The game, the site, the next step

Phew a lot of posts since I had a few days r and r

The only things that get to me are when the number of choices in a section gets so small like the KM section in the TDS, and having multiple GC cyclists from the same team.

The points scoring is transparent and easy to understand, it's near impossible in competing games.

I think that there should be three all rounders and three domestiques. There appears to be far too much talent (points scoring wise) in the former, and far less in the latter. It would also enable a more interesting selection based on likely tactics from the big teams. Maybe also, bump the credits up to 200 to cover the extra cost of the all roundres?

even the Sky jerseys have gone Jungle Green - nice touch

A UI request: For rider stats pop-ups, can we go back to the old method of hovering to see stats rather than clicking on the info button? Makes things much faster and really reduces the number of clicks when browsing through a set of riders.

Cheers!

We're always looking at the way the game is scored, and we've got some ideas for next season to better reward people who specifically do well in a stage. but like tony says, it needs to be stuff we can easily find out from the offical results, and those vary wildly.

going on form will only get you so far: by the time someone's been doing well enough to build up a decent form score, their good streak may well be over. And it won't help you pick the climbers after five flat stages...

Hey if you do introduce a fee, you might be able to upgrade Dave from peanuts to cashews for pay and the odd can of energy drink when the servers go "nuts"

Yeah i understand the problem waiting for results, but its the biggest race of the year, everyone covering in, including the BBC for a change

Don't tempt us GKam84!!

Yeah I agree we don't want it be easy to get the really big scores, but I don't think you can play it safe and score really big anyway, you can do repectably but you have to put the work in to do better, scoring in the Grand Tours is generally not as easy anyway. We have looked at sticking in all sorts of other points - problem is there that they aren't always available that quickly. So at the Giro we'd have been waiting ages to get the scores in.

Comparing form and score is already part of the game, you just have to go about in a more laborious way. I don't see how making it less time consuming is dumbing down - anyway playing the game like that will only get you so far, just like in the race you'll still need a dollop of luck and to play your hunches, pretty much in ever stage someone will come out of the pack who's done nothing up until then.

Anyway GKAM we're not trying to weed people out we are trying to attract people in. If we wanted to keep the numbers down we'd charge people to play.

We've got no plans to do that… unless you all want to pay?!!

It doesnt even seem to make any sense to me tho, how can Wiggins be bottom of the form list for the GC section, dont understand

And yeh like you say it has become rather easy in places. Hopefully the resetting of credits may weed some out as well

Can we have an option to sort them by speed over the last 1km on the flat . . . . and a sort by what gearing they use on a mountain stage (we should be able to tell who intends to go for it up the hills then.

I think ordering by form or score is dumbing it down too much. I don't want to be knocked out of the top 10% by newcomers who can't be bothered to at least read up on who's who for the TdF.

If you do add buttons to make it easier then can I have all my lovely money back too?

Sounds good to me, I figured score would be easier but form is probably better, and I agree with Gkam, I'm not sure how useful popularity is as a sort function but it is nice to see it on the riders.

okay, here's how it is. You can have form, cause that's easy. but you can't have score, cause that's harder. deal?

The order by score options would be useful for finding in form riders if you're no sure which DS or KM rider to pick with a small budget, sometimes it can just be easier to order that than have to mouse over 50 different DS's to see which has been having the best race.

Why the feck do people need everything in order, i can understand the team one, thats handy

Value, Team and Surname is surely enough to find who your after, I dont think we even need popularity

Anything else is just an OCD lovers paradise and is to much, are the guys asking for more ways to order them the kind of people who make lists about lists?

Great, thanks!

Only just thought of this one, how about 'Order by: Score - Overall' and 'Order by: Score - This Competition' options too?

it is done.

agreed, as i like to look and compare values within teams

yeah, that's a good idea

Just one small request, is there any way to add a "Order by: Team" option. There used to be a team 'filter' which was useful but this is probably easier. It won't be useful most of the time but with hundreds of DS's in the TDF it'd be useful to order by team purely for picking HTC riders for the TTT

Here's a question, (bear in mind that I'm pretty new to all this) Are there leagues set up for individual races? Obviously there is the season long competition (the Evans and Road cc league) but are people setting up race-long leagues? If they are, it may be a good idea to have a list of leagues that you can request to join, with the league owner giving/denying permission. This might be the case already, I might just be too dumb to have spotted it.

I like the idea of a season long comp, but if you join half way through, you aint ever gonna have a chance. With individual race leagues, you can go one race at a time.

Cue somebody pointing me to a link that shows this simply and easily.....

Thanks!!