2012 Giro d'Italia CQ game

[Handbrake]

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

Good idea. People quickly forget the others on the podium so I'll do the same.

 

[Handbrake]

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.

It would be interesting to see what the total CQ points of a stronger TDF field is compared to all of the Giro's riders and maybe use that ratio against the points we had for the Giro. I would assume the points would be at least 20% higher?? I think this is beyond my spreadsheet skills.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

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

This is the list of points of starting points (there were a couple of substitutions after this): our 3000 points limit sits nicely within the upper echelons, but not a Man City style exaggerated budget.

KAT 4976
SKY 4181
RNT 4096
LAM 3867
AST 3191
- - - - - - - - - - - -
AND 2969
MOV 2913
BMC 2889
VCD 2743
GRM 2720
COG 2337
ALM 2332
LIQ 2247
FAR 2039
GEC 1768
OPQ 1667
SAX 1494
RAB 1489
LTB 1458
FDJ 1328
APP 1295
EUS 1047

Once provisional squads are being mooted for the Tour, perhaps we can calculate a price that fits similarly within the real life scales.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

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

You were indeed top of the Ryder-rejectors: 98 points clear of Nyssinator.

 

[boomcie]

You were indeed top of the Ryder-rejectors: 98 points clear of Nyssinator.

Nice. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

I see.

It would be very interesting to see the ideal team!

I don't know if there is a function in Excel that would identify that with more certainty: the best I could construct is:
HESJEDAL 425 715
DE GENDT 422 423
BASSO 609 309
HENAO 339 172
NIEVE 449 170
PHINNEY 383 157
RABOTTINI 52 155
TIRALONGO 276 144
DE MARCHI 42 80

for a total score of 2325, at a cost of 2997.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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

Congrats from me too.

 

[Sylvester]

I don't know if there is a function in Excel that would identify that with more certainty: the best I could construct is:
HESJEDAL 425 715
DE GENDT 422 423
BASSO 609 309
HENAO 339 172
NIEVE 449 170
PHINNEY 383 157
RABOTTINI 52 155
TIRALONGO 276 144
DE MARCHI 42 80

for a total score of 2325, at a cost of 2997.

Thanks! Strange to see no sprinters were needed. I always saw Goss as an obvious choice.

 

[asdfgh101]

I don't know if there is a function in Excel that would identify that with more certainty: the best I could construct is:
HESJEDAL 425 715
DE GENDT 422 423
BASSO 609 309
HENAO 339 172
NIEVE 449 170
PHINNEY 383 157
RABOTTINI 52 155
TIRALONGO 276 144
DE MARCHI 42 80

for a total score of 2325, at a cost of 2997.

Amador was another top rider.

With regards to the budget i too agree that 3k was perfect for the Giro, but the field will be stronger (in both real terms and CQ points) at the tour.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Congratulations dlwssonic! And thanks to cqmanager for organizing this. I think we should take a look at the budget once the Tour is approaching. I agree that we might "need" to up the budget for the Tour.

 

[mc_mountain]

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
<snip>

The spreadsheet is here on Googledocs.

So close to the podium, 2 points, and a few seconds away. Kwiatkowski 2 and a bit seconds away from scoring those points in the TT and Stetina 3 secs away from losing a place to Szymd in the GC. If scores had been even, FF Wilco having a stage winner would perhaps have been the tiebreaker though.
Thanks to Hugo, CQM and particularly Armchair whose tables and pre final stage analysis greatly enhancing my enjoyment of the game (enjoying my day in the provisional overall lead and allowing me to best monitor whether or not I could maintain the podium to go with my 3rd place in the 2011 overall game).

handbrake's 4th in 2011 game and 2nd here just beat my 3rd and 4th!

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Jonathan Vaughters outscored most of us: the Garmin team had a total CQ point cost of 2720, and returned 1123 points, which would have put him in 25th place.

 

[Handbrake]

So close to the podium, 2 points, and a few seconds away. Kwiatkowski 2 and a bit seconds away from scoring those points in the TT and Stetina 3 secs away from losing a place to Szymd in the GC. If scores had been even, FF Wilco having a stage winner would perhaps have been the tiebreaker though.
Thanks to Hugo, CQM and particularly Armchair whose tables and pre final stage analysis greatly enhancing my enjoyment of the game (enjoying my day in the provisional overall lead and allowing me to best monitor whether or not I could maintain the podium to go with my 3rd place in the 2011 overall game).

handbrake's 4th in 2011 game and 2nd here just beat my 3rd and 4th!

MC_Mountain, you have me well and truly covered in 2012 game. I'm so glad I dropped Boonen from my 2011 team and also dropped Mick Rogers because I thought I was picking too many fellow Australians

 

[dlwssonic]

Congrats from me too.

Congratulations dlwssonic! And thanks to cqmanager for organizing this. I think we should take a look at the budget once the Tour is approaching. I agree that we might "need" to up the budget for the Tour.

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...

Thanks guys!!!!

 

[CQmanager]

Didnt check for any differences but here is the official final update based on my numbers.

Thanks to all for playing and I'm looking forward to our TDF game that is coming up in two weeks

CQM



Rank Team Points
1. dlwssonic 1772
2. Handbrake 1687
3. FF'Wilco 1668
4. mc_mountain 1666
5. Geraint Too Fast 1618
6. Mellow Velo 1574
7. Froome19 1569
8. hilltopfinisher 1566
9. gustienordic 1556
10. Tuarts 1543
11. AntonioRossi 1501
12. kdc10 1494
13. EvansIsTheBest 1425
14. whittashau 1408
15. Damiano 1398
16. Chris Schneider 1394
17. groomy93 1375
18. asdfgh101 1328
19. hrotha 1312
20. fedaia 1281
21. the_fool_on_the_hill 1261
22. Eric8-A 1242
23. boomcie 1173
24. Duartista 1161
25. vladimir 1140
26. Maaaaaaaarten 1139
27. Nyssinator 1070
28. HelgeBlendet 1033
29. jens_attacks 1002
30. antomeno 998
31. comodoro 977
32. Sylvester 971
33. Kazistuta 940
34. Emil Brix 930
35. Jancouver 917
36. Tjuhampion 916
37. 18-Valve. (pithy) 906
38. Hugo Koblet 867
39. vcampbell 867
40. shalgo 866
41. Netserk 838
42. yoand88 827
43. Gubby Allen 819
44. minessa 816
45. Jpettersen 809
46. CQmanager 801
47. togo95 774
48. cackles 767
49. flyersdk 756
50. Armchair cyclist 751
51. Connor Pass 740
52. jsem94 721
53. taiwan 717
54. kirill-loko 707
55. Timmy-loves-Rabo 706
56. Zam_olyas 702
57. TeoSheva 702
58. Inkerboid 687
59. Il Gigante Geert 663
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. LittleWolf 463
69. han-solo 337
70. CasperVG 309
71. ps10ispro 242
72. Danskeman 197