E3 Harelbeke
For many, the main significance of today was not the points won, but the loss of chances in the weeks ahead.
But first, let's deal with the positive side of things. We have some popular riders among the high scorers
Scoring riders
Position, name, points , no of teams
2, STYBAR Zdenek, 132, 17
5, VANMARCKE Sep, 86, 17
7, ROELANDTS Jürgen, 66, 10
10, OSS Daniel, 46, 6
11, BOZIC Borut, 40, 2
12, LEUKEMANS Björn, 35, 1
13, ROWE Luke, 30, 3
15, MARCATO Marco, 24, 1
16, OFFREDO Yoann, 21, 7
18, BENOOT Tiesj, 18, 1
19, BOASSON HAGEN Edvald, 17. 7
22, BURGHARDT Marcus, 14, 2
23, GATTO Oscar, 13, 4
26, STANNARD Ian, 10, 37
27, VANDENBERGH Stijn, 9, 17
We also had, between us, named 29 of the 5 point finishers, including STANNARD Ian, VANDENBERGH Stijn, HAUSSLER Heinrich, GAUDIN Damien, VANSUMMEREN Johan, PAOLINI Luca and DEVENYNS Dries, who were each named on more than ten teams.
Points earned today
Despite not picking his near-namesake (no-one else had the day's winner either), Geraint Too Fast is a fitting top scorer for the day, by quite a margin. 10 or the 12 riders in his team scored, and the four top ten finishers that made it into our teams all made it into his.
Asdfgh101 lacked Vanmarcke, but had three of those four top ten men, and so managed second above those who combined Stybar and Vanmarcke (Del1962, Nepetalactone, JosephD and LightBing). Madrazo also had three of those 4 big scorers, but the one he missed was Stybar.
1 GeraintTooFast 365
2 Asdfgh101 278
3 Del1962 268
4 Nepetalactone 264
5 JosephD 257
6 Madrazo 250
7 Search 238
8 LightBing 233
9 DJW 223
10 Oliveira 218
11 Akuryo 215
12 AmisVelo 198
13 RoteLaterne 188
14 Alykaptan 184
15 TomJelte 182
16 Jancouver 179
17 GPBlanco 171
18 Batchuba 167
19 Karaev 159
20 Trudgin 142
21 Murali 137
22 18Valve 135
23 PBlazer 134
24 LaVelocipede 130
25 NairoQ 125
25 Murrjt 125
27 JustSomeGuy 124
28 ArchieBoy 121
29 CaptCavman 116
30 Joelsim 111
31 Josedin 110
32 Vesica 106
33 DJSprtsch 99
34 Comodoro 98
35 LosBrolin 69
36 MellowVelo 66
37 NotMyCircus 51
38 Armchair 47
39 Kazistuta 36
40 Hugo87 30
41 Scrool07 25
41 AG 25
43 Leadbelly 24
44 Crevaison 20
45 ItalianGigolo 10
CollectiveWisdom 262
New standings
DJW had a good top ten position today, and holds onto his lead, but only by a single point, and asdfgh101 is the only other team within 100 points. Despite the large number of points won today, most of the highest scorers today were already high placed (not least because the Stybar-Vanmarcke combo was also the key to top points in Strade Bianchi) and so there were not huge positional changes. Akuryo, Amis Velo, Joseph D and Jancouver, with jumps of 12, 11 and 8 are the biggest risers. Not My Circus suffers her second spectacular fall from 2nd, this time to 10th, and Karaev drops back out of the top ten, replaced by Nepatalactone.
1 DJW 930
2 GeraintTooFast 929
3 Asdfgh101 899
4 Del1962 828
5 RoteLaterne 805
6 LightBing 781
7 Alykaptan 764
8 Madrazo 763
9 Nepetalactone 752
10 NotMyCircus 731
11 Oliveira 725
12 Search 683
12 Karaev 683
14 JosephD 661
15 TomJelte 641
16 GPBlanco 625
17 NairoQ 569
18 AmisVelo 559
19 Jancouver 554
20 Joelsim 545
21 ArchieBoy 541
21 Vesica 541
23 PBlazer 531
24 Akuryo 517
25 ItalianGigolo 512
26 Josedin 510
27 LaVelocipede 502
28 CaptCavman 494
29 Batchuba 486
30 Leadbelly 477
31 JustSomeGuy 468
32 18Valve 449
32 Murrjt 449
34 Murali 426
35 DJSprtsch 422
36 Scrool07 402
37 Trudgin 383
38 Hugo87 374
39 LosBrolin 356
40 MellowVelo 338
41 Armchair 322
42 Comodoro 293
43 Crevaison 282
44 Kazistuta 273
45 AG 271
CollectiveWisdom 827
And the bad news:
The game seems to be up for 7 teams who have more than 1/3 of their budget with 2 cracked vertebrae: CaptCavman, Crevaison, Hugo87, ItalianGigolo, Jancouver, MellowVelo, and Murali.