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| Hageneezz |
Posted on 18-05-2012 21:09
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Vien wrote:
Yup. 
Needless to ask where you are from 
Take a wild guess..
Anyhow, i`m off, enjoy your evening..
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| Caruut |
Posted on 20-05-2012 06:21
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Just won MSR with Sagan. Coming onto the Poggio, I had 5 riders in the leading group of 54; Serge van de Perre (a youth rider, Sagan's loyal domestique), Bernie Eisel, Denis Galimzyanov, Greg van Avarmaet and team leader Peter Sagan. All but GVA and Sagan were pretty much cooked and in poor positions anyway. Sagan and GVA had stayed fresh and were positioned fantastically.
Since the bunch still had some top-level sprinters, including Cav, I knew I had to thin it out. I stuck Greg on the front at dot 85 for a bit, then put in a little attack. The other favourites were poorly positioned, meanly only Hushovd followed him. I set Sagan to follow Hushovd, and the next man couldn't follow Sagan, so we had a group of 3. Sensing opportunity, I told Greg to pull as hard as he could. Hushovd fell away, leaving me with 2 riders out in front.
Once Greg was nearly spent, I put Sagan to pull. We had one minute on the bunch at the top of the Poggio. Van Avarmaet just managed to stay with Sagan, and so Sagan, the superior descender, took them down into Sanremo to the finish. The sprint was uncontested, but Sagan would have won anyway. A 1-2 for team ATGNI (All the gear, no idea). |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 20-05-2012 18:28
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Something of a follow-up my post on the last page regarding my 2014-season:
I've got both EBH and Sagan in my team, but I'm struggling to decide their season.
I have a few things settled; EBH will have 2 goals which will be winning the green jersey in the Tour and the WC. His season will mostly be like this:
- Tour de Suisse
- Tour de France
- Tour of Britain
- WC x2
Sagan will be on top during the spring and Autumn, but i can't figure out what to send him to. Last year he did Paris-Nice and the Ardennes aswell as the Autumn-classics (Vattenfall, Canada x2, etc.).
What do you think about having Sagan peak a few weeks before Edvald does so he can do the Autumn-classics? Also, since Boasson Hagens' program only leaves him at 42 days, what would you have in to bring the number up?
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 20-05-2012 18:31
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EBH could do Eneco too I think.
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 20-05-2012 22:50
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YES! After 9 hours I've finally planned the season perfectly. Every race, every rider, matched to perfection!
Now it's on to the training schedule... sometimes this game drains me of all my energy...
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| Teddy The Creator |
Posted on 21-05-2012 00:54
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Just finished my first season with Sky.
| Mark Cavendish | Milano San Remo | 1st | | Tour De France | Points + 3 Stages | | Tirreno | Stage Win | | Tour de Suisse | Stage Win | | Bradley Wiggins | Tour de France | 5th Overall | | Vuelta a Espana | 8th Overall | | Dauphine | 2nd Overall | | Paris-Nice | 2nd Overall | | World ITT Champs | 1st | | Chris Froome | Giro d'Italia | 1st Overall | | Vuelta a Espana | 7th Overall | | Il Lombardia | 1st | | Richie Porte | Giro d'Italia | 6th Overall | | Pais Vasco | 2nd Overall | | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Tour De France | Stage Win | | Eneco Tour | 1st Overall | | GP Ouest France | 1st | | GP Montreal | 1st | | GP Quebec | 1st | | Tirreno | 5th Overall | | Geraint Thomas | Flanders | Top 10 | | Roubaix | Top 10 | | Wevelgem | Top 10 |
All in all, an awesome season..
| In | Out | | Fabio Duarte | Edvald Boasson Hagen | | Greg Van Avermaet | Chris Sutton | | David Veilleux | Xabier Xandio | | David Boily | Christian Knees | | Samuel White | Jeremy Hunt | | Thomas Wright | |
Samuel White and Thomas Wright are too young scouted riders with 6 stars for basicallly everything. Along with Salvatore Puccio (76 COB, with 4 stars left), Fabio Duarte and Veilleux (3 stars left on hill + TT and each are in 70's), the future looks bright.
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| Caruut |
Posted on 21-05-2012 13:35
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EBH has a slightly frustrating skillset, though not as much as Cancellara (the same applies in real life for both, too). They are both fantastic, although the areas in which they are fantastic are negated a bit by the simple physics of bike racing.
In my first season, my planning was a mess. Sagan managed to win the green jersey, because all the sprinters got eliminated, and he got a stage + 2 podiums and a whole load of intermediates.
Just starting my second one, and I've got Sagan racing a couple of French 2.1s, then T-A, then MSR (which he won), then Volta a Catalunya (another win), then RVV (terrible, since I used to official DB). He'll then race the Ardennes and then stop racing until the Autumn. I say Autumn, he'll race San Sebastián, then Canada, then the WC, then Paris-Tours etc., before finishing on Lombardia. |
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| Zoom123 |
Posted on 21-05-2012 13:44
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1st in the Giro with Froome .. Nice
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 25-05-2012 10:22
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cunego59 wrote:
Okay, so here are my results in so far with FDJ, I play on hard:
Fedrigo:
1st Down Under + 2 stages
1st Tour Haut du Var + both stages
1st Mediterraneen + 2 stages
1st GP Marseillaise
1st Les Boucles du Sud Ardeche
2nd GP dell'Insubria
2nd Strade Bianche
2nd Giro del Friuli
6th Etoile de Besseges
Hutarovich:
1 stage @ Besseges
2 stages @ Mediterraneen
1st Le Samyn
3rd Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne
Rollin
1 stage @ Volta ao Algarve
Plus several Top 10s. I'm leading all rankings with a comfortable margin as I'm approaching Paris-Nice, the first real challenge.
Just wanted to give you guys an update since I just achieved my most surprising big win ever 
Fédrigo took two stages, the points classification and the fifth overall in Paris-Nice. Dominique Rollin won Nokere-Koerse and came in fifth in E3 Prijs.
But the biggest win: Benoit Vaugrenard (MO 65, HIL 73) won the Volta a Catalunya!!! After the mountain stage, he was nine minutes back but he went on two successful breaks and took the overall! I was really amazed. Sandy Casar was 11th before the last stage, where almost everyone of the Top 10 crashed out and he ended up third! Incredible race for us.
Edited by cunego59 on 25-05-2012 10:22
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 09-06-2012 05:26
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Been playing a Liquigas career for about a day now! Its been quite enjoyable to just get to play a "fun" career
Sagan looks like he'll be a monster with his star potentials and same with Ratto!
My question is, who should I realistically bring in to replace Basso? I think I would like Pozzo regardless but he's not a super strong TTer! I'd prefer to have Nibali go for the Giro, *new GC rider for the Tour and Basso in his declining years for Vuelta.
I am also targeting Ullissi and Pirazzi as they are two of my favourite Italian riders!
Anyway, thought I'd just bring this back up, as I like to report how my careers go, but cant make 2-3 story threads at one time!
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| Teddy The Creator |
Posted on 09-06-2012 05:44
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I have a Liquigas career going too valv. In my third year, I didn't resign Sagan (don't ask) but brought in Cattaneo, Appollonio (who developed to like 80 spr/acc) and, wait for it....
CADEL!
Basso went to Katusha, and Evans was a free-agent, so I bought his ass.
I do recommend getting Cattaneo for sure, and Pozzo sounds good...
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 09-06-2012 08:16
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Nice one bringing in Cadel.
I'm not supposed to ask, but not resigning Sagan??? |
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| Teddy The Creator |
Posted on 09-06-2012 08:20
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Ian Butler wrote:
Nice one bringing in Cadel.
I'm not supposed to ask, but not resigning Sagan???
I don't like having overpowered teams. And any team Sagan on is overpowered.
Literally, he has like 82 SP and ACC, 82 HIL, 75 MO, 79 TT etc. It's just ridiculous. 
EDIT: And like 80 COB
Edited by Teddy The Creator on 09-06-2012 08:21
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 09-06-2012 08:22
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That is overpowering, I wouldn't even know what races to send him too, except all of them
I know what you mean, I once had a team and all of a sudden I had 3 team leaders for GC and 3 sprinters, that was too many |
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| dragos_fairplay |
Posted on 09-06-2012 19:16
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why they didnt made a system for the champions in small countries to be selected random. I dont think that its hard to make. Its boring to have the sames national champions every year like South Africa, Belarus, Hungary, Finland, Brazil, Argentina etc |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 09-06-2012 19:24
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dragos_fairplay wrote:
why they didnt made a system for the champions in small countries to be selected random. I dont think that its hard to make. Its boring to have the sames national champions every year like South Africa, Belarus, Hungary, Finland, Brazil, Argentina etc
There's such a system, but I guess it's only for some countries (maybe based on a min. number of riders, or difference between best riders).. anyway, there are 2 types of email that you receive with NC results: one has the complete results (Top 10), and the race is clickable -> this is a playable NC, the other has only the name of the winner and no clickable race name -> this is the generated winner (I wouldn't say random as well).
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 09-06-2012 19:28
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Teddy The Creator wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
Nice one bringing in Cadel.
I'm not supposed to ask, but not resigning Sagan???
I don't like having overpowered teams. And any team Sagan on is overpowered.
Literally, he has like 82 SP and ACC, 82 HIL, 75 MO, 79 TT etc. It's just ridiculous.
EDIT: And like 80 COB
You call that overpowering? Bitch please, I've got Sagan and EBH in my team and they're both signed for the next 2-3 seasons. And to top it all of, they both came to me from Liquigas! EBH spent a year there before he joined me.
Why did I sign them? Because fuck Liquigas, thats why.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 15-06-2012 19:30
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Just had to post this somewhere. Radioshack decided to play Team Sky (all simulated btw)
Must be their new advanced training programs (guess who won the teams classification btw)
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 17-06-2012 10:20
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Teddy The Creator wrote:
Spoiler Just finished my first season with Sky.
| Mark Cavendish | Milano San Remo | 1st | | Tour De France | Points + 3 Stages | | Tirreno | Stage Win | | Tour de Suisse | Stage Win | | Bradley Wiggins | Tour de France | 5th Overall | | Vuelta a Espana | 8th Overall | | Dauphine | 2nd Overall | | Paris-Nice | 2nd Overall | | World ITT Champs | 1st | | Chris Froome | Giro d'Italia | 1st Overall | | Vuelta a Espana | 7th Overall | | Il Lombardia | 1st | | Richie Porte | Giro d'Italia | 6th Overall | | Pais Vasco | 2nd Overall | | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Tour De France | Stage Win | | Eneco Tour | 1st Overall | | GP Ouest France | 1st | | GP Montreal | 1st | | GP Quebec | 1st | | Tirreno | 5th Overall | | Geraint Thomas | Flanders | Top 10 | | Roubaix | Top 10 | | Wevelgem | Top 10 |
All in all, an awesome season..
| In | Out | | Fabio Duarte | Edvald Boasson Hagen | | Greg Van Avermaet | Chris Sutton | | David Veilleux | Xabier Xandio | | David Boily | Christian Knees | | Samuel White | Jeremy Hunt | | Thomas Wright | |
Samuel White and Thomas Wright are too young scouted riders with 6 stars for basicallly everything. Along with Salvatore Puccio (76 COB, with 4 stars left), Fabio Duarte and Veilleux (3 stars left on hill + TT and each are in 70's), the future looks bright.
i kinda got inspired by you and played a season with Sky myself in the last few weeks. Great team to play with, it was really fun. Here's how I did (on hard):
| Giro d'Italia | Chris Froome | 3rd | | | Points | | Thomas Löfkvist | Mountains | | . | | Tour de France | Bradley Wiggins | 3rd | | Mark Cavendish | Points | | Kanstantin Siutsou | Mountains | | . | | Vuelta a Espana | Peter Kennaugh | 2nd | | | Young Riders | | Chris Froome | 5th | | Richie Porte | 10th |
| Tour Down Under | Edvald Boasson Hagen | 3rd | | Paris - Nice | Bradley Wiggins | 1st | | Tirreno - Adriatico | Michael Rogers | 1st | | Volta a Catalunya | Sergio Henao | 2nd | | Kanstantin Siutsou | 4th | | Christian Knees | 5th | | Vuelta al Pais Vasco | Rigoberto Uran | 3rd | | Tour de Romandie | Chris Froome | 5th | | Criterium du Dauphiné | Bradley Wiggins | 3rd | | Tour de Suisse | Michael Rogers | 4th | | Tour de Pologne | Sergio Henao | 1st | | Xabier Zandio | 2nd | | Eneco Tour | Bradley Wiggins | 2nd | | Tour of Beijing | Richie Porte | 1st |
| Milano - San Remo | Edvald Boasson Hagen | 2nd | | E3 Prijs | Geraint Thomas | 3rd | | Ronde Van Vlaanderen | Juan Antonio Flecha | 5th | | Paris - Roubaix | Juan Antonio Flecha | 5th | | Ardennes Classics | Rigoberto Uran | 3 Top 10s | | Vattenfall Cyclassics | Mark Cavendish | 4th | | GP Ouest France | Rigoberto Uran | 1st | | GP de Quebec | Thomas Löfkvist | 3rd | | GP de Montreal | Rigoberto Uran | 1st | | Il Lombardia | Rigoberto Uran | 3rd |
In addition, Richie Porte became TT World Champion.
In total, I collected 90 wins and won both the WT and the CQ Ranking. Since the next season will be my last with PCM 11, I thought what the hell and signed both Tom Boonen and Alberto Contador
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 17-06-2012 10:30
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Nice season, Cunego!
I notice everyone playing with Sky sends Froome to Giro |
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