Originally Posted by
asgelle
So, all the major team sports soccer*, football, baseball, basketball, hockey, adjust their strategy at the end of the game based on the time remaining and the score. But for some reason, people here are advocating keeping cyclists ignorant of important information to allow development of a winning strategy and believe that leads to better racing?
I can see it now: your football team has the ball on their own 35 yard line. They trail by between 2 and 21 points or maybe they lead by that amount; no one knows. There's something between 30 seconds and 14 minutes to left in the game. What play do you call?
*Note soccer used to have undefined injury time at the end of a half, but that was done away with and now the referee has to state the amount of time left.
That's a ****ty analogy that compares apples to motor oil. Your football example would be better suited for a points-based competition, like KoM or sprints.
You'd be better off talking about removing race radios from NASCAR so that drivers don't know their split times compared to the lead car. Or what lap the lead car is on. Oh, and they couldn't tell their crew chief what they needed until they actually got to the pit.
that might make NASCAR interesting.