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EPIC - Offseason RENEWALS and DRAFT
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| Smowz |
Posted on 04-01-2015 19:09
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I am going to put it out here and this is a bit lazy of me I must confess.
Caja Rural has 30K of money sitting there and if anyone has any 'Hispanic' that is South American or Iberian rider in their squads using up space I would be happy to spend on this sort of rider. Please pm me if you have such a rider and I will have a look.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 04-01-2015 21:16
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Hello
Some of you know this, but not all 
When the post Transfer cdb is posted and announced, I will make a table containing each Managed Teams Roster and will post it so it's easy to copy over Using this table is completely up to you, but I think it would make things easier as comparing can be hard, without having the correct main stats to look upon quick 
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 04-01-2015 21:56
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sgdanny wrote:
Hello
Some of you know this, but not all
When the post Transfer cdb is posted and announced, I will make a table containing each Managed Teams Roster and will post it so it's easy to copy over Using this table is completely up to you, but I think it would make things easier as comparing can be hard, without having the correct main stats to look upon quick
Pretty useful 
Thanks.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 04-01-2015 22:49
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And with that last decision, all superstar demands were met. Remember, for Wiggins and Kittel, you would have to meet their demands as well when signing them as FA.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:01
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Erm, one issue I just thought of. While making the GT demands for Movistar and Sky, both Froome and Quintana will ride only one GT this year. This means of course that we'll see them in plenty other races and may make racing rather one-sided. Maybe some opinions on this? (especialy knockout and jaxika)
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| jaxika |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:04
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Ollfardh wrote:
Erm, one issue I just thought of. While making the GT demands for Movistar and Sky, both Froome and Quintana will ride only one GT this year. This means of course that we'll see them in plenty other races and may make racing rather one-sided. Maybe some opinions on this? (especialy knockout and jaxika)
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:06
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You could decrease the number of race days ALL superstars get in comparison to everyone else so they can ride their GT and the main WT stage races (pologne, paris-nice, tirreno, pais vasco, suisse, dauphine, etc.)
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:07
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Absolutely true, so you're not affected anymore
LLS - I suggested that last year, and there was no one really in favour. Sky and Team Sagan were against, for obvious reasons. Either way, we're halfway the transfer period, I would say it's unfair to go changing race days now.
Edited by Ollfardh on 04-01-2015 23:08
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:08
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I've had the same though without really reaching a conclusion. They would then get a schedule similar to the one I had for Sánchez this yeae which made him race six small tours as well as the Vuelta so that would likely make at least one of them present in every one-week WT stage race...
Mainly I was very close a couple of time to post that jaxica should just be happy that Froome didn't demand to defend both his titles while the three others wanted leadership in the last GT
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| knockout |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:23
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Ollfardh wrote:
Erm, one issue I just thought of. While making the GT demands for Movistar and Sky, both Froome and Quintana will ride only one GT this year. This means of course that we'll see them in plenty other races and may make racing rather one-sided. Maybe some opinions on this? (especialy knockout and jaxika)
My opinion: Set the RDs of all Superstar riders to 55 (which is one week long stage race less than currently)
and increase the RDs of riders with no main stat over 75 (at the beginning of the season) to 63 to allow the Hansen-like 3 GTs.
Either way, we're halfway the transfer period, I would say it's unfair to go changing race days now.
This is true though. No rules should be changed after they started to affect the player's strategy.
[TBH, I would not have acted any different with that change so THIS time i would be okay with a late rule change if a huge majority(75%?) of the other managers with a super star rider would think equally. But definitly: Handle all superstar riders equally. Don't punish Quintana or Froome more than e.g. Sagan, Cancellara or Valverde & Costa.]
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:33
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I am against that from the PoV that my transfer plan was to sign a big name FA - that's why I have so much cash. If the rule get's changed now, that's suddenly not such a good idea anymore. I'm trying to think of an alternative solution, but I can't think of one right now. Allthough I'd like to know in which cases all three GTs are taken? Sky definitely, what about Movistar? Other than that, I can't really think of any affected teams anyway. So you'd nearly have to wonder if simply allowing dual leadership might be the easier option, for now at least.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:37
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Uh, I have no opinion on Racedays though I prefer the raceday system of ICL. For obvious reasons, it's too late to adapt it anyway.
The only thing that bothers me is when World Tour teams show up with a whole arsenal of superior riders in random Conti Tour events because of some goals or they don't know where to put their riders else. 
A little proposition: With that in mind, it'd be nice if race goals for WT teams could be limited to WT events, any opinions on that idea? At least the race goals that the teams choose themselves.
Edited by Shonak on 04-01-2015 23:45
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:48
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Shonak wrote:
A little proposition: With that in mind, it'd be nice if race goals for WT teams could be limited to WT events, any opinions on that idea? At least the race goals that the teams choose themselves.
YES!
But 1 is allowed if the race is inside their home country.
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| knockout |
Posted on 04-01-2015 23:51
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Dippofix wrote:
I am against that from the PoV that my transfer plan was to sign a big name FA - that's why I have so much cash. If the rule get's changed now, that's suddenly not such a good idea anymore. I'm trying to think of an alternative solution, but I can't think of one right now. Allthough I'd like to know in which cases all three GTs are taken? Sky definitely, what about Movistar? Other than that, I can't really think of any affected teams anyway. So you'd nearly have to wonder if simply allowing dual leadership might be the easier option, for now at least.
I think only Movistar. But as said above - all superstars should be treated equally. So either reduce the RDs of all or reduce the RD of noone. And i wonder why this might be a problem for Ollfardh this year but it wasnt a problem last year. Nobody was forced to send his GC leader to 2 GTs...
Dual leadership? Which means that Movistar/Sky can sign 6 superstar climbers next year since all of them would have their leader role then? Not a good option imo.
[Allowing Quintana as "super domestique" for Costa would stop that but in the sake of realism - this isnt a good idea.]
That said: For Costa. He asked for leadership for a GT or a Monument. I repeted that he will lead the Giro. If i want to change that: Could i let him lead a Monument instead and it is still okay or what would be the decision?
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 05-01-2015 00:20
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I think its pretty obvious, the race days should depend on strength, but its probably too late to change that now.
Though I'd second LLS in terms of goals. Please give WT teams only WT goals (original and countered) and max. 1 CT goal in their home country (either orginal or countered.)
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 05-01-2015 01:36
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Kinda like some of the transfers from many teams in general. Lots of older riders returning to their home country or staying in some cases:
-Petacchi to Androni 
-Basso to Androni
-Evans to Orica 
-Chavanel to Europcar 
-Brown to Drapac
-Tanner to Drapac
-Hunter to MTN 
-Zubeldia to Euskaltel 
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| OZrocker |
Posted on 05-01-2015 01:55
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I may as well ask this here as it has likely been answered before, but the way I see it is...
We don't have to pay salary/renewal costs to transferred riders (e.g. Basso, Evans) or drafted riders (e.g. Acevedo, F. Schleck), but we do need to pay that to any future FA signings (e.g. Kittel, Wiggins). Is that right?
Luis Leon Sanchez wrote:
Kinda like some of the transfers from many teams in general. Lots of older riders returning to their home country or staying in some cases:
-Petacchi to Androni
-Basso to Androni
-Evans to Orica
-Chavanel to Europcar
-Brown to Drapac
-Tanner to Drapac
-Hunter to MTN
-Zubeldia to Euskaltel
I was happy to see that too, well done to those involved. Also, thanks to the the other managers who have made such good transfers possible, those aren't the only Aussies coming to Drapac - Cantwell and Sutherland have both just joined us from Tinkoff-Saxo.
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 05-01-2015 06:50
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jaxika wrote:
Ollfardh wrote:
Erm, one issue I just thought of. While making the GT demands for Movistar and Sky, both Froome and Quintana will ride only one GT this year. This means of course that we'll see them in plenty other races and may make racing rather one-sided. Maybe some opinions on this? (especialy knockout and jaxika)
WIth Porte leaving the team, there is a Giro leadership up for grab
Froome to Giro
Crap.
The user formerly known as 'The Schleck Fan'
Gracias Alberto.
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 05-01-2015 06:53
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knockout wrote:
[quote]Ollfardh wrote:
Erm, one issue I just thought of. While making the GT demands for Movistar and Sky, both Froome and Quintana will ride only one GT this year. This means of course that we'll see them in plenty other races and may make racing rather one-sided. Maybe some opinions on this? (especialy knockout and jaxika)
My opinion: Set the RDs of all Superstar riders to 55 (which is one week long stage race less than currently)
and increase the RDs of riders with no main stat over 75 (at the beginning of the season) to 63 to allow the Hansen-like 3 GTs.
Either way, we're halfway the transfer period, I would say it's unfair to go changing race days now. Nibali and Froome same amount of racedays?
Edited by Forever the Best on 05-01-2015 07:38
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Gracias Alberto.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 05-01-2015 09:36
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@CCC Custom Riders :
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