2016-18 Emerging Riders CQ Game

[Armchair cyclist]

Re:

Interesting, one team didn't pick Gaviria

That was Velorooms' new arrival, Guilherme Ribeiro: his most popular pick was Alex Peters.

While Gaviria is rendered almost entirely meaningless in terms of the game, there are 4 other picks that more than 3/4 of teams have chosen:
Laurens De Plus (missed by Guilherme, Just Some Guy, and LukasCPH);
Lennard Kamna (omitted by Guilherme, 0w1s, Laarsland and Trudgin);
Gianni Moscon (eschewed by (guess who?) Guilherme, 0w1s, Just Some Guy, Laarsland and LukasCPH) and
Mads Pedersen (overlooked by Guilherme (of course), 0w1s, Just Some Guy, Laarsland, Trudgin, and also GPBlanco, Kazistuta, Vladimir and Bomboloni)

As well as those 5, another 4 riders (Tao Geoghegan-Hart, Marc Soler, Thomas Boudat and Simone Consonni) were selected by more than half the teams.

So how many of these 9 riders who most teams picked did we each go for?
All 9 of them: Amis Velo, Hugo Koblet, MC Mountain, Murrjt, Rote Laterne and yours' truly;
8: Abbulf, Blues in the Bottle, Del1962, Hilltop Finisher, Karaev, Madrazo, Ruudz0r, Skidmark and The Fool on the Hill;
7: Alykaptan, Flo, GPBlanco, Jakob747, Leadbelly, Ludwigzgz and Togo;
6: 0w1s, Comodoro, DJW, Italian Gigolo, Joelsim, Kazistuta and Scrool007;
5: Josedin, LukasCPH and Vladimir;
4: Bombolini, Just Some Guy and Trudgin;
3: Laarsland
0: Guilherme Ribeiro.

Amis Velo not only has the most popular 9 riders, but also Tom Bohli, Rodrigo Contreras, and Louis Vervaeke, one of the two riders in joint 12th for popularity.

Dylan Page was in the majority of teams that were entered on Sunday afternoon/evening, but not in any team submitted before his third place in the Trofeo Playa de Palma.

And the Collective Wisdom squad, the standard against which we might test ourselves, is made up of the top 18 riders in terms of popularity (or most hyped at the beginning of the 3 years, if you prefer):
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando
DE PLUS Laurens
KÄMNA Lennard
MOSCON Gianni
PEDERSEN Mads
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc
BOUDAT Thomas
CONSONNI Simone
BOHLI Tom
CONTRERAS PINZON Rodrigo
MARTIN Guillaume
VERVAEKE Louis
MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe
MAMYKIN Matvey
MANZIN Lorrenzo
MULLEN Ryan
PETERS Alex
(Popularity ranking would be 373)

 

[LaFlorecita]

I really like my team but usually that isn't a good sign

BERNARD Julien 9 picks
CONSONNI Simone 19
DE PLUS Laurens 34
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 36
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 24
HOELGAARD Daniel 8
KÄMNA Lennard 33
MAMYKIN Matvey 13
MARTIN Guillaume 15
MARTINELLI Davide 9
MOSCON Gianni 32
MULLEN Ryan 12
ORAM James 10
PEDERSEN Mads 28
ROOSEN Timo 3
VELASCO Simone 3
VENTURINI Clément 4
WALSCHEID Maximilian 6

Unfortunately Walscheid was 1 of the Giants that got hit by the ancient British lady... good thing it is a 3-year game I suppose

 

[GP Blanco]

Re: Re:

Interesting, one team didn't pick Gaviria

Dylan Page was in the majority of teams that were entered on Sunday afternoon/evening, but not in any team submitted before his third place in the Trofeo Playa de Palma.

Reminds me of picking Gaviria and Mareczko last year. Didn't know these guys but they were scoring big last year in January.

I considered Page this year but swapped him with Soler one I realised the latter was under the 200 points mark.

 

[rote_laterne]

Re: Re:

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Dylan Page was in the majority of teams that were entered on Sunday afternoon/evening, but not in any team submitted before his third place in the Trofeo Playa de Palma.

I considered Dylan Page for all my teams this year, it was the last rider I swapped in my team for Velasco. Yesterday I was tempted to swap Page and Oram (who I also had on my shortlist) for Großschartner and Peters but then decided against it. I hope Page will be eligible next year also.

But I'm really happy with my team, I do have the 10 most popular riders and some not very popular ones. I guess this will be my most successful game of the games starting this year.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

More spreadsheet problems: I'll try again tomorrow to get the first update up.

 

[laarsland]

Woohoo, indieteam!

Hoping for Truls Engen Korsæth to smash it in both TTas and U23-cobbled classics this year to earn lots of points in especially 2018. One of the things I think I'll need a few editions to get a feel for is how young it makes sense to pick the riders for this game. I have high hopes for a rider like Paret Peintre, but I think it's a year too early for him to generate significant points in the last season of this edition compared to some of the riders who already are on pro-conti/WT-teams or are likely to be next year.

Go Jonas Koch!

Don't think Moscon will be aforded much freedom at Sky these next two years, so

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Let the game begin:
Year 1, Month 1
A few riders give an early token of appreciation to those who chose them:
(Rider, points, teams)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 41 36
PAGE Dylan 36 5
ORAM James 31 10
MAKHCHOUN Mounir 26 1
MANZIN Lorrenzo 16 12
CANTY Brendan 10 4
HOFSTETTER Hugo 10 1
SCULLY Tom 10 1
SQUIRE Robbie 10 1
MARTINELLI Davide 6 9
BETTIOL Alberto 5 2
CALMEJANE Lilian 5 1
CHETOUT Loïc 5 1
CONTRERAS PINZON Rodrigo 5 16
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 5 24
GOGL Michael 5 4
LOWNDES Jason 5 1
VERVAEKE Louis 5 15
ZURLO Federico 5 2
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 2 22

Although a few riders flaunt our failure to pick them in our faces, primarily:
OKUBAMARIAM ISSAK Tesfom 67
LANE Patrick 55
TORRES BARCELO Albert 44
NAULEAU Bryan 38
HAMILTON Chris 35
VILLALOBOS SOLIS Roman 35
CHRISTIE Jason 34
O'CONNOR Ben Alexander 31
SPOKES Sam 30
FORTIN Filippo 29
O'BRIEN Mark 29
CHAVARRIA RODRIGUEZ Joseph Eladio 26
KONING Peter 26
AFEWERKI Elias 25


So the early break on stage 1 of our GT positions are:
1 Skidmark 108
2 ItalianGigolo 105
3 Jakob747 97
4 AmisVelo 94
5 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 93
6 GPBlanco 90
6 Togo 90
6 Trudgin 90
9 Blues_in_the_Bottle 89
9 DJW 89
11 HilltopFinisher 87
12 Flo 83
13 Ruudz0r 82
14 HugoKoblet 80
15 Del1962 79
16 Bomboloni 77
17 Comodoro 74
17 Madrazo 74
19 Scrooll07 70
20 Murrjt 69
20 Vladimir 69
22 JustSomeGuy 66
23 0w1s 64
23 Karaev 64
23 MCMountain 64
26 Alykaptan 63
27 Joelsim 62
28 Armchair_Cyclist 58
28 Ludwigzgz 58
30 Josedin 57
30 Laarsland 57
32 Abbulf 53
33 Kazistuta 51
33 Leadbelly 51
33 LukasCPH 51
36 RoteLaterne 48
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 26
CollectiveWisdom 74

 

[skidmark]

well, if you're the best at picking riders who have already scored points, at least that's somethin'.

 

[mc_mountain]

GP Blanco and ItalianGigolo in the top 10 for all three editions.

 

[skidmark]

I was just looking through my 2015-17 team, and realized that I picked 5 riders that I also picked last year! Ha, I guess that means they weren't the best picks last year. Here's my team from last year, with those riders highlighted:

BOUDAT Thomas
CHEVRIER Cl?ment
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian
HNIK Karel
K?NG Stefan
LATOUR Pierre-Roger
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel
LUDVIGSSON Fredrik
MOHORIC Matej
MULLEN Ryan
NAESEN Oliver
POWER Robert
QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney
RUFFONI Nicola
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
VERVAEKE Louis
ZEPUNTKE Ruben

Of course, Gaviria was picked by 36/37 teams this year, and was picked by 12 last year. That's probably smart, as he didn't have a definite ride last year (I picked him because I thought his year 2/3 upside was high anyway). Boudat was picked by 20 this year, and 16 last year, which I guess suggests people kept believing in him and that he focused on track last year and maybe needs more road duties. Mullen was picked by 12 this year and 11 last year, which suggests to me that his stock hasn't risen. What's really interesting to me was that Vervaeke was picked by 23 teams last year and 15 this year, and Chevrier by 10 last year and only 3 this year. Wouldn't people think they'd do better with a year under their belts? Sure, they both had anonymous years last year, but I'm convinced Vervaeke's talent is still there (although Chevrier is a bit more of a gamble). Do folks who picked them last year think they're busts? Just curious.

 

[GP Blanco]

Of course, Gaviria was picked by 36/37 teams this year, and was picked by 12 last year. That's probably smart, as he didn't have a definite ride last year (I picked him because I thought his year 2/3 upside was high anyway). Boudat was picked by 20 this year, and 16 last year, which I guess suggests people kept believing in him and that he focused on track last year and maybe needs more road duties. Mullen was picked by 12 this year and 11 last year, which suggests to me that his stock hasn't risen. What's really interesting to me was that Vervaeke was picked by 23 teams last year and 15 this year, and Chevrier by 10 last year and only 3 this year. Wouldn't people think they'd do better with a year under their belts? Sure, they both had anonymous years last year, but I'm convinced Vervaeke's talent is still there (although Chevrier is a bit more of a gamble). Do folks who picked them last year think they're busts? Just curious.

For me it has to do with not wanting to pick the same riders again and again. I have only Gaviria from my 201-2017 because I guessed everyone would pick him.

 

[rote_laterne]

Of course, Gaviria was picked by 36/37 teams this year, and was picked by 12 last year. That's probably smart, as he didn't have a definite ride last year (I picked him because I thought his year 2/3 upside was high anyway). Boudat was picked by 20 this year, and 16 last year, which I guess suggests people kept believing in him and that he focused on track last year and maybe needs more road duties. Mullen was picked by 12 this year and 11 last year, which suggests to me that his stock hasn't risen. What's really interesting to me was that Vervaeke was picked by 23 teams last year and 15 this year, and Chevrier by 10 last year and only 3 this year. Wouldn't people think they'd do better with a year under their belts? Sure, they both had anonymous years last year, but I'm convinced Vervaeke's talent is still there (although Chevrier is a bit more of a gamble). Do folks who picked them last year think they're busts? Just curious.

For me it has to do with not wanting to pick the same riders again and again. I have only Gaviria from my 201-2017 because I guessed everyone would pick him.

I didn't want to pick riders I already had in the first edition for the second, thus leaving out Henao which will hurt me.

This year I did not pick Mullen because he rides for Cannondale. I don't think it's a good team for a first year pro. If he's still eligible I strongly consider him for next year.
Vervaeke I'm not sure, I think Lotto has more talented riders now.
Chevrier was on my youth team if I'm not mistaken, I did consider him for this year but I think I found better picks this year (Boudat for example who was also in my Youth team rooster). And I'm not so sure if IAM is the best team for a youngster either.

I'm prepared to win this game in full Gerrans-style.

 

[rote_laterne]

Thanks to GuilhermeRibeiro I'm not dead last again. But I have confidence in my team. And again some points:
BOHLI Tom 5
CONSONNI Simone 8
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 5

Coming up next:
Tour of Qatar (2.HC)
BOHLI Tom
CARBEL SVENDGAARD Michael
PEDERSEN Mads

 

[skidmark]

Brendan Canty has almost passed his career CQ points after the Tour of Oman.

 

[ItalianGigolo]

Re:

GP Blanco and ItalianGigolo in the top 10 for all three editions.

If I will be in top 10 in all editions till the end it would be as nice as a win in one of them for me! I should've picked Ciccone but somehow forgot about him...

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Year 1 Month 2
Points are still low, but who is to say that the scores this month won't be the size of margins between teams in the final reckoning.
Top ten GC points in HC races already: how good might this crop prove to be over the next three years? At the same time, in this game the Tour of the Philippines gets a mention in the monthly update, so who is to say....


Best scoring riders
CALMEJANE Lilian 126 points 1 team (3rd in the new Tour La Provence, and 8th in the Mediteraneenne)
CANTY Brendan 62 4 (7th in Tour of Oman)
CICCONE Giulio 50 7 (12th in Laiguelia, 5th in Estruchi)
ZEMLYAKOV Oleg 33 2 (Won the Tour of the Philippines)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 30 36 (Stage points in Tour La Provence)
ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo 28 1 (tenth in Volta ao Algarve)
MARTINELLI Davide 20 9 (Stage win in Tour La Provence)
GOGL Michael 19 4 (top 20 in Dubai GC)
DE TIER Floris 19 3 (top 20 in Oman GC)


Rider points this month
and the main point earners for some of them (take Gaviria for granted)

1 Alykaptan 186 (Calmejane)
2 Josedin 161 (Zemlyakov, Martinelli, Gogl)
3 Blues_in_the_Bottle 150 (Ciccone and Gogl)
4 GPBlanco 146 (Ciccone and Martinelli)
5 Bomboloni 136 (Ciccone and De Tier)
6 Skidmark 134 (Canty)
6 Jakob747 134 (Canty)
8 Ludwigzgz 133 (Ciccone and De Tier)
9 HilltopFinisher 129
10 JustSomeGuy 128
11 Trudgin 123
12 Ruudz0r 119
13 Vladimir 114
14 Kazistuta 112
15 HugoKoblet 102
16 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 99
17 AmisVelo 93
17 Scrooll07 93
19 ItalianGigolo 91
19 DJW 91
21 Madrazo 89
22 Flo 86
22 Laarsland 86
24 Karaev 85
25 Comodoro 83
25 0w1s 83
27 Del1962 82
28 Armchair_Cyclist 80
28 RoteLaterne 80
30 Togo 77
31 Murrjt 73
32 MCMountain 63
32 Leadbelly 63
34 Joelsim 62
35 Abbulf 60
36 GuilhermeRibeiro 50
37 LukasCPH 41
CollectiveWisdom 73

Standings
Not only top scorer of the month, but Alykaptan also becomes new leader, but at this stage the table is still very volatile, as evidenced by his 25 place rise.

1 Alykaptan 249
2 Skidmark 242
3 Blues_in_the_Bottle 239
4 GPBlanco 236
5 Jakob747 231
6 Josedin 218
7 HilltopFinisher 216
8 Bomboloni 213
8 Trudgin 213
10 Ruudz0r 201
11 ItalianGigolo 196
12 JustSomeGuy 194
13 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 192
14 Ludwigzgz 191
15 AmisVelo 187
16 Vladimir 183
17 HugoKoblet 182
18 DJW 180
19 Flo 169
20 Togo 167
21 Kazistuta 163
21 Madrazo 163
21 Scrooll07 163
24 Del1962 161
25 Comodoro 157
26 Karaev 149
27 0w1s 147
28 Laarsland 143
29 Murrjt 142
30 Armchair_Cyclist 138
31 RoteLaterne 128
32 MCMountain 127
33 Joelsim 124
34 Leadbelly 114
35 Abbulf 113
36 LukasCPH 92
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 76
CollectiveWisdom 147

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Year 1 Month 3 (to 3rd April)

Points this month are very much in the same range as those in the game that is in year three, although that is mainly because of the near ubiquity of Gaviria in this edition, and his absence in the 2014-16 edition, and Politt also beat anyone in that game in March, while Moscon and Pedersen would also have been among the top scorers there. Erik Baska gives this game its first 1.1 winner.

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 169 points 36 teams (6th in Gent-Wevelgem, stage win in Tirreno-Adriatico, 10th in Dwaars door Vlaanderen)
POLITT Nils 163 7 (5th in Le Samyn, 3rd in West Vlaanderen and 9th in De Panne)
MOSCON Gianni 123 32 (3rd in Settimana Coppi e Bartali, 8th in Nokere)
PEDERSEN Mads 111 28 (won Gent-Wevelgem U23, and top ten in De Panne GC)
BOHLI Tom 82 17 (8th and a stage win in West Vlaanderen)
BASKA Erik 80 10 (First in Handzame)
CHETOUT Loïc 72 1 (2nd in Loire Atlantique and 8th in the Camembert cheese chase)
VENTURINI Clément 53 4 (2nd in Adelie de Vitre)
CICCONE Giulio 50 7 (6th in Settimana Coppi e Bartali)

However, none of us found Robbie Hucker, the 130 point winner of the Tour of Taiwan.

Points gained
Team totals for March are several times the totals for the previous two months.

1 Scrooll07 848 (all 6 of the top scorers this month are in this team, possibly a first in these games)
2 HilltopFinisher 781 (only the top 5 scorers, which is also true of the next 4 teams)
3 Josedin 757
4 HugoKoblet 745
5 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 727
6 Del1962 720
7 AmisVelo 648
8 Ludwigzgz 643
9 RoteLaterne 633
10 Alykaptan 625
11 Blues_in_the_Bottle 619
12 Bomboloni 594
13 Karaev 582
14 Armchair_Cyclist 579
15 Flo 566
15 Togo 566
17 Murrjt 559
18 Joelsim 549
19 Ruudz0r 541
20 ItalianGigolo 540
21 Comodoro 529
22 Skidmark 525
23 GPBlanco 514
24 Jakob747 511
25 DJW 509
26 Vladimir 492
27 Abbulf 489
28 Madrazo 487
29 Leadbelly 468
29 MCMountain 468
31 LukasCPH 452
32 Trudgin 451
33 Kazistuta 407
34 Laarsland 405
35 JustSomeGuy 373
36 0w1s 252
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 139
CollectiveWisdom 561

Standings
Very high correlation between this month's scores and the current overall: previous months are essentially insignificant.
1 Scrooll07 1011
2 HilltopFinisher 997
3 Josedin 975
4 HugoKoblet 927
5 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 919
6 Del1962 881
7 Alykaptan 874
8 Blues_in_the_Bottle 858
9 AmisVelo 835
10 Ludwigzgz 834
11 Bomboloni 807
12 Skidmark 767
13 RoteLaterne 761
14 GPBlanco 750
15 Ruudz0r 742
15 Jakob747 742
17 ItalianGigolo 736
18 Flo 735
19 Togo 733
20 Karaev 731
21 Armchair_Cyclist 717
22 Murrjt 701
23 DJW 689
24 Comodoro 686
25 Vladimir 675
26 Joelsim 673
27 Trudgin 664
28 Madrazo 650
29 Abbulf 602
30 MCMountain 595
31 Leadbelly 582
32 Kazistuta 570
33 JustSomeGuy 567
34 Laarsland 548
35 LukasCPH 544
36 0w1s 399
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 215
CollectiveWisdom 708

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Thanks for the update! I'm now in top 6 in all three running editions - cool

 

[rote_laterne]

Nice position. Politt seems to be a massive talent I missed but then I didn't know why Katusha hired him and that he will get his chances early on.
Also nice win by Baska who is in rather few teams.

 

[scrooll07]

what a month for me 7 from top9 top scorers in my team,for a first time I'm on the top in GC in any of the games I participate

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Year 1, Month 4 to May 1

When these guys are a little older, there will be lots of points to report in April: for now, most of them have been taking part in the quiet races that take place in the background of the Spring Classics.


ROSON GARCIA Jaime 125pts 3 teams (Stage win and GC 9th in Tour of Turkey, GC 5th in Castilla y Léon)
BOUDAT Thomas 110 20 (mainly from 2nd in Denain)
VENTURINI Clément 79 4 (6th in both Denain and Roue Tourangelle)
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix 62 4 (4th in GC in Tour of Croatia)
MANZIN Lorrenzo 62 12 (5th in Denain)
VERVAEKE Louis 61 15 (11th in Pais Vasco GC)
DE TIER Floris 55 3 (Minor placings in the hilly classics)
MOSCON Gianni 53 32 (mainly from 7th in Yorkshire GC)
COSTA Adrien 47 1 (Tour de Bretagne)

Scores this month
Rather more modest scoring than last month, the bigger scorers were not the most popular picks
1 Leadbelly 411 (Roson, Boudat, Vervaeke and Moscon)
2 Alykaptan 409 (Roson, Boudat and Moscon)
3 Vladimir 386 (Roson, Venturini, Manzin, Moscon)
4 Skidmark 380 (Boudat, Manzin, Vervaeke, Moscon)
4 Murrjt 380 (as Skidmark, but some of the minor points came from elsewhere)
6 HugoKoblet 352
7 Abbulf 342
8 RoteLaterne 316
9 Togo 315
10 Ruudz0r 310
11 Armchair_Cyclist 304
12 Madrazo 297
13 AmisVelo 296
14 Karaev 292
15 MCMountain 290
16 Del1962 286
17 DJW 275
18 Scrooll07 272
18 0w1s 272
20 HilltopFinisher 269
21 ItalianGigolo 260
22 Trudgin 256
22 JustSomeGuy 256
24 LukasCPH 255
25 Ludwigzgz 246
26 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 242
27 Blues_in_the_Bottle 239
28 Flo 211
29 Kazistuta 204
30 Josedin 201
31 Jakob747 198
32 Joelsim 191
33 Bomboloni 186
34 GPBlanco 163
35 Comodoro 131
36 GuilhermeRibeiro 81
37 Laarsland 72
CollectiveWisdom 375

Standings
Probably still too early to be sure who is going to be the team to beat, but at least we have 2 1/2 years to split the joint leaders.

1 Alykaptan 1283
1 Scrooll07 1283
3 HugoKoblet 1279
4 HilltopFinisher 1266
5 Josedin 1176
6 Del1962 1167
7 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 1161
8 Skidmark 1147
9 AmisVelo 1131
10 Blues_in_the_Bottle 1097
11 Murrjt 1081
12 Ludwigzgz 1080
13 RoteLaterne 1077
14 Vladimir 1061
15 Ruudz0r 1052
16 Togo 1048
17 Karaev 1023
18 Armchair_Cyclist 1021
19 ItalianGigolo 996
20 Leadbelly 993
20 Bomboloni 993
22 DJW 964
23 Madrazo 947
24 Flo 946
25 Abbulf 944
26 Jakob747 940
27 Trudgin 920
28 GPBlanco 913
29 MCMountain 885
30 Joelsim 864
31 JustSomeGuy 823
32 Comodoro 817
33 LukasCPH 799
34 Kazistuta 774
35 0w1s 671
36 Laarsland 620
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 296
CollectiveWisdom 1083

Second this month, Alykaptan, has a 6 place jump to joint first, while Leadbelly's 11 place jump is matched by both Murrjt and Vladimir.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Year 1 Month 5 but only up to 29th May

Early success in this game, we have two GT stage winners already

STEPNIAK Grzegorz 139 2 (GC win and a stage win in Tour of Estonia for 0w1s and Guilherme Ribeiro)
FOLIFOROV Alexander 108 3 (Stage win and other Giro points for Jakob747, LukasCPH and Skidmark)
RÄIM Mihkel 78 2 (2nd in a stage, 3rd overall in Tour of Estonia for DJW and LukasCPH)
ACKERMANN Pascal 74 1 (2nd in a stage, 4th overall in Tour of Estonia for LukasCPH)
CICCONE Giulio 70 7 (Giro Stage win)
ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo 52 1 (7th in Volta Cova da Beira GC, and 18th Vuela Communidad de Madrid GC)
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 45 24 (Tour of California)
VENTURINI Clément 44 4 (Boucles de l'Aulnes)

but we all missed MEURISSE Xandro (stage win and 3rd in GC in 4 days of Dunkerque. 125pts), and seemed to have given up on WACKERMANN Luca (103pts) and PARRA BUSTAMENTE Heiner Rodrigo (99pts) who were both chosen in the two earlier editions of the game, but not this one although they were still eligible.

Team scores this month
1 LukasCPH 395 (Foliforov, Raim, Ackerman, Geoghegan Hart)
2 0w1s 304 (Stepniak, Geoghegan Hart)
3 Jakob747 299 (Foliforov, Geoghegan Hart)
4 GuilhermeRibeiro 297 (Stepniak, Antunes)
5 Skidmark 262
6 HilltopFinisher 255
7 Ludwigzgz 243
8 DJW 215
9 Vladimir 210
10 Blues_in_the_Bottle 195
11 Ruudz0r 194
12 Bomboloni 192
13 Armchair_Cyclist 182
14 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 171
14 GPBlanco 171
16 Flo 170
17 Kazistuta 166
18 Murrjt 163
19 RoteLaterne 157
19 MCMountain 157
21 Comodoro 156
22 Abbulf 153
23 Madrazo 151
24 AmisVelo 149
25 Karaev 137
26 HugoKoblet 133
26 Josedin 133
28 Leadbelly 121
29 Del1962 118
29 Togo 118
31 Scrooll07 110
32 Laarsland 105
33 JustSomeGuy 100
34 Alykaptan 97
34 Joelsim 97
36 ItalianGigolo 76
37 Trudgin 42
CollectiveWisdom 138

Standings
Last month's joint leaders were among the lowest scorers in May, so fall to 4th and 5th, with Hilltop Finisher, Hugo Koblet and Skidmark overtaking them. Conversely, most of the best scorers in May were wretchedly low in the table, so get decent upward movement such as Jakob747's 11 places, and Lukas' 15 spaces. And while Guilherme remains bottom, he has the consolation of having more than doubled his score.

1 HilltopFinisher 1521
2 HugoKoblet 1412
3 Skidmark 1409
4 Scrooll07 1393
5 Alykaptan 1380
6 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 1332
7 Ludwigzgz 1323
8 Josedin 1309
9 Blues_in_the_Bottle 1292
10 Del1962 1285
11 AmisVelo 1280
12 Vladimir 1271
13 Ruudz0r 1246
14 Murrjt 1244
15 Jakob747 1239
16 RoteLaterne 1234
17 Armchair_Cyclist 1203
18 LukasCPH 1194
19 Bomboloni 1185
20 DJW 1179
21 Togo 1166
22 Karaev 1160
23 Flo 1116
24 Leadbelly 1114
25 Madrazo 1098
26 Abbulf 1097
27 GPBlanco 1084
28 ItalianGigolo 1072
29 MCMountain 1042
30 0w1s 975
31 Comodoro 973
32 Trudgin 962
33 Joelsim 961
34 Kazistuta 940
35 JustSomeGuy 923
36 Laarsland 725
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 593
CollectiveWisdom 1221

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Year 1, 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)

Best scorers of those chosen:
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc 105pts 22 teams (Stage win and GC 2nd in Route du Sud)
BOUDAT Thomas 81 20 (3rd in GC and two stage podiums in Boucles de la Mayenne)
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 62 24 (2nd in both Course de la Paix and Tour des Pays de Savoie)
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 61 2 (4th and a stage podium, Tour de Slovenie for Ruudzor and Armchair)
BERLATO Giacomo 56 1 (4th in Tour of Korea for Trudgin)
MARTINELLI Davide 50 9 (5th in Ster ZLM Toer GC)
SQUIRE Robbie 34 1 (5th in Winston-Salem Classic for Vladimir)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 33 36 (2nd on a Tour de Suisse stage)
MAS NICOLAU Enric 30 1 (2 podiums and GC win in Tour des Pays de Savoie)

but we all missed out on
KIRSCH Alex 110
MCCABE Travis 72
JONES Brenton 70
MARCOTTE Eric 68
BIZHIGITOV Zhandos 65
GAUDU David 61
RATHE Jacob 60
WHITEHOUSE Daniel 59
DOMAGALSKI Karol Andrzej 58
PERRY Benjamin 58
GIDICH Yevgeniy 53
BAYLY Cameron 50
TOLHOEK Antwan 50


This month's scores
1 Karaev 401 (Soler, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart, Martinelli, Gaviria)
2 Armchair_Cyclist 400 (Soler, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart, Bernal, Gaviria)
3 HugoKoblet 387 (Soler, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart, Martinelli, Gaviria)
4 Trudgin 379 (Soler, Boudat, Berlato, Martinelli, Gaviria)
5 Del1962 351 (Soler, Boudat, Geoghegan Hart, Gaviria)
6 AmisVelo 347
7 RoteLaterne 345
8 Murrjt 340
8 MCMountain 340
10 Abbulf 336
11 Alykaptan 316
12 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 309
13 GPBlanco 306
14 Ruudz0r 300
15 0w1s 298
16 Togo 285
17 Ludwigzgz 283
18 Scrooll07 274
19 LukasCPH 273
19 Madrazo 273
21 Blues_in_the_Bottle 265
22 Vladimir 254
23 Skidmark 243
24 HilltopFinisher 239
25 DJW 234
25 Flo 234
27 JustSomeGuy 232
28 Comodoro 226
29 Laarsland 182
30 ItalianGigolo 180
31 Leadbelly 167
32 Josedin 164
33 Jakob747 140
34 Kazistuta 139
35 Joelsim 133
36 Bomboloni 86
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 27
CollectiveWisdom 345

Standings
Third this (shortened) month is enough to bring Hugo to the top of the table, and Amis Velo and I make top ten appearances as new entries to that exalted company. Monthly champion Karaev is also the biggest jumper, up 9 places.

1 HugoKoblet 1799
2 HilltopFinisher 1760
3 Alykaptan 1696
4 Scrooll07 1667
5 Skidmark 1652
6 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 1641
7 Del1962 1636
8 AmisVelo 1627
9 Ludwigzgz 1606
10 Armchair_Cyclist 1603
11 Murrjt 1584
12 RoteLaterne 1579
13 Karaev 1561
14 Blues_in_the_Bottle 1557
15 Ruudz0r 1546
16 Vladimir 1525
17 Josedin 1473
18 LukasCPH 1467
19 Togo 1451
20 Abbulf 1433
21 DJW 1413
22 GPBlanco 1390
23 MCMountain 1382
24 Jakob747 1379
25 Madrazo 1371
26 Flo 1350
27 Trudgin 1341
28 Leadbelly 1281
29 0w1s 1273
30 Bomboloni 1271
31 ItalianGigolo 1252
32 Comodoro 1199
33 JustSomeGuy 1155
34 Joelsim 1094
35 Kazistuta 1079
36 Laarsland 907
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 620
CollectiveWisdom 1566
Collective Ignorance 2764

And the best possible team thus far is:
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 273pts 36 teams
WACKERMANN Luca 262 0
CALMEJANE Lilian 209 1
HUCKER Robbie 206 0
BOUDAT Thomas 204 20
MOSCON Gianni 202 32
STALNOV Nikita 199 0
MEURISSE Xandro 189 0
VENTURINI Clément 187 4
CICCONE Giulio 180 7
OKUBAMARIAM ISSAK Tesfom 174 0
POLITT Nils 172 7
PEDERSEN Mads 159 28
FOURNIER Marc 154 0
PACHER Quentin 149 0
STEPNIAK Grzegorz 149 2
KIRSCH Alex 144 0
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 142 24

For a total of 3354 pts
(Unpicked Bizhigitov coud replace Geoghegan Hart as the last man in that team for the same score)

Expect the next "month" for this game to last 6 weeks to the end of July.

And as requested, the spreadsheet is here on Dropbox.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Nice! I think that's actually the first time I'm at top of the leaderboard in any competition!

 

[Armchair cyclist]

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

Best chosen scorers this month

BETTIOL Alberto 207pts 2 teams (won the pts jersey, 2nd in the KoM jersey, and 3rd in GC in Tour of Poland for Armchair Cyclist and DJW)
COSTA Adrien 155 1 (3 stage podiums and 2nd overall in Utah for Abbulf)
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 143 36 (2 stage wins and a 2nd in Poland, with three days in yellow and 7th in Hallle Ingooigem)
GOGL Michael 114 4 (4th in Tour of Denmark, 3rd in Nat Champs for Blues in the Bottle, DJW, Josedin and Trudgin)
MAMYKIN Matvey 93 13 (8th in Burgos, 14 in Poland)
MARTINELLI Davide 90 9 (6th (TT) and 11th (RR) in Nat Champs, stage win and jersey bonus in Poland)
MARTIN Guillaume 90 15 (2nd in Tour of Austria GC)
MOSCON Gianni 84 32 (4th (TT) and 5th (RR) in Nat Champs)
DE TIER Floris 83 3 (6th in Tour de Wallonie for Bomboloni, Ludwigzgz, Madrazo)
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 79 24 (6th in Nat Champs, 12th in Utah GC)
RÄIM Mihkel 75 2 (Won Estonian Nats and Tour of Hungary for DJW and LukasCPH)
ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo 69 1 (4th in Nat Champs and 6th in Volta a Portugal for GuilhermeRibeiro)
ZURLO Federico 69 2 (Stage win and GC 10th in Qinghai Lake for Alykaptan and Ruudz0r)

But we all missed out on:
VINHAS Rui Pedro Carvalho 155 (won Volta a Portugal)
GIDICH Yevgeniy 137 (2 stage wins, 2 podiums and 7th overall in Qinghai Lake)
VAN AERT Wout 119
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente 111
CECCHIN Alberto 109



Teams this month (and a bit)

1 DJW 875 (Bettiol, Gaviria, Gogl, Mamykin, Moscon, Raim )
2 Flo 801 (Gaviria, Mamykin, Martin, Martinelli, Moscon, Geoghan Hart)
3 GPBlanco 712 (Gaviria, Mamykin, Martin, Martinelli, Moscon, Geoghan Hart)
4 Karaev 709 (Gaviria, Mamykin, Martin, Martinelli, Moscon, Geoghan Hart)
5 Madrazo 696
6 Scrooll07 694
7 Blues_in_the_Bottle 673
7 Laarsland 673
9 Armchair_Cyclist 660
10 Vladimir 630
11 Alykaptan 629
11 Trudgin 629
13 Kazistuta 627
14 Ruudz0r 622
15 LukasCPH 621
16 Murrjt 619
17 Abbulf 603
18 Ludwigzgz 602
19 Josedin 589
20 Skidmark 579
21 AmisVelo 575
22 Del1962 561
23 Comodoro 556
24 HugoKoblet 551
25 MCMountain 544
26 Joelsim 531
27 Jakob747 530
28 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 526
29 Togo 500
30 Leadbelly 492
31 RoteLaterne 470
32 HilltopFinisher 458
33 Bomboloni 445
34 ItalianGigolo 432
35 0w1s 402
35 JustSomeGuy 402
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 203
CollectiveWisdom 645

Standings

Still no sign of a clear leader emerging, as Scrool07 moves back to the top, while mid-June leader Hugo Koblet had a very average month, but falls no farther than second. This month's top scorer DJW takes a 17 place to 4th, and Karaev and Blues in the Bottle also move into the top ten.

1 Scrooll07 2361
2 HugoKoblet 2350
3 Alykaptan 2325
4 DJW 2288
5 Karaev 2270
6 Armchair_Cyclist 2263
7 Skidmark 2231
8 Blues_in_the_Bottle 2230
9 HilltopFinisher 2218
10 Ludwigzgz 2208
11 Murrjt 2203
12 AmisVelo 2202
13 Del1962 2197
14 Ruudz0r 2168
15 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 2167
16 Vladimir 2155
17 Flo 2151
18 GPBlanco 2102
19 LukasCPH 2088
20 Madrazo 2067
21 Josedin 2062
22 RoteLaterne 2049
23 Abbulf 2036
24 Trudgin 1970
25 Togo 1951
26 MCMountain 1926
27 Jakob747 1909
28 Leadbelly 1773
29 Comodoro 1755
30 Bomboloni 1716
31 Kazistuta 1706
32 ItalianGigolo 1684
33 0w1s 1675
34 Joelsim 1625
35 Laarsland 1580
36 JustSomeGuy 1557
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 823
CollectiveWisdom 2211
Collective Ignorance 3409

Best possible team
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 416 pts 36 teams
MOSCON Gianni 286 32
WACKERMANN Luca 262 0
MEURISSE Xandro 256 0
BETTIOL Alberto 243 2
CALMEJANE Lilian 235 1
GIDICH Yevgeniy 234 0
COSTA Adrien 233 1
VAN AERT Wout 226 0
DE TIER Floris 223 3
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 221 24
VENTURINI Clément 210 4
STALNOV Nikita 206 0
HUCKER Robbie 206 0
BOUDAT Thomas 204 20
RÄIM Mihkel 203 2
POLITT Nils 197 7
CICCONE Giulio 195 7 (Or Alex Kirsch, same points, not selected)
and that bunch would have 4256