Online cycling and/or baseball manager type timewasters?

[matt j]

Farnum's win was in a race that the forum 'betting game' actually tracked, of which the vast majority of participants bet on Farnum to win. One exception being... uh... me. Who had to be contrary and felt a little 'off' betting on an IoM/OTF team leader. The rider I bet on finished 2nd, so moral victory and all.

National's team next race looks impossible to predict at the moment. Going to come down to team-mates and form I expect.

as for Rhett Hinds, that's one of those irritating combination of "Good" attributes that looks impossible to use. DH and CB just don't really go together at all.

[matt j]

End of season sneaks up on us soon. It's a bit of a wash for me as my team is in crummy form and bouncing back and forth between the bottom of 3 and the top of 4 without me doing anything.

I'm never clear if you need to "re-up" your national team management, but better safe than sorry delicatemoth .

[Sits]

“Crummy” and “bouncing between division 3 and 4” sort of don’t go together, from where I’m looking!

Hunzberger bagged a third place yesterday and earned an extra CL point. He’s now a 77/77/61 climber. Shame nobody appears to be running a Luxembourg team.

[matt j]

Nice!

well, I'd be more excited about the bouncing if I was actually doing anything, but I'm not, just other teams going up/down around me. I 'should' drop down to 4th (or lower) to start the next season. Hard to plan ahead though without knowing for sure.

And looks delicatemoth has IoM national team as good to go! No concerns there, which is nice.

[delicatemoth]

Yes, it turns out you have to reapply if you've been missing race entries, but we've been good. 26th was our best finish in this week's race, so we'll remain in the middle division to start next season.

I'm perfectly happy to carry on through the seasons but if anyone else from the Manx contingent would actively like to have a shot at managing the national team then stick your hand up three quarters of the way through next season and I'll send the army round make arrangements for a smooth transfer of power.

[Sits]

How/where do I find a rider’s ID?

[matt j]

You have to go to the full rider page and it's the number in the address for that page.

[Sits]

Thanks Matt. But if I go to Hunzberger’s profile this is the URL I get: http://www.cyclingsimulator.com/team...eld_Locknuts#1

Much more excitingly when I clicked his profile I saw he’s now resplendent in the Luxembourg jersey. Even if they don’t have a team AFAIK.

[matt j]

http://www.cyclingsimulator.com/?pag...ile&id=1163098

Click on the trophy thingy to get to the single rider page.

[Sits]

Ah, thanks. Don’t make it easy do they?

[matt j]

This is the IoM rider to pick-up right now for someone with a Climbing team:

Name: Damon Overlock Team: Isle of Man Age: 23 years Birthday: Day 80 Team Spirit: N/A Experience: Level 3

OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th OCM Tour Points: 0 Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd Top form ready Average Skill: 30

Potential:

CL: Very good DH: Average HL: None

SP: Average FR: None CB: None

TT: Small TQ: None

[matt j]

Here is my full scout of all the new (ish) riders on the HL:

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Name: Chandler Suloff
Team: Isle of Man Isle of Man

Age: 21 years
Birthday: Day 51

Team Spirit: N/A
Experience: Level 1


OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th
OCM Tour Points: 0

Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd

Top form ready

Average Skill: 31
Potential:
CL: Small
DH: Small
HL: Small
SP: Average
FR: Small
CB: Small
TT: None


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Name: Quade Witulski
Team: Isle of Man Isle of Man

Age: 22 years
Birthday: Day 68

Team Spirit: N/A
Experience: Level 1


OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th
OCM Tour Points: 0

Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd

Top form ready

Average Skill: 29
Potential:
CL: None
DH: None
HL: Good
SP: Average
FR: Average
CB: Average
TT: Good
TQ: None

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Name: Lionel Larman
Team: Isle of Man Isle of Man

Age: 23 years
Birthday: Day 35

Team Spirit: N/A
Experience: Level 3


OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th
OCM Tour Points: 0

Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd

Top form ready

Average Skill: 32
Potential:
CL: Small
DH: Small
HL: Good
SP: Small
FR: None
CB: Average
TT: Small
TQ: Average

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Name: Silas Karcher
Team: Isle of Man Isle of Man

Age: 23 years
Birthday: Day 62

Team Spirit: N/A
Experience: Level 3


OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th
OCM Tour Points: 0

Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd

Top form ready

Average Skill: 30
Potential:
CL: Average
DH: None
HL: None
SP: Small
FR: None
CB: Average
TT: Average

---

Name: Damon Overlock
Team: Isle of Man Isle of Man

Age: 23 years
Birthday: Day 80

Team Spirit: N/A
Experience: Level 3


OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th
OCM Tour Points: 0

Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd

Top form ready

Average Skill: 30
Potential:
CL: Very good
DH: Average
HL: None
SP: Average
FR: None
CB: None
TT: Small
TQ: None

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Name: Chapman Jahn
Team: Isle of Man Isle of Man

Age: 24 years
Birthday: Day 42

Team Spirit: N/A
Experience: Level 4


OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th
OCM Tour Points: 0

Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd

Top form ready

Average Skill: 30
Potential:
CL: Small
DH: Small
HL: Small
SP: Good
FR: None
CB: Small
TT: None
TQ: Small

---

Name: Kenneth Gosnell
Team: Isle of Man Isle of Man

Age: 24 years
Birthday: Day 39

Team Spirit: N/A
Experience: Level 4


OCM Tour Rank: 4214 th
OCM Tour Points: 0

Isle of Man Tour Rank: 33 rd

Top form ready

Average Skill: 29
Potential:
CL: Small
DH: None
HL: Small
SP: None
FR: Small
CB: Good
TT: None
TQ: Small

[matt j]

Quade is real close to being worth hiring as well. Could be a fine teammate.

[longeared]

Many thanks for that Matt. I for one welcome our new signing Damon Overlock.

[Sits]

Thanks Matt and good move Longeared. I’m saving up for my next training splurge at present, couldn’t even afford one rider.

[Sits]

I’ve bought back a rider I released a few weeks ago.

Edit: that goes against my previous post about being skint, but I’ll be releasing one or two riders once they complete imminent races.

[longeared]

Good start to this rainy Sunday - we won a race. A big proper grown up race and all, not the u23 stuff where we usually find our wins. I've managed to get Namgung into top form without noticing or planning so he's now being entered into anything that moves and looks vaguely suitable, and he managed to win one of those 3-3-3-3 type races which I've long felt might be promising terrain for him. The whole team did well today. Everything turned out as we hoped, and luckily, Byung-kwang Namgung was the strongest rider out there today.

[Sits]

Well done longeared!

He’s a really interesting rider, you’ve managed to get a lot,of development into him.

[matt j]

Frustrating start to the season for Fox River in Division 4. Kavanagh only managed a 6th in a race I though should have been a win, and then only managed a 10th in a race we should have been top 5 easy.

Albrecht just manages top 50 finishes but lets me sign-up for basically alternating Climbing/Sprint races at the moment.

And my big influx of money a few weeks ago means that I've been a full pauper for some time now, just waiting for sponsor contracts to roll over.

[Sits]

So what's the best kind of mechanic to prevent crashes, and doctor to prevent injuries? Or is it better just to put up with it and not spend that money at D6 level?

[matt j]

I don't think it's a bad idea to get a mechanic and doctor if you feel like you have a team that can get victories at Div 6. I got a Recovery doctor first, as I wanted to make sure my riders could get more races in. No idea if this was the best option, Health might have made slightly more sense.

I also have a Service mechanic, which seemed to make sense as the first choice there.


"

You can maximum hire 3 doctors. Recovery (RE) Makes your riders recover faster from races. Their discipline will raise faster. Injury (IN) Makes your riders recover from injuries faster. The length of injuries will be shortened. First Aid (FA) Your riders will be able to get first aid after crashes during races. Riders will be able to finish races even after crashing. Health (HE) Your riders will do better in races. A health doctor will increase the riders' performance. Each doctor costs 20.000 $." " You can maximum hire 2 mechanics. Service (SE) Makes your equipment stay fit. The service mechanic will increase riders' performance in races. Race (RA) Fixes defects during races. The affect of a puncture or other defects have less negative influence during races. Safety (SA) Decreases the risk of riders crashing or getting injuries. The equipment will always be checked for any danger and the risk of crashing or getting injured is decreased. Each mechanic costs 20.000 c."

[Sits]

I don't think it's a bad idea to get a mechanic and doctor if you feel like you have a team that can get victories at Div 6. I got a Recovery doctor first, as I wanted to make sure my riders could get more races in. No idea if this was the best option, Health might have made slightly more sense.

I also have a Service mechanic, which seemed to make sense as the first choice there.


"

You can maximum hire 3 doctors. Recovery (RE) Makes your riders recover faster from races. Their discipline will raise faster. Injury (IN) Makes your riders recover from injuries faster. The length of injuries will be shortened. First Aid (FA) Your riders will be able to get first aid after crashes during races. Riders will be able to finish races even after crashing. Health (HE) Your riders will do better in races. A health doctor will increase the riders' performance. Each doctor costs 20.000 $." " You can maximum hire 2 mechanics. Service (SE) Makes your equipment stay fit. The service mechanic will increase riders' performance in races. Race (RA) Fixes defects during races. The affect of a puncture or other defects have less negative influence during races. Safety (SA) Decreases the risk of riders crashing or getting injuries. The equipment will always be checked for any danger and the risk of crashing or getting injured is decreased. Each mechanic costs 20.000 c."

Thanks Matt. I thought I’d analysed those but clearly not very well. I think in tight financial times I may start with a SA mechanic. “Crashing or getting injuries” sums up the most common frustrations I’ve experienced in races. I’m also making sure I don’t race riders with low DP.

[Levin]

I'm back in div 6 again. Which isn't the cause for celebration it initially was.

[Sits]

I’m almost hoping for a drop to D7, to have another crack at the Tour of the Sanreizan (sp.).

[longeared]

Starts a fortnight tomorrow, so you'll need to lose a lot of points in the next few days. Planning to race it again myself, really enjoyed it last season even if it didn't yield a huge return.

Climbed into D6 the other week for literally a minute, then over several days I had a huge heap of points come off and I started threatening relegation to D8, now we've had a couple of decent races this weekend (including a second in Barcelona yesterday when the break stuck) so now I'm back in the familiar surrounds of upper-mid D7.