Dauphine Rider Roster

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Out, he's not on the official provisional start list which was put up online at some point today I think.

I got an email first thing this morning with it and updated this afternoon

I'm neither a good guy or bad guy.

Its not that I dislike you, hell I don't even know you. I just find the constant new threads annoying sometimes. Especially when there was one open about the race that is discussing everything from rosters to values and all in between.

It wasn't bad to ask, and I guess from the replies that others have left, they feel I "snapped" at you. Which wasn't my intention, I just thought I'd be a bit more firm with my reply, because of the new threads all the time.

To try and clear up one thing, I tend not to use 3rd party sites like Pro stats or other websites. I do not know where their information comes from, but in general, a number of their start lists are wrong until an official one is released. I go straight to the horses mouth and get them from people inside the races and UCI. Sometimes the information I get is just the best they have at the time and it can be old data or wrong aswell. But its the best I have to work from.

As I said, it will need updated when a full and final start list is announced. Which, for any race that I've run these season, I get slightly ahead of Joe Public

I forgot there was a FC game over the last few days...

Am I the only one who thinks that fantasy cycling is tedious and detracts from the quality of this forum?

Thanks enrique, I'm glad you've taken it the way you have and hope you keep enjoying the game going forwards. I didn't want to attack you and hopefully that came across.

Regarding others, all I can say is that this has been building up for some time and you've clearly gotten on the nerves of more than a few people. Reigning yourself in a little would certainly help when it comes to others responses to you. I don't think anyone approves of personal attacks and I hope that this can be put in the past and everyone move forward and enjoy the game.

Yes arsene has created a thread not much different from this one and it was viewed as being constructive by Gkam and others, this is a perfect example of how your actions in the past mean that people automatically react to your posts and threads differently than if they were from someone else. Hopefully that'll now change but it might take time. Just consider what you post before you post it and hopefully things will get better. On more than one occasion I've written something out then, rereading it, decided that it doesn't really add anything to a discussion or is just repeating what I've said previously.

What's most annoying from all this is that you actually come across as someone quite positive and enthusiastic about the game but that was lost among everything else. At the start of the year you made some solid suggestions to improve the game interface and these were implemented but you got a little carried away. Reign in the enthusiasm and maybe keep a list of suggestions until I start the 2014 suggestion thread some time in September and we'll be good

Three cheers for the good doctor.....Thank you for taking the time for saying exactly what I wanted to say...

Enrique, the way that you keep telling people to relax, calling them cupcake and sweetie and linking them to YouTube videos is incredibly patronising and getting quite offensive. Rather than trying to calm people down after you've pissed them off, why not try not annoying people in the first place.

Those running the game are putting large amounts of time into getting races and start lists updated. We known what we're doing and where to get the relevant information. Starting threads for every race telling us that the roster needs updating and linking us to the most obvious places to find that info isn't helpful.

Likewise creating multiple new threads for the same problems and trying to make your point by just repeating it over and over and over rather by having a good point or argument in the first place are counter productive. The fact is, after the way you've been acting on the forum over the past months I don't think anyone on here would be willing to take one of your suggestions at face value now and its likely you'd be ignored, just because of how you've acted.

As far as I'm concerned, I purposely don't read your posts or threads any more because for me they don't add anything useful to the game at this point and annoy the hell out of me. You have, over the past months, made this game less fun for me. Part of the fun has always been the forum banter but you've spoilt that for me and I now check the forum less often because I known when I look there'll be a handful of new threads from you complaining about the rolling forward of transfers and you'll also have posted multiple times to your old threads that everyone else has stopped reading.

Do you like to take the p*** out of the people that actually do the work to make the game possible?

There's banter and then there's taking it too far with the sarcasm etc

If you say so. I can't see any in the startlist, the rankings show EVERY rider (1621 of them) to me, with all the ones in this race, highlighted in yellow..... So I still see this

109 Levi Leipheimer - no trade team - 218

Think we'll have to look at Thread creating and quoting privileges on the forum.....Pretty sure there is a REVOKE access button

WHAT is the problem?

Seriously, there is a thread for Dauphine already running.

I updated the start list and my sources are a trade secret.

If you had bothered to read my post in the Dauphine stage....

Gkam84 wrote:

I've just updated the start list, knock yourselves out picking a team....

P.S. There WILL be some changes before the race, because some riders are in the CONFIRMED start list of TdS

I only have a provisional list from Dauphine, but I have a confirmed list for TdS