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When to sign
By: acac | Average Rating: 3.15 | Game version: PCM09
When you start a season check all your riders who are out of contract for next season progress potential. Now look for what position you are:
Good rider with no progress potential
In that case, sign the rider in mid june, since he will lose stats and will ask for less money, but no one else will be able to sign him.
Weak rider with no progress potential
In that case I wont sign him at all, but if you want to sign him, then sign him at august-ish becuse he is unlikely (yet still posibole) to find a team and will lose plenty of stats and again will ask for less money.
Good rider with progress potential
I sign them in January. The more you wait, the bigger salary they will want.
Weak rider with progress potential
This is the hardest one of all. I recommend you to take a picture (ctrl+t) of the rider stats and progress potential and see how the rider progress. It's in your hands if he is progressing good enough (consider how much progress potential he used to get there)
This tip is somewhat wrong.
A rider will not lose any stats until he has reached a certain age.
But it is easy anyway:
If you want to keep a rider, sign him as fast as possible.
Even if you could save some money when waiting it is not worth any hassle. Good riders sign with another team no matter how much potential remains. And bad riders are cheap anyway.
a rider with no progress potential IS AT THAT CERTAIN AGE and will start to lose stats. thats what progress potential implies. a rider like Klodi who is good but old is the perfect example. he has no progress potential, he will never get any better, and due to this his stats can only go down.
what always boggles my mind is 30-something year old riders who retire after one season despite being amazing. I had Purito and Dave Millar retire on me after one season. makes no sense
