Spring Classics 2015

Enrique, do us all a favour, fuck off with your quotes and changing them to suit your purpose.

NO the values cannot be changed back, NO we won't pander to your requests, NO I do not reply to your emails, NO I don't have certain issues you decided I had in one of your emails.

FUCK OFF

Anyway shall we all calm down, mistakes happen. Let's just get on with it. Gkam and enrique stop winding each other up.

chiv30, i appreciate you have a valid point but adding 5 transfers to an already created comp is probably a hell of a lot easier than creating a whole new "purist" comp.

I may be wrong though

i wasn't taking it as a dig, don't worry. and yeah, it's one to look at

Lads, will you be updating rosters before Strade Bianche? Would find it useful since for example we've only got Gerrans from OGE etc.

yes, i'll be doing it today

Just received a roster change for Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) with Tejay Van Garderen taking his place. According to the Strade Bianche definativo startlist and BMC team website Van Avermaet is starting the Strade and Van Garderen is still in Paris Nice.

This format for the Spring Classics is fast becoming more trouble than its worth. At least last year the unlimited transfers between races helped to avoid last minute cock ups with inaccurate roster changes. This year it means leaving every race until the last minute to save wasting transfers.

Is Avermaet in or out?

yeah, it's a mistake. swapped them over.

I think the following riders are missing from the game:

Luca Braidot
Marco Aurelio Fontana
Nicholas Pettina
Giuseppe Sannino
Simone Velasco

All in Team Italy

I think the following riders are missing from the game:

Luca Braidot
Marco Aurelio Fontana
Nicholas Pettina
Giuseppe Sannino
Simone Velasco

All in Team Italy

Check the PCS startlist before you press go.

Check the PCS startlist before you press go.

I think you guys run a great fantasy competition (No information about whether there is a prize for coming in first place in the Tour of Oman purist comp notwithstanding). However, for next year my suggestion for the Spring Classics would be doing a purist comp where players can select any riders at the beginning of the comp and then have to stick with the riders throughout (picking the riders for the cobbles, ardennes, and other classics would be similar to having to pick gc guys, sprinters, and tt'ers for purist comps in the stage races, where you know that some guys won't be scoring in certain stages) and then doing a standard competition with unlimited transfers between the stages.

I've enjoyed the change that gives a fixed number of transfers at the beginning in the stage races, but think that it just doesn't work for the spring classics. Because we don't know the startlists ahead of time for the races, it is almost impossible to come up with a sound strategy for budgeting the transfers. And having a standard team that only has about half the cyclists riding the races just isn't a lot of fun (who wants to waste transfers on 3 pointers?).

Either way, with or without prizes, I'll still be playing. It's just a suggestion to make it better next year or in the fall classics.

I like it as it is. Having said that I've just made 7 transfers for Strade. Hopefully only 3 needed for MSR if my plans work out.

Alls I can say is for the spring classics, check startlist information yourself and dont rely on it being correct on here as startlists change and we only get the same info as anyone else.

You are able to select all riders so there is no problem, and thus no excuse, surely if you take the game seriously enough to query whether a rider is riding, your able to look at the info and make your own judgement? At the end of the day if a rider rides he will score if places, so pick a grey rider if you have info suggesting he is riding, whether we think he is or not because we ultimately go off the results come the end.

And saying about having to wait until the last minute to make transfers, and I know the rosters dont change, but its not much different to having to allocate time the night before each stage of a GT everyday for 3 weeks to make transfers, and in those races riders drop out the morning of the race like roster changes can happen for these races. Thats just the nature of cycling and if transfers were unlimited the spring classics would be no challenge whatsoever imo

I got an email saying:

Spring Classics: Alexander Kristoff was removed from the roster

But I still see him listed on the PCS start list for San Remo...

Surely stumps got extremely lucky today especially looking back over the last few years results for Ghent , still top marks to him

Very disappointed with the transfer policy for this series.

I've just discovered that there are a limited number of transfers and only have 2 transfers left with 5 races to go, and most of my team from Sheldeprijs are not competing in Paris Roubaix.

Ruined the whole series for me.

Thank you for organising the game but this is a bad policy and should be changed.