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Update #7: SafeBet Wins Opening Weekend The end of February is upon us and the points continue to build as the game takes shape. This week was not quite as high as last week with its multiple stage races, but with the big opening races we also see most riders with their seasons underway, and CQ...

Update #6: Smooth week for Rufs A lot of action this week, and the scores were commensurate. Three big early season stage races and a few 1-days combined to get scores nearly touching the four digits - let's see how it shook out! This Week's Top Scorers Rank Team Points this week 1 Rufs...

Ah yes, that time in the CQ season when you hit the first bump in the road, offering bad omens ahead for your team... Remco finishing 10th in February after winning everything before isn't the worst thing if it's a blip. But it does confirm that his potential thermonuclear ceiling that his 12...

I forgot to mention this back in January - longtime game participant (and former winner!) Blues in the bottle messaged me a little over 24 hours after the publication deadline expressing chagrin over realizing that they had missed the deadline this year. I agreed to do what I've done in the past...

Update #5: Morgado, More Success It was a relatively quiet week sandwiched in between a glut of higher level races in other weeks, with the 2.PS Tour of Oman having the most points on offer, and a couple of 1.PS races offering early season point opportunities (along with the mini-sized 2.1...

Update #4: Armchair riding to the top The early season racing carried on last week with Etoile de Besseges and Vuelta Valenciana, where despite the neutralization of the TT, Remco Evenepoel continued his early season tear. Unsurprisingly, the standings this week are topped by teams including...

I missed this earlier this week - just to clarify, the official weekly rankings are based on CQ spreadsheet updates, so that is the basis for the weekly scores. Indeed it will fix itself for the overall scores but we've never countered the official CQ sheet in the game, so their mistake becomes...

Update #3: Onizuka999 Gets Christened into CQ Game The early season continued this week with races (not braces!) in Mallorca, Saudi Arabia, Australia and France. As more riders get their seasons underway we will see more upheaval in the standings, although the very top of the standings remained...

Indeed. Are you saying there aren't just two Mallorca races? :flushed:

Update #2: The postmanhat always wins at least once After a week lull following the appetizer points given out in the Aussie national championships, the season gets underway in earnest with the Tour Down Under as well as our first European one-day races. As such, the standings get upended with...

Hi, just catching up on the thread - this is a great suggestion, I've thought of it before but just haven't done it. Will put in the heading of the first post later today. Also apologies everyone, bad form to not get an early update out as quickly as possible, just had some unexpected turns of...

I believe the explanation for his non-picking is in your post. I mean, last year was his 'lets see how he does outside of stacked Visma on a different teams with an explicit focus on his own chances', and the profit was 56 points. Just so many more inspiring choices at around his cost.

Oops yeah poor sentence construction - should have said 'Morgado' instead of 'him' there.

Oh yeah, that's probably right. I definitely don't have an encyclopedic memory of this game and rarely check my notes (occasionally I will open an old spreadsheet when I'm moving files and be shocked I had basically half my team in a given year because I have no memory of choosing those riders)...

I've clipped and bolded a piece of this, just to say that on reflection, I think I meant what you are saying by what I was saying, but probably should have chosen a better word than 'risk', or added context. I just mean risk as in opportunity cost of other riders that you could have picked, who...