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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Update #14: Googolplex scores... well, not a Googolplex points, but the most on the week! The Ardennes are in the books, spring is in the air, and a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of the Grand Tours. We're 4 monuments in, and one thing is constant in this game - shalgo has an...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    That would likely be a very boring job.
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    I plant trees in the Canadian wilderness.
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Update #13: No More Doubting Thomas In a week that saw the 2.1 Giro D'Abruzzo as the only stage race and a trio of Coupe de France races offer triple points to riders with the races being contested by the same top guys, the Amstel Gold Race was the highlight. Thomas Pidcock won it after losing...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Update #12: Spanish duo vaults adamski101 to the top Between a shocking crash that seriously injured many top Tour de France contenders in Itzulia to a 60km, 3 minute solo breakaway win by MvdP in Paris-Roubaix, Holy Week was more like Holy S#$t!!! Week. The Basque country race opened up to...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Update #11: Morgado more good-o for top teams Big week in cycling with the Tour of Flanders, which as a knock-on effect of so many top favourites being taken out mid-week, saw the minor placings behind MvdP go to some unexpected riders. Less huge week in CQ land as there weren't any stage...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Huh, I have a different view. Pogi aside, I can't think of a rider who has more of a chance to score points from every race he's in. I can see him clearing 2000 depending on how his recovery goes. Just looking quickly, he's really only 300 points behind where he was last year after Roubaix, and...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Yeah whoops, year columns got mislabelled. That's fixed. The reason Gregaard isn't getting points is for the exact reason you highlight - he's WILSLY Jonas Gregaard on CQ, but GREGAARD WILSLY Jonas on your team, as well as the one other team that picked him... that leads me to believe it's...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Update #10: rote laterne in pole position While the Fine Young Cannibal Tadej Pogacar took basically as many points as one could at a 1-week stage race in Catalunya, the presence of 3 other WT-level classics this week meant that it wasn't a lock that the 2 teams that had Pog would be on top, as...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    I haven't tracked those stats, but yes I think EITB and a few others have been tracking year-by-year and may have that info.
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Just to touch on something mentioned by a few posters earlier this week which was a suggestion of a younger/older riders classification - the problem with that is that while everyone has 33 riders, selection isn't age limited so teams will have different amounts of riders of different ages...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Update #9: Bettiol didn't see that performance coming The first monument of the year, but more importantly week 9 of the CQ manager game, is in the books! It was a quieter week in terms of CQ points, as there were only a smattering of 1-day races (and two of those were French 1.1 races where I...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    We ran that exact competition for about 4 or 5 years but I stopped when the majority of feedback was that a green jersey competition was sufficient. Indeed, the two rankings seemed to overlap quite a bit. If it was easy enough to program that into the website to track so that people could check...
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    vladimir's team looking good this week as one of 2 with Bettiol and one of 4 with Steimle
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    The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

    Oh yes, tongue was firmly in cheek with that comment! I very much appreciate and welcome the website, it's great. Honestly it is really helpful, as it's a bit of pressure to have people depend on the updates not only for descriptive verbal color but also the main results. With the website, I...
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