Paris - Nice

I have been the complete opposite, terrible in P-N and might have won T-A if my chosed sprinters had done slightly better on Sunday. Still third isn't bad.

I am always impressed with those that can turn out a good result in every week long stage races.

I noticed  you were right up there in T-A.  It's a strange one with the stage races - sometimes I just get into the rhythm of it and keep making the right calls. Equally, as with T-A, I can find myself sinking with bad transfer after bad transfer. Enric Mas crashing when well placed just about summed T-A up for me. Next year I'll do P-N for you & you can do my T-A, it won't be a problem as I'm used to running multiple accounts 😂😂😂

In more modern times of Covid, players often wait until the last minute to make transfers in case there are pull outs. Case in point today at Paris-Nice with 18 non-starters due to various illnesses.

And with this glitch, the game was down for over 12 hours prior to the deadline. So what you're suggesting would be especially harsh to people further east who would have woken up and had the game down all day.

I can see your point of view as P-N was a similar stage & I was planning no transfers when the glitch struck. T-A was a time trial to sprint so that would have needed transfers. The problem for me is that once you start trying to decide which are cancelled and which aren't it adds a subjective element as it is not always black & white ( ie P-N was a flat sprint to a much tougher sprint). I think the only answer was to nullify both stages to eliminate any subjectivity.

I understand what you're saying... but also... I think it's such a one off that maybe we just accept a single day of a can of worms and move on... obviously if it happens again in short order then it's a problem. 
 

Other posts and comments have mentioned we tried to only score the purist, but we couldn't make it work. All the removed riders are back in now and the stage scores have been nullified. There's nothing we can do about the transfers unfortunately. I made some that were wasted too.

I'm sure I speak for the majority of us punters in appreciating what you chaps who run the game did to navigate us through the computer glitch. It is impossible to keep everyone happy (and, yes, I lost out in P-N standard) BUT you have sorted it out with as little disruption as possible and we only missed one days play. Lots to be grateful for!

Just a temp fix for yesterday's purist scoring, your riders will be back.

Thats 186 points...... grrrrrrrrr. 

I brought Pedersen in. Would have had an alright day. Oh well, one of those things.

I would probably have been rubbish in T-A to balance it up! It's a long old season so will soon be forgotten.

I was going to have a moan, but you woudd have done better than me.

No planned transfers for this stage of P-N and would have had 1,2,3&4.

But as I predicted, my T-A score would have been rubbish! Swings and roundabouts I guess. 

I would have had the winner, Ewan and GC points from Ganna and Evenepoel.

As you say, swings and roundabouts.

I was going with two transfers....Jakobsen and Groenewegen out and two of Ghirmay, Laporte or Matthew Holmes in.... I was awaiting Trentin news which could have changed things though.
These stages should have been tailor made for Trentin but being on the deck obviously was a problem to him. 
So I had the first four and Capiot.... I suspect I would have gone Laporte and Matthew Holmes...  Holmes may actually turn out the best pick of the three... eventually... or maybe not. 

Trentin has been my only disappointment so far (had him in from start) but a hard fall is bound to impact on his performance.

The first three stages were almost made for him... and Colbrelli...I had them both. 

Me too, had planned to make no transfers first 3 stages. Packed team with tough sprinters. Colbrelli getting sick scuppered that but would still have been pretty close to top without yesterday's mishap.

It's all bonkers stuff from them. One of the very top GC rides, one of the best cyclo crossers/punchers and a sprinter finishing 1/2/3 in a time trial drag finish. 
How can anybody plan against that?... and sensational...