2015-17 Emerging Riders CQ game

[Joelsim]

Well I'm happy with that so far.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

July, Year 1
And up to 2nd August.

I have tweaked the spreadsheet, so that I now have any rider eligible for the game on my radar, not only those who were actually selected (although I might still be missing those who had no CQ record before this year)

So this is not only the best of our picks in July, but also the best ones that we missed.

CAMPENAERTS Victor 152 0 teams (2nd in Tour de Wallonie)
ROGLIC Primoz 109 1 teams (Stage win and 4th overall at Qinghai Lake: MCMountain)
NAESEN Oliver 85 10 teams (Polynormande win)
VLIEGEN Loïc 78 3 teams (8th in Wallonie and 11th in London/Surrey; Leadbelly, Madrazo, RoteLaterne)
WARNIER Antoine 74 0 teams (5th Wallonie)
VALLEE Boris 73 5 teams (6th in Wallonie: Comodoro, Joelsim, Karaev, Ludwigzgz, Scrooll07)
LATOUR Pierre 70 23 teams (7th in Österreich-Rundfahrt GC)
SAVITSKY Ivan 61 0 teams (Qinghai Lake, including one stage win)
BUCHMANN Emanuel 55 6 teams (3rd to Cauterets in the Tour, plus finishing points: AlPacino, Del1962, Joelsim, Mutschi, Scrooll07, Vladimir)
KOSHEVOY Ilia 55 3 teams (Stage win and 13th GC in Qinghai Lake: Alykaptan, ItalianGigolo, Snccdcno)
POLJANSKI Pawel 55 3 teams (9th in GC in Austria: Flo, Mutschi, The_Fool_on_the_Hill)
SPRENGERS Thomas 46 3 teams (Wallonie and London: Comodoro, Del1962, The_Fool_on_the_Hill)

Team scores this month
1 Madrazo 399
2 Joelsim 378
3 Leadbelly 311
4 ItalianGigolo 302
5 Alykaptan 274
6 MCMountain 270
6 Skidmark 270
8 Vladimir 264
9 Del1962 254
10 Karaev 246
11 Mutschi 239
12 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 238
13 Multispeed 234
14 Jakob747 228
15 Ludwigzgz 220
16 RoteLaterne 217
17 GeraintTooFast 216
18 Kazistuta 183
18 Comodoro 183
20 Nuvolablu 172
21 HugoKoblet 165
21 Snccdcno 165
23 Asdfgh101 164
24 Armchair_Cyclist 154
25 Scrooll07 151
26 GPBlanco 148
27 Flo 131
28 Ruudz0r 115
29 HilltopFinisher 98
30 Josedin 77
31 AlPacino 75
32 DJSprtsch 70
33 Blues_in_the_Bottle 56
CollectiveWisdom 190

Team scores thus far
Joelsim is back in the lead, swapping places with MCMountain, despite the latter having the best selected rider this month. The month's top team, Madrazo, moves up 2 places to third, and ItalianGigolo, Alykaptan and Skidmark enter the top ten.

1 Joelsim 2184
2 MCMountain 2092
3 Madrazo 1990
4 Leadbelly 1975
5 Multispeed 1892
6 Vladimir 1784
7 Ludwigzgz 1764
8 ItalianGigolo 1737
9 Alykaptan 1735
9 Skidmark 1735
11 Jakob747 1710
12 Nuvolablu 1656
12 HugoKoblet 1656
14 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 1575
14 Snccdcno 1575
14 GPBlanco 1575
17 Mutschi 1542
18 Del1962 1504
19 Ruudz0r 1498
20 RoteLaterne 1497
21 Karaev 1476
22 Kazistuta 1463
23 HilltopFinisher 1461
24 Comodoro 1457
25 Armchair_Cyclist 1394
26 GeraintTooFast 1390
27 Blues_in_the_Bottle 1382
28 Scrooll07 1340
29 Asdfgh101 1198
30 Josedin 1195
31 AlPacino 1167
32 Flo 1067
33 DJSprtsch 765
CollectiveWisdom 1664

And as I have for the 2014-16 Emerging game, I can now reveal a "Collective Ignorance" team: the best 18 riders eligible for the game but overlooked by each and every one of us. Consider it a communal shaming, and its first incarnation is:

BEVIN Patrick 397
CAMPENAERTS Victor 325
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 310
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 257
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 255
BACKAERT Frederik 220
CLAEYS Dimitri 210
SAVITSKY Ivan 206
NIKOLAEV Sergey 162
PETILLI Simone 162
OCKELOEN Jasper 155
GALTA Fredrik Strand 152
COMBAUD Romain 146
LAAS Martin 139
TALIANI Alessio 139
DUCHESNE Antoine 135
VANGSTAD Andreas 135
LAPORTE Christophe 129
for a total of 3634 points, way ahead of any real team, and ahead of the 3442 that would be the total of the best 18 we did pick.

 

[mutschi]

Great work, Armchair. Thanks.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

August Year 1 (and up to last Sunday, 6th Sept)

Points earned: 3rd Aug to 6th Sept

LATOUR Pierre 198 23 teams (good results in Burgos and Tour de l'Ain)
NAESEN Oliver 157 10 teams (6 different scoring races, but mainly podiums at Schal Sels and Stad Zottegem)
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 123 28 teams (Vuelta a Burgos)
MANNION Gavin 95 1 team (US Pro Challenge)
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 92 9 teams (Utah & Colorado)
EIKING Odd Christian 68 10 teams
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 68 2 teams
SARREAU Marc 64 3 teams
MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe 64 1 team
SPRENGERS Thomas 59 3 teams
KOSHEVOY Ilia 59 3 teams
CAPIOT Amaury 59 1 team
OOMEN Sam 57 2 teams
TURGIS Anthony 56 1 team
MCLAY Daniel 51 4 teams

However, among those we all missed:
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads 99
STENUIT Robin 98
BRANDAO Joni Silva 85
SQUIRE Robbie 85
CLAEYS Dimitri 67
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 65


Points this month
1 Leadbelly 849
2 Multispeed 805
3 Joelsim 738
4 Alykaptan 705
5 ItalianGigolo 680
6 Skidmark 677
7 Vladimir 638
8 MCMountain 633
8 Madrazo 633
10 Asdfgh101 624
11 Nuvolablu 613
12 Snccdcno 569
13 Kazistuta 564
14 HilltopFinisher 545
15 Jakob747 543
16 HugoKoblet 537
17 RoteLaterne 530
18 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 517
19 Karaev 516
20 GPBlanco 508
21 GeraintTooFast 477
22 Ludwigzgz 472
23 Blues_in_the_Bottle 457
24 Ruudz0r 453
25 Mutschi 439
26 Del1962 426
27 Armchair_Cyclist 388
28 Flo 367
29 Comodoro 339
30 AlPacino 317
31 Josedin 277
32 DJSprtsch 100
33 Scrooll07 87
CollectiveWisdom 576

Standings
The top 9 this month were all in the top 10 before the month began. Joelsim was 3rd best in August to retain his lead, while Leadbelly, top scorer this month, moves up two places to 2nd. Alykaptan's 3 places is the biggest rise in the top ten, and Kazistuta's 5 place jump is the biggest of the month.
1 Joelsim 2922
2 Leadbelly 2824
3 MCMountain 2725
4 Multispeed 2697
5 Madrazo 2623
6 Alykaptan 2440
7 Vladimir 2422
8 ItalianGigolo 2417
9 Skidmark 2412
10 Nuvolablu 2269
11 Jakob747 2253
12 Ludwigzgz 2236
13 HugoKoblet 2193
14 Snccdcno 2144
15 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 2092
16 GPBlanco 2083
17 Kazistuta 2027
17 RoteLaterne 2027
19 HilltopFinisher 2006
20 Karaev 1992
21 Mutschi 1981
22 Ruudz0r 1951
23 Del1962 1930
24 GeraintTooFast 1867
25 Blues_in_the_Bottle 1839
26 Asdfgh101 1822
27 Comodoro 1796
28 Armchair_Cyclist 1782
29 AlPacino 1484
30 Josedin 1472
31 Flo 1434
32 Scrooll07 1427
33 DJSprtsch 865
CollectiveWisdom 2240
Collective Ignorance 4076
Best of those we picked 3489

 

[mutschi]

Will there be any updates again? Has been a while. Cheers.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

September and early October, Year One
I'll refer you to the 2014-16 game for explanation/apology: short version is that this is points earned up to 18 October, so covers about 7 weeks.

Points earned
MARINI Nicolas 155 1 team (Hilltop Finisher' unique pick, 3 stage wins and 2nd in GC in Tour of China, take 2)
GERTS Floris 140 0
STACCHIOTTI Riccardo 130 0
LAPORTE Christophe 127 0
DOULL Owain 125 2 teams (3rd in Tour of Britain, for Comodoro and Josedin)
CLAEYS Dimitri 112 0
SPRENGERS Thomas 101 3 teams (Tours of Vendee and Languedoc-Roussillon, and some Italian one day races: Comodoro, Del 1962 and Fool on the Hill)
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 92 0
LOOIJ André 91 10 teams (mainly from Munsterland Giro)
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 90 0
KÜNG Stefan 89 21 teams (mainly from his part in BMC's World TTT victory)
ARCHBOLD Shane 82 0
BAZHKOU Stanislau 79 0
VALLEE Boris 77 5 teams (mainly from Munsterland Giro)
LEDANOIS Kevin 65 6 teams (U23 World Champion)
CAPIOT Amaury 63 1 team (points in several one day races, but mainly Munsterland, again)

Scores this period
Unique pick of the month's star rider puts Hilltop Finisher top of the table
1 HilltopFinisher 514
2 Comodoro 456
3 Flo 447
4 Multispeed 439
5 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 406
6 Madrazo 401
7 Ruudz0r 398
8 Joelsim 378
9 Ludwigzgz 369
10 Nuvolablu 367
11 Skidmark 364
12 MCMountain 339
13 Snccdcno 336
13 GPBlanco 336
15 Josedin 333
16 Leadbelly 327
17 Armchair_Cyclist 324
18 ItalianGigolo 323
19 Scrooll07 320
20 HugoKoblet 318
21 Blues_in_the_Bottle 317
22 Del1962 311
23 Karaev 309
24 Jakob747 284
25 Alykaptan 273
26 Vladimir 251
27 Kazistuta 249
28 RoteLaterne 243
29 DJSprtsch 241
30 Mutschi 230
31 AlPacino 218
32 Asdfgh101 190
33 GeraintTooFast 183
CollectiveWisdom 308

Standings
These are effectively end of year positions, but still two, hopefully higher scoring, years to come.
Multispeed has laepfrogged MCMountain to reach the podium, Skidmark's 3 place rise is the best in the top ten and Hilltop Finisher's top place this month (well, seven weeks) saw him rise 6 places.
1 Joelsim 3300
2 Leadbelly 3151
3 Multispeed 3136
4 MCMountain 3064
5 Madrazo 3024
6 Skidmark 2776
7 ItalianGigolo 2740
8 Alykaptan 2713
9 Vladimir 2673
10 Nuvolablu 2636
11 Ludwigzgz 2605
12 Jakob747 2537
13 HilltopFinisher 2520
14 HugoKoblet 2511
15 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 2498
16 Snccdcno 2480
17 GPBlanco 2419
18 Ruudz0r 2349
19 Karaev 2301
20 Kazistuta 2276
21 RoteLaterne 2270
22 Comodoro 2252
23 Del1962 2241
24 Mutschi 2211
25 Blues_in_the_Bottle 2156
26 Armchair_Cyclist 2106
27 GeraintTooFast 2050
28 Asdfgh101 2012
29 Flo 1881
30 Josedin 1805
31 Scrooll07 1747
32 AlPacino 1702
33 DJSprtsch 1106
CollectiveWisdom 2548
CollectiveIgnorance 4834

 

[rote_laterne]

I have some pretty bad picks who I fear won't improve the next two years. Still looking forward to the development of the young riders.
Are you gonna run a 2016-18 game too, Armchair cyclist?

 

[Ludwigzgz]

Well... not bad. But I make a major mistake. I wanna elect Fernando Gaviria but I forget him in the moment of selections. Damn...

We in Spain are waiting with spectation the moment of play in the 2016-2018 edition. We wanna play next year. Some new players garanted.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

End of Year One

Only 6 selected riders scored in the dog days of the season, but one of them scored massively and is on more than half the teams:
MARECZKO Jakub 356pts 17 teams (A decent haul in Tour of Hainan, then total domination of the Tour of Taihu Lake)
ÖRKEN Ahmet 102pts 1 team (Won Turkish Tours of Mevlana and the Aegean, with several stage wins in each, then all sorts of podiums in China)
KOZHATAYEV Bakhtiyar 62pts 1 team (7th overall in Tour of Hainan)
SILVESTRE Fabio Andre Tomas 25pts 2 teams (stage points in Hainan)
FILOSI Iuri 5pts 1 team (Hainan)
GODOY Yonder Eduardo 3pts 1 team (The Tour of Costa Rica even gets a mention!)

Mareczko rises from virtually nowhere to being the 4th highest scorer of the selected riders (behind Roglic, Naesen and Latour), so his terrific autumn makes some impact on the tables:

Since Mid-October
1 Vladimir 361
2 AlPacino, Blues_in_the_Bottle, GPBlanco, HilltopFinisher, HugoKoblet, ItalianGigolo, Jakob747, Joelsim, Josedin, Karaev, Kazistuta, Madrazo, Multispeed, Nuvolablu, Ruudz0r, The_Fool_on_the_Hill 356
18 DJSprtsch 102
19 Scrooll07 62
20 Ludwigzgz 25
20 Mutschi 25
22 RoteLaterne 3
23 Alykaptan, Armchair_Cyclist, Asdfgh101, Comodoro, Del1962, Flo, GeraintTooFast, Leadbelly, MCMountain, Skidmark, Snccdcno 0
CollectiveWisdom 356

To the end of Year One
Unsurprisingly, all the teams with Mareczko have moved up (except for Joelsim. who was already top) and all those who didn't have him lost places (except for DJSprtsch, who was already last. Blues in the Bottle, Al Pacino and Josedin had the biggest jumps: Ludwigzgz and Skidmark (the stars of the 2014-16 game), along with Alykaptan, take the biggest tumbles.

1 Joelsim 3656
2 Multispeed 3492
3 Madrazo 3380
4 Leadbelly 3151
5 ItalianGigolo 3096
6 MCMountain 3064
7 Vladimir 3034
8 Nuvolablu 2992
9 Jakob747 2893
10 HilltopFinisher 2876
11 HugoKoblet 2867
12 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 2854
13 Skidmark 2776
14 GPBlanco 2775
15 Alykaptan 2713
16 Ruudz0r 2705
17 Karaev 2657
18 Kazistuta 2632
19 Ludwigzgz 2630
20 Blues_in_the_Bottle 2512
21 Snccdcno 2480
22 RoteLaterne 2273
23 Comodoro 2252
24 Del1962 2241
25 Mutschi 2236
26 Josedin 2161
27 Armchair_Cyclist 2106
28 AlPacino 2058
29 GeraintTooFast 2050
30 Asdfgh101 2012
31 Flo 1881
32 Scrooll07 1809
33 DJSprtsch 1208
Collective Wisdom 2904

At the end of the first year, our most popular 20 picks have varied considerably in how much they have deserved our trust:
NAESEN Oliver 506
LATOUR Pierre 453
MARECZKO Jakub 449
KÜNG Stefan 324
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 297
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 249
EIKING Odd Christian 194
LOOIJ André 188
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 151
BOUDAT Thomas 121
POWER Robert 111
MOHORIC Matej 97
VAN DER POEL Mathieu 93
HNIK Karel 70
RUFFONI Nicola 64
FLAKEMORE Campbell 64
CHEVRIER Clément 50
MULLEN Ryan 44
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney 43
VERVAEKE Louis 30
(Sadly, two of these, Power and Flakemore, seem unlikely to make much further contribution to the game)

Some fairly high scorers were picked by at least some of us:
(Rider/points/teams)
ROGLIC Primoz 519 1
NAESEN Oliver 506 10
LATOUR Pierre 453 23
MARECZKO Jakub 449 17
KÜNG Stefan 324 21
SPRENGERS Thomas 308 3
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 297 28
VALLEE Boris 277 5
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 249 24
TURGIS Anthony 247 1
DOULL Owain 235 2
MARINI Nicolas 228 1
BUCHMANN Emanuel 218 6
ÖRKEN Ahmet 203 1
EIKING Odd Christian 194 10
BOSWELL Ian 191 4
VLIEGEN Loïc 190 3
LOOIJ André 188 10
CAPIOT Amaury 187 1
MCLAY Daniel 186 4
OOMEN Sam 185 2

And some in the same range were overlooked by all of us:
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 465
BEVIN Patrick 397
CLAEYS Dimitri 389
CAMPENAERTS Victor 388
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 355
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 304
WOODS Michael 283
LAPORTE Christophe 261
JAKIN Alo 247
GERTS Floris 241
BIALOBLOCKI Marcin 238
BACKAERT Frederik 230
SAVITSKY Ivan 226
COMBAUD Romain 208
PETILLI Simone 208
NIKOLAEV Sergey 206
GALLEGO RUIZ Alberto 204
QUINTERO NORENA Carlos Julian 204
STENUIT Robin 204
KULYK Andriy 202
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads 200
KAMP Alexander 195
OCKELOEN Jasper 183
(all of these now have exceeded 200 lifetime points: having missed them for this 2015-17, you can't have them for the 2016-18 edition)

The total of the best 18 picked riders: 5276
The total of the best 18 unpicked (but eligible) riders: 4862

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

CQ have done their name changes at some stage in the year: 8 teams (Alykaptan, Blues in the Bottle, HilltopFinisher, ItalianGigolo, Joelsim, Karaev, Kazistuta, Madrazo) have had their scores under-reported by 121 because Lorrenzo Manzin's forename has one more r than heretofore, and a rediscovered accent in the name of Aurélien Paret-Peintre has been depriving DJSprsch of 18 points.

Corrected standings:
1 Joelsim 3777
2 Madrazo 3501
3 Multispeed 3492
4 ItalianGigolo 3217
5 Leadbelly 3151
6 MCMountain 3064
7 Vladimir 3034
8 HilltopFinisher 2997
9 Nuvolablu 2992
10 Jakob747 2893
11 HugoKoblet 2867
12 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 2854
13 Alykaptan 2834
14 Karaev 2778
15 Skidmark 2776
16 GPBlanco 2775
17 Kazistuta 2753
18 Ruudz0r 2705
19 Blues_in_the_Bottle 2633
20 Ludwigzgz 2630
21 Snccdcno 2480
22 RoteLaterne 2273
23 Comodoro 2252
24 Del1962 2241
25 Mutschi 2236
26 Josedin 2161
27 Armchair_Cyclist 2106
28 AlPacino 2058
29 GeraintTooFast 2050
30 Asdfgh101 2012
31 Flo 1881
32 Scrooll07 1809
33 DJSprtsch 1226
CollectiveWisdom 2904

 

[rote_laterne]

Let the new season beginn!

Tour de San Luis (2.1)
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney

Santos Tour Down Under (2.UWT)
ZEPUNTKE Ruben

Lopez should bring some early points.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 month 1:
Time to step forward
There has not really been much expectation on our riders in year 1: this year we will see who is looking likely to be a really significant result earner.

The real proof of that will not be seen in January, but who has used this month to lay down a marker?

Leading Rider scores this month
(Riders/points/teams)
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney 126 26
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 77 28
KOSHEVOY Ilia 53 3
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 41 14
ORAM James 31 1
SPOKES Sam 30 1
SARREAU Marc 28 3
MARECZKO Jakub 20 17
MANZIN Lorrenzo 16 8

But we all missed out on:
BEVIN Patrick 85
OKUBAMARIAM ISSAK Tesfom 67
LANE Patrick 55
SMITH Dion 47
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 45
TORRES BARCELO Albert 44
NAULEAU Bryan 38
CLAEYS Dimitri 36
PAGE Dylan 36
VILLALOBOS SOLIS Roman 35
HAMILTON Chris 35
CHRISTIE Jason 34
O'CONNOR Ben Alexander 31
among others

Teams this month
1 Joelsim 318
2 Karaev 313
3 Alykaptan 308
4 Ruudz0r 302
5 Blues_in_the_Bottle 292
6 Madrazo 285
7 GPBlanco 279
8 Josedin 276
9 HugoKoblet 274
10 ItalianGigolo 266
10 Snccdcno 266
12 Asdfgh101 256
13 Skidmark 254
14 HilltopFinisher 244
15 Mutschi 242
16 Multispeed 238
16 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 238
18 Vladimir 228
19 Flo 217
20 Leadbelly 213
20 RoteLaterne 213
22 MCMountain 208
23 Kazistuta 159
24 Jakob747 150
25 Armchair_Cyclist 136
26 Del1962 132
27 DJSprtsch 131
28 GeraintTooFast 128
29 Scrooll07 126
30 Nuvolablu 117
31 AlPacino 114
32 Comodoro 95
33 Ludwigzgz 82
CollectiveWisdom 269

Standings to Jan 2016
The leader, Joelsim, was January's top scorer, so extends his lead. Not much other change except for Alykaptan's 4 place rise into the top 10.

1 Joelsim 4095
2 Madrazo 3786
3 Multispeed 3730
4 ItalianGigolo 3483
5 Leadbelly 3364
6 MCMountain 3272
7 Vladimir 3262
8 HilltopFinisher 3241
9 Alykaptan 3142
10 HugoKoblet 3141
11 Nuvolablu 3109
12 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 3092
13 Karaev 3091
14 GPBlanco 3054
15 Jakob747 3043
16 Skidmark 3030
17 Ruudz0r 3007
18 Blues_in_the_Bottle 2925
19 Kazistuta 2912
20 Snccdcno 2746
21 Ludwigzgz 2712
22 RoteLaterne 2486
23 Mutschi 2478
24 Josedin 2437
25 Del1962 2373
26 Comodoro 2347
27 Asdfgh101 2268
28 Armchair_Cyclist 2242
29 GeraintTooFast 2178
30 AlPacino 2172
31 Flo 2098
32 Scrooll07 1935
33 DJSprtsch 1357
CollectiveWisdom 3173

 

[skidmark]

I figured I might as well write an assessment of my team post-year 1.

About where I hoped or better:

Oliver Naesen
Pierre Latour
Stefan Kung
Miguel Angel Lopez
Fernando Gaviria
Dayer Quintana

This is in order starting with the rider I'm most pleased with. Naesen almost did a little too well - I was hoping for a solid year, another even more solid year at TSV, and then a WT ride. I don't know if he's ready. But I was worried last year when QST picked up Lampaert and that worked out, so maybe IAM will work out for him. Latour I'm not worried about at all, and once he's over his mono Kung should be great. Lopez is primed to be a world-destroyer; I'm probably more surprised with his last year than anyone's, since I thought he'd be buried at Astana year 1. But they can't keep him down, he's gonna be a white hot talent for sure. Gaviria didn't score a billion points yet, but he didn't have a pro ride last year so that was to be expected. Quintana didn't have a great year but is here mostly because he's already gotten a good start to year 2.

I still believe they have the talent but am starting to worry:

Sebastien Henao
Thomas Boudat
Ryan Mullen
Louis Vervaeke
Mathieu Van Der Poel
Matej Mohoric
Clement Chevrier

It's unfair to say I'm worried about Henao, but I expected a little bit more. Still plenty of time, although Sky just kind of tucked him away after the Giro last year. Boudat is where I expected about, but I want more road from him this year. Mullen I dunno, I knew he wouldn't have a pro ride until this year but he's gotta start producing fast to catch up. Vervaeke I'm willing to give a mulligan as he had a terrible year. VDP was never going to be a full-time road racer in this 3 years but I thought his talent was such that he couldn't really be held back in whatever 1.1 races he took part in. Mohoric I'm still patiently waiting for, and Chevrier I clearly believe something is there because I picked him again this year.

Uh Oh:

Ruben Zepuntke
Robert Power
Karel Hnik
Fredrik Ludvigsson
Nicola Ruffoni

Zepuntke was a full-on meh last year. Power's problem is his health-related break, clearly not talent. Hnik really didn't do anything with what I thought would be a sparse ProConti team with lots of chances, and hopefully he can move on with an even sparser ProConti team this year. Ludvigsson has been absolutely invisible, and Ruffoni went from promising fast guy to 'why didn't he race more than like 10 days after May'? So yeah, I'm pretty worried about these guys' lackluster performance.

While I'm not sold on Mareczko's greatness (I feel like the majority of his points were due to being in a race with zero competition at the end of the year), I'd gladly take him for any of these guys now.

 

[rote_laterne]

My not so successful team is scoring:
LATOUR Pierre 40
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney 3
VLIEGEN Loïc 5

and resting instead of racing:
La Méditerranéenne (2.1)
EIKING Odd Christian
LEDANOIS Kevin

I'm sure Latour, Lopez, Küng, Vliegen are good picks. Eiking and Mullen have to make the transition to riding in the pro peloton, Quintana is promising this year, Vervaeke can be. Rybalkin I don't know, at least he should race more this year. Van der Poel wants to ride MTB in Rio, don't expect anything from him this year on the road. Beltran and Godoy don't have a team, Skjerping and Zepuntke are domestiques.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2, Month 2

If this going to be any selected rider's big breakthrough year, none of them showed it in February: the scores are less impressive than those riders a year behind in their development that are in the 2016-18 game. Here are the best of those we chose just over a year ago:
LATOUR Pierre 66pts 23 teams (7th in Bessege GC, 10th in Laigueglia)
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 61 28 (4th in his national TT, and one stage in Langkawi (GC points in March update))
ROGLIC Primoz 55 1 (5th in Algarve GC)
WISNIOWSKI Lukasz 54 6 (5th in K-B-K)
CICCONE Giulio 50 2 (5th in Estruchi, 12th in Laigueglia)
ANDREETTA Simone 49 5 (8th in Lugano, and some Mediteraneenne pts)
BUCHMANN Emanuel 34 6 (12th in Oman GC)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 30 14 (stage points in Tour La Provence)
WACKERMANN Luca 30 3 (13th in Dubai GC)
RAMIREZ CHACON Brayan Stiven 30 1 (2nd in his national TT)

The popularity of the months top two scorers mean that most team scores for February are closely grouped:
1 Karaev 285
2 GeraintTooFast 270
3 Madrazo 260
4 Joelsim 259
5 HugoKoblet 256
6 GPBlanco 245
7 Vladimir 242
8 Multispeed 240
8 Kazistuta 240
10 ItalianGigolo 226
11 MCMountain 224
12 Jakob747 211
13 Asdfgh101 205
14 Snccdcno 201
15 Mutschi 200
16 Leadbelly 194
17 Skidmark 193
18 RoteLaterne 165
19 Alykaptan 162
19 AlPacino 162
21 Nuvolablu 158
22 HilltopFinisher 149
22 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 149
24 Josedin 147
25 Ludwigzgz 146
26 Flo 131
27 Blues_in_the_Bottle 123
28 Ruudz0r 118
28 Comodoro 118
30 Del1962 114
31 Scrooll07 102
32 Armchair_Cyclist 35
33 DJSprtsch 16
CollectiveWisdom 202


Latour, Lopez, Wisnioski and Andreeta give Karaev the biggest jump of th month, as well as the top monthly score, but even that is a modest 3 places to 10th, Vladimir and Hugo Koblet also rising within the top ten.
1 Joelsim 4354
2 Madrazo 4046
3 Multispeed 3970
4 ItalianGigolo 3709
5 Leadbelly 3558
6 Vladimir 3504
7 MCMountain 3496
8 HugoKoblet 3397
9 HilltopFinisher 3390
10 Karaev 3376
11 Alykaptan 3304
12 GPBlanco 3299
13 Nuvolablu 3267
14 Jakob747 3254
15 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 3241
16 Skidmark 3223
17 Kazistuta 3152
18 Ruudz0r 3125
19 Blues_in_the_Bottle 3048
20 Snccdcno 2947
21 Ludwigzgz 2858
22 Mutschi 2678
23 RoteLaterne 2651
24 Josedin 2584
25 Del1962 2487
26 Asdfgh101 2473
27 Comodoro 2465
28 GeraintTooFast 2448
29 AlPacino 2334
30 Armchair_Cyclist 2277
31 Flo 2229
32 Scrooll07 2037
33 DJSprtsch 1373
CollectiveWisdom 337

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 Month 3 (to 3rd April)

Rather strangely, the year 2 riders have higher points than the Year 3 riders in the 2014-16 game update that I did yesterday. No-one knew enough about Gaviria, Moscon, Lopez, Oomen or Wisniowski in January 2014 to have selected them...

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 169pts 14 teams (6th in Gent-Wevelgem, stage win in Tirreno-Adriatico, 10th in Dwaars door Vlaanderen)
LATOUR Pierre 140 23 (2nd in Criterium Int)
WACKERMANN Luca 129 3 (won no less than 3 2.2 tours in Algeria in the month)
MOSCON Gianni 123 3 (3rd in Settimana Coppi e Bartali, 8th in Nokere)
JARAMILLO DIEZ Daniel Alexander 120 1 (2nd in Langkawi, so mainly earned in February)
PEDERSEN Mads 111 2 (won Gent-Wevelgem U23, and top ten in De Panne GC)
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 105 28 (3rd in Langkawi, but points logged in March)
OOMEN Sam 103 2 (3rd in Crit Int)
WISNIOWSKI Lukasz 95 6 (3rd in Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen)

Scores this month
A truly outstanding performance by Madrazo, with a score 225 higher than second place. The only 1000+ monthly scores in the first edition came in April of Year 2, so he has beaten that landmark.
1 Madrazo 1013 (Gaviria, Latour, Wackermann, Moscon and Lopez)
2 GPBlanco 788 (Gaviria, Latour, Lopez and Wisniowski)
3 HugoKoblet 776 (same main scorers as GPBlanco)
4 Joelsim 763 (as GPB and Hugo, but without Wisniowski)
5 Nuvolablu 732 (Latour, Moscon and Lopez)
6 Asdfgh101 725
7 Karaev 704
8 Leadbelly 684
9 Jakob747 681
10 Multispeed 677
11 Ruudz0r 664
12 ItalianGigolo 660
13 GeraintTooFast 652
14 Kazistuta 628
15 Skidmark 621
16 MCMountain 602
17 Vladimir 592
18 Blues_in_the_Bottle 585
19 Josedin 551
20 HilltopFinisher 541
21 Snccdcno 532
22 RoteLaterne 488
23 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 483
24 Ludwigzgz 460
25 AlPacino 453
26 Mutschi 426
27 Comodoro 424 (only team to include Jaramillo)
28 Flo 411
29 Alykaptan 407
30 Del1962 292
31 Armchair_Cyclist 242
32 Scrooll07 150
33 DJSprtsch 141
CollectiveWisdom 753

Standings
That huge score brings Madrazo tight onto Search's heels, but the highest placed rider to have moved is Hugo Koblet, 6th from 8th. A three place rise brings GPBlanco into the top ten (replacing Hilltop Finisher), and a four place jump makes Asdfgh101 the top vaulter of the month,while Alykaptan goes 7 places in the wrong direction.
1 Joelsim 5117
2 Madrazo 5059
3 Multispeed 4647
4 ItalianGigolo 4369
5 Leadbelly 4242
6 HugoKoblet 4173
7 MCMountain 4098
8 Vladimir 4096
9 GPBlanco 4087
10 Karaev 4080
11 Nuvolablu 3999
12 Jakob747 3935
13 HilltopFinisher 3931
14 Skidmark 3844
15 Ruudz0r 3789
16 Kazistuta 3780
17 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 3724
18 Alykaptan 3711
19 Blues_in_the_Bottle 3633
20 Snccdcno 3479
21 Ludwigzgz 3318
22 Asdfgh101 3198
23 RoteLaterne 3139
24 Josedin 3135
25 Mutschi 3104
26 GeraintTooFast 3100
27 Comodoro 2889
28 AlPacino 2787
29 Del1962 2779
30 Flo 2640
31 Armchair_Cyclist 2519
32 Scrooll07 2187
33 DJSprtsch 1514
CollectiveWisdom 4128

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

In the first 3 months of 2016, the best ten riders that at least one of us picked:
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 243
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 240
LATOUR Pierre 206
WACKERMANN Luca 159
WISNIOWSKI Lukasz 154
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney 141
JARAMILLO DIEZ Daniel Alexander 135
MOSCON Gianni 134
PEDERSEN Mads 111
MARECZKO Jakub 110

and the best ten over that time that none of us picked are:
HUCKER Robbie 193
POLITT Nils 172
CALMEJANE Lilian 165
OKUBAMARIAM ISSAK Tesfom 149
CLAEYS Dimitri 138
BEVIN Patrick 128
AVILA VANEGAS Edwin Alcibiades 122
HAMILTON Chris 116
SMITH Dion 109
VAN LERBERGHE Bert 106


The current make-up of the "Collective Ignorance" team over a year and a quarter is:
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 556
CLAEYS Dimitri 527
BEVIN Patrick 525
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 401
CAMPENAERTS Victor 393
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 392
GERTS Floris 339
SMITH Dion 287
LAPORTE Christophe 279
SAVITSKY Ivan 263
POLITT Nils 260
VAN LERBERGHE Bert 250
BACKAERT Frederik 243
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads 237
DUCHESNE Antoine 236
COMBAUD Romain 236
PETILLI Simone 235
CALMEJANE Lilian 217
for a total score of 5876

But the best 18 that we did select have the following scores in the duration of the game:
LATOUR Pierre 659
ROGLIC Primoz 606
MARECZKO Jakub 559
NAESEN Oliver 550
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 540
KÜNG Stefan 401
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 391
TURGIS Anthony 332
SPRENGERS Thomas 314
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 312
OOMEN Sam 293
BUCHMANN Emanuel 287
PEDERSEN Mads 286
JARAMILLO DIEZ Daniel Alexander 280
VALLEE Boris 277
VLIEGEN Loïc 268
CAPIOT Amaury 257
MOSCON Gianni 254
for a total of 6866
(although 4 of them were unique picks)

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 Month 4 and including 1st May

In the game a year older than this, Julian Alaphillippe was getting second place in two classics during April of Year 2, and Simon Yates was top 5 in Pais Vasco. This time around, such emergence has not yet happened. But this is what the main scorers in our game this month did manage:

MCLAY Daniel 166points 4 teams (1st in Denain, 10th in Scheldeprijs)
BOUDAT Thomas 110 16 (mainly from 2nd in Denain)
LATOUR Pierre 104 23 (14th Pais Vasco, 19th Flecche, 12th Romandie)
VLIEGEN Loïc 88 3 (9th in Amstel Gold, 10th in Brabantse Pijl)
TURGIS Anthony 79 1 (3rd in Yorkshire GC)
VENTURINI Clément 79 1 (6th in both Denain and Roue Tourangelle)
BUCHMANN Emanuel 62 6 (8th in Giro del Trentino)
MANZIN Lorrenzo 62 8 (5th in Denain)
BROECKX Stig 62 2 (7th in Turkey)
VERVAEKE Louis 61 23 (11th in Pais Vasco)

Points earned
1 Madrazo 652 (Boudat, Latour, Vliegen, Manzin, Vervaeke)
2 Kazistuta 648(Mclay, Boudat, Latour, Manzin, Vervaeke, but fewer lower scorers)
3 Nuvolablu 539 (Boudat, Latour, Turgis, Vervaeke)
4 ItalianGigolo 535 (Boudat, Latour, Manzin, Vervaeke)
5 Leadbelly 506 (Boudat, Latour, Vliegen, Vervaeke)
6 Joelsim 500
7 Multispeed 484
8 Alykaptan 462 (has McLay)
8 Jakob747 462 (has McLay)
10 Skidmark 438
11 HugoKoblet 422
12 HilltopFinisher 416
13 Snccdcno 415
14 Blues_in_the_Bottle 387
15 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 374
16 Vladimir 361
17 MCMountain 344
18 RoteLaterne 326
19 Asdfgh101 322
20 Mutschi 314
21 Ludwigzgz 312
22 Comodoro 308 (has McLay)
22 Karaev 308
24 GPBlanco 295
25 Ruudz0r 286
26 Josedin 270
27 Flo 263
27 GeraintTooFast 263
29 Del1962 261
30 Scrooll07 249
31 Armchair_Cyclist 246
32 AlPacino 190
33 DJSprtsch 137
CollectiveWisdom 531

Standings

Madrazo was already 3rd at the end of year one, since when his monthly positions have been 6th, 3rd, 1st and now 1st again: it is not much surprise he has taken the lead. He and Joelsim are opening an increasing gap on the chasers, but if this were a grand tour, we are only on about Monday of week 2. Nuvolablu and Kazistuta move into the top ten with jumps of 4 and 6 places respectively.

1 Madrazo 5711
2 Joelsim 5617
3 Multispeed 5131
4 ItalianGigolo 4904
5 Leadbelly 4748
6 HugoKoblet 4595
7 Nuvolablu 4538
8 Vladimir 4457
9 MCMountain 4442
10 Kazistuta 4428
11 Jakob747 4397
12 Karaev 4388
13 GPBlanco 4382
14 HilltopFinisher 4347
15 Skidmark 4282
16 Alykaptan 4173
17 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 4098
18 Ruudz0r 4075
19 Blues_in_the_Bottle 4020
20 Snccdcno 3894
21 Ludwigzgz 3630
22 Asdfgh101 3520
23 RoteLaterne 3465
24 Mutschi 3418
25 Josedin 3405
26 GeraintTooFast 3363
27 Comodoro 3197
28 Del1962 3040
29 AlPacino 2977
30 Flo 2903
31 Armchair_Cyclist 2765
32 Scrooll07 2436
33 DJSprtsch 1651
CollectiveWisdom 4582

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 Month 5 To 29th May, coz I have free time this week.

Some significant Grand Tour points: some of our riders are indeed emerging.

MCLAY Daniel 170 points 4 teams (Wins GP de la Somme, 5th in Picardie GC, three 2nds in stages)
ROGLIC Primoz 125 1 (Win and a 2nd in Giro time trials for MC Mountain)
FOLIFOROV Alexander 108 4 (Stage win and other Giro points)
WACKERMANN Luca 103 3 (Stage win in Azerbaijan and GC 6th in Volta Cova da Beira)
PARRA BUSTAMENTE Heiner Rodrigo 99 1 (GC top 10s in Vuelta a Asturias and Volta Cova da Beira for Mutschi)
EIKING Odd Christian 94 10 (4th in Tour of Norway)
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 78 24 (GC 17th in Giro)
CICCONE Giulio 70 2 (Giro Stage win for Geraint and Jakob747)
ARSLANOV Ildar 50 1 (5th in Azerbaijan GC)
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 45 9 (Tour of California)
VENTURINI Clément 44 1 (Boucles de l'Aulnes)
HNIK Karel 41 14 (4th in Velothon Wales)
but we missed 100 point plus riders in MOAZEMI GOUDARZI Arvin, STEPNIAK Grzegorz, BRANDAO Joni Silva, MEURISSE Xandro.


Points this month
1 Jakob747 445 (McLay, Eiking and Ciccone)
2 MCMountain 413 (Roglic, Eiking, Henao)
3 Leadbelly 404 (Foliforov, Eiking, Henao, Geoghegan Hart)
4 Comodoro 388 (McLay, Hnik)
5 Alykaptan 383 (McLay, Foliforov, Hnik)
6 Kazistuta 362
7 Flo 336
8 Joelsim 312
9 Multispeed 309
10 ItalianGigolo 287
11 Mutschi 283
12 Asdfgh101 268
13 HugoKoblet 264
14 Nuvolablu 247
14 Vladimir 247
16 GeraintTooFast 245
17 Madrazo 244
18 Armchair_Cyclist 228
19 Snccdcno 224
20 Ruudz0r 213
21 Ludwigzgz 211
22 Josedin 201
23 RoteLaterne 187
24 Del1962 185
25 Blues_in_the_Bottle 182
26 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 181
27 Skidmark 179
28 HilltopFinisher 175
29 GPBlanco 172
30 AlPacino 145
31 DJSprtsch 100
32 Scrooll07 91
33 Karaev 83
CollectiveWisdom 380

Standings
The top two have a good margin over the rest, but are very close to each other. They have 11 riders in common: the game for the next 18 months might depend on the other 7 in each team.
No position changes in the top 6, but behind them MCMountain, Jakob and Kazistuta are all moving in the right direction, and a little further down, Alykaptan has the best rise.

1 Madrazo 5955
2 Joelsim 5929
3 Multispeed 5440
4 ItalianGigolo 5191
5 Leadbelly 5152
6 HugoKoblet 4859
7 MCMountain 4855
8 Jakob747 4842
9 Kazistuta 4790
10 Nuvolablu 4785
11 Vladimir 4704
12 Alykaptan 4556
13 GPBlanco 4554
14 HilltopFinisher 4522
15 Karaev 4471
16 Skidmark 4461
17 Ruudz0r 4288
18 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 4279
19 Blues_in_the_Bottle 4202
20 Snccdcno 4118
21 Ludwigzgz 3841
22 Asdfgh101 3788
23 Mutschi 3701
24 RoteLaterne 3652
25 GeraintTooFast 3608
26 Josedin 3606
27 Comodoro 3585
28 Flo 3239
29 Del1962 3225
30 AlPacino 3122
31 Armchair_Cyclist 2993
32 Scrooll07 2527
33 DJSprtsch 1751
CollectiveWisdom 4875


The current Collective Ignorance squad would be:

TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 588
CLAEYS Dimitri 557
BEVIN Patrick 525
SMITH Dion 419
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 406
CAMPENAERTS Victor 398
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 397
BRANDAO Joni Silva 385
GERTS Floris 344
LAPORTE Christophe 315
VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter 306
MOAZEMI GOUDARZI Arvin 294
VAN LERBERGHE Bert 293
SAVITSKY Ivan 292
BACKAERT Frederik 288
PETILLI Simone 284
COMBAUD Romain 280
MEURISSE Xandro 272
For a total of 6643

And the best possible team would be:
LATOUR Pierre 763 23 teams
ROGLIC Primoz 731 1 team
MARECZKO Jakub 617 17 teams
NAESEN Oliver 597 10 teams
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 588 no team
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 560 28 teams
CLAEYS Dimitri 557 no team
MCLAY Daniel 531 4 teams
BEVIN Patrick 525 no team
TURGIS Anthony 443 1 team
KÜNG Stefan 431 21 teams
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 419 24 teams
SMITH Dion 419 no team
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 406 no team
CAMPENAERTS Victor 398 no team
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 397 no team
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 391 14 teams
BRANDAO Joni Silva 385 no team

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2, Month 6 but a bit early, 30 May to 19 June (I'll be busy next week setting up the TdF game, and for 3 weeks after it running that)


Rider points this "month"
1 rider definitely dominates, and he is the most popular pick of the lot, only 5 of us don't have him.
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 360 points 28 teams (Overall GC win in Tour de Suisse, with 100 sundry stage and classification points from the same race)
TURGIS Anthony 127 1 (stage win and GC 4th in Tour de Luxembourg for Nuvolablu)
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 105 2 (Stage win and GC 2nd in Route du Sud for Asdfgh101 and Blues in the Bottle)
BOUDAT Thomas 81 16 (3rd in GC and two stage podiums in Boucles de la Mayenne)
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 62 9 (2nd in both Course de la Paix and Tour des Pays de Savoie)
MANNION Gavin 45 1 (7th and a stage podium in Korea )

Points gained
1 Nuvolablu 780 (Lopez, Turgis, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart)
2 Asdfgh101 749 (Lopez, Soler, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart)
3 Blues_in_the_Bottle 718 (Lopez, Soler, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart and Mannion)
4 MCMountain 682 (Lopez, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart)
5 Multispeed 661 (Lopez, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart)
6 HilltopFinisher 660 (Lopez, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart)
7 Madrazo 627
8 Skidmark 622
9 Kazistuta 614
10 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 611
11 Ruudz0r 606
12 Leadbelly 590
13 HugoKoblet 584
13 Snccdcno 584
15 GPBlanco 537
16 Vladimir 522
17 Jakob747 519
18 Karaev 518
18 Flo 518
20 Joelsim 516
21 AlPacino 515
22 Ludwigzgz 504
23 RoteLaterne 499
24 Alykaptan 492
25 GeraintTooFast 469
26 Comodoro 464
27 Josedin 452
28 Mutschi 446
29 ItalianGigolo 206
30 Armchair_Cyclist 186
31 Scrooll07 165
32 Del1962 140
33 DJSprtsch 91
CollectiveWisdom 759

Standings
Novulablu moves up 5 places from 10th to 5th: Italian Gigolo is the only one of the non-Lopez teams that was not in a terminally dreadful position before Tour de Suisse, so is the biggest victim. Madrazo increases his lead.
1 Madrazo 6582
2 Joelsim 6445
3 Multispeed 6101
4 Leadbelly 5742
5 Nuvolablu 5565
6 MCMountain 5537
7 HugoKoblet 5443
8 Kazistuta 5404
9 ItalianGigolo 5397
10 Jakob747 5361
11 Vladimir 5226
12 HilltopFinisher 5182
13 GPBlanco 5091
14 Skidmark 5083
15 Alykaptan 5048
16 Karaev 4989
17 Blues_in_the_Bottle 4920
18 Ruudz0r 4894
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 4890
20 Snccdcno 4702
21 Asdfgh101 4537
22 Ludwigzgz 4345
23 RoteLaterne 4151
24 Mutschi 4147
25 GeraintTooFast 4077
26 Josedin 4058
27 Comodoro 4049
28 Flo 3757
29 AlPacino 3637
30 Del1962 3365
31 Armchair_Cyclist 3179
32 Scrooll07 2692
33 DJSprtsch 1842
CollectiveWisdom 5527
Collective Ignorance 6815


This has been a short month: next update likely to be to the end of July, but keep an eye out for the Tour de France game coming soon.

Dropbox file

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 1 month 7 and through until 7th August, so given that I took the June results early, this is actually a 7 week month.

This month and a bit...

Fewer good scorers in this game than among those in the game a year behind them: not yet good enough for much Tour impact, too good for the minor distractions in July?

BUCHMANN Emanuel 145pts 6 teams (21st in the Tour de France, 14th in Rio, and 4th in Rad am Ring, a race that had totally passed below my radar)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 143 14 (2 stage wins and a 2nd in Poland, with three days in yellow and 7th in Hallle Ingooigem)
WARBASSE Larry 96 2 (7th in Tour of Poland GC for Flo and Scrool07)
MARECZKO Jakub 95 17 (3 stage wins and a 2nd in Qinghai Lake)
MOSCON Gianni 84 3 (4th (TT) and 5th (RR) in Nat Champs for Jakob747, Madrazo, Nuvolablu))
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 79 9 (6th in Nat Champs, 12th in Utah GC)
ZURLO Federico 69 2 (Stage win and GC 10th in Qinghai Lake for Multispeed and Ruudz0r)
MCLAY Daniel 64 4 (one 3rd, and 3 other stage top 10s, in the Tour de France for Alykaptan, Comodoro, Jakob747, Kazistuta)
ROGLIC Primoz 62 1 (10th and 26th in Rio, 5th in Nat Champs, a stage podium and some GC points in Poland for MC<ountain)
MARINI Nicolas 50 1 (a first, a second and a third in Qinghai stages for Hilltop Finisher)

but we all missed:
BETTIOL Alberto 207
VINHAS Rui Pedro Carvalho 155
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads 146
KAMP Alexander 137
GIDICH Yevgeniy 137
VAN AERT Wout 119
GOGL Michael 114
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente 111
CECCHIN Alberto 109
TRATNIK Jan 106


1 Joelsim 530 (Buchmann, Gaviria and Mareczko)
2 Jakob747 482 (Gaviria, Mareczko, Moscon, McLay)
3 AlPacino 469(Buchmann, Mareczko and Geoghegan Hart)
4 Madrazo 446 (Gaviria, Mareczko, Moscon, McLay)
5 Karaev 397
6 Asdfgh101 395
7 ItalianGigolo 392
8 HugoKoblet 390
9 Kazistuta 380
10 Ruudz0r 379
11 Nuvolablu 375
12 Vladimir 369
12 GPBlanco 369
14 Josedin 368
15 Blues_in_the_Bottle 345
16 Del1962 342
17 Scrooll07 327
18 Multispeed 319
19 GeraintTooFast 317
20 Skidmark 313
21 HilltopFinisher 296
22 Flo 273
23 Comodoro 260
24 Mutschi 257
25 Alykaptan 225
26 Leadbelly 209
27 MCMountain 196
28 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 189
29 Armchair_Cyclist 173
30 Snccdcno 157
31 RoteLaterne 107
32 Ludwigzgz 80
33 DJSprtsch 59
CollectiveWisdom 519

Standings
The top two look fairly well established and both scored well this month, with large points gaps either side of third place. You'd have to go down to 6th to find the first change in position, where monthly runner-up has risen from 10th, while MCMountain made exactly the opposite journey. Josedin, despite being a distinctly average 14th in the monthly score, has the equal biggest (4 place) rise

1 Madrazo 7028
2 Joelsim 6975
3 Multispeed 6420
4 Leadbelly 5951
5 Nuvolablu 5940
6 Jakob747 5843
7 HugoKoblet 5833
8 ItalianGigolo 5789
9 Kazistuta 5784
10 MCMountain 5733
11 Vladimir 5595
12 HilltopFinisher 5478
13 GPBlanco 5460
14 Skidmark 5396
15 Karaev 5386
16 Ruudz0r 5273
16 Alykaptan 5273
18 Blues_in_the_Bottle 5265
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 5079
20 Asdfgh101 4932
21 Snccdcno 4859
22 Josedin 4426
23 Ludwigzgz 4425
24 Mutschi 4404
25 GeraintTooFast 4394
26 Comodoro 4309
27 RoteLaterne 4258
28 AlPacino 4106
29 Flo 4030
30 Del1962 3707
31 Armchair_Cyclist 3352
32 Scrooll07 3019
33 DJSprtsch 1901
CollectiveWisdom 5904
Collective Ignorance 6940

Best possible selection:
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 920pts 28 teams
ROGLIC Primoz 823 1
LATOUR Pierre 809 23
MARECZKO Jakub 712 17
NAESEN Oliver 633 10
MCLAY Daniel 623 4
TURGIS Anthony 570 1
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 567 14
BEVIN Patrick 545 0
BUCHMANN Emanuel 514 6
CAMPENAERTS Victor 484 0
SMITH Dion 480 0
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 468 0
KÜNG Stefan 466 21
BRANDAO Joni Silva 466 0
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads 429 0
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 420 0
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 419 24
That selection would have earned 10348 pts

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Sorry for the very long hiatus: head not been in a good place recently, but a little less foggy now.

Thanks to Scrool07 for picking up the baton I had dropped on the 2016-18 game.

I had got up to 7th August, so here is Year 2, Month 8, up to 4th September

MOSCON Gianni 248 pts 3 teams (stage and overall victories in Arctic Tour for Jakob747, Madrazo, Nuvolablu)
NAESEN Oliver 225 10 (Bretagne Ouest France classic win)
OOMEN Sam 166 2 (stage & overall in Tour de l'Ain, 10th in Poitou Charentes for Leadbelly and MCMountain)
ROGLIC Primoz 107 1 (10th in Olypic TT, 4th in Poitou Charentes for MCMountain)
LATOUR Pierre 83 23 (3rd in Tour de l'Ain)
EIKING Odd Christian 77 10
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 73 24
VLIEGEN Loïc 69 3
HNIK Karel 66 14
CAPIOT Amaury 65 1

1 Leadbelly 772 (Naesen, Oomen, Latour, Eiking, Henao, Vliegen, Capiot)
2 Madrazo 719 (Moscon, Naesen, Latour, Henao, Vliegen)
3 Jakob747 644 (Moscon, Naesen, Eiking, Henao)
4 ItalianGigolo 541 (Naesen, Latour, Eiking, Henao, Hnik)
5 Multispeed 539 (Naesen, Latour, Eiking, Henao, Hnik)
6 MCMountain 526 (Oomen, Roglic, Latour, Eiking, Henao)
7 Joelsim 500
8 Skidmark 486
9 Nuvolablu 485
10 Vladimir 446

Standings at 4th Sept
1 Madrazo 7747
2 Joelsim 7475
3 Multispeed 6959
4 Leadbelly 6723
5 Jakob747 6487
6 Nuvolablu 6425
7 ItalianGigolo 6330
8 MCMountain 6259
9 HugoKoblet 6101
10 Vladimir 6041
11 Kazistuta 6036
12 Skidmark 5882
13 Alykaptan 5697
14 HilltopFinisher 5676
15 GPBlanco 5653
16 Karaev 5531
17 Ruudz0r 5418
18 Blues_in_the_Bottle 5368
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 5322
20 Asdfgh101 5112
21 Snccdcno 5104
22 Ludwigzgz 4655
23 Mutschi 4640
24 GeraintTooFast 4634
25 RoteLaterne 4584
26 Josedin 4505
27 Comodoro 4473
28 Flo 4214
29 AlPacino 4179
30 Del1962 4023
31 Armchair_Cyclist 3750
32 Scrooll07 3074
33 DJSprtsch 2003
CollectiveWisdom 6226

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

September, and up to mid October, Year 2
from 5th September to the end of the World Championships (16th October)

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 417pts 14 teams (won Paris-Tours and Impanis Van Petegem, 2nd in Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen and Gran Piemonte)
NAESEN Oliver 291 10 (2nd in Eneco Tour & Eurometropole, and several smaller hauls)
LATOUR Pierre 206 23 (Stage win and top 30 in Vuelta, top 10 in Lombardia)
RUFFONI Nicola 193 16 (1st in Brono Beghelli, 2nd in Coppa Bernocchi)
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 140 28 (win Milan-Torino)
CAPIOT Amaury 138 1 (4th in Eurometropole, 5th in Binche-Chimay, 6th in Putte Kapellen, 7th in Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen for Leadbelly)
MULLEN Ryan 96 11 (5th in World champ TT)
MOSCON Gianni 88 3
MARINI Nicolas 87 1
KÜNG Stefan 83 21

When popular riders get big scores, there are many high scoring teams:
1 Joelsim 1501 (Gaviria, Naesen, Latour, Ruffoni, Lopez, Kung)
2 Skidmark 1495 (Gaviria, Naesen, Latour, Ruffoni, Lopez, Mullen, Kung)
3 Madrazo 1358 (Gaviria, Naesen, Latour, Lopez)
4 ItalianGigolo 1341 (Gaviria, Naesen, Latour, Ruffoni)
5 HugoKoblet 1295 (Gaviria,Latour, Ruffoni, Lopez, Mullen, Kung)
6 Alykaptan 1142
7 Kazistuta 1127
8 Jakob747 1123
9 Karaev 1110
10 Leadbelly 1100
11 GeraintTooFast 1066
12 Asdfgh101 1039

Standings on 16th October

1 Madrazo 9105
2 Joelsim 8976
3 Leadbelly 7823
4 Multispeed 7788
5 ItalianGigolo 7671
6 Jakob747 7610
7 HugoKoblet 7396
8 Skidmark 7377
9 Nuvolablu 7313
10 Kazistuta 7163
11 MCMountain 6941
12 Vladimir 6871
13 Alykaptan 6839
14 Karaev 6641
15 GPBlanco 6632
16 HilltopFinisher 6413
17 Ruudz0r 6378
18 Blues_in_the_Bottle 6203
19 Asdfgh101 6151
20 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 5959
21 Snccdcno 5809
22 GeraintTooFast 5700
23 Josedin 5387
24 RoteLaterne 5263
25 Ludwigzgz 5207
26 Mutschi 5106
27 Comodoro 4955
28 AlPacino 4899
29 Del1962 4642
30 Flo 4556
31 Armchair_Cyclist 4320
32 Scrooll07 3193
33 DJSprtsch 2093
CollectiveWisdom 7559

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

To end of Year 2 (except for the December races in Costa Rica)
MOHORIC Matej 125pts 15 teams (stage win and 3rd on GC in Hainan)
MARECZKO Jakub 101 17 (3 stage wins and 2 podiums in Taihu lake)
GODOY Yonder Eduardo 90 1 (2nd on GC at Taihu Lake for Rote Laterne)
POWER Robert 72 24 (3rd in Japan Cup)

1 HugoKoblet 361
2 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 356
3 Vladimir 343
4 HilltopFinisher 332
5 Madrazo 320
5 Karaev 320
7 Nuvolablu 303
8 AlPacino 284
9 Skidmark 272
9 Del1962 272

So as we embark on the third year, it looks like it has become a two horse race between Madrazo and Joelsim.
1 Madrazo 9425
2 Joelsim 9171
3 Multispeed 7988
4 Leadbelly 7917
5 ItalianGigolo 7866
6 Jakob747 7783
7 HugoKoblet 7757
8 Skidmark 7649
9 Nuvolablu 7616
10 Kazistuta 7389
11 Vladimir 7214
12 MCMountain 7088
13 Karaev 6961
14 Alykaptan 6938
15 GPBlanco 6760
16 HilltopFinisher 6745
17 Ruudz0r 6578
18 Blues_in_the_Bottle 6451
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 6315
20 Asdfgh101 6173
21 Snccdcno 5973
22 GeraintTooFast 5772
23 Josedin 5510
24 RoteLaterne 5488
25 Ludwigzgz 5424
26 Mutschi 5200
27 AlPacino 5183
28 Comodoro 5027
29 Del1962 4914
30 Flo 4739
31 Armchair_Cyclist 4575
32 Scrooll07 3232
33 DJSprtsch 2187
CollectiveWisdom 7843

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Total scores in Year 2 were 145% of those in Year 1 (slightly higher than in the 2014-16 game), and the table of scores from Year 2 alone would be:

1 Madrazo 5924
2 Joelsim 5394
3 Jakob747 4890
3 HugoKoblet 4890
5 Skidmark 4873
6 Leadbelly 4766
7 ItalianGigolo 4649
8 Kazistuta 4636
9 Nuvolablu 4624
10 Multispeed 4496
11 Karaev 4183
12 Vladimir 4180
13 Asdfgh101 4161
14 Alykaptan 4104
15 MCMountain 4024
16 GPBlanco 3985
17 Ruudz0r 3873
18 Blues_in_the_Bottle 3818
19 HilltopFinisher 3748
20 GeraintTooFast 3722
21 Snccdcno 3493
22 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 3461
23 Josedin 3349
24 RoteLaterne 3215
25 AlPacino 3125
26 Mutschi 2964
27 Flo 2858
28 Ludwigzgz 2794
29 Comodoro 2775
30 Del1962 2673
31 Armchair_Cyclist 2469
32 Scrooll07 1423
33 DJSprtsch 961
CollectiveWisdom 4939

Over the two years thus far, the best possible team is:
NAESEN Oliver 1149 10
LATOUR Pierre 1098 23
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 1060 28
ROGLIC Primoz 1005 1
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 984 14
MARECZKO Jakub 855 17
CLAEYS Dimitri 814 0
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 805 0
MOSCON Gianni 742 3
MCLAY Daniel 703 4
BETTIOL Alberto 661 0
SMITH Dion 641 0
BEVIN Patrick 600 0
TURGIS Anthony 596 1
CAMPENAERTS Victor 573 0
KÜNG Stefan 549 21
BUCHMANN Emanuel 524 6
OOMEN Sam 521 2
for a total of 13880 points (Madrazo currently running at 68% of that)

You'll notice that that selection includes a number of riders that nobody thought of at all in compiling their teams: if we remove them, the best selection is:
NAESEN Oliver 1149 10
LATOUR Pierre 1098 23
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 1060 28
ROGLIC Primoz 1005 1
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 984 14
MARECZKO Jakub 855 17
MOSCON Gianni 742 3
MCLAY Daniel 703 4
TURGIS Anthony 596 1
KÜNG Stefan 549 21
BUCHMANN Emanuel 524 6
OOMEN Sam 521 2
CAPIOT Amaury 496 1
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 492 24
VLIEGEN Loïc 431 3
EIKING Odd Christian 423 10
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 419 9
MARINI Nicolas 419 1
with a total score of 12466

By contrast, the best selection from among those we overlooked is:
CLAEYS Dimitri 814
TORRES AGUDELO Rodolfo Andres 805
BETTIOL Alberto 661
SMITH Dion 641
BEVIN Patrick 600
CAMPENAERTS Victor 573
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 520
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh 505
MEURISSE Xandro 472
BRANDAO Joni Silva 466
MOAZEMI GOUDARZI Arvin 464
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads 429
LAPORTE Christophe 426
GERTS Floris 416
VAN LERBERGHE Bert 398
CALMEJANE Lilian 390
VAN AERT Wout 362
KAMP Alexander 360
Totalling 9302 points: Madrazo is beating the Collective Ignorance team.

He is also beating the official Collective Wisdom team (most popular picks), which would be in 6th place with 7843, earned thus:
LATOUR Pierre 1098
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 1060
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 984
MARECZKO Jakub 855
KÜNG Stefan 549
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian 492
EIKING Odd Christian 423
POWER Robert 325
BOUDAT Thomas 325
RUFFONI Nicola 318
MOHORIC Matej 311
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney 224
HNIK Karel 222
MULLEN Ryan 209
VERVAEKE Louis 139
VAN DER POEL Mathieu 131
CHEVRIER Clément 103
FLAKEMORE Campbell 64

but that is because I put the 4 riders on 10 teams into alphabetical order to create that team. If I had put in Naesen instead of Chevrier, it would have 8714 points and be in 3rd overall.

But there is also the need to acknowledge the mistakes made by at least some of us:

BOLIVAR HERNANDEZ Isaac 0 4
ZORDAN Andrea 0 3
OWSIAN Arkadiusz 0 1
AFFINI Edoardo 1 1
KLARIS Magnus Bak 4 1
BOUHANNI Rayane 5 3
GIBSON Matthew 5 1
ANDERBERG Hampus 8 1
BARTA William 10 1
MCEVOY Jonathan 12 1
VERHELST Louis 15 2
HAVIK Piotr 15 1
CAM Maxime 15 1
HOLOWESKO Liam 17 1
KERRISON Jesse 21 2
PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien 24 1
WATSON Calvin 25 1
GREGAARD WILSLY Jonas 28 1