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Posted on 01-03-2013 07:26
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Domestique
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In order to give myself a challenge, I've the small Belarussian Belavia team to the database, consisting of all (8) unemployed riders from Belarus. Despite of an unhappy sponsor with ridiculous goals, we got ourselves a really nice race program, taking the team from Oman to Langkawi, Taiwan, Italy, Russia, America, France etc...
Tour of Oman started decently with a 12th place in the GC for Samoilau. Langkawi went even better when Samoilau took the stage and the leader's jersey at Cameron Highlands by attacking in the descent after failing to make a difference uphill. Next day we lost the jersey due to a breakaway and tactical mistakes saw Larsson (IAM) taking the stage and the lead on Genting Highlands with only flat stages to go. However, by playing a smart tactical race, Samoilau could easily snatch enough bonus seconds to reclaim the leader's jersey and win the race. It's shocking how weak the AI is in avoiding such trouble, but I'm sure this career is going to be a lot of fun.
Now I only should think about whether I want to be promoted to PCT or not... would hate not to be able to ride the Russian x.2 races anymore, for example. |
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| N-Iverson |
Posted on 01-03-2013 10:33
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Is it impossible to win both the Giro and TdF in one season? |
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| LLDS |
Posted on 01-03-2013 10:50
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Domestique
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N-Iverson wrote:
Is it impossible to win both the Giro and TdF in one season?
No. But it depends on the rider involved and his fitness training plan. |
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| duckman |
Posted on 02-03-2013 00:19
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Out of the ashes of Team Blanco, came team Coca Cola. This is how team looks at the start of 2015 (using pcmdaily 2013 beta db) Part of me doesnt want to play it because it looks to strong.. part of me wants to try to win TDF with Rolland
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| yoejo |
Posted on 02-03-2013 10:24
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too many climbers. u should have a one day sepcialist and get rid of three climbers. |
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| yoejo |
Posted on 02-03-2013 10:28
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N-Iverson wrote:
Is it impossible to win both the Giro and TdF in one season?
No. But it depends on the rider involved and his fitness training plan.
it´s definitely not impossible, but usually one considers TDF the most important GT coz of the price money involved and the status. so a lot of players doesn´t wanna risk a rider being in bad form for the TDF in order to win the Giro. I made C.A Sörensen (76 MO ride both giro and the tour and his form were significantly lower than those riders that hadn´t done the giro. Not huge, but a large impact given the fact that 6-7 points is a lot during a GT and a mountain stage,
speaking of winning lots of GT, there was one guy on this forum that managed to win all the GT: s in one season. he had a story as well I think. How did he do it? |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 02-03-2013 10:34
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yoejo wrote:
speaking of winning lots of GT, there was one guy on this forum that managed to win all the GT: s in one season. he had a story as well I think. How did he do it?
https://www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthr...rowstart=0
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| ruben |
Posted on 02-03-2013 10:48
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yoejo wrote:
too many climbers. u should have a one day sepcialist and get rid of three climbers. \
Why? I like themed teams. Those are nice challenges. IK tried a colombian climbing team for years.
Now I'm about to try a sprinters team, preferably with only brazilians/argentinians  |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 02-03-2013 11:01
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Do you guys consider Novo Nordisk a challenge? |
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| duckman |
Posted on 02-03-2013 11:06
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ruben wrote:
yoejo wrote:
too many climbers. u should have a one day sepcialist and get rid of three climbers. \
Why? I like themed teams. Those are nice challenges. IK tried a colombian climbing team for years.
Now I'm about to try a sprinters team, preferably with only brazilians/argentinians
I agree.. themed teams are fun.. i get way more enjoyment out of mtn stages than flats.. most flats are x8 for 90% whereas a good mtn stage really need to work for the win.
Between Martens, Slagter, Boom and Sagan i think there are plenty of options for 1 day races.
Started another career with IAM cycling... really REALLY enjoying playing as that team.. Haussler won Kurne-Brussel-Kurne, Dwars door Vlandaren, Nokere Koerse and VDK Driedaagse. Really good challenging team for Continental div |
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| duckman |
Posted on 02-03-2013 11:08
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Miguel98 wrote:
Do you guys consider Novo Nordisk a challenge?
Yes. Noone over ave 70.. Wins would be hard to come by. Could be a nice team to build up tho if going for a long term game |
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 02-03-2013 12:24
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My Ag2r career is still going well, I'm at the beginning of Paris-Nice and I lead in the CQ Ranking and have already scored 17 wins, most important Le Samyn and KBK by Mondory and Tour of Oman with Gadret. Also, Peraud won the Tour Mediterraneen and Appolonio scored three stage wins in Langkawi. I'm looking forward to the more challenging WT races now, I hope for a good result at P-N with Peraud, my sponsor expects a Top 5...
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| LLDS |
Posted on 02-03-2013 15:20
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Peraud has enough MO and TT for a TOP 5, but it depends on the other riders involved. |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 02-03-2013 15:29
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ruben wrote:
yoejo wrote:
too many climbers. u should have a one day sepcialist and get rid of three climbers. \
Why? I like themed teams. Those are nice challenges. IK tried a colombian climbing team for years.
Now I'm about to try a sprinters team, preferably with only brazilians/argentinians
I once sent a team to the TdF consisting of only climbers. My worst rider had 78 MO 
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 02-03-2013 23:54
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OPQ career
Just had a really odd cobbles season
E3 - Won by Boonen, 2nd Ballan, 3rd Breschel .... 33rd Cancellara, 45th Flecha
GW - Won by Nuyens, 2nd Boonen, 3rd Breschel ... 25th Flecha, no Cancellara
RVV - Won by Boonen, 2nd Breschel, 3rd Vanmarcke ... 20th Cancellara, 21st Flecha
PR - Won by Boonen, 2nd Breschel, 3rd Boom ... 18th Cancellara, 22nd Flecha
Just a bit odd. Lots of people in Top10 i wouldn't normally see as well. Went well for us but just odd.
Also Cav's got 3 stage wins in TDU, 2 wins and GC in Qatar, 3 wins in Oman, 3rd Scheldrijs, 1 win Tirreno, 1st MSR
Velits got a stage win in Catalunya
Chavanel got 1 win and 4th GC in Tirreno
Martin has come 2nd in the 4 tt's he has been in
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 03-03-2013 15:56
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OPQ, Dauphine
Stage 8
Velits was 3rd, with a 3'20 gap to 4th.... Falls, injury, doesn't finish stage!! 
Did manage to get Brambilla into 8th though
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 03-03-2013 20:05
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LLDS wrote:
Peraud has enough MO and TT for a TOP 5, but it depends on the other riders involved.
I made it but it was really close. Finished 7th in the prologue but Hushovd and Boasson Hagen overtook me in with bonus seconds. I got third on the uphill finish of stage five behind Rogers and Moser, which vaulted me into fifth, then Terpstra won stage six and got in front, but I managed to grab three bonus seconds on the last stage Rogers eventually won, Hagen second, then Cancellara and Moser. Also, Dumoulin was very strong, scoring a second and a third place. It was a really nice race.
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| duckman |
Posted on 04-03-2013 06:19
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cunego59 wrote:
LLDS wrote:
Peraud has enough MO and TT for a TOP 5, but it depends on the other riders involved.
I made it but it was really close. Finished 7th in the prologue but Hushovd and Boasson Hagen overtook me in with bonus seconds. I got third on the uphill finish of stage five behind Rogers and Moser, which vaulted me into fifth, then Terpstra won stage six and got in front, but I managed to grab three bonus seconds on the last stage Rogers eventually won, Hagen second, then Cancellara and Moser. Also, Dumoulin was very strong, scoring a second and a third place. It was a really nice race.
nice result  These close races with all the big stars are exciting! |
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| ReimToast |
Posted on 04-03-2013 06:24
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cunego59 wrote:
LLDS wrote:
Peraud has enough MO and TT for a TOP 5, but it depends on the other riders involved.
I made it but it was really close. Finished 7th in the prologue but Hushovd and Boasson Hagen overtook me in with bonus seconds. I got third on the uphill finish of stage five behind Rogers and Moser, which vaulted me into fifth, then Terpstra won stage six and got in front, but I managed to grab three bonus seconds on the last stage Rogers eventually won, Hagen second, then Cancellara and Moser. Also, Dumoulin was very strong, scoring a second and a third place. It was a really nice race.
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| duckman |
Posted on 04-03-2013 06:48
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I finished first season as IAM Cycling.. Damn with the 19 teams in World Tour wild cards are hard to get a hold of.. I think i had about 5-6 wild cards for the whole season, no GT's
Which made it CRAZY easy.. no GT's meant all my good riders were free to run wild in 2.hc events and lesser stage races.. At the start of the season, these races were tough with the WT teams putting good riders in for form. but by August, pretty much competed with pro-conti and conti teams.. and it was a demolition.. I originally did not want to promote to WT because of finances, but it was unavoidable.
Between Haussler winning nearly every stage on the flat, and Larsson/Lokvist winning everything with a climb, racked up about 4680 points for the season... easy first place.
I tried to keep new signings for the WT on the low side, but unfortunately required a cash injection via editor to make the team interesting for season 2... |
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