Tour de France 23

Good comp. It's still the best fantasy for cycling out there. Yes pity for that bug. Still manage to finish strong with the double top10, 5th and 7th . I would have scored 56 points more, so not enough to beat Rank 1, prefer that way.

I agree, fortunately there is always a new race to focus on!

Early tea or (more likely) a croque monsieur washed down with a few glasses of red!

I agree! I feel pretty deflated as I had worked my way up int top 20 in TdF and had 12 transfers left. I reckon it cost me 50-60 points like you. I'll stand you that beer if you are ever in the UK! 

Daniel, you make your point very eloquently but I think that there are two separate issues here.
Firstly there is the timing of the deadline, which was discussed during the Tour de Suisse, where it became clear that you prefer an early deadline whilst I prefer a later one - one to be debated further during the off season. 
Secondly there was the issue with the server yesterday. We don't know for sure what caused it, but if it was caused by the volume of people trying to access the game close to the deadline, wouldn't there be a risk of that happening whenever the deadline was set for? 
Having a system that can handle to workload asked of it is the key, then the deadline can be set at a time decided by the game players rather than at a time to ease the pressure on the server.
My other (slightly tongue in cheek) observation is that the timing of the problem suggests that the majority of people do choose to make their transfers close to the start of the race!  Anyway, I accept the decision to score the the stage even though it has left me feeling a bit deflated and a good few points worse off! 

No, people would not all make their transfers at once in the middle of the night.  Teams don't announce riders pulling out then, so there is no point waiting until the last minute.  That is obvious.

People choose their transfers last minute just before the race because they have no choice.  They don't do so because it makes the game more fun to play.  It is plain irritating for anyone with things to do, even if that isn't every game-day.  On days when you are busy, it is just a pain in the backside.

It also puts strain on the servers if something happens at the last minute.  Look what happens when an important rider pulled out, who many had picked.  Van Aert pulls out, we all try to log in and the server cracks.  Why would anyone do that deliberately if we have a choice.  It is definitely not sensible.  In fact, if that is what happened (IT WAS BTW) then it is stupid to risk it happening again.

Players, myself included, are considering not bothering.  It's a great game, but it should be as fair as possible.  The way we do it now is not the fairest way.

Right, I'd better do my team in the early hours again as I'm too busy tomorrow to wait until the last minute to find out who was badly injured in the crashes today in the Tour de Pologne stage 1.  Basically, I'm possibly not going to be able to win.  Not because I don't know which riders are likely to win (all things being equal), but just because I don't have endless free time.  Fair?  NOPE!

ETA:   So many logged in at once, not because that is when they do their team normally.  It was because a rider they had ALREADY picked, probably the previous evening, had withdrawn (i.e WVA).

It's looking like they wont be active for today if you do them plus tomorrow isnt a guaranteed sprint day with those hills in it plus a crash today at the line could put some sprinters out ahead of tomorrow. So an ignored change now could make things worse.

It really is a very poor unprofessional way of doing things given the lack of communication.

Can we extend the deadline by one hour ?

No when it gets fixed they need to extend the transfer deadline.

This is such an important stage for those of us who have stored enough transfers to put sprinters in and get points over those who have used too many transfers.

Freezing things for today would kill it for a lot of people.

17 stages in on the biggest race of the year. Not good enough.

I am in that position of having saved transfers and was planning 5 today so am very frustrated. The problem with extending the deadline is twofold though. Firstly we don't know when the problem will be fixed & I for one can't wait indefinitely refreshing my tablet. Secondly, once the race is live, there is an opportunity for sharp practice (ie, if I was planning to bring Cavagna in & he wasn't in the break, would I still bring him in?) I personally think that neutralising the stage is the fairest solution but I'm sur  there will be valid arguments for leaving it as it is or extending the deadline. 

It's looking like I'm done with this comp. I lose my league without making transfers today. It's that simple.

17 days effort down the drain.

If transfers are allowed that are recorded here I cant remember my full team but transfers I know I can make based on memory of rider values :

Out Pinot, Ciccone, Gall

In Philipson, Mozzato, Coquard

Would have gained 47 more net points with these but for the site crash fiasco.

Really hard to be fair here. But this and give back the transfer to those that did them so they can adjust for tomorrow as it is a bit different profile. 

thanks Tony appreciate it.

Totally disagree that neutralising would be fairest.

This is a completely different profile and many of us have saved transfers for just this day.

Neutralising simply removes the opportunity for us to catch up over those who have spent transfers earlier.

It kills out whole race.

Transfer deadline needs to be extended an hour. 

Hi. Has any decision been made on scoring since no transfers were able to be made for hours leading up to today's deadline? System-fix only appears to have been applied post-transfer deadline cut-off. Neutralise scoring for Stage 18?

Hopefully won't be as close as Simon Geschke's deadline yesterday!!!!

Getting desperate, 17 stages to get stopped like this

And I was planning a load of transfers today! Last few days would have been less of a problem!