staff's contract so many times, or be 3 months in the new season and see that you have no trainers because their contract was ended last season? With the new modifier (found under modifiers -> team) you can now update the contract end of all your staff with 1 click, and even give them a +10 year contract so you never need to worry anymore.
New Screen: Country Overview
You can now see a general summary page per country where you see the best three cyclists per role, you can see the champions of that country, you can see the three most promosing youngsters of that country with their best potential role and you can see who the best cyclists of that country are in terms of palmares (wins, gt stages, classics and season wins)
New Screen: World Overview
Same of the above but without country filter. So you see the best cyclists per role, most promosing cyclists in the world, world champion and champion ITT, and the best cyclists palmares-wise.
Extra links
You can now click on country & teamname in the cyclist popup. the country will bring you to the country overview screen, the team will bring you to the team roster. the same two links have been activated on top of the cyclists report page
Version 13.2
New screen: Create custom difficulty levels
You can now finetune the difficulty levels in PCM. Is Extreme to easy for you? is Normal to easy, but hard to difficult? No problem, you just create your own finetuned difficulty level to suit your personal needs
Finetuned Favorite calculations
Update favorite calculations when alot of people are very close to eachother
Options should be saved after update
From now on the options you've selected should remain the same after an automatic update is done
Version 13.1
Added options screen
You can now configure some options: Do you want 23 years old to be in the U23 lists, do you want potential color codes for over 23 year olds and do you want to be able to get a scout report from over 23 year olds.
Latest results & upcoming races
When the savegame is loaded, the initial screen now shows you the 3 latest results with the top 3 of each race. Clicking on a race name will bring you to the full result screen of that race or stage in case it's a multi-stage race.
The screen also shows you the upcoming races, with the result of last year (if available). same here, clicking on the race will show you the full results of last year.
Update Team Short Name (abbreviation)
Over the years the name of the team changes when they make deals with new sponors. However the team 3 lettres abriviation is not updated and always stays the same as in season 1. With this feature you can automatically update all abbreviations of which the tool think it's wrong, or you can choose yourself what teams need to be updated (and if you like even update the proposed new shortname)
Updated Grids
Updated some grids with the color code of the potential (and also for older then 23 years old if you have checked this in the options) and also added "column freezing" in some grids so the cyclistname is always visible.
Version 13
New screen: Scout Report of U23 cyclist
You can now request to view the scout report of an U23 cyclist (in the cyclist popup window, click view -> scout report). The report shows you the pro's and con's and gives you a summary what role would probably suit him best and how good he would be at it if he succeeds in reaching his potential. An ideal screen for people who want to know more about cyclists then offered ingame, but without cheating and looking at their exact potential and max stats. The screen also contains a prototype of a new "Cyclist Header" that will probably be incorporated in the other cyclist screens in future releases. The new header also loads the cyclist' photo when you run the tool on a PC where PCM is installed.
Finetuned MIlan Sanremo preview calculations
Tuned the favorite calculations for milan sanremo so sprinters & baradeurs that will probably do well in the 3D race will have more chance of being selected as favorite. (it was to sprint-stat-minded for now)
Version 12.2
Vélo D'Or Award Show
Instead of the simple email message you get on 1/nov with the winner of Vélo D'Or, you can open the PCM Career Explorer en start the "Vélo D'Or award show". Here you can follow vote by vote from each journalist and see who's leading the vote ranking and who eventually gets the prize.
Added 4 new races in the "preview" mode
The automatic race preview now supports four new races: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, E3 Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem. as with all others, from 7 days before the race the preview is available.
Version 12.1
New screen: Legends List
This list contains an overview of the best cyclists based on their results. You can see how many Races, TDF's, GT's, stages, Monuments, Classics, World & National championships they have won and this results in a "calculated total" on which the cyclists are ranked so you can see who has the most impressive palmares of them all. You can also select to only count in results since the savegame has started.
New screen: Champion's year
In this screen you can see for the world champion and the different national champions how good they were in the year they were the champion. You can compare them with the other champions (of the same country, or other world champions) during the period they were champion. That way you can easily see "who was the best world champion?" or "Was x a worthy Belgian champion?"
Fixed bug in cyclist history
I've fixed the bug where each time you wanted to view the history of the same cyclist, the number of wins got doubled.
Version 12
Auto-generated Race Previews for important races
A new screen that shows you the race favorites, with a description for each favorite. The preview takes into account the races done in the preparation for this race, as well as their overall results during the last weeks before the race. A lot of different scenario’s and description have been included to avoid repetitiveness. It also shows you who the outsiders are and who the best sprinters are that are competing (in case of a stage race). You'll also have an overview of who's missing out due to injury or is not in 100% shape at the start. The right hand side also shows you the top 5 of the last 3 years. (currently the 3 GT's, the 5 main classics and the world championships are supported for this feature).
New Page: Season Summary
A bit like the season stat page ingame, for each year you can see the top 3 of the grand tours, point jersey and mountain jersey winners, you see the top 3 of the biggest classics, you can see who won the Vélo D’Or and who had most victories that year. Clicking on a cyclist brings you to his detail page, clicking on the Race header brings you to the result of that year.
Added Popularity & Country column in the Cyclist Search page
Like the title said, 2 new columns added to the grid, you can now see the popularity rating and the country of each cyclist
Added “Shirt Number” in the participants list
In the participants list you can now see the number each cyclist got assigned to ride with for that specific race.
VERSION 11
Fixed loading bug
People who used the tool on a system where the "." sign was the system default's decimal seperator could not open savegames succesfully. This bug is now fixed.
wrong national champions updater in your savagame
In some databases the real national champions are overwritten by random amateur cyclists of that country the day after the national champions. This is for national championships that standard do not have a 3D race but a database added this. When you run this feature, the correct national championship (the one who won the 3D race) will be set as champion and not the random selected amateur guy.
Version 10.1
Team Overview
A list of all teams in game with their division, and also a speciality-score for Stage races, sprints, Hilly Classics, Flanders Classics, TimeTrial and an average of cyclist averages
You can right click any team to go to the Teams Roster
Team Roster Page
A page where you can see the entire roster for each team with their speciality-scores, average, contract end, salary and potential color code (U23 cyclists)
View Retired cyclists & removed the from "no contract next year"
The cyclist --> transfer view window is updated. the cyclists that retire are now filtered out on the "no contract next year" page and there is an extra page where you can see which riders will retire
Bugfixes
Updated code so it reads the database in UTF8 format, to prevent crashes when using exotic characters
Trusted version of Exporter cdb to xml
A new version of the exporter that should supress some security warnings some users had
Version 10.0.0.0
Change Team and National Team
You can now change the team and the national team that you manage
Changing national teams is only possible between 1/feb and 1/jun.
Change game date
you can change the game data (back or forward). The date will be udpated as well as the "last stage" and "next stage" parameters
Automatically plan objectives in cyclist schedule
With this option you can automatically update all schedules of your cyclist to include the objectives that you have set for them
Choose new sponsor for next year
You can now select one of the available sponsors as your new sponsor for next year (even if your current sponsor contract is not ending this year) you choose on what salary budget the sponsor budget will be based and you select the duration of the contract. (option only available before 25/oct)
Multiple stability and performance updates
different updates to prevent crashes of the application and merged code for faster loading of the different detail screens
New in Version 8
Cylist Planning & Objectives
View for each cyclist what races they have done, what races are still on their planning. You can also see their Objectives. In both these screens you can also see the outcome of the race for the selected cyclist
View per Race what cyclists have it as Objective
The AI does not plan their riders for the entire season, but with this view you can see what cyclists have the race as their objective, So you know what cyclists are likely to enter this race.
Cyclist History screen
See what team in which year the cyclist was riding for, also see how many wins, gt stages and monuments won the cyclist had in that year
Updated cyclists popup windows
From the cyclist popup window you can now navigate directly to the Planning, Objectives, Palmares and History of the cyclist
New in Version 7
View and Maintain Shortlist
You can now view all the cyclists on your shortlist in a grid that gives you valuable information about them. The tool is not longer a view-only tool anymore, you can also add & remove cyclists to your shortslist and export it back to your savegame
Important races calendar
An easy overview of the biggest classics, grand tours and world championship in one list and the top 3 of the race. You can also see this for the previous years
Full Calendar by month
The entire race calendar by month and the top 3 of that race if it's already passed.
You can also see the calendar for previous years
Cleaned up UI
Small changes to the UI to clean up things and improve the userfriendliness.
Version 6
added auto-updater in the tool so it automatically checks for the latest version of the application
NEW IN VERSION 5
U23 cyclists grid
A grid with only cyclists that are not 23 years old. The grid contains the "role-scores" (how good are they at stage races, sprinting, hilly or flanders classics). It also contains a column with a color that represents their potential (red-yellow-green)
This way you can easily compare young riders.
U23 Calendar
The game U23 calendar does not show you all U23 races, only the important ones (or I haven't found out how to view them...). here you can see all of them with the top 3 of the races that have already been done. right click on the race brings you to the full result. (top 3 result only works for PCM15 since PMC14 did not store this in the cyclist his palmares)
Cyclist Detail popup screen updated
You can now see the cyclis his contract details, and if he signed or extended his contract. for U23 riders you can also see their potential with a color-code (red-yellow-green)
Back & Forward navigation
you can now easily browse through the screens with the back & forward buttons. easy to go back when you clicked to view some details.
Go to race results from palmares view
when you right click a race in the palmares view of a cyclist you can go to the full results of that race. (if you click on a 2013 result for example, the detail view will show you the complete result of that race in 2013)
General improvements
- added search on cyclist name in the "race days" view
- cyclist search screen now contains AVERAGE column
- general UI improvements for tips & after loading
- now support for "open with" for the .cdb extension
New in V4 - screenshots in different post
Transfers IN/OUT per team
A variant of the already existing transferscreen. in this view you can see the IN or OUT transfers for a specific team
Planned Cyclist For Race
You can see what cyclists have the selected race on their schedule. The difference with the participants list is that the participants list is only when the race is ongoing, in the planned list you can see the cyclists that will probably be in the race. So at the start of the season you will already have a sneak preview of who is likely to race the Vuelta or Tour for example (AI plans most of their main riders already for the biggist races)
Race Summary Grid
A summary of a selected stage race. You can see per stage who was the stage winner, who was the leader, the point leader, mountain leader and young leader
New in V3
Race History
See a general overview of the top 3 by year for each race.
or see the detailed race results for a race and a specific year
V2 Update - screenshots added at the bottom
PCM14 compatibility
All features should work with PCM14 savegames now
Injury Viewer
See all cyclists injured (possible to sort on cyclist average so you easily see the most important cyclists injured) and you can also see a list of cyclists who have reduced fitness due to a fall and how bad it impacts them
Sponsor Deal Viewer
See what teams have a sponsor contract ending this year, and see what the new sponsor is when they have signed a contract
Participants List
See all participants of an active race (this can be before stage 1 is even done, it's possible when your at the day the race starts). The participants list is shown in the same gird with the speciality-score columns. It's easy for those who like to create previews for races or to easiliy see what the best sprinters/stage racers/... are that compete in that race
Features
Transfer Viewer
See all transfers that happend ingame, the contract details and if the cyclist earns more or less money than on his previous contract.
You can also view cyclists that have renewed their contract on their current team and see cyclists that are without a team for next year
Palmares Viewer
See the career palmares or year-by-year palmares for each cyclist, ordered by importance of the result. You'll also visually see the jerseys they've won.
Cyclist Search
Search any rider thourgh the search page or find them in a grid that shows you 5 columns for each riders. A calculated value that represents their speciality as a sprinter, stage racer, hilly rider, flanders classic rider or time trialer
Result Viewer
View the results of races, individuel stages, rankings and export them to excel (single race/stage or entire race in one excel with all rankings and stage results)
National Champions Viewer
View all national championships by country in a single list. Filter on road race or time trial
Racing Days
See how many race days each rider has (your own team or AI team) based on days already raced + days planned in the rider shedule. (AI doesn't schedule all their riders for the entire season that's why some can have low race days at the beginnen of the season).
Salary Expense Checker
Check how much every team is spending on riders salary and see how much is commited on salary for next year (current contracts that run longer then 1 year and new signed cyclist contracts) - easy to see what teams are spending alot and how you compare to others teams. (and if you are keeping things realistic & fair )
Cyclist Detail View
From each datagridview in the tool you can right click on a cyclist name to navigate to their detail view. the detail view shows you basic information along with their stats. and also shows you the Speciality-scores and popularity and their rank compared to all other cyclists
Great!
Especially when you forgot to export a race result!
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V2 Update - same download link as in original post
PCM14 compatibility
All features should work with PCM14 savegames now
Injury Viewer
See all cyclists injured (possible to sort on cyclist average so you easily see the most important cyclists injured) and you can also see a list of cyclists who have reduced fitness due to a fall and how bad it impacts them
Sponsor Deal Viewer
See what teams have a sponsor contract ending this year, and see what the new sponsor is when they have signed a contract
Participants List
See all participants of an active race (this can be before stage 1 is even done, it's possible when your at the day the race starts). The participants list is shown in the same grid with the speciality-score columns. It's easy for those who like to create previews for races or to easiliy see what the best sprinters/stage racers/... are that compete in that race
Edited by TiemenD on 08-02-2016 16:47
A variant of the already existing transferscreen. in this view you can see the IN or OUT transfers for a specific team
Planned Cyclist For Race
You can see what cyclists have the selected race on their schedule. The difference with the participants list is that the participants list is only when the race is ongoing, in the planned list you can see the cyclists that will probably be in the race. So at the start of the season you will already have a sneak preview of who is likely to race the Vuelta or Tour for example (AI plans most of their main riders already for the biggist races)
Race Summary Grid
A summary of a selected stage race. You can see per stage who was the stage winner, who was the leader, the point leader, mountain leader and young leader
U23 cyclists grid
A grid with only cyclists that are not 23 years old. The grid contains the "role-scores" (how good are they at stage races, sprinting, hilly or flanders classics). It also contains a column with a color that represents their potential (red-yellow-green)
This way you can easily compare young riders.
U23 Calendar
The game U23 calendar does not show you all U23 races, only the important ones (or I haven't found out how to view them...). here you can see all of them with the top 3 of the races that have already been done. right click on the race brings you to the full result. (top 3 result only works for PCM15 since PMC14 did not store this in the cyclist his palmares)
Cyclist Detail popup screen updated
You can now see the cyclis his contract details, and if he signed or extended his contract. for U23 riders you can also see their potential with a color-code (red-yellow-green)
Back & Forward navigation
you can now easily browse through the screens with the back & forward buttons. easy to go back when you clicked to view some details.
Go to race results from palmares view
when you right click a race in the palmares view of a cyclist you can go to the full results of that race. (if you click on a 2013 result for example, the detail view will show you the complete result of that race in 2013)
General improvements
- added search on cyclist name in the "race days" view
- cyclist search screen now contains AVERAGE column
- general UI improvements for tips & after loading
- now support for "open with" for the .cdb extension
is the stage result more than a month ago? Cyanide removes the results from single stages from the database and nothing can be done about it. If you want them you have to open a weekly save that was close to that stage.
TiemenD wrote:
is the stage result more than a month ago? Cyanide removes the results from single stages from the database and nothing can be done about it. If you want them you have to open a weekly save that was close to that stage.
Yes it was more than a month ago. Thanks for helping out!
those who have V6 will automatically be prompted to update when opening the tool New in Version 7
View and Maintain Shortlist
You can now view all the cyclists on your shortlist in a grid that gives you valuable information about them. The tool is not longer a view-only tool anymore, you can also add & remove cyclists to your shortslist and export it back to your savegame
Important races calendar
An easy overview of the biggest classics, grand tours and world championship in one list and the top 3 of the race. You can also see this for the previous years
Full Calendar by month
The entire race calendar by month and the top 3 of that race if it's already passed.
You can also see the calendar for previous years
Cleaned up UI
Small changes to the UI to clean up things and improve the userfriendliness.
This is really amazing! Pure gold for every story writer but just really cool in general as well! What I would love to see is not only the riders who plan on starting in a race but also the races one rider plans to race in (so the reverse thing, if you know what I mean ^^). Don't know if that's possible but I think that would be nice as well! Keep up the great work!
cunego59 wrote:
This is really amazing! Pure gold for every story writer but just really cool in general as well! What I would love to see is not only the riders who plan on starting in a race but also the races one rider plans to race in (so the reverse thing, if you know what I mean ^^). Don't know if that's possible but I think that would be nice as well! Keep up the great work!
I'm planning to add this shortly and I want to combine this with viewing the cyclist's objectives as well
Ideas are always welcome, like I said the cyclist's planning & objective will be in the next release.
I'm also planning on adding a few things that update the savegame. (there's an editor out there to update the nr of cyclists allowed for each country in the world championship according to their ranking, I'm planning to implement something similar. I'm also planning on adding functionality to make season planning easier, for example: automatically add all the objectives you've selected to the planning of the cyclist)
of different nationalitites (to support viewing the national championships in 3D) with just below average stats (good enough to finish within time limit, but not to good so they don't get any results, after all these fake cyclists are just here so you can view races). The cyclists are also automatically signed until the year 2040.
