2012 Giro d'Italia CQ game

[Armchair Cyclist]

Wow really didn't expect me to be in this position 3 weeks ago.
It will be a close fight between me and handbrake.

I didn't expect you, or Handbrake, to be in this position 3 days ago!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Contenders for the TT (names mentioned on that thread) and those in the top 20 who have chosen them.

Larsson (Froome19, Damiano)
Phinney (Handbrake, dlwssonic)
Tuft (none)
Malori (none)
Navardauskas (none)
Boaro (Whittashau)
Pinotti (dwlssonic, mcmountain, FF'Wilco, Geraint too fast, Tuarts, Mellow Velo, Antonio Rossi, Hilltopfinisher, Froome19, kdc10, evansisthebest)
Clement (none)
Rasmussen (Handbrake, groomy93)
Thomas (none)
De Gendt (dwlssonic, boomcie)
Hesjedal (everyone except boomcie)

Significant likely changes of GC position:
Tschopp to pass Cataldo (bad for Mellow Velo and Damiano)
Henao to pass Gadret (good for Handbrake, dwlssonic, FFWilco, Geraint, Mellow, Hilltop and Froome; bad for Tuarts, Antonio, Whittashau, Chris S and evans)
Henao to pass Nieve (good for dwlssonic, FFWilco, Geraint, Mellow, Hilltop and Froome; bad for Antonio and boomcie)
Henao to pass Pozzovivo (good for Handbrake, dwlssonic, FFWilco, Geraint, Mellow, Hilltop and Froome)
Cunego to pass Basso (bad for everyone except dwlssonic, Antonio, Damiano and asdfgh)
De Gendt to pass Scarponi (good for dwlssonic and boomcie)
Hesjedal to pass Rodriguez (good for everyone except boomcie)

And here is the updated Googledocs spreadsheet so that the rest of us can despair over lost opportunities.

 

[boomcie]

Contenders for the TT (names mentioned on that thread) and those in the top 20 who have chosen them.

Larsson (Froome19, Damiano)
Phinney (Handbrake, dlwssonic)
Tuft (none)
Malori (none)
Navardauskas (none)
Boaro (Whittashau)
Pinotti (dwlssonic, mcmountain, FF'Wilco, Geraint too fast, Tuarts, Mellow Velo, Antonio Rossi, Hilltopfinisher, Froome19, kdc10, evansisthebest)
Clement (none)
Rasmussen (Handbrake, groomy93)
Thomas (none)
De Gendt (dwlssonic, boomcie)
Hesjedal (everyone except boomcie)

Significant likely changes of GC position:
Tschopp to pass Cataldo (bad for Mellow Velo and Damiano)
Henao to pass Gadret (good for Handbrake, dwlssonic, FFWilco, Geraint, Mellow, Hilltop and Froome; bad for Tuarts, Antonio, Whittashau, Chris S and evans)
Henao to pass Nieve (good for dwlssonic, FFWilco, Geraint, Mellow, Hilltop and Froome; bad for Antonio and boomcie)
Henao to pass Pozzovivo (good for Handbrake, dwlssonic, FFWilco, Geraint, Mellow, Hilltop and Froome)
Cunego to pass Basso (bad for everyone except dwlssonic, Antonio, Damiano and asdfgh)
De Gendt to pass Scarponi (good for dwlssonic and boomcie)
Hesjedal to pass Rodriguez (good for everyone except boomcie)

And here is the updated Googledocs spreadsheet so that the rest of us can despair over lost opportunities.

Lol, nice to know I'm the only one in the top 20 without Ryder.

 

[Tuarts]

Ha, I'm just chuffed to be anywhere near the top 10. "Rival" GTF finishing ahead displeases me though.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Lol, nice to know I'm the only one in the top 20 without Ryder.

You'll be hoping he'll finish outside the time limit then ...

 

[dlwssonic]

Did I just win the CQ game???

 

[Handbrake]

Did I just win the CQ game???

I think you did with Pinotti winning and De Gendt sliding into third although I don't have a massive excel file to prove it. I was briefly excited when Rasmussen had set what I thought was a good ITT time. Congrats.

 

[dlwssonic]

I think you did with Pinotti winning and De Gendt sliding into third although I don't have a massive excel file to prove it. I was briefly excited when Rasmussen had set what I thought was a good ITT time. Congrats.

Thanks, had a close fight with you. You did great too.

Im honored to be the first ever GT cq winner!!

Now time to put it in my signature

 

[boomcie]

Thanks, had a close fight with you. You did great too.

Im honored to be the first ever GT cq winner!!

Now time to put it in my signature

Well played Sonic.


Damn you Hesjedal!!!

 

[dlwssonic]

Well played Sonic.


Damn you Hesjedal!!!

Thank you very much
Oh that game brings back so much memories, I remember I used to be CRAZY about that game in my younger days.
Thats actually where I got this internet name from, and I kept it till now.

 

[taiwan]

Can't believe how badly my team faired when it looked respectable on paper.

Wait the GC's not done yet.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Thanks, had a close fight with you. You did great too.

Im honored to be the first ever GT cq winner!!

Now time to put it in my signature

Wow congrats!!!

 

[dlwssonic]

Wow congrats!!!

Thank you so much!!!

 

[CQmanager]

The official update from cqrankings should be available on Monday evening however since Monday is holiday here in the US I will post the official results on Tuesday. If anybody made the calculations feel free to post it here.

BTW Tour de France game will be open on June 19 or 20th and the rider cost will be based on the "Current Ranking" for June 17th.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

The official update from cqrankings should be available on Monday evening however since Monday is holiday here in the US I will post the official results on Tuesday. If anybody made the calculations feel free to post it here.

BTW Tour de France game will be open on June 19 or 20th and the rider cost will be based on the "Current Ranking" for June 17th.

Thanks for putting all this effort into these games! I don't really post a lot, but I really enjoy these games and it's in the back of my head whenever I watch a cycling race or see any results

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The official update from cqrankings should be available on Monday evening however since Monday is holiday here in the US I will post the official results on Tuesday. If anybody made the calculations feel free to post it here.

I think he means me

I hope my data is ratified on Monday/Tuesday, but I believe the final rankings to be as follows:

1 dlwssonic 1772
2 Handbrake 1687
3 FF'Wilco 1650
4 mc mountain 1648
5 Geraint too fast 1600
6 Mellow Velo 1556
7 Froome19 1551
8 Hilltopfinisher 1548
9 gustienordic 1538
10 Tuarts 1525
11 Antonio Rossi 1483
12 kdc10 1476
13 Evansisthe best 1407
14 whittashau 1390
15 Damiano 1380
16 Chris Schneider 1376
17 groomy93 1357
18 asdfgh101 1310
19 Hrotha 1294
20 fedaia 1263
21 the fool on the hill 1243
22 Eric 8A 1224
23 boomcie 1168
24 Duartista 1138
25 vladimir 1122
26 Maaaaaaaarten 1121
27 Nyssinator 1070
28 HelgeBlendet 1033
29 jens attacks 1002
30 Antomeno 998
31 Sylvester 971
32 comodoro 941
33 Kazistuta 940
34 Emil Brix 930
35 Tjuhampion 929
36 Jancouver 917
37 18 Valve 906
38 vcampbell 867
39 Hugo Koblet 867
40 shalgo 861
41 netserk 838
42 yoand88 827
43 Gubby Allen 819
44 minessa 816
45 Jpettersen 809
46 CQ Manager 801
47 togo95 774
48 cackles 767
49 flyersdk 756
50 Armchair 751
51 Connor Pass 740
52 jsem94 721
53 Inkerbold 716
54 taiwan 712
55 kirill-loko 707
56 Zam olyas 702
57 TeoSheva 702
58 Timmy loves Rabo 701
59 Il Gigante Geert 675
60 Gotland 650
61 Jakob747 643
62 Vitapen 627
63 search 613
64 bassplayer88 569
65 Dasyboja 552
66 georgeodio 549
67 robreg1 468
68 Little Wolf 463
69 Hans solo 337
70 CasperVG 309
71 spinordie 281
72 ps10ispro 242
73 Danskeman 197
74 Drew man 158
75 saramic 16
76 Roy Quirine 12
77 precision55 0

The spreadsheet is here on Googledocs.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

A little competition within a competition: how many points will it take to win this?

There are, if 140 riders finish, 10376 points available. Current leaderboard (guessing that Jancouver's rate of scoring can't be maintained) suggests that on stage points and jersey holder points alone, a haul of c38 points a day is not impossible.

I reckon about 1870 will top the final table...

The ideal team would make more points:

* for example, Basso's 2010 Giro + Rujano's 2011 Giro = ca. 800 + ca. 500 = 1300 for the two big guns (and that's without any leader points, so even 1500 should be possible)
* 3 good GC placings + one or two stage wins or podium placings (from Henao, Intxausti, Tiralongo, Pinotti...) = ~500 - 600 for three medium priced riders
* Goss (or another sprinter): 150 points already, 250 - 300 possible
* 70 points each on average for three cheap pack fillers = ~ 200

Based on these quick calculations, I'd say 2300 would be impressive, but an absolutely great team could even make 2600+. A few teams will definitely make 2000+. I say 2150 will be the value of the winning squad.

Well, we both rather overestimated the team selection skills of the readership: winning score was 1772, and only 10 people over 1500.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

I can live with 26th, with only 8 riders and one of them being Rujano, who let me down so very much

 

[TeoSheva]

Thanks, had a close fight with you. You did great too.

Im honored to be the first ever GT cq winner!!

Now time to put it in my signature

Congratulations

my team was really poor at the end: I put a lot of money on Scarponi and Rujano, but I got few points from them...

 

[boomcie]

Of the people who don't have Hesjedal, where do I rank? Since he seems to be the key pick, obviously.

I can live with 26th, with only 8 riders and one of them being Rujano, who let me down so very much

That's just Hesjedal.

 

[asdfgh101]

The official update from cqrankings should be available on Monday evening however since Monday is holiday here in the US I will post the official results on Tuesday. If anybody made the calculations feel free to post it here.

BTW Tour de France game will be open on June 19 or 20th and the rider cost will be based on the "Current Ranking" for June 17th.

Will we have more purchasing power for the TDF game? 4k will hopefully be enough to allow people to still pick riders with realisic podium aspirations but 3k might result in too many shared riders.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

That's just Hesjedal.

This is true. Though it's not as if picking Hesjedal is cheating. I figured he was a cheap GC contender, who performs best in the last week; ideal for this Giro. I also picked Thomas, who gave me two second places in the TT's, I picked Guardini who won a stage, I picked Henao who got top 10 GC.

It is an improvemet from how things are going for me in the actual CQ game

 

[Sylvester]

Well, we both rather overestimated the team selection skills of the readership: winning score was 1772, and only 10 people over 1500.

I see.

It would be very interesting to see the ideal team!

 

[CQmanager]

Will we have more purchasing power for the TDF game? 4k will hopefully be enough to allow people to still pick riders with realisic podium aspirations but 3k might result in too many shared riders.

I'm open to any idea. This is NOT my game. This is OUR game and I'm not even the one who started so whatever you guys will decide on will be implemented (if technically possible). The 3000 limit was based on consultation with Hugo who is the inventor of these games

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

I'm open to any idea. This is NOT my game. This is OUR game and I'm not even the one who started so whatever you guys will decide on will be implemented (if technically possible). The 3000 limit was based on consultation with Hugo who is the inventor of these games

I reckon 3000 should be enough to pick a few men for the GC.

Part of the fun of this game is the fact that you have very little points to pick riders with. Not saying 4000 is necesarily too much, but having too much points would spoil a bit of the fun of this game for me.