Dodge · Know your riders · Season 79, day 12
He is 26 with TT 92, and he still has up to 43 training points in him. Put them into HL and SP, then send him to the TT Center for +5 TT, and he goes from a top-ten time triallist to one who wins them, in division 2 or division 3.
Three steps, in this order. The TT Center only lets in a rider who is fully maxed, so the training has to come first.
His HL potential is Average (60–69), so plan on it topping out around 65. That is room for about 30 points from 35. Of the 38 time trials in divisions 2 and 3, 15 are hilly (HL weight 3 to 7), and those are where his places move most.
SP potential is None (40–49), so about 16 points from 29. It helps on the prologues and flat ones. Leave CL and DH alone unless both of these stall early, and never CB: it is weighted 0 on every time trial he rides.
Once a session gains nothing (and it is not the four-sessions-then-race block), he will appear in the TT Center drop-down, as long as he is not signed up for any race. From TT 92 the bonus is +5, the bottom of the table, but at his level that is plenty.
Every division-2 and division-3 time trial on the calendar, replayed against the field that actually rode it last season, with Texier dropped in at full effort. This is the ceiling if he rode every one, not a forecast. You will not enter them all, and form and luck still bite.
| Wins | Top 3 | Top 9 (scores) | Avg place | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division 2 · 20 TTs, a win pays about 130 | |||||
| As he is now | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13.7 | 390 |
| TT Center only | 0 | 6 | 15 | 9.4 | 820 |
| Maxed, then TT Center | 4 | 12 | 18 | 4.5 | 1,470 |
| Division 3 · 18 TTs, a win pays about 70 | |||||
| As he is now | 0 | 3 | 13 | 12.4 | 548 |
| TT Center only | 1 | 10 | 13 | 9.8 | 720 |
| Maxed, then TT Center | 3 | 14 | 15 | 4.7 | 980 |
In both divisions the side stats are worth more than the TT Center itself: +650 against +430 in division 2, +260 against +172 in division 3. That is why the training comes first. Division 2 pays nearly twice as much per place, so the same rider is worth more there.
Place on paper (and what that place paid last season). Bold courses are the hilly ones, HL weight 3 or more, where the training does the most work.
| Day | Race | HL | SP | Now | TT Center | Maxed + TT Center |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Marathon | 2 | 2 | 12th | 6th · 60 | 1st · 130 |
| 10 | Budapest ITT | 4 | 3 | 18th | 10th | 4th · 80 |
| 19 | Seven Islands of Mumbai ITT | 1 | 1 | 5th · 70 | 3rd · 90 | 2nd · 110 |
| 22 | Porto Prologue | 0 | 5 | 6th · 10 | 5th · 20 | 3rd · 40 |
| 22 | Aveiro (ITT) | 1 | 0 | 4th · 40 | 2nd · 60 | 2nd · 60 |
| 22 | Porto (ITT) | 1 | 2 | 3rd · 50 | 3rd · 50 | 3rd · 50 |
| 24 | Arica Time Trial | 0 | 0 | 3rd · 70 | 2nd · 90 | 2nd · 90 |
| 29 | London TT | 2 | 1 | 9th · 30 | 4th · 80 | 1st · 130 |
| 33 | Le Havre Prologue | 1 | 4 | 4th · 40 | 3rd · 50 | 2nd · 60 |
| 36 | Temps de Rennes | 1 | 1 | 11th | 6th · 60 | 2nd · 110 |
| 41 | Holyhead TT | 3 | 1 | 33rd | 24th | 7th · 50 |
| 46 | Newport ITT | 4 | 1 | 9th · 30 | 7th · 50 | 1st · 130 |
| 48 | Nidelva Intervallstart | 7 | 1 | 17th | 14th | 1st · 130 |
| 53 | Westerstede Zeitfahren | 1 | 1 | 14th | 9th · 30 | 8th · 40 |
| 59 | Valparaíso ITT | 0 | 4 | 3rd · 50 | 3rd · 50 | 3rd · 50 |
| 60 | Wellington Hourrace | 1 | 2 | 25th | 9th · 30 | 6th · 60 |
| 67 | Locarno-Ascona | 4 | 0 | 45th | 43rd | 23rd |
| 74 | New York Streets TT | 0 | 2 | 13th | 9th · 30 | 5th · 70 |
| 79 | Luxembourg TT | 3 | 3 | 30th | 22nd | 11th |
| 87 | Aalborg Timetrial | 1 | 1 | 10th | 5th · 70 | 4th · 80 |
| Total | 390 | 820 | 1,470 |
The four wins are Marathon, London, Newport and Nidelva. Two of them are hilly courses he cannot get near today. Locarno and Luxembourg stay out of reach whatever you do.
| Day | Race | HL | SP | Now | TT Center | Maxed + TT Center |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | San Cipirello ITT | 1 | 1 | 4th · 50 | 3rd · 60 | 3rd · 60 |
| 11 | Vodo lolo ka galili | 3 | 0 | 5th · 40 | 4th · 50 | 3rd · 60 |
| 21 | Lünen Zeitfahrt | 1 | 1 | 4th · 50 | 3rd · 60 | 3rd · 60 |
| 22 | San Cataldo ITT | 4 | 0 | 6th · 20 | 4th · 40 | 1st · 70 |
| 31 | Coustouges ITT | 3 | 0 | 35th | 34th | 20th |
| 39 | Mackay Time Trial | 3 | 0 | 5th · 40 | 3rd · 60 | 2nd · 80 |
| 41 | Prologue (Norway Tour) | 0 | 5 | 4th · 30 | 2nd · 50 | 2nd · 50 |
| 41 | Bergen (ITT, Norway Tour) | 2 | 1 | 2nd · 50 | 2nd · 50 | 2nd · 50 |
| 44 | Kesch Peak Climb | 4 | 0 | 21st | 14th | 4th · 50 |
| 48 | Perm ITT | 2 | 2 | 2nd · 70 | 2nd · 70 | 2nd · 70 |
| 49 | Fort William ITT | 6 | 0 | 14th | 10th | 1st · 100 |
| 59 | TT Zyte | 1 | 1 | 3rd · 60 | 1st · 100 | 1st · 100 |
| 59 | Gold Coast | 0 | 4 | 4th · 30 | 3rd · 40 | 3rd · 40 |
| 64 | Salamanca ITT | 3 | 2 | 4th · 50 | 3rd · 60 | 3rd · 60 |
| 72 | Monte Petrano ITT | 5 | 0 | 43rd | 31st | 11th |
| 74 | Rio Grande prologue | 0 | 6 | 7th · 8 | 5th · 20 | 2nd · 50 |
| 81 | Odense Enkeltstart | 0 | 2 | 4th · 50 | 3rd · 60 | 2nd · 80 |
| 85 | Arinsal ITT | 4 | 0 | 57th | 49th | 19th |
| Total | 548 | 720 | 980 |
The three wins are San Cataldo, Fort William and TT Zyte. Fort William is the one the training makes: 10th with the TT Center alone, 1st once he is maxed. The real mountain climbs (Coustouges, Monte Petrano, Arinsal) stay out of reach.
If he has all 43 points left, the order washes out: both ways land the same wins and the same points in either division. It only matters if his hidden cap is lower than that, and then HL is the better first spend.
| Only 15 points left, all into… | Wins | Top 3 | Top 9 | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division 2 | ||||
| HL | 0 | 8 | 17 | 1,060 |
| SP | 0 | 8 | 16 | 1,020 |
| Division 3 | ||||
| HL | 1 | 11 | 15 | 830 |
| SP | 1 | 11 | 13 | 770 |
Across the 38 courses, HL is weighted more than SP on 17 and SP more on 10. The SP-heavy ones are the prologues (Porto, Le Havre, Valparaíso, Rio Grande), where he already places well. Division 3 is hillier (9 of its 18 TTs have HL 3 or more), so HL first matters more if you drop.
The TT Center bonus is set by his TT, not his age, so it is +5 whenever you do it. What changes is how many seasons he gets to use it.
The game's age curve climbs to 29 and falls twice as fast after it. Ages 27 to 29 took almost half of all time-trial wins over the last nine seasons. Do it now and the +5 lands for all of them; do it at 29 and he gets one good season out of it.
The TT Center switches off the stray +1s he picks up from racing. Doing it now rather than at 29 gives up about 1 FR, 2 TQ and 2 TT over those three seasons, plus some CL, DH and SP pops that do nothing on a time trial. The +5 TT, through his peak, is worth far more.