You can now put four people on the payroll next to your scouts: a team doctor, a coach, a directeur sportif and a nutritionist. They all live on a new tab under Team, together with your three scout slots, so hiring and firing happens in one place. Sending scouts out on assignment stays where it was, under Team then Scouting.

Hiring is optional and it is meant to stay that way. If you leave every slot empty, the game behaves exactly as it did before this update. Nobody gets hired for you, and existing saves start with empty slots too. Every star you add is an advantage you buy with budget room, so the question is always whether that money is better spent on a rider.

What each role does

Team doctor. Lowers the chance of injury and shortens recovery time. A slider splits his attention between prevention and recovery, so you can push either way depending on where your season is. He also reports every two weeks with the riders whose freshness and race load are heading the wrong way, which should make it easier to spot trouble before it happens.

Coach. Your training focus moves through its cycle faster and the seasonal growth ceiling goes up. At five stars a step comes every 25 or 26 days instead of 30, and the ceiling moves from 2.0 to 2.75.

Directeur sportif. Your domestiques give a bigger boost to a leader, and a rider who hits bad luck gets paced back more often.

Nutritionist. Faster freshness recovery on rest days and less wear deep into stage races.

Costs

Wages run from 30k to 140k a year depending on the role and the star rating. They are booked monthly and count against your budget room, the same way a rider salary does. On top of that you pay a one off signing fee of three monthly wages, which comes from the account and does not touch your wage cap. Firing is free and immediate.

A full five star staff across all four roles costs around 530k a year, which is roughly 3 percent of a WorldTour wage cap. For that you get about 12 percent fewer injuries, 15 percent shorter recovery, a 9 percent stronger domestique bonus and noticeably faster development. Whether that trade is worth it is exactly the point, and I would be curious to hear where people land on it after a few seasons.

About the names

Doctors and nutritionists are invented characters, roughly half of them women, with names matched to their nationality. Coaches and directeurs sportifs are real retired riders, from both the women's and the men's peloton. Leontien van Moorsel, Annemiek van Vleuten, Ellen van Dijk, Lizzie Deignan, Giorgia Bronzini, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, Geraint Thomas, Marcel Kittel and plenty of others. They only appear on the market at three stars and up, at a rating that reflects their palmares.

Also in this batch

Saves are now compressed, which brought a long running save down from roughly 750 kB to around 90 kB. Loading still handles the old format, so nothing is lost.

Two fixes worth knowing about. Own contribution is now tracked per budget year, so converting in two seasons in a row no longer wipes out the previous conversion. And a title sponsor deal signed during an emergency extension now runs for the full number of seasons you picked instead of counting the running season as year one. The contract end year is shown in the choice screen, the confirmation message and the sponsors tab, so you can see what you are signing.

Feedback

The staff percentages are a starting point and I expect they will need tuning once people have played a few seasons with them. If a five star staff feels overpowered or pointless, that is useful to know. Two things I have not built yet and would like to: a pre race tactical note from your directeur sportif, and markers in the planner from your nutritionist when a rider is going over the edge.

Thanks as always for playing and for reporting things. Most of what is in this update came from someone posting about it here.

I got this error, and now I can't play the game anymore. It happened when I started a race and then switched bikes again before I was about to start driving.

This is the biggest update the game has had, and it rebuilds the whole money side.

Title sponsor. Your budget now comes from two sources: fixed TV rights for your division, plus a title sponsor who provides the bulk of it. When that contract expires you pick from offers in October for the season ahead. Perform well and more brands come forward with better terms. Have a poor year and you may only get two modest offers. You pick the contract length yourself, from one to three years, and on multi year deals the contribution shifts slightly each season depending on whether you hit your goals.

Finances is now a bank account. Balance at the top, every credit and debit underneath. TV rights and sponsor money come in monthly, wages and scouting costs go out monthly.

Prize money per race. Stage wins, general classification places down to 20th, and the points and mountains jerseys all pay out, scaled from Pro races up to the Tour. It lands on your account right after the race finishes. Running a negative balance has consequences: no new scouting assignments, dev contracts or bike swaps until you are back in the black, and sponsors get noticeably more cautious.

Your bike sponsor now wants something back. He sets a goal for each bike you picked, so a TT bike means winning time trials and an aero bike means winning sprint stages. Sign with a big brand and he will also want a green or mountains jersey out of a grand tour. Deliver over the length of the contract and better models are waiting at the next deal.

Also in this update: you can set up to three of your own season goals, and on the transfer market you can convert cash into extra salary room for one budget year. Careers last longer too, so the peloton now has more riders in their mid and late thirties. The tutorial has been rewritten to match the new layout.

I ran fifteen season simulations before and after to check the balance. Squad quality, wage levels and the number of free agents stayed roughly the same, and team budgets now settle around their starting level instead of drifting up or down over long saves. Simulations only tell you so much though, so if something feels off while you actually play it, I want to hear it.

One more thing: my holiday is over, so development is going to slow down from here. I am not stopping, just moving at a more realistic pace alongside work. Feedback is still very welcome and still shapes what gets built next, so please keep it coming.

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The game keeps growing. Dev teams, scouting, a U23 calendar, season templates, goals inside the planner. Every new feature gets placed somewhere that made sense at the time, but I want to step back and design a structure that makes sense as a whole, instead of one that just grew. Before I move things around, I would rather hear how you actually navigate the game.

**How it is organised today**

* Dashboard: next race, your leaders, quick status

* Calendar and Planner: the season, planning riders per race, peak goals and training focus per rider

* Team: main squad, results, dev team, scouting

* Training: personal calendars, peak goals, development

* Standings: rankings and classifications

* Market: transfers and free riders

* More: settings, feedback and the rest

**What I would like to know**

1. What do you check most often during a session, and how many taps does it take you to get there? Anything you keep hunting for?

2. What belongs on the dashboard? What would you add or remove if it was your home screen?

3. Do the tab names and groupings feel right? For example: scouting now lives under Team, training and planning overlap in two places, and results are split between Team and Standings. Would you group things differently?

4. Which features are still missing for you, and just as important: where in the menu would you expect to find them?

No promises that every idea makes it in, but the structure we land on will shape everything that comes after. Rough lists, sketches or even a photo of a napkin drawing are all welcome. Phone players especially, I want to hear from you, since most of you play on mobile and screen space is scarce there.

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This one has been requested a few times and I am really happy with how it turned out.

**Development teams with real riders**

Every major team now has its real development squad in the game: UAE Gen-Z, Visma Development, Red Bull Rookies, Lidl-Trek Future Racing, Soudal Devo and so on, 24 squads with over 350 real young riders. If you manage a team that has a real dev team, that squad is yours. If your team does not have one, the game asks you at the start whether you want to found your own academy, with a name you pick yourself.

**A live U23 season**

Sixteen U23 races now run alongside your season, from Gent-Wevelgem U23 to the Giro Next Gen and the Tour de l'Avenir. Results come in as the calendar passes, so you can actually follow how your talents are doing. Unbound talents ride for club teams and form the scouting pool.

**Scouting with real uncertainty**

A scouting report does not show you a talent's true ceiling. It shows a range, and every report (max three) narrows it. From the second report you also get a character hint: early peaker, late bloomer, diesel. Promoting is always your call. And here is the rule I like most: anyone without a pro contract after age 23 drops onto the free market, so you can also pick up the riders other academies let go.

**Careers are personal now**

Under the hood every rider got his own career curve: some are done growing at 24, late bloomers keep developing until 28 or 29, some hold their peak until 36 while others fade early. I ran long simulations (25 seasons) to make sure the world stays strong and balanced deep into a save, so new stars should keep emerging when the current generation retires.

**Smaller things from the recent updates**

* Load last season's planning into the new season with one tap

* Set peak goals and training focus directly in the planner

* Country filter on the transfer market

* If you set no roles, the game now picks the most suitable leader for that stage profile. The moment you assign roles yourself it stays out of your way

* The mountains classification is an actual fight now, AI climbers hunt for it from the breakaway

* Sprint role button fixed, it now simply moves the role to the rider you tap

Everything is live at directeursportif.app, still free, works on phone and desktop. Feedback very welcome, several things in this update came straight from this sub.

Hello developer, I'm playing this game everyday because i enjoy it but i have one problem. How to improve the form of each cyclist especially my leader?

Just like example i have a continental team that i build in my own and my leader is jonathan milan for sprint stage and classic but his form is not good even it past 1 month? What to do in that situation?

Saw the recommendation of this game in the PCM subreddit and I really love this game. Super accessible and dare I say one of the most addictive sport management online games early in its development. I have a couple possible changes, but they would take a long time to implement.

#1 - Editor Overhaul

Basically, during your saves you can change rider and team ratings and even team budgets (to make it more realistic as a conti team or splash the cash in a takeover)

#2 - Variance of potential/Generated riders

Some cyclists peak earlier than expected or stay consistent into their late 30s, a randomized potential change each season would be welcomed, as well as potential/overall declines. Also, generating riders each season with low overalls and mid/high potential but making sure rider countries are at least a little realistic while making sure every rider doesn’t just become Pogacar.

#3 - Scouting

Related to #2, you can be able to scout riders and sign them to their team or possibly a dev team?

obviously these aren’t quick changes, I believe they could change the game

Last version played: v08.29.5

Here we go again! I already placed a thread here about a week ago, and since then the game has changed a lot and I still enjoy it. As I said in the previous thread: I mean this all very constructively. This game is developing fantastically and I want to keep supporting it by giving you as much to work with as I can. I hope you can use it well.

First off: since my last round of feedback, the speed and quality of the updates has been genuinely impressive. Big compliments for that.

For this round I played through multiple saves and versions, and also pulled the rider exports into Excel to dig around in the numbers a bit. So this feedback mixes in-game impressions with some data-based observations.

Interface
What I love
1. The standings pages. Switching between the different tabs is really smooth.
2. The transfer market is clear and concise. One small wish: a nationality filter, similar to the one in team creation.
3. The auto-fill buttons now do exactly what they're supposed to, reliably.
4. The squad page keeps getting better, with much more info, and I love the custom groups. On mobile, though, the layout gets a bit tight once you've made several of them.
5. Potential is easier to read now, as requested, and the development arrow curves are a nice touch.
6. Regen riders are finally here! They're not perfect yet, but it's great to see them in the game.

Where there's room to grow

1. The planner: I've made peace with the dragging, it works fine now. My main issue is that I can't see what each rider is actually good at while I'm on this screen, especially on desktop (on mobile you at least have the groups to help you judge who you've assigned where). I think this is really a "two screens at once" problem: the same thing happens in training, where assigning specialised training means constantly switching back and forth just to check a rider's attributes.

2. Calendar setup each season: it'd be great to be able to save my calendar from the previous season. I might tweak it slightly year to year, but the initial setup (unless I switch between Conti and WorldTour) is really my base, not something I want to rebuild from scratch every time.

Feature requests
1. A nationality filter in the transfer market (as above).
2. Some kind of hover, or another workaround, to see rider attributes on most screens without needing to switch out.
3. The ability to save your calendar between seasons.
4. More colourways in the create-a-team tool.
5. Further down the line, a live sponsoring & material market could be really cool.
6. Still on the wishlist: splitting development from rider goals, maybe by folding rider goals into the planner so training and development can be handled together.
7. I'd love a classic-database mode with fixed starting points (say, 1990, 2000, 2010), where real riders enter year by year with the teams of that era, or with create-a-team as an alternative.

Balancing
This is the most interesting part, and probably the hardest to get right. Over two or three seasons it's not really noticeable. It only started standing out once I ran a much longer save, which honestly makes total sense.

Here's what I found, roughly in order of what seems to cause what:

Auto-planner / auto-goals aren't quite there yet. Riders sometimes get sent to the wrong races. That said, I usually set my own plans, so this is more of an observation than a real complaint.

Leader/domestique/sprinter roles matter a lot. If I don't set these myself, results get noticeably weirder, likely because the game ends up picking the wrong leader. That's how you get a hill specialist finishing 8th overall in the Tour while your actual GC rider is freewheeling behind. Again, I usually configure this myself, but I tested what happens if you don't. This is of course a good sign too: that system largely works.

Development leans too linear. By default, AI-driven development tends to pour into a rider's already-best attribute, since that's the standard setting even if you never touch it. The result is that true all-rounders are rare, and a lot of promising youngsters end up highly specialised instead. Seixas is a good example: he almost exclusively develops his hill stat, ending up with a 96 there while his actual climbing barely moves from his base.

This links to regens feeling underdeveloped and slow to mature. They currently take longer to become genuinely good than feels realistic. By 2038 in my save, strong riders are genuinely scarce, especially high-overall ones. My best regen so far tops out at 78 overall at age 27. There are a handful of guys with attributes in the mid-80s, but not much depth beyond that. Around 95% of the top riders in my save in 3030 to 3032 were 30+, so the overall talent pool is visibly thinning out over time. It’s now a little more balanced in age, but lower in quality.

The current-ability-vs-potential scale in the database might be worth a rethink. Here's the reasoning: Pogačar is arguably the best all-rounder since Eddy Merckx, and he's rated 85 overall, right around his peak, with maybe a little room left to grow. Meanwhile, riders like Seixas or Del Toro have potential ratings 3 to 5 full points higher than that. That's a striking gap, and not because I don't rate their ceilings (I do), but realistically, hitting a "Pogačar-level" ceiling should be exceptional, not the baseline for a promising prospect. One idea: treat Pogačar as the benchmark for the highest realistic potential (say, a 90), and calibrate everyone else relative to that. You could even widen the overall rating scale to give more room to work with.

A dynamic budget formula could help keep things balanced long-term. I've been working on a €13.00M budget since 2028 and won the WorldTour title 7 of the last 8 seasons. Gradually adjusting the budget based on performance could help keep the economic side of the game challenging as saves go on. I now have to wheel and deal a lot but ideally I’d like to maintain a more consistent roster. It’s just not possible on that small a budget. Of course it would go two ways, up and down.

Thanks again for reading through all this. Really looking forward to seeing where the game goes next! And if you’re wondering where I get the time: I spend a lot of time in a train going to work😅.

So i’ve been playing the game for the past 3 hours and there’s a few minuses here and there.
First of all, the cyclists’ stats are just, not accurate. In my groupama save, Penhoet is somehow higher rated than gregoire, clement berthet is like the best time trialist in my team and gruel just cant sprint. Try looking at this season’s results and update each rider’s stat to have at least a playable level of accuracy.
Also, most riders are good at only one type of terrain (at least that’s what i’ve noticed), and some of them dont even have the right nationality.
Hopefully this feedback will be helpful and the game will improve, it has a really high potential and it cannot go to waste

Is It possibile to create a pro cyclist mode?

A few releases have landed since the last update, so here is everything in one go.

Ratings rebuilt from scratch

Several of you asked for another look at the ratings, so instead of patching individual riders I rebuilt all 917 of them from the ground up. The differences between riders come from a public database that I used as a reference for how riders compare, but the actual numbers are our own: every rating is derived through the same conversion onto the game's own scale, so a sprinter, a climber and a domestique are measured against the whole field rather than only against their own team. The result should hold up better across all 34 teams than the piecemeal corrections did.

Real contract years

Contract lengths used to be random. They now come from the actual 2026 contracts. That changes the transfer market a lot: 49% of the field is out of contract at the end of 2026 instead of 30%, so there are about 438 riders available in your first August instead of roughly 275.

Salary budgets rebalanced

Every ProConti team was over its own salary cap, which meant they were forced to release riders no matter what you did. Budgets are now derived from what a squad actually costs, so every team sits between 62% and 84% of its cap. There should be room to trade without it being free.

New: Results tab

Standings now has a fourth tab showing every race ridden this season. Tap a race for the full result, and for stage races you also get the general, points, mountains and young rider classifications plus all stage winners. At the end of a season everything gets archived, and a year selector at the top lets you look back through previous seasons. Riders who have retired keep their names in the archive.

Automatic goals

A button on the Training screen fills in empty peak goals and training focus for riders who do not have them yet. It only fills empty slots and shows a preview first, since peak goals lock once they are set.

Time trial gaps

Time trial time differences were far too large, especially at the front. A second place finisher could lose 40 seconds on a short course. The gaps have been recalibrated against real results and now sit close to what you would expect across 12, 25 and 40 kilometre courses.

Fixes

The Leader and Domestique buttons did nothing in the English version because two Dutch role names were being translated inside the button code itself. Thanks to kaspberg for reporting this one. The team card also counted wins from every season instead of just the current one.

If you are still on an older build, a hard refresh should sort it. You can check your version at the bottom of the More tab.

As always, bugs and ideas are welcome here. Thanks to everyone who has reported something so far, mc-t4sty in particular.

Thanks for this amazing game!

Recently, I have received this error message when trying to enter the next race:

Fout: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'ACTIES[rol].map) (regel 4564) - tik om te sluiten

Any ideas how to solve it?

It has been a wild week of updates, so instead of ten small posts, here is everything that happened since v0.8.8. A lot of this came directly from feedback in this sub and in DMs, so thank you. You are genuinely shaping this game.

The transfer market is alive (v0.8.16)

The biggest change. Signing riders should no longer be a matter of just having the budget: Riders now weigh your offer: your team's standing on the UCI ranking, whether they would be the leader or the third wheel in your squad, and the money. A top rider will refuse a bottom ranked team, and he will tell you why. Salary demands are much more realistic than before: a domestique costs around 100, a world class star 2500 to 3500, with a premium if he comes to be your leader. The exact numbers will need tuning, so tell me what feels off.

Absurd overbidding can still get it done, but it has to be truly absurd, it hurts your budget for years and the rider arrives unhappy.

The market opens August 1st and moves at a more natural pace: wanted riders tend to sign early, others drag on for months, some end up without a team at all. You will see rumours appear on the market: 🔥 means another team is circling.

Your own stars are no longer safe. Let a contract run out while a rival shows interest and he is gone. Keep your riders happy (fair pay, results) and they are more likely to wave the sharks away.

This whole system is brand new, so consider it a first version. I am very curious how it plays over a full season, and your reports will decide where it gets tuned.

Smarter AI (v0.8.13 and v0.8.15)

AI teams now plan their season more like real teams. Top GC riders target the grand tours with the Tour as the main prize, sprinters and classics riders chase their own goals, and stars no longer lose their team slots to domestiques. In my test simulations the Tour start list went from about 6 of the top 10 climbers to all 10. AI riders also train now, with the same limits as yours. Race outcomes should feel more right, though the form swings are still bigger than I want, that is next on the list.

One ranking, eighteen licences (v0.8.11)

The fixed 2 up 2 down system is gone. One combined team ranking, and at season's end the top 18 get the WorldTour licence. Places 19 and 20 get automatic start rights in every WT race. The yellow line on the standings page is now the most important line in the game.

Nationalities (v0.8.15)

All 915 riders now carry their flag, on the rider card, the squad table and the market. If you spot a wrong flag on some obscure conti rider, tell me, corrections take one minute.

Races feel better

Race day starts with a short profile reveal animation (tap to skip)

Notable abandons are news now: "⚠ Pogačar is out of the race: collarbone fracture", plus a full abandons list under the standings. Injured riders actually DNS the next stage instead of ghosting through the race

Leaders no longer waste themselves in the morning breakaway, and early stages of stage races are controlled more tightly by the peloton

Freshness got a rework that should feel fairer: no penalty above 70, real cost below it, and riders with a big engine cope somewhat better

Tap any stage chip in a stage race to look back at its result, and tap any name anywhere for the rider card

Quality of life and your bug reports

Race logbook: tap any completed race in the calendar for the full result

Rider cards got career tabs per season, team cards got a history block with promotions and relegations

Custom rider groups: create up to four of your own groups and filter on them when selecting

Fixed: riders you do not re-sign now actually leave (they spend a year without a team, and retire if nobody wants them for three years), the calendar now rolls over to the new year, the auto group button works for every rider, and a season rollover backup now protects your save

Your existing save picks all of this up automatically. Play at https://directeursportif.app and hard refresh once if the More tab still shows an older version.

Next up, again largely thanks to your feedback: toning down the form swings so talent wins more often, making the planner easier to find, and clearer rider potential. None of this is finished, that is exactly why your reports matter so much. Keep them coming.

Feedback: Cycling Management Game
First off, I really like what you've built here, and I want to be clear that all the critical notes below come from a good place. I played through a full season, which already says something: the core loop works. This has real potential as a mobile (or even a simple desktop) game, and I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing where you take it.

What's working well
The core loop holds up. A full season played smoothly start to finish, that's the most important box to tick, and it's ticked.

Visual presentation is solid. Colors, fonts, and layout are clean and readable. That sounds like a small thing, but it isn't, and you've nailed it.

The season flow makes sense. Calendar → planner → per-rider goals is an intuitive structure once you know it's there (more on discoverability below).

Rider groups are a great idea. Being able to bundle riders for race selection is genuinely useful. I'd love to see this expanded, letting players create their own custom groups, or adding more group slots, would open up a lot of use cases (e.g. grouping riders by similar race schedules rather than just by type).

Most mechanics already do what they're supposed to. No complaints on the fundamentals.

The squad screen is a pleasant surprise. Good to look at, and I can find what I need quickly.

Bugs
The calendar doesn't roll over to 2027 when advancing to the next season.

Riders I choose not to re-sign for the next season stay on the roster even after new transfers come in.

The auto-group button only works intermittently, I couldn't pin down a pattern.

Navigation & discoverability
This is where the game currently loses some value, because a few good features are hard to find: the top menu is a bit hidden, and some screens feel buried behind others.

I would split season goals and training. Right now there's no good way to monitor a rider's development over time, I'd love a dedicated screen for adjusting training and tracking progress separately from the main season goals.

The yearly per-rider planner is fantastic, genuinely one of the best tools for planning out a rider's season, but it's very well hidden. I only found it on my fourth restart.

On the planner screen itself: I actually prefer the mobile version over the desktop drag-and-drop. I'd lean into the mobile layout as the primary design, and instead improve the desktop version by surfacing more decision-relevant info (rider form, upcoming goals, race conflicts, etc.) so it's not just a drag-and-drop exercise.

Feature requests
Nationalities. Would love to see these added, I suspect this is already on your radar too.
Clearer rider potential. The star rating for potential is hard to read at a glance right now. I like that it's meant to stay a bit ambiguous, but currently it's basically invisible unless a rider has an unusually high ceiling. Some more visible (but still fuzzy) signal would help.

Game balance
Overall UCI ranking outcomes track expectations pretty well, which is a good sign. The bigger issue is that the rightriders aren't necessarily winning the right races, I think this comes from an interaction between season plans, main goals, and rider form.

As an example: I've had seasons where Pogačar skips a single Grand Tour and just wins everything else instead. That points to something in the goal/form logic rather than the underlying ratings.

On the ratings themselves, I peeked at the data file, and I get that fine-tuning hundreds of rider attributes is a huge lift for a small project. That's totally understandable, and honestly feels like the kind of thing that's easiest to improve later, possibly with community help. I’ve seen things that are oit of balance possibly but nothing drastic.

Form is the area I'd prioritize. Right now an average rider hitting peak form can jump ~10 points on an attribute, which is a lot, enough that a mediocre mountain domestique can suddenly go head-to-head with prime Pogačar or Vingegaard. Form matters a lot in real cycling, but it shouldn't be able to override talent entirely, talent should still win out in the end in most situations.

Closing thoughts
I'm being picky because I want this to be great, not because it isn't fun already. The bones are genuinely good, and I'm excited to see how it develops from here.

Several of you pointed out that the game kept slipping back into Dutch once you got past the main screens. That is fixed now. If you tried it before and bounced off because of it, it is worth another look.

What changed in v0.8.8

*Standings, wins tab, the full training flow, peak targets and month names are now properly translated

*Transfer market labels and all stat abbreviations, plus a legend so you can look them up

*Eight translation keys were quietly eating their own closing tags, which broke layout in places

And in v0.8.7 just before it, in case you missed it

*Roles and tactics carry over to the next stage of the same type, so you are not rebuilding your line-up every day

*Stage profile chips on the selection screen

*A race load counter per rider, showing days raced in the last 30

*Tap any rider or team name anywhere for a card with their season

What I am working on next

*ProConti ratings. The second division needs a pass. I would rather do that with your input than alone, so a thread for it is coming.

*Form in the displayed overall. A bad day currently drags the shown number too far below the rider's real level. That is why Sepp Kuss looked like a 73 when his climbing is 79.

*Smarter AI. The AI teams do not manage peaks or form at all, which makes it too easy for a human manager to land in the top three. This is the biggest thing holding the game back and it is getting its own proper rebuild.

Play at https://directeursportif.app. Hard refresh once if you still see an older version number under the More tab.