No changes for training cost in comparison to recent years:
Average or Stat
Cost
85
2,700,000
84
2,300,000
83
2,000,000
82
1,700,000
81
1,400,000
80
1,200,000
79
1,000,000
78
850,000
77
700,000
76
600,000
75
500,000
74
450,000
73
400,000
72
350,000
71
300,000
70
250,000
69
200,000
68
175,000
67
150,000
66
125,000
≤65
100,000
If the rider's average is higher than the stat you want to train, then the cost relates to the current average.
If the stat you want to train is higher than the rider's average, then the cost relates to the new value of that stat
The average value is always rounded: 74.4 = 74, 74.5 = 75
Rider Average Exemption
If the stat you want to train is more than 10 values worse than the rider's average, then the cost is different
The maximum a stat can be raised to using this method is 67.
A stat can only be raised by 2 points under this "rider average exemption" where the new value of the stat is more than 10 values less than the rider's rounded overall average. Also, no more than 2 different stats can be raised using this exemption method per season.
The following table is important:
67
150,000
66
125,000
65 or less
100,000
1st Increase: The cost relates to the table above.
2nd Increase: The cost is double that of the table above.
Restrictions
A rider can only be trained by a total of 2 stats each season. (Either twice in one stat, or once in two stats).
New Additional Training opportunities
In recent years a maximum amount of 5 trainings as team was possible. This will be changed a bit this season.
You can theoretically go as high as 8 trainings a season with some more limitations.
- If going higher than 5 trainings in total, you won`t be able to use any Rider Average Exemption trainings as explained above.
- There is a stat limit, you can train when going above 5 trainings
Training any stat to 81 or above - Maximum 5 trainings per team
Training two stats to 80 - Maximum 6 trainings per team
Training one rider to 80 - At most 7 trainings per team
Training no riders to 80 - At most 8 trainings per team
- There is an additional training cost for the 6th/7th/8th training, which comes on top of the training cost list above, which is 200k/300k/500k.
SportingNonsense wrote:
This years budget is first determined by adding:
Reward for Finishing Position A proportion of any money remaining from last year
The 2,500,000 salary cap for continental teams (3,500,000 for ProTour)
A small bonus for having a rider in the Top 10 of the individual standings
This is then all multiplied by a factor, depending on the amount of sponsor goals you completed, and the difficulty of those goals - in the case of last year, normal or hard.
And then an extra value is added to that, depending on how hard the sponsor goals you choose for this year are.
*emphasis added
Is it still true that a proportion of any money remaining from last year is factored into the budget? If so, would it be possible to get an idea of how much "a proportion" is, because there are entirely different considerations if it is 10% as compared to 90%. Even just a general understanding of if it was low (~0-25%); intermediate (~20-50%), or high (~40-100%) would be great.
Sorry to bring this up again, but I asked earlier and was told that the doubling of the minimum exemption cost occurs even if the second training is in a different stat.
I just wanted to confirm that this is a change that was made this year since it seems it did not double in the past unless it was the same stat and rider. When I was looking through last year's training list, I noticed that several teams used two such trainings without it doubling, and in 2020 Glanbia trained two different stats on the same rider without it doubling too.
