The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[armchairclimber]

So, pretty sucky on the Ruta del Sol points and even more sucky that Fretin got injured. He was looking like a good, reliable points collector for me this season. Not winning, but in the mix often enough.

 

[skidmark]

Update #4: Boris98 takes the week as shalgo's romp continues

This week saw racing on several continents, with the sad exception of Andalucia that got in less than 5km total. But lots of races mean lots of points, and a few teams got a really good handful.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Boris98	725
2	Nevs	680
3	shalgo	672
4	del1962	663
5	escartin	639

Clearing the impressive bar of 700 points, Boris98 slots into top place with 725 for the week. Boris had a brace of high scorers, the highest of which was the popular Dani Martinez (176 points, 60 teams), but also less popular picks Benoit Cosnefroy (130, 16), Jan Hirt (125, 15) and Finn Fisher-Black (100, 15). Nevs nails second place with 680 points headed by 3 of the 4 riders that Boris had (sans Hirt), while shalgo continues accumulating points at eye-watering pace headed by those exact same three riders as well.

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Boris98	(+23)
2	escartin	(+22)
3	adamski101	(+20)
4	Hugo Koblet	(+19)
5	nbfc1962	(+17)
5	Nevs	(+17)
5	del1962	(+17)

Boris98 doubles up this week, parlaying thos 725 points into a 23 spot jump. escartin is right behind, moving up 22 with Martinez/Hirt as well as 80 points from a really-should-have-been-48 points Lenny Martinez (11 teams). adamski101 lands in third.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	shalgo	120
2	Jakob747	106
3	Boris98	61
4	Squire	55
5	vsd88	54

shalgo overtakes Jakob747 this week after nabbing a third place to follow up two wins. Jakob doesn't score any points this week, while Boris98 (45 this week), Squire (1 this week for a tie for 15th) and vsd88 (20 points) all increase their totals.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	shalgo	2586
2	(+2)	DJ Sprtsch	2145
3	(-)	Squire	2124
4	(-2)	Jakob747	2107
5	(-)	skidmark	1959
6	(+23)	Boris98	1910
7	(+3)	JumboVismaFan	1907
8	(+17)	Nevs	1898
9	(+12)	vsd88	1890
10	(+17)	del1962	1867

The top 5 is the same 5 teams as last week, but further down there are some gigantic leaps into the top 10. Boris98, Nevs, vsd88, and del1962 all catapult into the top 10, at the expense of repre, ingsve, Gotland and trackstand.

This week we have the 2.1 Tour of Rwanda and 2.1 O Gran Camino, the 2.WT UAE Tour, and a little thing called Opening Weekend!!!

spreadsheet at dropbox

 

[Boris98]

Wow, great week for my team!

 

[ingsve]

Ah, I see this weeks CQ file also includes the results from monday. Which means I only drop 4 places.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Considering my two big-ticket riders haven’t done much so far this year, I’ll certainly take this start.

 

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Update #4: Boris98 takes the week as shalgo's romp continues

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spreadsheet at dropbox

not a big deal, but in case you haven't noticed: in the team-tabs it says "2021 Results" and "2022 Results" at the top.

 

[Squire]

So I guess we can conclude that Faure Prost is definitely not a TT-er.

Foss and Poole with okay starts in their first race of the season, up against some guys who are clearly in better shape.

Kepplinger starting to give me regrets. The downside of having heavily researched so many riders is that I'm gonna say this about a lot of guys! Latecomers to the sport are one of my favourite kind of picks though, but I guess I was burnt a bit by Osborne last season, so I left Kepplinger out. At least Lemmen was underwhelming in today's TT.

This is my week in the game:

UAE Tour (2.UWT)
FOSS Tobias
FAURE PROST Alexy
POOLE Max

Tour du Rwanda (2.1)
LECERF William Junior

O Gran Camiño (2.1)
STAUNE-MITTET Johannes
BERNAL Egan
HAYTER Ethan
CARAPAZ Richard
PIGANZOLI Davide

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (1.UWT)
CAPIOT Amaury
PIDCOCK Thomas
MORGADO António

Faun-Ardèche Classic (1.Pro) & Drôme Classic (1.Pro)
MASNADA Fausto
BUSATTO Francesco (only on the startlist for the latter, but I expect him to do both once the lists are finalised)

Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne (1.Pro)
HAGENES Per Strand
LAMPERTI Luke
SEGAERT Alec

 

[armchairclimber]

Tumbling down the rankings, as expected this week. Three big hitters in action at the weekend though.

 

[del1962]

Last week down 17 places and back up again this week😎

 

[Samu Cuenca]

In my struggle to avoid last place, it's a shame that Price-Pejtersen just managed to overtake Bilbao at the line today. Still it's only Bilbao's 12th ever top 10 in a WT ITT, and it's put him into a decent position ahead of the mountains which I can't complain about. I don't really think that I'm going to finish only 2 points behind RhD when the game is over anyway, but it could have prolonged my run in the top 93.

 

[Salvarani]

In my struggle to avoid last place, it's a shame that Price-Pejtersen just managed to overtake Bilbao at the line today. Still it's only Bilbao's 12th ever top 10 in a WT ITT, and it's put him into a decent position ahead of the mountains which I can't complain about. I don't really think that I'm going to finish only 2 points behind RhD when the game is over anyway, but it could have prolonged my run in the top 93.

A battle for the ages.

 

[RedheadDane]

In my struggle to avoid last place, it's a shame that Price-Pejtersen just managed to overtake Bilbao at the line today.

I, on the other hand, consider that absolutely brilliant!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A battle for the ages.

It looks like Landa is going to be one of this year's absolutely worst picks, and while Higuita may end up improving during the season, he's still 54 points behind where he was at this stage last year, and he didn't have Martínez and Roglič in his team back then. My only hope is that Skjelmose loses a lot of points, too.

 

[Nevs]

Nice

A second place week.
Back into the top ten overall.

I will enjoy it while it lasts

 

[escartin]

I was very surprised to see myself in 5th for the week, mainly because I had totally forgotten that I had picked Jan Hirt! It would have been even better if Ruta del Sol had been less of a mess (Ayuso) and if THJ had not crashed.

 

[postmanhat]

Really dispiriting after last year, which was mostly down to my eccentric selections/omissions. This team just seems to be cursed. As soon as anyone shows any form and start scoring points, they crash - Plapp, Oldani, Vauquelin, THJ. And Ayuso misses out due to bog-botherers. Currently 50th, but could be so much higher with any semblance of luck.

O Gran Camino
Carapaz
Piccolo
Staune-Mittet
Hayter

Time for half the teams to shout 'Stop hanging round the back waiting to crash Ethan!'?

 

[shalgo]

If only they had given out GC points for Ruta del Sol, I think I would have been first for the third week in a row! But I am more than happy with third on the week, of course.

 

[bminchow]

My team is still a bit of crap. Lets see if it can get any better.

UAE Tour (2.UWT)
August Andrew
LEONARD Michael
LUND ANDRESEN Tobias

Um, No.

Tour du Rwanda (2.1)
LECERF William Junior

Yes!!

O Gran Camiño (2.1)
STAUNE-MITTET Johannes
HAYTER Ethan
CARAPAZ Richard
PICCOLO Andrea
RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian

Hayter wins a stage, Cian gets 2nd in GC and a few other top ten GCs in there.

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (1.UWT)
BARONCINI Filippo
GIRMAY HAILU Biniam
TURNER Ben
VALGREN Michael
WRIGHT Fred

Its now or never Fred.

Faun-Ardèche Classic (1.Pro) & Drôme Classic (1.Pro)
SIMMONS Quinn

Back to back victories

Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne (1.Pro)
BARONCINI Filippo
GIRMAY HAILU Biniam
HODEG Alvaro Jose
SEGAERT Alec
SVRCEK Martin
TURNER Ben
WRIGHT Fred

Is there a universe where Svrcek and Hodeg beat Wout and Jasper?

 

[Anderis]

Is there a universe where Svrcek and Hodeg beat Wout and Jasper?

Yes. Wout Poels and Jasper De Buyst.

 

[hayneplane]

Pretty much reconciled now to having zero chance of a top 20 finish unless WVA can pick up 2 monuments or 1 plus worlds or Olympics.

 

[Earns1985]

Any idea, when Thomas Gloag will start his season? He is quite popular in this game and nearly hasn't raced since last years giro..

 

[Squire]

Any idea, when Thomas Gloag will start his season? He is quite popular in this game and nearly hasn't raced since last years giro..

He was hit by a car in training in August, which ended his season. Has been zero news about him since then, but word on the street was that he wasn't seriously harmed by the accident, just enough that it made sense to end his season early.

So I'm wondering the same, really.

 

[Netserk]

I hope he'll do something like Catalunya, Romandie, Suisse, Vuelta. Alternatively, they could let him race Coppi & Bartali for the devo squad.

 

[Anderis]

The way he raced in early 2023, I hoped he could pull off something like a top10 in FW. But yeah, it's a bit concerning that he hasn't raced for that long.

 

[repre]

Ayuso will race Drone and Ardeche classics after all. Could be compensation for Andalucia