In my opinion the attributes of João Almeida(Axeon) are underrated , he should at least 70 in mountain and 71 in col(lower moutain) and 72 in combativity because he won Liege-Bastogne Liege sub-23 and he was 2 in baby Giro

And Alejandro Marque of Sporting Tavira should be 69 +- in chrono and 71+- in mountain , nicola toffali(Sporting Tavira) is a sprinter he should be at least 67 on sprint ,Domingos Gonçalves(radio Popular) is the Portuguese Nacional Chrono and road race champion and has good results this season in chronos so he should be at least 71 in chrono and prologue, Luis Gomes was 2 in young jersey classification in Volta a Portugal last season , he should be 67+- in mouintain.

Daniel Mestre (Efapel) should be 65+- in mountain and 70 in lower mouitains +- he has decent results this season and last season in stages with some dificulties,Ricardo Mestre(W52) is a good climber he should be 71+- in mountain , same thing for Gustavo Cesar Veloso(W52),Antonio Carvalho(W52) is also a good climber , should be 68 in mouintain and lower moutain , he only has less results because he works for the other cyclists on the team , same thing for Rui Vinhas(W52) that won Volta a Portugal 2 years ago

I have a long list of improvements on norwegian riders stats from all the three divisions:

WORLD TOUR:

Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE)
66>73 CLIMBING [6th ToC 16´, 2nd stage 5 Volta Catalunya, one of Aru´s greatest helpers].
75>73 TT [Isn't really doing good TTs anymore. His focus on climbing has made him a worse TT rider]

Amund Grøndahl Jansen (TLJ)
74>75/76 COBBLES [16th Paris Roubaix, very capable of getting top 10, but hesitated to much]

Truls Korsæth (AST)
69>72+ COBBLES [In Paris Roubaix, Korsæth was in the front group when Kristoff etc. crashed, and was blocked together with Boasson Hagen. Even though he hasn`t any results to prove his qualities, I really think he is the best cobbled rider that Norway have together with Jansen. Has worked for Boom and De Vreese before, but got his first chance in P-R this year. He is a machine, and probably should hva a bigger flat rating aswell.

PRO CONTINENTAL:

Sondre Holst Enger (ICA)
68>72 HILL [His last victory over Ed Theuns was in a hard uphill sprint in Croatia, and did really well on the same stage this year. Also in the norwegian stage races (Tour of Norway, Fjords and Arctic Race) he has multiple times been the last guy to hold on to Edvald Boasson Hagen in hilly stages]

August Jensen (ICA)
72>74 SPRINTING [In 2017 August Jensen was the rider in the world with the most top 10. In 2018 he has moved up from continental level, and has had few chances to shine. But his level has not decreased, and is the third best sprinter on ICA after Enger and Raim (Sbaragli is overrated). Last year he was probably a 75, but a 74 this year would be a good comprimes. If you look at the riders that beat him in sprints last year, it was riders with a much higher rating than 72.]
70>73+ HILL [More important than improving his sprinting is his Hill rating. Last year he won a stage beating Dylan Teuns (78 HILL), and also was on Edvalds tail at every attack in Tour of Norway and Fjords. This year he missed the Milano Sanremo final due to a mechanical in Poggio, and was very angry after he finished since he knew he could have got a top 10. The problem is that since he is a neo-pro, he usually needs to work for teammates this year. But that does not decrease is skills.

CONTINENTAL (Oh boy, PCM has no idea about this)

Kristoffer Skjerping (Joker)
-3 on everything, except COBBLES, SPRINT, ACC and TT [Not the greatest results since moving back to continenta after being at Cannondale. Was selected on Norways national team at the elite road race in Bergen, so he is still admired. But he is rated as the best Joker rider in game, and that is not the case looking at his results.Could boost his TT, since he got 3rd in the nationals TT.]

Carl Fredrik Hagen (Joker)
64>72/73 CLIMBING [Since moving over form MTB some years ago, Hagen has been the biggest climbing talent in Norway. Last year he won a massive climbing day in Tour Alsace beating for instance James Knox (71), Cras (71), Hamilton (71), Hindley (71), Cattaneo (72) etc. Sky is rumoured to be interested in him according to norwegian broadcaster TV2, and DS of Team Sky Gabriel Rasch confirmed the interest to the channel. When climbing is your specialisation, and Team Sky wants you to ride for them, then 64 is not really representable.

Rasmus Fossum Tiller (Joker)
60>68 HILL
68>70 SPRINT
67>69 ACC
65>68 FLAT
57>65 TT
58>70 PROLOUGE [Won prolouge in Czech Rep beating Ivo Oliveira (68) and Eekhoff (68)]
Everything else at least +2 or +3. [Rasmus Fossum Tiller is young, but is probably together with Hagen, the riders who are most likely to become pro next year. Tiller was norwegian champion last year beating Sven Erik Bystrøm (72 Hill) in an attack on a hill that the UAE rider, then Katusha, could not follow, and won it comfortable. This year he was second in the NC behind Stake Laengen. He was 5th in Tro-Bro Leon, but would have won the race had he not slipped and crashed by himself in a corner after his solo attack. He was in the front by himself and looked like he would win. He is highly underrated in game, and I hope you fix is stats for the love of whatever is holy.

Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Norwegian Dev.)
66>68 MOUNTAIN
65>71 TT
63>65 PROLOUGE
64>68 HILL
62>65 FLAT
59>63 STAMINA
[Andreas Leknessund is the hot shot in Norway. Born in 1999, he has allready proved himself as a potensial Grand Tour winner in the future. 7 days after moving from amateur to continental level he got second on the second stage in Ronde de I´Isard, only beaten by Stephen Williams (69 CLIMBING), and ending 7th in the GC in his first race as a U23 from junior. Also 8th in GC in GP Priessnitz spa, to confirm his talent in his second stage race. Most notably was his second place in the norwegian TT nationals, only beaten by 7 seconds (!!) after 50 minutes of TT by Edvald Boasson Hagen (76 TT). And more impressive in only one month after joining continental level. He did also, together with the norwegian national team, win most of the nation cups last year and also needs a huge boost in his in game potential.

More stat changes without long explenations. Just check PCS or something to confirm if you doubt ;)

Team Joker
Herman Dahl 68 > 71 SPRINT AND ACC
Fridtjof Røinås 69 > 68/67 SPRINT AND ACC
Henrik Evensen 59 > 63/64 HILL
Ole Forfang 65 > 69/70 FLAT
Ole Forfang 56 > 63 TT [JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION IN TT]
Ole Forfang 55 > 64 COBBLES

Team Coop
Trond Trondsen 68 > 70/71 SPRINT AND ACC
Joakim Kjemhus 71 > 67 SPRINT AND ACC
Joakim Kjemhus 67 > 63 FLAT
Krister Hagen +2 on everything
Håkon Aalrust 59 > 66 HILL
Håkon Aalrust 57 > 64 MOUNTAIN
Kristian Aasvold 65 > 68/69 HILL
Kristian Aasvold 63 > 65 SPRINT
Erlend Blikra +4 on everyhing
Erlend Blikra 59 > 69 SPRINT AND ACC
Anton Tunset -1 on everything, except TT and PRO +2
Gustav Hoog +3 on everything
Frederik Ludvigsson -3 on everything
Jon-Anders Bekken +1 on everything

UNO-X Norwegian Development Team
Syver Waersted 63 > 71 SPRINT
Syver Waersted 68 > 71 ACC
Syver Waersted 65 > 64/63 HILL
Erik Nordsaeter Resell 62 > 67 COBBLE [Winner Omloop het Niuewsblad Espoirs]
Torstein Traeen 59 > 64 HILL
Torstein Traeen 57 > 62 HILL
Torstein Traeen 72 > 68/67 FIGHTER

(And Iver Skaarseth is named Ivers in the game, so please change it back to Iver ;) )

I know this is a lot, but hope that it will get implemented in the game. It's so frustrating to see how bad the stats are, and that riders who are bad get a high rating and really good riders have bad ratings. Also many of the riders have wrong specialisation which bothers me. I you have any questions or want to discuss my thoughts, please feel free to do so. Awesome DB by the way Benji, you never let us down!

_____ Everything above has been put on the todo list for checking _____

I also forgot to mention that two riders from UNO-X is missing in the game. Jonas Iversby Hvideberg and Idar Andersen (Both born in 1999), so adding them aswell would be sweet!

Daniel Silva from Radio Pouplar is also missing , he is 33 years old , a climber that was 3 in Volta a Portugal 2 years ago but since that he didint raced mutch so he should be like 67 in climbing +- , also Franscisco Moreira (Radio Popular) name is wrong , it is Francisco Moreira, Bruno Silvia(Efapel) is Bruno Silva , Tiago Ferreira(W52) is Jose Ferreira

Thanks

Rafael Reis (Caja Rural) photo is wrong , it isnt him on the photo , Joaquim Silva(Caja Rural) should be 68 in mountain+- because he did top 10 this year in Asturias , and also did top 10ns in other years in Asturias, Castilla Leon, GP Beiras e Serra da Estrela that are races with mountains

i feel tom dumoulin should be maybe +1 in the mountains and hills as at the previous 2 giro's he has been exceptional in the mountain and hill stages

Eventueel enkele tips:

Schachmann (QST) Hil 74-76
De Plus (QST) TR 57-72 / PR 59-71
Aime Degendt (Sports Vl.) Hil 69-71 / SP 60-68 / AAN 71-75
Menten (Sport Vl.) SP 67-71
De Bock (Cibel) HARD 65-68 / SP 60-69 / AAN 64-69 / UIT 61-65
Barguil (Fort.) CL 79-78
Bennett (Bora) SP 79-81

Hopelijk heb je er iets aan ;)

everything above will be in next update.

I think the sprint stats of non sprinters need revising. I'm finding a lot of inconsistensies.

I won't list all of them because there's so many, so I will pick a random case as an example.
Valverde 72sp and 78 acceleration. van avermaet 74 sprint and 75 acceleration. So van Avermaet clearly faster.

That doesn't make sense, Valverde should be much faster. But maybe I'm wrong?

So let's compare all the sprints they've ever done against each other and see.

CQranking says they sprinted against each other 11 times. here are those results
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=8642
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=8646
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=8659
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=21587
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=26995
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=27243
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=28178
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=27946
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=28611
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=29133
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=29927

The score is Valverde 11-0 van Avermaet

See what I mean?
I think the stats should be generally revised for all non sprinters, they don't really add up, it's like they're all on different scales.

Emanuel Buchmann Mountain 77->78 and TT 66->72, Acc 67->70 and Res 72->76
Watch his skills on the dauphine libere. Much better in the time trail and trying to beat all favorites in the last mountain stage.

Argie, the main issue is that GVA has beat Sagan on some occasions in uphill sprints, so if we would downgrade GVA to be under Valverde, Sagan would annihilate GVA on every turn. I'll put it on the table and see what we can do.

Those results are from 2009. Van Avermaet wins an uphill sprint against Valverde any day at the moment.

MIkkel Bjerg is 68 in Time Trial!? He won U23 World Championships by over a minute and beat Bodnar among others when he finished 6th in a WorldTour Time Trial in California. He should be 75 at least