By: Dancycling | Average Rating: 4.20 | Game version: PCM14 Pro Cycling Manager: Guide to Planning your Career
First of all, go to the Sponsor > *Sponsor Name* Page and sort the objectives by importance.
Remember which GT is the most important one according to your sponsor, whilst also noting the differences between their importance. This should shape how you choose your squad for each GT. For example, if the Tour is placed high above the others in terms of importance, your gonna wanna send most of your best riders there. But if they are spread fairly equally, each GT should have a strong leader and helpers of fairly equal ability.
Now go to the Schedule>Group Page
Firstly sort your riders by average. Pick your absolute leader for your most important GT. This should typically be the stage race/climber with the best average stat.(NOTE: This is only applicable for some teams. Stage hunters such as Orica should instead choose their leaders by whoever has the best average stat and is therefor more likely to win a stage). Do this for your other GTs and you will end up with 3 leaders, or two if one leader decides to lead two GTs (NOTE: If a rider’s specialty is either northern classics or puncher he is going to want to peak heavily at the Ardennes or Spring classics, as well as WC/Il Lombardia therefor I will only send them to one GT) Now I pick 4-5 dedicated helpers for each GT. These should specialise in the same discipline that the leader does. For these riders, the GT will be a primary objective so make sure they don’t build up too much fatigue in the earlier parts of the season. It is ok for these riders to race 2 GTs if they don't have too much fatigue. I like to send the best helpers to the most important objective and so on. If the objectives are equal on importance, instead choose it on a scale for each helper (Tour > Giro > Vuelta)
After this is done I fill the GTs in with other riders. Normally I will try to diversify and make sure these riders don't ride two tours but it sometimes occurs that they must do so. Mainly this group will consist of 3 sprinters and/or Fighter/TT specialists. However, a past GT leader may slot in here if he is able to race another GT as a free element or back up leader. This may also be the area to add good punchers/young climbers who are looking for stage wins but may not be able to handle the length of a GT. The GTs will be a primary or secondary goal for these fellas depending on how much fatigue they will accumulate.
Now all the GT squads are sorted out, the riders goals must be adapted to accommodate these goals. What I do is add the GT they will ride to their goals and then make the other objectives secondary if too much fatigue has built up over the season. Normally, I will then just leave the other riders be because they typically want to ride the races they specialise in, or peak around that time span. But what I do is create two more groups, Cobbles and Hills. The riders in each are self explanatory, however, it may be best to include a young promising puncher/cobbler over an old rider who specialises elsewhere but happens to be marginally better at hills/cobblestones at the start of the season, as the younger rider will develop ahead quickly.
After all the riders training schedules are set for the season, make your way to the Schedule>Riders tab where you can begin to plan your races.
1. Add the GTs to the rider’s racing schedule. This is easy as they are now in groups.
2. Add all the riders to their goal races (marked with a star). You don't have to fill the races up yet.
3. Plan the "build-up races". These are the races that are important for getting a rider ready for a GT
For the Giro: Tour de Romandie (or the Presidential Tour of Turkey for the sprinters and/or the riders who couldn't make the Romandie cut)
For the TdF: Critérium du Dauphiné OR Tour de Suisse. Which one depends upon the sponsor goal (better riders go to more important one) and the available spots for each.
For the Vuelta: Tour de Pologne and/or Eneco Tour. My advice is that the sprinters/flat who need early rhythm should go to the Eneco Tour whilst the leader/helpers who will build rhythm in the first week for the later mountain stages only need the Tour of Pologne
4. Add the Ardennes/hills riders to the available spots left in races such as Milan/San Remo, the Ardennes, the Autumn classics and Il Lombardia. The ultimate choice to decide between the specialists should consider the rider’s stats and fitness.
5. Add the Cobblestone Riders to all the cobblestone races throughout the year. The ultimate choice to decide between the specialist should consider the rider’s stats and fitness.
6. Once this is done I will delete 4 groups and make some new ones to ensure the rest of the season is easier to plan. I will keep the Hills category whilst creating some new ones: Mountain, TT and Sprint.
7. Plan your sponsor goals. When you notice with planning that you have a good squad going to the race, you can adjust your objectives giving you extra money. This process should be easier with the new groups. Check the race profile and then add riders from their groups accordingly. Remember always to bring a couple of sprinters/punchers to the small stage races just in case you need to win some stages so that your sponsor isn't completely dissatisfied if your climber can't perform.
8. Plan the rest of the WT races. Again easier due to the groups. This should be done in the same way as the sponsor goals.
9. Fill up the races that already have some riders planned (goals). This can be checked on the top-lefthand corner. This doesn’t require much thought, normally I will just choose the riders who appear fittest and as a tiebreaker with the least race days.
10. You can either fill up the rest of the races or remove them from the calendar. If you do fill up the rest choose them based on the same technique as labelled above.
For Continental Teams:
If you're CT make two groups, Sprint and Climber (By climber I mean your best hilly riders but a mountain climber can also fit in in this area), if you’re good at cobblestones, make a third. Firstly I will add the riders to their objectives and then add the groups to there respective specialty races. Afterwards I will fill up these races with whoever is fittest and as a tiebreaker whoever has the least race days.
For Pro Continental Teams:
If you're PCT make, again, two groups, Sprint and Climber, perhaps Cobbles as well. Then add another one for any GT's you get a wildcard to. The from here really depends upon how good your team is. If you are a lower-tier conti team like Drapac for example, the planning will be exactly like it is for continental teams. However, if you are like IAM and are on the brink of moving to the WT, the planning will look a lot more like that of a WT team. Some adjustments to that spectrum, however, is that for the GT’s you are likely to only be drafted to one or two so I would send my best squad to that (NOTE: If you have a sponsor objective in the time span of the GT it may be wise to send some good riders to that as well).
4 Best Climbers
2 Best Sprinters
3 Best Stagehunters
If you get drafted to two, I don’t advise you take the same riders, as they will probably be peaking elsewhere throughout the season. Both GT’s will look like this. Remember, however, that Tour>Giro>Vuelta
4/8 Best Climbers
2/4 Best Sprinters
3/6 Best Stage hunters
They should make the GT their objective as well. From there on the planning is simply the same as the WT planning step I outlined, except step 6 is erased and step 8 should be more prioritised and placed around Step 4.
That is all. Thanks to Masterblaster01 for his original guide, it helped me out a lot but I felt like there were some changes to be made.Home | Submit a new Tip & Trick
Anyone know how to plan to ensure the riders have minimum freshness? I'm usually ok with the GTs as they have a stage race finishing a week or so before.
My main problem is with a rider who I want to peak for the Worlds, and race vattenfall, plouay, quebec and montreal, but they always seem to have bad freshness for the canadian races. why?
Here's my quick and dirty season planning for the World Tour, a bit strict, but at least it can be done in 20 minutes.
Make 4 groups or even just three: Stage racing team #1, stage racing team #2, hills and cobbles (with overlap, essentially one large 1-day-racing group).
Team #1, 9 riders. They basically only race the Tour de Suisse, TdF and Vuelta, are also in good shape for the national champs and WC. 8 of the 9 ride the Luxemburg Tour as preparation for the TdS, the last rider goes into the Dauphine cold (could also prepare with, say, the Bayern Rundfahrt, see below).
Team #2: 8 riders. They do most of the stage races in the first half of the season, starting with Tirenno-Adriatico, then Catalunya, Pais Vasco, Romandie, Giro and (7 of them) the Dauphine. Room for preparation with, say, Langkawi, though only 6 riders are allowed there. The Giro needs an extra rider, picked from the next group (I choose whoever has the highest recovery). In September, take the whole team to the Tour of Britain for form for the WC.
Hills and cobbles, 13 riders (with the full squad of 30, can be done with less, 27 minimum I'd say): Select 7 to do the TdU, throw them in cold with terrible fitness, you can still win the race in 3D mode. Then get the whole group of 13 into rhythm and fitness in mid/late February. Your hill specialists then race Paris-Nice, book a couple of races, 19th and 20th of March to improve the rhythm again for the other riders, select the best of the bunch for Milan-San Remo.
Then your 8 best on cobbles race the WT northern classics, the others use the Circuit Sarthe or a few small one-day races to get into form for the spring classics. All rest after LBL except for the one rider you need for the Giro. Book the Ster ZM and Slovenia Tour in June so they have rhythm for the national champs, though fitness will be low.
In August, the best on hills race San Sebastian and the Tour of Poland - try and book the Tour de Wallonie as preparation - while the better on cobbles (and thus flat) go to the Eneco Tour and then Hamburg and GP Quest. Prepare with the Tour of Portugal.
Then book the Settimana Lombarda in early September for those you want to race in Canada. Book pretty much all the one-day races after the Vuelta for form for the WC.
With that planning, nearly everbody gets a decent amount of racing done, 70 days for team #1, up to 80 days for team #2 (no problem with the long break between Dauphine and Tour of Britain), 60 days for the hilly specialists. Only the pure cobblestone riders might feel a bit underused, so you can book extra races for them - like, say, the Bavaria Tour.
Chooosing objectives and adjusting the training for each group:
Team #1: Objectives just TdS (minor), TdF and Vuelta. Take out the peaks in July and September, they don't guarantee the best form (1) but cause tiredness towards the end of the Vuelta.
Team #2: Objectives, make them all minor, T-A, Catalunya, Pais Vasco, Romandie, Giro. Add fitness training in August and September to lead up to the WC, but no objective. Freshness should be great for the Dauphine, Tour of Britain and WC even though you didn't select them as objectives.
Hills: You have to pick and choose a bit for the objectives, you can't cover them all. Paris-Nice, all the spring classics, San sebastian, Poland Tour, the Canadian races... You'll have to keep them all major or the riders will complain they have too few objectives (not that it matters, I believe). Since they'd be exhausted later in the season without adjusting the training, you have to manually adjust things, take out all the peaks, shave off a week here and there, after a season or two you'll know how to have a fitness level of 2 with a lot less training than the game automatically assigns.
Cobbles: Select the northern classics starting with GP E3, select the Eneco Tour and Cyclassics and GP Quest (well, that'd be 7 objectives and you can only have 6, so you need to decide what to drop). Again, keep them all as major objectives and manually adjust the training. Having done it once it is easy to reproduce again and again. Though I sure wish you could save and load training plans as you could in older versions of PCM, that would save a lot of time.
Milan-San Remo is a bit of a sore point, you will need to select it as an objective for a rider to have the necessary freshness, though that means you have to drop something else.
I would be really appreciative of any assistance with this. I recently ran into a lot of issues as I was getting ready for nursing writing. In addition to the structure, I made a number of spelling mistakes. But I completed everything on time and received a great mark thanks to professionals in this field.
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