2016-18 Emerging Riders CQ Game

[rote_laterne]

Re:

Thanks for the update.

COSTA Adrien 155 1 (3 stage podiums and 2nd overall in Utah for Abbulf)

I didn't realize one team chose Adrien Costa. Good call for Abbulf, I have him in my youth and main game, but didn't expect him to do so well this year that he won't be egilable next year.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Re: Re:

Thanks for the update.

COSTA Adrien 155 1 (3 stage podiums and 2nd overall in Utah for Abbulf)

I didn't realize one team chose Adrien Costa. Good call for Abbulf, I have him in my youth and main game, but didn't expect him to do so well this year that he won't be egilable next year.

I suspect that there were a lot of us thinking "Next year, but not this", but now he is indeed priced out of the 2017-2019 edition.

 

[laarsland]

Any chance of an update on end of season 1 standings soon?

Best,
Second last place....

 

[scrooll07]

I really like this game,unfortunately there are no updates since a long time so I decided to give a help to armchaircyclist,so:
Year 1 month 8,last update end at 7th of August so this will start from 8th of August and end 11th of September(the end of Vuelta)

Best chosen scorers this month:
MOSCON Gianni 329 32(won Artic race of Norway,5th at Tour du Charentes and 6th at GP de Montreal)
BETTIOL Alberto 299 2(2nd at Bretagne Classic,4th in Quebec and 7th in Montreal for Armchair Cyclist and DJW)
MARTIN Guillaume 105 15(4th in Tour de l'Ain and 11th at Tour of Britain)
CALMEJANE Lilian 103 1(stage win at the Vuelta for Alykaptan)
HOELGAARD Daniel 71 8(7th in Bretagne Classic)
KOCH Jonas 64 1(4th in Tour des Fjords for Laarsand)
MAMYKIN Matvey 59 13(24th in the Vuelta)
RUBIO HERNANDEZ Diego 50 3(6th at Tour du Limousin for ItalianGigolo,ArmchairCyclist and 0w1s)
VIMPERE Théo 48 1(7th in Tour du Limousin for 0w1s)
SCHLEGEL Michal 46 2(8th in Czech Tour for Karaev and Togo)
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix 42 4(7th in Czech Tour)

Team this month
For a second month in row with one point difference the winner is :
1.DJW 821(Moscon,Bettiol,Mamykin,Grossschartner,Gogl)
2.Armchair Cyclist 820(Moscon,Bettiol,Rubio,Tao Hart)
3.Flo 683(Moscon,Martin,Hoelgaard,Mamykin,Tao Hart)
4.Comodoro 649(Moscon,Martin,Hoelgaard,Mamykin)
5.Karaev 633(Moscon,Martin,Mamykin,Schelgel,Tao Hart)
6.MCMountain 623
7.Joelsim 622
8.Skidmark 592
9.Kazistuta 587
9.GPBlanco 587
11.Alykaptan 584
12.Murrjt 574
13.Madrazo 572
14.Ruudz0r 555
15.Blues_in_the_Bottle 543
16.HugoKoblet 533
17.Del1962 527
18.AmisVelo 524
19.Ludwigzgz 522
20.Abbulf 512
21.Togo 504
22.Vladimir 489
23.Scrooll07 486
24.ItalianGigolo 471
25.The_Fool_on_the_Hill 462
26.RoteLaterne 456
27.Josedin 444
28.HilltopFinisher 440
29.Jakob747 426
30.Trudgin 414
31.Leadbelly 407
32.Bomboloni 398
33.LukasCPH 386
34.Laarsland 317
35.0w1s 288
36.JustSomeGuy 142
37.GuilhermeRibeiro 54
CollectiveWisdom 611

Standings:
Second win in row mean that DJW goes on the top of the table but still everyone is close and everything can happen.

1.DJW 3109
2.ArmchairCyclist 3083
3.Alykaptan 2909
4.Karaev 2903
5.HugoKoblet 2883
6.Scrooll07 2847
7.Flo 2834
8.Skidmark 2823
9.Murrjt 2777
10.Blues_in_the_Bottle 2773
11.Ludwigzgz 2730
12.AmisVelo 2726
13.Del1962 2724
14.Ruudz0r 2723
15.GPBlanco 2689
16.HilltopFinisher 2658
17.Vladimir 2644
18.Madrazo 2639
19.The_Fool_on_the_Hill 2629
20.Abbulf 2575
21.MCMountain 2549
22.Josedin 2506
23.RoteLaterne 2505
24.LukasCPH 2474
25.Togo 2455
26.Comodoro 2404
27.Trudgin 2384
28.Jakob747 2335
29.Kazistuta 2293
30.Joelsim 2247
31.LeadBelly 2180
32.ItalianGigolo 2155
33.Bomboloni 2114
34.0w1s 1963
35.Laarsland 1897
36.JustSomeGuy 1699
37.GuilhermeRibeiro 877
CollectiveWisdom 2822

As my first try I hope I did it right but if someone find a mistake can PM'me,I will probably made the table from 12.09 to end of October tomorrow or after two days as I have a plenty of free time now.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Thanks scrooll

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Thanks: I'm sorry for being so remiss at this. I'll try to shake off the black dog and summarise the end of year 2 of the 2015-17 edition tomorrow.

Can I thank Scrool07 for shaking me: I am fully intending starting another 3 year cycle in January, so keep your eyes open for those with a career to date score of less than 200 while you are getting your main game and Youth game squads together.

 

[scrooll07]

Year 1 Month 9-10,from 12.09 to 30.11
Due to the lack of races,decided to made the table untill end of November
Best chosen scorers this month:
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 417 36(win in Paris-Tours and Classic Impanis,second place in Gran Piemonte and Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen)
WALSCHEID Maximilian 169 6( 5 stage wins at Tour of Hainan)
MULLEN Ryan 132 12(5th in I.T.T World Championship in Doha and 4th at Chrono des Nations)
GODOY Yonder Eduardo 123 1( second in Tour of Taihu Lake for Trudgin)
STACCHIOTTI Riccardo 118 1(second in Tour of China II for 0w1s)
BERNARD Julien 68 9(6th in Abu Dhabi Tour)
KORSAETH Truls Engen 67 3(16th at World Championships (Doha) R.R. and 8th in Chrono des Nations)
CONSONNI Simone 54 19(5th in GP Bruno Beghelli)
PETERS Alex 48 11(6th in Japan Cup)
POLITT Nils 47 7(6th in Tour de l'Eurométropole and 8th in World Championships (Doha) T.T.T.)

Team this month:
1.Flo 989(Gaviria,Walscheid,Mullen,Bernard,Consonni)
2.Scrooll07 887(Gaviria,Walscheid,Peters,Politt)
3.Laarsland 864(Gaviria,Walscheid,Bernard,Korsaeth,Peters)
4.LukasCPH 832(Gaviria,Mullen,Martinez Poveda,Mamykin)
5.LeadBelly 827(Gaviria,Walscheid,Korsaeth,Consonni)
6.Ludwigzgz 823
7.Murrjt 817
8.Skidmark 764
9.Togo 762
10.Madrazo 760
11.ArmchairCyclist 756
12.Del1962 755
13.GPBlanco 734
14.McMountain 714
15.Joelsim 703
16.DJW 702
17.ItalianGigolo 686
18.Kazistuta 673
19.The_Fool_on_the_Hill 657
20.0w1s 656
21.HilltopFinisher 655
22.HugoKoblet 653
23.RoteLaterne 644
24.Jakob747 638
25.Josedin 622
26.Comodoro 615
27.Trudgin 611
28.Blues_in_the_Bottle 607
29.Abbulf 593
30.AmisVelo 585
31.Bomboloni 563
32.Ruudz0r 557
33.Karaev 542
34.JustSomeGuy 530
35.Alykaptan 527
36.Vladimir 519
37.GuilhermeRibeiro 192
CollectiveWisdom 750

Standings:

1.ArmchairCyclist 3839
2.Flo 3823
3.DJW 3811
4.Scrooll07 3734
5.Murrjt 3594
6.Skidmark 3587
7.Ludwigzgz 3553
8.HugoKoblet 3536
9.Del1962 3479
10.Karaev 3445
11.Alykaptan 3436
12.GPBlanco 3423
13.Madrazo 3399
14.Blues_in_the_Bottle 3380
15.HilltopFinisher 3313
16.AmisVelo 3311
17.LukasCPH 3306
18.The_Fool_on_the_Hill 3286
19.Ruudz0r 3280
20.McMountain 3263
21.Togo 3217
22.Abbulf 3168
23.Vladimir 3163
24.RoteLaterne 3149
25.Josedin 3128
26.Comodoro 3019
27.LeadBelly 3007
28.Jakob747 2973
29.Kazistuta 2966
30.Trudgin 2555
31.Joelsim 2950
32.ItalianGigolo 2841
33.Laarsand 2761
34.Bomboloni 2677
35.0w1s 2619
36.JustSomeGuy 2229
37.GuilhermeRibeiro 1069
CollectiveWisdom 3620

Flo with the month win but that was not enough to take the first place in the overall standing where ArmchairCyclist have a lead of 16pts from the second and 28pts from the third

 

[LaFlorecita]

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I should take my eyes of the ball more often. Perhaps if I never update any of my games, I can win them all!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The best possible team at this stage would be have 6266 points: the current leader (blushes) has 61% of that.

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833 36
MOSCON Gianni 622 32
BETTIOL Alberto 568 2
MEURISSE Xandro 389 0
CALMEJANE Lilian 338 1
HALVORSEN Kristoffer 336 0
VAN AERT Wout 306 0
SCHULTING Peter 281 0
ORTEGA RAMIREZ Mauricio 281 0
COSTA Adrien 274 1
CARPENTER Robin 268 0
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 262 24
WACKERMANN Luca 262 0
ACKERMANN Pascal 258 1
GIDICH Yevgeniy 258 0
POLITT Nils 254 7
WALSCHEID Maximilian 239 6
DE TIER Floris 237 3


You will note that many of these have not been picked by any of us, the challenge to our claim of expertise that is the Collective Ignorance squad currently consists of:

MEURISSE Xandro 389
HALVORSEN Kristoffer 336
VAN AERT Wout 306
SCHULTING Peter 281
ORTEGA RAMIREZ Mauricio 281
CARPENTER Robin 268
WACKERMANN Luca 262
GIDICH Yevgeniy 258
SCHELLING Patrick 229
DOMAGALSKI Karol Andrzej 226
STALNOV Nikita 210
HUCKER Robbie 206
HUFFMAN Evan 196
GAUDU David 196
KIRSCH Alex 195
VINHAS Rui Pedro Carvalho 183
PACHER Quentin 181
TIZZA Marco 178
and with a total of 4381 would have a very comfortable lead.

Our Collective Wisdom team, meanwhile stands as follows:
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833
MOSCON Gianni 622
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 262
MARTIN Guillaume 227
BOUDAT Thomas 204
MAMYKIN Matvey 199
PEDERSEN Mads 195
MULLEN Ryan 165
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 155
MANZIN Lorrenzo 142
BOHLI Tom 120
VERVAEKE Louis 109
DE PLUS Laurens 94
CONSONNI Simone 89
MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe 87
PETERS Alex 64
KÄMNA Lennard 48
CONTRERAS PINZON Rodrigo 5
At 3620 points, it stands at a virtual 5th place in the table.


The best possible team made up from among those that we did pick would consist of:

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833 36
MOSCON Gianni 622 32
BETTIOL Alberto 568 2
CALMEJANE Lilian 338 1
COSTA Adrien 274 1
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 262 24
ACKERMANN Pascal 258 1
POLITT Nils 254 7
WALSCHEID Maximilian 239 6
DE TIER Floris 237 3
VENTURINI Clément 230 4
RÄIM Mihkel 230 2
MARTIN Guillaume 227 15
GOGL Michael 208 4
BOUDAT Thomas 204 20
MAMYKIN Matvey 199 13
MARTINELLI Davide 196 9
PEDERSEN Mads 195 28
for 5574 points.

But on the other hand, the worst team from among those we picked was:
VAN ROOY Kenneth 0 9
RAMOS SILVA Kleber 0 1
GADAY OROZCO Lucas Manuel 0 1
DEGREVE Martijn 0 1
APPELT Leo 0 1
CONTRERAS PINZON Rodrigo 5 16
BOUHANNI Rayane 5 5
MAISON Jérémy 5 3
PAREDES ZAPATA Wilmar Andres 5 1
PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien 6 1
WELTEN Bram 7 1
REKITA Szymon 7 1
LECUISINIER Pierre-Henri 10 3
GRELLIER Fabien 10 1
AGUIRRE CALPA Hernan Ricardo 11 1
MALTAR Bruno 12 1
STIEN Adrian Aas 14 1
ARIESEN Tim 16 3
They seemed a good idea as picks a year ago...

 

[rote_laterne]

Santos Tour Down Under 2.UWT
PEDERSEN Mads
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc

Won't help me to better my ranking as almost everyone has these two.

 

[skidmark]

Time to check in on this team - I'm in 5th place on the 2015-17 one, 6th here, but have a much better chance ultimately here, because a) there's more time and b) my team is much better.

BERNARD Julien
BOUDAT Thomas
CANTY Brendan
CHEVRIER Clément
CONSONNI Simone
DE PLUS Laurens
FOLIFOROV Alexander
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao
KÄMNA Lennard
MANZIN Lorrenzo
MARTIN Guillaume
MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe
MOSCON Gianni
MULLEN Ryan
ORAM James
PEDERSEN Mads
VERVAEKE Louis

Funny to compare the previous year's team to this team - I had 5 repeat riders in Boudat, Chevrier, Gaviria, Mullen, and Vervaeke. Apart from Chevrier, I'm convinced it was a good idea to pick them again (although a bad sign if I can still pick them again after taking them the year before) - Gaviria is obviously a generational talent at this point, but Vervaeke I think is poised to take a big step up this year too. Boudat is maybe a steady growth guy, and Mullen I'll hold out on before I decide whether his Worlds performance was more than a fluke.

Moscon is already a boss, and Guillaume Martin seems to be progressing well with a Pro Conti program. Mads Pedersen wrung 195 points riding for an absolutely inept Stolting team last year so he should do great with the leap up to Trek. Stoked on all three of those guys.

Kamna and Daniel Martinez I guess I chose them too young, as I picked them again THIS year, ha! Obviously I believe they can grow into big scorers, although after last year I'm skeptical of Kamna as he might need a couple of years (but again, he rode for Stolting, which is maybe the only team I've seen in recent years that developed talent more poorly than IAM or Cofidis). So, I still have hope.

Bernard and Canty seem like steady growth guys (in the mold of one of my current CQ consistency crushes, Dion Smith, who I sadly couldn't pick for this game), and Geoghegan Hart is gonna be money, it's just a matter of how soon he can spread his wings in team Sky, but he'll probably get a favourable calendar like American races or ToB.

Consonni is a neo this year and I have him in my main team. I'm a believer.

Foliforov I had two years ago in my main team and he's been a mystery. Or, rather, Gazprom have been a mystery. He wins a Giro stage but really nothing else. Who knows.

De Plus was thoroughly unconvincing last year, although he might have just needed some blooding like Vervaeke. Jury is out.

Manzin seems set to continue as a moderate points-getter in some minor races, will probably not reach the ceiling I imagined for him.

Oram looks like a mistake, Chevrier looks like he's got a ceiling unless he takes a big growth spurt soon.

So, taking a look at how popular riders are vs. how good I think they'll be, Foliforov, Canty and Chevrier are my rarest picks, and although I've got fingers crossed for the other two, I think Canty might be my real value here. Other than that, my best prospects are popular picks... I think it might be two mid-table guys in Vervaeke and Martin that could really boost my chances.

Looking forward to a new year!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Very close at the end of Year One: everything to play for (and no way of effecting it):
Year 2 Month 1 to Feb 5th

Riders of the month
CALMEJANE Lilian 195pts 1 team (Won GC with a stage win and a 2nd in Bessèges, and 3rd in La Marseillaise for Alykaptan)
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan 148 5 (10th in TDU, 4th in Evans' Ocean Race)
SCOTSON Miles 127 1 (Aussie RR win, 5th in the TT and finishers' points for Just Some Guy)
VERVAEKE Louis 84 15 (a second and a fourth in Majorcan races)
SENNI Manuel 77 1 (3rd in Volta a la Comminitat Valenciana for Amis Velo)
CANTY Brendan 50 4 (Top 10 in both Aus nat champs events, top 20 in Evans' Ocean Race)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 46 36 (2 stage wins in San Juan)
POLITT Nils 45 7 (6th in GC at Bessèges)

Points earned
These scores are lower than the riders 1 year behind them: these riders are meant to be more established....
1 AmisVelo 424 (Restrepo, Vervaeke, Senni & Gaviria)
2 Ludwigzgz 358 (Restrepo, Vervaeke & Gaviria)
3 Alykaptan 293 (Calmejane & Gaviria)
4 Skidmark 278 (Vervaeke, Canty & Gaviria)
5 JustSomeGuy 265
6 Jakob747 257
7 Josedin 255
8 Comodoro 247
9 HugoKoblet 241
10 Joelsim 229
11 Armchair_Cyclist 217
12 Blues_in_the_Bottle 214
13 DJW 211
14 Abbulf 197
15 Murrjt 196
15 Madrazo 196
17 Ruudz0r 187
18 LukasCPH 186
19 Leadbelly 185
20 Karaev 182
21 ItalianGigolo 172
22 Del1962 170
22 HilltopFinisher 170
24 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 165
25 Bomboloni 157
26 Togo 136
27 Flo 130
28 GPBlanco 125
29 MCMountain 122
29 Laarsland 122
31 Scrooll07 116
32 RoteLaterne 113
33 Vladimir 110
34 Kazistuta 98
35 0w1s 97
36 Trudgin 89
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 65
CollectiveWisdom 196

Standings
I'm still getting a nosebleed, while DJW moves ahead of Flo for 2nd. Amis Velo's 7 place rise is the best of the month, and he and Alykaptan come into the top ten in place of Del and Karaev. Given his dominant win in the 2014-16 win, Ludwigzgz' rise to 4th looks ominous.

1 Armchair_Cyclist 4056
2 DJW 4022
3 Flo 3959
4 Ludwigzgz 3911
5 Skidmark 3865
6 Scrooll07 3850
7 Murrjt 3790
8 HugoKoblet 3777
9 AmisVelo 3735
10 Alykaptan 3729
11 Del1962 3649
12 Karaev 3627
13 Blues_in_the_Bottle 3594
14 GPBlanco 3548
15 Madrazo 3547
16 LukasCPH 3492
17 HilltopFinisher 3489
18 Ruudz0r 3467
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 3451
20 Josedin 3389
21 MCMountain 3385
22 Togo 3353
23 Abbulf 3343
24 Vladimir 3279
25 RoteLaterne 3268
26 Comodoro 3266
27 Jakob747 3230
28 Leadbelly 3192
29 Joelsim 3179
30 Trudgin 3084
31 Kazistuta 3064
32 ItalianGigolo 3013
33 Laarsland 2883
34 Bomboloni 2834
35 0w1s 2722
36 JustSomeGuy 2494
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 1100
CollectiveWisdom 3816

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 Month 2 and up to 5th March


February yields fewer points than January, and year one (for one team at least) outscores year 2: points in these games can be rather counter-logical.

(Name/points/teams)
ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo 119 1 (Stage win and 5th in GC in Volta ao Algarve for GuilhermeRibeiro)
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 116 2 (7th in Langkawi, 5th in Larciano for Armchair Cyclist and Ruudz0r)
CALMEJANE Lilian 85 1 (5th in Haut Var GC, points in Drome, Ardeche and Laigueglia for Alykaptan)
OWEN Logan 65 1 (stage win 6th in Volta ao Alentejo for Kazistuta)
DUNBAR Eddie 59 5 (5th in Volta ao Alentejo)
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan 53 5 (2nd in Vuelta a Murcia)

1 Alykaptan 357 (Calmejeane and Dunbar, and 11 other scorers)
2 Ruudz0r 337 (Bernal and 13 others)
3 Armchair_Cyclist 307 (Bernal and 13 others)
4 AmisVelo 296
5 Ludwigzgz 286
6 Joelsim 272
7 Kazistuta 265
8 Murrjt 260
9 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 258
10 HugoKoblet 256
10 Del1962 256
12 Leadbelly 241
13 HilltopFinisher 236
14 Madrazo 234
15 Karaev 233
16 GPBlanco 231
16 MCMountain 231
18 Vladimir 230
19 Josedin 219
20 Comodoro 217
21 RoteLaterne 199
22 Abbulf 198
23 Scrooll07 196
23 ItalianGigolo 196
25 Flo 193
26 Skidmark 189
27 0w1s 180
28 Togo 178
29 Laarsland 177
30 Jakob747 175
31 Blues_in_the_Bottle 165
32 GuilhermeRibeiro 159
33 JustSomeGuy 156
34 LukasCPH 144
35 DJW 141
35 Trudgin 141
37 Bomboloni 140
CollectiveWisdom 231


My continued, and extended, lead is more of a surprise to me than it is to any of you, I assure you. Ludwigzgz' rise to 2nd is ominous, given his dominance of the 2014-16 game, but his 5 place rise is overshadowed by 6 place moves for Alykaptan, Amis Velo (both of those two are new in the top ten) and Ruudz0r.

1 Armchair_Cyclist 4363
2 Ludwigzgz 4197
3 DJW 4163
4 Flo 4152
5 Alykaptan 4086
6 Skidmark 4054
7 Murrjt 4050
8 Scrooll07 4046
9 HugoKoblet 4033
10 AmisVelo 4031
11 Del1962 3905
12 Karaev 3860
13 Ruudz0r 3804
14 Madrazo 3781
15 GPBlanco 3779
16 Blues_in_the_Bottle 3759
17 HilltopFinisher 3725
18 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 3709
19 LukasCPH 3636
20 MCMountain 3616
21 Josedin 3608
22 Abbulf 3541
23 Togo 3531
24 Vladimir 3509
25 Comodoro 3483
26 RoteLaterne 3467
27 Joelsim 3451
28 Leadbelly 3433
29 Jakob747 3405
30 Kazistuta 3329
31 Trudgin 3225
32 ItalianGigolo 3209
33 Laarsland 3060
34 Bomboloni 2974
35 0w1s 2902
36 JustSomeGuy 2650
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 1259
CollectiveWisdom 4047

 

[rote_laterne]

Good call GuilhermeRibeiro for picking Antunes. I just realized I don't have Bernal. I had him in the youth and main game last year and this year again in the main team. I only swapped him him in the 2017-2019 edition for Martinez as I was convinced I have him in this game. Congratulation to your continued lead Armchair cyclist, well deserved.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 3, Month 3 6th March to 2nd April

A good month for some of our popular picks


SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 227pts 22 teams (3rd in Catalunya GC, with stage and mountain classification points, 5th in GP Indurain, stage & GC points in Paris-Nice)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 226pts 36 teams (5th in Milan-San Remo, 9th in Gent-Wevelgem, stage win in Tirreno-Adriatico)
CALMEJANE Lilian 200pts 1 team (GC win and stage points in Settimana Coppi e Bartali, KoM winner in Paris-Nice for Alykaptan)
BOUDAT Thomas 108 20 (2nd in Loire Atlantique and Paris Troyes, stage win in Settimana Coppi e Bartali, points from other Coupe de France events)
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 90 2 (4th in Settimana Coppi e Bartali, 16th in Tirreno-Adriatico for ArmchairCyclist and Ruudz0r)
BETTIOL Alberto 82 2 (10th in Harelbeke and bits in several other WT classics for Armchair Cyclist and DJW)
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 78 3 (3rd in Settimana Coppi e Bartali for Flo, Joelsim and Scrool07)
CONSONNI Simone 55 19 (13th in Driedaagse GC, and 3rd on one stage)
MOSCON Gianni 54 32 (15th in Ronde, and 4 sets of WT race finisher points)

Our most costly collective misses:
AVILA VANEGAS Edwin Alcibiades 141 (GC 2nd and stage pts in Tour of Taiwan)
DASSONVILLE Flavien 96 (win in Tourangelle, 9th in Loire Atlantique: 4 teams picked him a year earlier, but not this time)
VAN SCHIP Jan-Willem 84 (Win Ronde van Drenthe)
HALVORSEN Kristoffer 80 (Win Handzame)


Points gained
Assume everyone has Gaviria (well, Guilherme hasn't, but look where he is...)

1 Alykaptan 1044 (Soler, Calmejeane, Boudat, Roson, Moscon)
2 Armchair_Cyclist 950 (Soler, Boudat, Bernal, Bettiol, Consonni, Moscon)
3 MCMountain 800 (Soler, Boudat, Consonni, Moscon, as have most of the following with close scores)
4 RoteLaterne 790
5 AmisVelo 786
6 Murrjt 781
7 Del1962 767
8 HugoKoblet 762
9 Karaev 758
10 Togo 746
11 ItalianGigolo 726
12 DJW 683
12 0w1s 683
14 Vladimir 678
15 Trudgin 671
16 Madrazo 663
17 GPBlanco 662
17 Abbulf 662
19 Blues_in_the_Bottle 640
20 Scrooll07 634
21 Comodoro 628
22 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 612
22 Leadbelly 612
24 HilltopFinisher 605
25 Ludwigzgz 592
26 Ruudz0r 571
27 Skidmark 515
28 Jakob747 458
29 Flo 456
30 JustSomeGuy 447
31 LukasCPH 443
32 Bomboloni 441
33 Kazistuta 431
34 Josedin 427
35 Joelsim 419
36 Laarsland 333
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 90
CollectiveWisdom 800


Standings

(This is getting embarrassing, but in a different way from my performance in most games... )
Being 2nd in the month increases Armchair's lead, while Alykaptan leaps 3 places to 2nd. Ludwizgz drops from 2nd to 7th, but three others have more severe drops, while the highest placed of the 5 place risers is Amis Velo, who is matched outside the top ten by MCMountain and Rote Laterne. Del1962 and Karaev sneak into the top ten.

1 Armchair_Cyclist 5313
2 Alykaptan 5130
3 DJW 4846
4 Murrjt 4831
5 AmisVelo 4817
6 HugoKoblet 4795
7 Ludwigzgz 4789
8 Scrooll07 4680
9 Del1962 4672
10 Karaev 4618
11 Flo 4608
12 Skidmark 4569
13 Madrazo 4444
14 GPBlanco 4441
15 MCMountain 4416
16 Blues_in_the_Bottle 4399
17 Ruudz0r 4375
18 HilltopFinisher 4330
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 4321
20 Togo 4277
21 RoteLaterne 4257
22 Abbulf 4203
23 Vladimir 4187
24 Comodoro 4111
25 LukasCPH 4079
26 Leadbelly 4045
27 Josedin 4035
28 ItalianGigolo 3935
29 Trudgin 3896
30 Joelsim 3870
31 Jakob747 3863
32 Kazistuta 3760
33 0w1s 3585
34 Bomboloni 3415
35 Laarsland 3393
36 JustSomeGuy 3097
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 1349
CollectiveWisdom 4853

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2, Month 4 3rd to 30th April (yes, that is a week ago, but it was the most recent update when I went to CQ this evening. I guess it fits the intention of monthly updates...

Other than Moscon, the points were gleaned mainly from stage races rather than the classics
CALMEJANE Lilian 156pts (Circuit de la Sarthe stage and GC wins, and 5 WT finishes) for Alykaptan
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 133 (2nd in GC, a stage win and a 2nd, in Croatia) for 3 teams
MOSCON Gianni 127(5th in Paris-Roubaix) for 32 teams
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 98 (2nd in Appenino, 9th in Tour of the Alps) for 2 teams
GOGL Michael 80 (8th in Amstel) for 4 teams
EDMONDSON Alexander 66 (3rd in 2 stages, 4th in another, and 3rd in points competition in Romandie) for 6 teams
PAREDES ZAPATA Wilmar Andres 62pts 1 team
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix 59 4
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 55 24
ACKERMANN Pascal 54 1

Points gained
1 Alykaptan 585 (Calmejeane, Roson, Moscon)
2 Ruudz0r 485 (Moscon, Bernal, Paredes and Geoghegan)
3 Vladimir 448 (Roson and Moscon)
4 DJW 408
5 Karaev 392
6 Blues_in_the_Bottle 375
6 Leadbelly 375
8 Armchair_Cyclist 368
9 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 364
10 Del1962 362
11 MCMountain 356
11 HilltopFinisher 356
13 GPBlanco 339
14 Flo 332
15 Kazistuta 330
16 Murrjt 328
17 Josedin 325
18 Skidmark 315
18 Comodoro 315
20 RoteLaterne 310
21 AmisVelo 308
22 Ludwigzgz 296
23 Trudgin 295
24 Madrazo 290
25 HugoKoblet 275
26 Jakob747 272
27 Togo 270
28 Abbulf 265
29 Bomboloni 262
30 Scrooll07 248
31 Joelsim 242
32 ItalianGigolo 210
33 JustSomeGuy 206
34 LukasCPH 205
35 Laarsland 158
36 0w1s 121
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 101
CollectiveWisdom 222

Standings
Alykaptan, having the top three scorers of the month, dislodges the previous leader (grrr, snarl...); Ludwigzgz, Del, Karaev and Flo also go up a spot in the top tenwhile Ruudz0r has the biggest (4 place) rise.

1 Alykaptan 5715
2 Armchair_Cyclist 5681
3 DJW 5254
4 Murrjt 5159
5 AmisVelo 5125
6 Ludwigzgz 5085
7 HugoKoblet 5070
8 Del1962 5034
9 Karaev 5010
10 Flo 4940
11 Scrooll07 4928
12 Skidmark 4884
13 Ruudz0r 4860
14 GPBlanco 4780
15 Blues_in_the_Bottle 4774
16 MCMountain 4772
17 Madrazo 4734
18 HilltopFinisher 4686
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 4685
20 Vladimir 4635
21 RoteLaterne 4567
22 Togo 4547
23 Abbulf 4468
24 Comodoro 4426
25 Leadbelly 4420
26 Josedin 4360
27 LukasCPH 4284
28 Trudgin 4191
29 ItalianGigolo 4145
30 Jakob747 4135
31 Joelsim 4112
32 Kazistuta 4090
33 0w1s 3706
34 Bomboloni 3677
35 Laarsland 3551
36 JustSomeGuy 3303
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 1450
CollectiveWisdom 5027

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 Month 5 1 to 28 May

Top scorers
Gaviria's dominant performances in the Giro belie his eligibility for the second year of an emerging riders game, but here he is:

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 438pts (4 stage wins, 1 2nd, and maglia ciclamena) for 36 of the 37 teams
FILOSI Iuri 201 (Lugano win, 8th in 4 (6) Jours de Dunkerque) for Vladimir (unique pick 2 years in a row)
VENTURINI Clément 198 (overall win and stage points at 4 Jours de Dunkerque) for 4 teams
VAN GESTEL Dries 128 (Stage win and GC 2nd at Tour des Fjords) 3 teams
ROOSEN Timo 104 (stage win and 2nd, 3rd on GC in Tour des Fjords) 3 teams
RÄIM Mihkel 96pts 2 teams
VANGSTAD Andreas 92 2
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 90 3
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida 78 6
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 65 24
AGUIRRE CALPA Hernan Ricardo 60 1
DE PLUS Laurens 57 34
KÄMNA Lennard 50 33

Points gained

(I won't bother listing Gaviria, take him for granted)
1 Vladimir 1200 (Filosi, Venturini, Roson, Guerrero, De Plus, Kamna)
2 Flo 1042 (Venturini, Roson, Geoghegan Hart, De Plus, Kamna)
3 Scrooll07 994 (Venturini, Roson, Geoghegan Hart, De Plus, Kamna)
4 Josedin 875
5 Jakob747 871
6 Joelsim 867
7 Madrazo 865
8 Leadbelly 858
9 DJW 804
10 Skidmark 796
11 GPBlanco 795
12 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 789
13 Ludwigzgz 785
14 0w1s 783
15 Comodoro 778
16 Alykaptan 776
17 HugoKoblet 772
18 Kazistuta 768
19 AmisVelo 756
20 Togo 754
21 LukasCPH 753
22 HilltopFinisher 751
23 Armchair_Cyclist 748
24 Ruudz0r 747
25 Murrjt 745
26 Karaev 744
27 Blues_in_the_Bottle 740
28 RoteLaterne 739
29 MCMountain 731
30 Del1962 701
31 Laarsland 700
32 Bomboloni 698
33 Abbulf 652
33 ItalianGigolo 652
35 JustSomeGuy 648
36 Trudgin 536
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 168
CollectiveWisdom 703

Standings
Alykaptan's lead increases slightly, just outside the podium theer are 6 place rises for Flo and Scrool, and Vladimir appears at the bottom of the top ten after a 10 place rise.

1 Alykaptan 6491
2 Armchair_Cyclist 6429
3 DJW 6058
4 Flo 5982
5 Scrooll07 5922
6 Murrjt 5904
7 AmisVelo 5881
8 Ludwigzgz 5870
9 HugoKoblet 5842
10 Vladimir 5835
11 Karaev 5754
12 Del1962 5735
13 Skidmark 5680
14 Ruudz0r 5607
15 Madrazo 5599
16 GPBlanco 5575
17 Blues_in_the_Bottle 5514
18 MCMountain 5503
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 5474
20 HilltopFinisher 5437
21 RoteLaterne 5306
22 Togo 5301
23 Leadbelly 5278
24 Josedin 5235
25 Comodoro 5204
26 Abbulf 5120
27 LukasCPH 5037
28 Jakob747 5006
29 Joelsim 4979
30 Kazistuta 4858
31 ItalianGigolo 4797
32 Trudgin 4727
33 0w1s 4489
34 Bomboloni 4375
35 Laarsland 4251
36 JustSomeGuy 3951
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 1618
CollectiveWisdom 5804

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Collective Ignorance
MEURISSE Xandro 507
GIDICH Yevgeniy 441
HALVORSEN Kristoffer 431
GIBBONS Ryan 397
VAN AERT Wout 383
GAUDU David 375
ALARCON GARCIA Raul 369
AVILA VANEGAS Edwin Alcibiades 361
BAYLY Cameron 345
HUFFMAN Evan 339
ORTEGA RAMIREZ Mauricio 326
JENSEN August 323
CARPENTER Robin 297
MCCABE Travis 294
SCHULTING Peter 291
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente 285
KIRSCH Alex 284
WACKERMANN Luca 280
Total 6328

Best possible team:
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 1576pts 36 teams
CALMEJANE Lilian 977 1
MOSCON Gianni 829 32
BETTIOL Alberto 665 2
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 535 3
MEURISSE Xandro 507 0
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 493 2
VENTURINI Clément 468 4
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 449 24
GIDICH Yevgeniy 441 0
HALVORSEN Kristoffer 431 0
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 399 22
GIBBONS Ryan 397 0
VAN AERT Wout 383 0
GAUDU David 375 0
ALARCON GARCIA Raul 369 0
AVILA VANEGAS Edwin Alcibiades 361 0
POLITT Nils 352 7
Total 10007

Dropbox

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2, Month 6 29 May to 2 July

Top Scorers
MOSCON Gianni 174 (7th in Route du Sud, 5th in Nat RR, win Nat TT) for 32 teams
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 163 (8th in Tour de Suisse, 4th in Nat TT) for 22 teams
SCHACHMANN Maximilian 124 (4th in Ster ZLM, 4th in Nat TT, 5th in Nat RR) for Leadbelly
BOUWMAN Koen 114 (stage win and KoM category at Dauphine, 5th in Nats TT) for Kazistuta
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 112 (hammer win, 14th in Tour de Suisse, top ten in both Nats) for 24 teams
MULLEN Ryan 106 (Nationals double victory) 12
CERNY Josef 102 (2 second places and 10th on GC in Tour of Slovakia, 2nd in Nat RR) for DJW and Trudgin
VENTURINI Clément 86 4 teams
NEILANDS Krists 82 3
RÄIM Mihkel 78 2
DE PLUS Laurens 76 34
POLITT Nils 70 7

Points gained
1 DJW 972 (Moscon, Soler, Mullen, Cerny, Raim, De Plus)
2 Ludwigzgz 921 (Moscon, Soler, Geoghan Hart, Mullen, De Plus, who are also top scorers for the next 4 teams)
3 Del1962 867
4 Armchair_Cyclist 847
5 Murrjt 841
6 MCMountain 824
7 Scrooll07 807
8 Togo 802
9 GPBlanco 798
10 Flo 790
11 Madrazo 789
12 RoteLaterne 783
13 Blues_in_the_Bottle 777
14 HugoKoblet 770
15 Karaev 767
16 AmisVelo 762
17 Comodoro 754
18 Vladimir 719
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 699
20 Kazistuta 698
21 Abbulf 685
22 HilltopFinisher 668
23 Skidmark 663
24 Trudgin 653
25 Jakob747 648
26 Leadbelly 634
27 Alykaptan 616
28 ItalianGigolo 606
29 Ruudz0r 601
30 Josedin 592
31 LukasCPH 554
32 0w1s 543
33 Bomboloni 532
34 Joelsim 471
35 Laarsland 382
36 JustSomeGuy 275
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 234
CollectiveWisdom 599

Standings

I regain the lead, taking 231 points on Alykaptan in June, DJW stays 3rd but closes on us, Ludwigzgz is the biggest mover, rising to 4th, and Del1962 makes a top ten appearance.

1 Armchair_Cyclist 7276
2 Alykaptan 7107
3 DJW 7030
4 Ludwigzgz 6791
5 Flo 6772
6 Murrjt 6745
7 Scrooll07 6729
8 AmisVelo 6643
9 HugoKoblet 6612
10 Del1962 6602
11 Vladimir 6554
12 Karaev 6521
13 Madrazo 6388
14 GPBlanco 6373
15 Skidmark 6343
16 MCMountain 6327
17 Blues_in_the_Bottle 6291
18 Ruudz0r 6208
19 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 6173
20 HilltopFinisher 6105
21 Togo 6103
22 RoteLaterne 6089
23 Comodoro 5958
24 Leadbelly 5912
25 Josedin 5827
26 Abbulf 5805
27 Jakob747 5654
28 LukasCPH 5591
29 Kazistuta 5556
30 Joelsim 5450
31 ItalianGigolo 5403
32 Trudgin 5380
33 0w1s 5032
34 Bomboloni 4907
35 Laarsland 4633
36 JustSomeGuy 4226
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 1852
CollectiveWisdom 6477

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Of course I'd like to win, but if Calmejane is eventually the difference between me and Alykaptan, the only team to include him, I really can't complain after a performance like today's.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 Month 7 3 to 30 July

While the big points in July were available in France, there were still other races going on, and some of our picks did OK in them.

BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 162 (wins 2 stages and GC in Sibiu) for Armchair Cyclist and Ruudzor
MARTIN Guillaume 126 (23rd in Tour de France, 3rd on one stage and 6th in Polynormande) for 15 teams
CALMEJANE Lilian 124 (a (very impressive) stage win at the Tour, and GC points) for Alykaptan
BETTIOL Alberto 111 (6th in San Sebastian, and some Tour points) for Armchair Cyclist and DJW
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix 56 4 teams
CICCONE Giulio 53 7 teams


1 Ruudz0r 353 (Bernal and Martin)
2 Armchair_Cyclist 308 (Bernal and Bettiol)
3 Alykaptan 300 (Martin and Calmejane)
4 Blues_in_the_Bottle 248 (Martin and Ciccone)
5 DJW 236 (Bettiol and Grossschartner)
6 Flo 234
7 GPBlanco 233
8 Skidmark 215
9 Kazistuta 207
10 Comodoro 185
11 Bomboloni 183
12 LukasCPH 178
13 Murrjt 171
14 Laarsland 169
15 Karaev 166
15 MCMountain 166
17 HilltopFinisher 159
18 Del1962 155
18 Madrazo 155
20 Joelsim 141
21 JustSomeGuy 118
22 RoteLaterne 116
23 GuilhermeRibeiro 109
24 Vladimir 103
25 Josedin 95
25 0w1s 95
27 Trudgin 92
28 Ludwigzgz 77
29 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 70
30 Scrooll07 69
30 Togo 69
32 HugoKoblet 60
33 Leadbelly 57
34 Abbulf 52
35 AmisVelo 45
36 Jakob747 38
37 ItalianGigolo 15
CollectiveWisdom 166

Standings
The top three in the overall all scored well this month (all in the top 5), so they hold onto their positions, but below that both Flo and Murrjt move up a spot, and a little farther down Del1962 has a 2 place rise within the top ten, and Karaev the same to enter that exalted company. Ruudzor's reward for being top scorer of the month is a 4 place rise.

1 Armchair_Cyclist 7584
2 Alykaptan 7407
3 DJW 7266
4 Flo 7006
5 Murrjt 6916
6 Ludwigzgz 6868
7 Scrooll07 6798
8 Del1962 6757
9 AmisVelo 6688
10 Karaev 6687
11 HugoKoblet 6672
12 Vladimir 6657
13 GPBlanco 6606
14 Ruudz0r 6561
15 Skidmark 6558
16 Madrazo 6543
17 Blues_in_the_Bottle 6539
18 MCMountain 6493
19 HilltopFinisher 6264
20 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 6243
21 RoteLaterne 6205
22 Togo 6172
23 Comodoro 6143
24 Leadbelly 5969
25 Josedin 5922
26 Abbulf 5857
27 LukasCPH 5769
28 Kazistuta 5763
29 Jakob747 5692
30 Joelsim 5591
31 Trudgin 5472
32 ItalianGigolo 5418
33 0w1s 5127
34 Bomboloni 5090
35 Laarsland 4802
36 JustSomeGuy 4344
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 1961
CollectiveWisdom 6886


Alykaptan has some riders I really like, but I didn't know or pick them at the end of 2015. I find myself hoping that Enric Mas, Calmejane, Dunbar and Roson have great careers from 2019 onwards.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 Month 8 31 July to 27 August

SENNI Manuel 196 (Colorado Classic win) for Amis Velo
MAS NICOLAU Enric 175 (2nd, 3rd and 4th on stages, and GC 2nd in Burgos, and 3rd on a Vuelta stage) for Alykaptan
CICCONE Giulio 151 (GC 6th and Stage win in Utah, 3rd in Oztal classic and 13th in Limousin) for 7 teams
CERNY Josef 149 (win GC and 2 stages (one a TTT) in Czech Tour) for DJW and Trudgin
PEDERSEN Mads 146 (stage and GC wins in Tour du Poitou Charentes) for 28 teams
ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo 120 (2nd in Volta a Portugal GC, with a stage win and a 2nd) for Guillermo Ribeiro
GESBERT Elie 118 (Stage win and 2nd overall in Tour du Limousin) for Josedin
CALMEJANE Lilian 86 for Alykaptan
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 82 for Alykaptan, Leadbelly, Vladimir
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida 81 6 teams


1 Alykaptan 666 (Mas, Pedersen, Calmejean, Roson)
2 DJW 626 (Cerny, Pedersen, Guerreiro)
3 Blues_in_the_Bottle 614 (Ciccone, Pedersen)
4 Togo 574 (Pedersen, Guerreiro)
5 AmisVelo 567 (Senni, Pedersen)
6 Ludwigzgz 530
7 HilltopFinisher 523
8 GPBlanco 518
8 Kazistuta 518
10 Flo 511
11 MCMountain 493
12 Joelsim 484
13 Armchair_Cyclist 480
14 Murrjt 471
15 RoteLaterne 465
16 LukasCPH 463
17 Skidmark 461
18 Madrazo 443
19 Vladimir 432
20 Leadbelly 422
21 Josedin 420
22 Comodoro 418
23 Ruudz0r 407
24 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 399
24 Bomboloni 399
26 HugoKoblet 390
27 Karaev 388
28 Jakob747 387
29 Del1962 370
30 Scrooll07 362
31 Trudgin 346
32 ItalianGigolo 337
33 Abbulf 299
34 GuilhermeRibeiro 292
35 Laarsland 239
36 0w1s 151
37 JustSomeGuy 111
CollectiveWisdom 447

Standings
The top two scorers in August were already on the podium: luckily for me only one of them moved up. Ludwigzgz and Amis Velo also move up within the top ten, while the 8 place riser of the month, Blues in the Bottle, is the only new entrant to the top ten.

1 Alykaptan 8073
2 Armchair_Cyclist 8064
3 DJW 7892
4 Flo 7517
5 Ludwigzgz 7398
6 Murrjt 7387
7 AmisVelo 7255
8 Scrooll07 7160
9 Blues_in_the_Bottle 7153
10 Del1962 7127
11 GPBlanco 7124
12 Vladimir 7089
13 Karaev 7075
14 HugoKoblet 7062
15 Skidmark 7019
16 MCMountain 6986
16 Madrazo 6986
18 Ruudz0r 6968
19 HilltopFinisher 6787
20 Togo 6746
21 RoteLaterne 6670
22 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 6642
23 Comodoro 6561
24 Leadbelly 6391
25 Josedin 6342
26 Kazistuta 6281
27 LukasCPH 6232
28 Abbulf 6156
29 Jakob747 6079
30 Joelsim 6075
31 Trudgin 5818
32 ItalianGigolo 5755
33 Bomboloni 5489
34 0w1s 5278
35 Laarsland 5041
36 JustSomeGuy 4455
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 2253
CollectiveWisdom 7333

Spreadsheet here

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2 month 9 28th Aug to 24th Sep

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 313pts for 36 teams (so effectively neutral in this game)
PEDERSEN Mads 221pts (Danmark Rindt GC win and stage pts) for 28 teams
MOSCON Gianni 204 (2nd in a Vuelta stage and 27th overall, bronze in the World TTT and 6th in the Road Race) for 32
BERTAZZO Liam 179 (stage win, 2 podiums and the overall in Tour of China #1) for Trudgin
KÄMNA Lennard 101 (World Champs TTT win and U23 silver) 33
CONSONNI Simone 91 (5th in GP de Foumies, 6th in Coppa Bernucci) 19
HOFSTEDE Lennard 84 (5th in Danmark Runtd, and a 3rd on one stage) for DJW
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 79 for Alykaptan, Leadbelly and Vladimir
BETTIOL Alberto 77 for Armchair and DJW


1 MCMountain 1295 (Gaviria, Pedersen, Moscon, Kamna and Consonni)
2 HugoKoblet 1231 (Gaviria, Pedersen, Moscon, Kamna and Consonni)
3 Armchair_Cyclist 1227 (Gaviria, Pedersen, Moscon, Kamna, Consonni and Bettiol)
4 Skidmark 1213
5 Flo 1212
6 Madrazo 1209
7 DJW 1205
8 Murrjt 1200
9 Togo 1186
10 Ruudz0r 1151
11 Leadbelly 1146
12 Joelsim 1143
13 Del1962 1124
14 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 1104
15 Scrooll07 1093
16 Blues_in_the_Bottle 1092
17 Alykaptan 1089
18 RoteLaterne 1086
19 HilltopFinisher 1084
20 Ludwigzgz 1079
21 ItalianGigolo 1064
22 Comodoro 1052
23 Jakob747 1050
24 AmisVelo 1041
25 Karaev 1035
26 Abbulf 1003
27 Josedin 960
28 GPBlanco 923
29 Trudgin 922
30 LukasCPH 911
31 Kazistuta 882
32 Vladimir 815
33 Bomboloni 793
34 0w1s 587
35 JustSomeGuy 550
36 Laarsland 543
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 87
CollectiveWisdom 1185

Standings

The ping-pong leadership is back on my half of the table, temporarily at least, while the top two scorers this month are into the top ten, and they are the top two risers as well.

1 Armchair_Cyclist 9291
2 Alykaptan 9162
3 DJW 9097
4 Flo 8729
5 Murrjt 8587
6 Ludwigzgz 8477
7 AmisVelo 8296
8 HugoKoblet 8293
9 MCMountain 8281
10 Scrooll07 8253
11 Del1962 8251
12 Blues_in_the_Bottle 8245
13 Skidmark 8232
14 Madrazo 8195
15 Ruudz0r 8119
16 Karaev 8110
17 GPBlanco 8047
18 Togo 7932
19 Vladimir 7904
20 HilltopFinisher 7871
21 RoteLaterne 7756
22 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 7746
23 Comodoro 7613
24 Leadbelly 7537
25 Josedin 7302
26 Joelsim 7218
27 Kazistuta 7163
28 Abbulf 7159
29 LukasCPH 7143
30 Jakob747 7129
31 ItalianGigolo 6819
32 Trudgin 6740
33 Bomboloni 6282
34 0w1s 5865
35 Laarsland 5584
36 JustSomeGuy 5005
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 2340
CollectiveWisdom 8518

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 2, Month 10 25th Sept to 5th November (with little likely to happen for the rest of the year)

October scoring shows Italian Autumn classics, the final WT tours, and those end of year Chinese races at which sprinters can fill their CQ boots.

Points this month
MOSCON Gianni 241pts (5th in Giro dell'Emilia, 7th in Tre Valli Varesine, 3rd in Il Lombardia) for 32 teams
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 205 (4 stage wins and a 2nd, and not surprisingly the points classification, in Guangxi) 36
MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe 192 (9th in Tre Valli Varesine, 7th in Milano-Torino, 4th GC in Turkey) 14
MARTIN Guillaume 171 (A stage and the overall in Giro della Toscana) 15
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 118 (5th in Giro della Toscana, 13 in Il Lombardia) for Armchair and Ruudzor
GODOY Yonder Eduardo 111 (6th in Turkey GC) for Trudgin
ROOSEN Timo 95 for Flo, Joelsim and Scrool07
CONSONNI Simone 76 19
ALZATE ESCOBAR Carlos Eduardo 66 for Trudgin
WALSCHEID Maximilian 62 6
BETTIOL Alberto 54 for Armchair and DJW

Collective Wisdom was one of the biggest scorers of the month (a collective pat on the back for us all), which probably correlates with the top teams on monthly scores having very similar top scorers.

1 Ruudz0r 1075 (Moscon, Gaviria, Martinez, Martin and Bernal)
2 Murrjt 1010 (Moscon, Gaviria, Martinez, Martin and Consonni)
2 Skidmark 1010 (Moscon, Gaviria, Martinez, Martin and Consonni)
4 GPBlanco 937 (Moscon, Gaviria, Martinez, Martin and Consonni)
5 Flo 928 (Moscon, Gaviria, Martin, Roosen and Consonni)
6 Leadbelly 873
7 Scrooll07 848
8 HugoKoblet 845
9 Madrazo 842
10 Joelsim 832
11 Armchair_Cyclist 822
12 MCMountain 821
13 ItalianGigolo 820
14 Togo 813
15 Ludwigzgz 790
16 RoteLaterne 776
17 Jakob747 763
18 Kazistuta 757
19 Blues_in_the_Bottle 743
20 Abbulf 739
21 Alykaptan 713
22 Comodoro 711
22 LukasCPH 711
24 Trudgin 706
25 Karaev 688
26 HilltopFinisher 657
27 AmisVelo 623
28 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 613
29 DJW 570
30 Del1962 551
31 Bomboloni 523
32 Vladimir 517
33 Josedin 492
34 Laarsland 483
35 0w1s 360
36 JustSomeGuy 257
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 17
CollectiveWisdom 998


Standings
Of the three games running parallel, this is the one I most look forward to updating, but I'm still unsure how long that this situation will last. The lead has increased for now though.
The top six remain in the positions they were in after the World Championships (last update); behind them, Skidmark and Ruudzor are into the top ten, and with 6 and 7 place rises respectively are the biggest positive movers this time around.

1 Armchair_Cyclist 10113
2 Alykaptan 9875
3 DJW 9667
4 Flo 9657
5 Murrjt 9597
6 Ludwigzgz 9267
7 Skidmark 9242
8 Ruudz0r 9194
9 HugoKoblet 9138
10 MCMountain 9102
11 Scrooll07 9101
12 Madrazo 9037
13 Blues_in_the_Bottle 8988
14 GPBlanco 8984
15 AmisVelo 8919
16 Del1962 8802
17 Karaev 8798
18 Togo 8745
19 RoteLaterne 8532
20 HilltopFinisher 8528
21 Vladimir 8421
22 Leadbelly 8410
23 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 8359
24 Comodoro 8324
25 Joelsim 8050
26 Kazistuta 7920
27 Abbulf 7898
28 Jakob747 7892
29 LukasCPH 7854
30 Josedin 7794
31 ItalianGigolo 7639
32 Trudgin 7446
33 Bomboloni 6805
34 0w1s 6225
35 Laarsland 6067
36 JustSomeGuy 5262
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 2357
CollectiveWisdom 9516

The Collective Ignorance team are those that none of us had heard of or regarded as much of a prospect 2 years ago: we were wrong.

MEURISSE Xandro 831
VAN AERT Wout 798
ALARCON GARCIA Raul 669
GIDICH Yevgeniy 627
JENSEN August 594
GAUDU David 548
ORTEGA RAMIREZ Mauricio 526
AVILA VANEGAS Edwin Alcibiades 510
HUFFMAN Evan 505
HALVORSEN Kristoffer 487
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl 478
MCCABE Travis 451
CARPENTER Robin 439
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente 428
KIRSCH Alex 425
GIBBONS Ryan 424
VAN DER HOORN Taco 411
BAYLY Cameron 408
Total 9559 which would place this group in 6th place, and only just ahead of our Collective Wisdom.


On the other hand, the Fruits of our Thoughts selection: the best team out of those who were selected, even if only once:

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 2101pts 36 teams (out of 37)
MOSCON Gianni 1486 32
CALMEJANE Lilian 1232 1 (Alykaptan)
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 925 2 (Armchair and Bernal)
BETTIOL Alberto 922 2 (Armchair and DJW)
MARTIN Guillaume 724 15
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 701 3 (Alykaptan, Leadbelly, Vladimir)
PEDERSEN Mads 673 28
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 627 22
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 591 24
VENTURINI Clément 586 4
RÄIM Mihkel 534 2 (DJW, LukasCPH)
POLITT Nils 533 7
ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo 472 1 (Guilherme Ribeiro)
CICCONE Giulio 459 7
CONSONNI Simone 449 19
BOUDAT Thomas 442 20
SENNI Manuel 432 1 (Amis Velo)
Total 13889

So at this stage, the Best Possible team is:
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 2101
MOSCON Gianni 1486
CALMEJANE Lilian 1232
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 925
BETTIOL Alberto 922
MEURISSE Xandro 831
VAN AERT Wout 798
MARTIN Guillaume 724
ROSON GARCIA Jaime 701
PEDERSEN Mads 673
ALARCON GARCIA Raul 669
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 627
GIDICH Yevgeniy 627
JENSEN August 594
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 591
VENTURINI Clément 586
GAUDU David 548
RÄIM Mihkel 534
Total 15169

With a neat symmetry, 6 of these are in the Collective Wisdom group, 6 are rarer picks, and 6 were totally overlooked.

Armchair is achieving 66.7% of the maximum possible: 6 of us are failing to reach the 50% mark.


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