Update: Forget Paris, it's all about Roubaix
The cobbles are done, the hilly classics are due next. Let's hope we collectively do a better job of finding the hero of the day for Amstel, Fleche and Liege than we did for Roubaix. Nobody saw that performance from Dillier coming.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 Roubaix 757
2 Salvarani 716
3 barmaher 694
4 kiilike 693
5 Valv.Piti 681
Roubaix is the best scorer for a week that ended in the Velodrome of Roubaix. You can't make this stuff up. A strong team effort (Mas, Terpstra, Jakobsen, Stybar, Vanmarcke, Phinney, Walscheid) is enough to push their team ahead of the pack. Salvarani lands 2nd place despite the fact that only five riders on their team scored and only one in Roubaix (Sagan, Landa, Mas, Betancur and Padun). Barhamer also did the bulk of their scoring outside of Roubaix (I. Izaguirre, Mas, Bilbao, Amador, Jakobsen). Like Salvarani, kiilike rides the Sagan/Landa/Mas trio to a high score. Valv.Piti emulates barhamer with I. Izaguirre, Mas and Jakobsen but a different smattering of lesser scorers (Phinney, Valverde, Brambilla).
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 barmaher (+30)
2 Salvarani (+29)
3 Roubaix (+21)
4 simple (+20)
4 Jancouver (+20)
Barhamer, Salvarani and Roubaix use their big weeks to soar up the rankings. No surprise there. On the other hand, Sep Vanmarcke finishing as the fourth highest scorer for simple's team behind Niki Terpstra, Guillaume Martin and Emanuel Buchmann is pretty wild. To date, it's been a tough year for Jancouver's most expensive picks so I'm sure seeing Sagan dominate on Sunday was a big relief. Jakobsen helps their team sweep the week's cobbled classics. Phinney also did his part by hopefully getting his career back on track.
Green Jersey Competition
1 Roubaix 102
2 Kryvo 98
3 TheArt 90
3 Jon_Ezeitza 90
5 LightBing 87
Roubaix takes the lead as the icing on the cake for their great week but with the hilly classics and the Giro on the horizon, there could be a bunch of new teams vying for the top spot in that ranking very soon.
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team
1 (-) Eyeballs Out 4838
2 (+4) GP Blanco 4686
3 (+2) Shawnm4747 4614
4 (-2) Koronin 4611
5 (-2) TheArt 4608
6 (+1) ruvu75 4588
7 (+3) trackstand 4563
8 (-4) Nathanptz 4507
9 (-) LightBing 4476
10 (+2) scrooll07 4425
12th on the week, Eyeballs Out stretch their lead out. With the bottom of the lineup (Riabushenko, Phinney, Betancur and Lambrecht) showing signs of life and Alaphilippe ready to pounce, that lead could continue to grow in the next week. GP Blanco (7th on the week) surges to second place and if Wallays hadn't cracked in the finale of Paris-Roubaix, they could have made things very interesting at the top. Lower in the order, scrooll07 (Terpstra, Mas, Phinney) sneaks into the top 10 while PeterB (Terpstra, Wallays, Debusschere) makes way.
Link to the update : https://www.dropbox.com/s/ippuwz812e2fhda/CQ%202018%20update%2013.xlsx?dl=0