Year 3 Month 10/11 1st October to 18th November (and therefore effectively to the end of the season, and the game) It didn't seem worth doing an end of October update if that left only a handful of November races to make a separate job out of. Though I don't think waiting for the end of Tour of Fuzhou really made much difference.
MOSCON Gianni 336 points (wins in Itallian TT championship and Tour of Guangxi) for 32 of the 37 teams
WALSCHEID Maximilian 204 (Munsterland Giro win and Guangxi stage points) for 6 teams
ACKERMANN Pascal 185 (5th in Munsterland and stage points in Guangxi) for Lukas CPH
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix 179 (2nd in Guangxi) 4 teams
VELASCO Simone 107 (10th in Gran Piemonte, 7th in Tour of Hainan) 3 teams
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida 82 6
DENZ Nico 80 1
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 77 2
POLITT Nils 72 7
A tie for the final bragging rights:
1 Ludwigzgz 786 (Moscon, Walscheid, Guerreiro)
1 Flo 786 (Moscon, Walscheid, Velasco)
3 Scrooll07 762 (Moscon, Walscheid, Politt)
4 RoteLaterne 749 (Moscon, Walscheid, Velasco)
5 Del1962 691
6 HilltopFinisher 674
7 Leadbelly 660
8 DJW 645
9 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 633
10 Madrazo 610
11 Josedin 604
12 Bomboloni 581
13 AmisVelo 565
14 HugoKoblet 548
15 Vladimir 542
16 Togo 540
17 Murrjt 525
18 GPBlanco 520
19 Armchair_Cyclist 519
20 Jakob747 511
21 Comodoro 509
22 Ruudz0r 501
23 ItalianGigolo 495
24 Joelsim 484
25 Kazistuta 472
26 Skidmark 447
27 Karaev 446
28 Alykaptan 444
29 Trudgin 434
30 Blues_in_the_Bottle 428
31 MCMountain 426
32 JustSomeGuy 412
33 Abbulf 403
34 Laarsland 374
35 LukasCPH 289
36 GuilhermeRibeiro 190
37 0w1s 57
CollectiveWisdom 442
Final Standings I presume, but I'll check back at the end of the year
Ludwigzgz, Flo and Scrool all moved one place up within the top ten, Ludwigzgz being the highest placed of these, while Rote Laterne, Del1962 and Fool on the Hill each get to finish 2 places higher than had seemed likely.
The top three all finished like the GC podium on the Champs Elyssee, rolling in unimpressively mid table with no threat to each other's positions. Alykaptan had taken control late in the game, and the Vuelta put him beyond reach after a close battle earlier in the year, while I just had enough in reserve from my early lead to retain 2nd spot.
1 Alykaptan 17160
2 Armchair_Cyclist 16273
3 Murrjt 16058
4 Ludwigzgz 15500
5 Ruudz0r 15465
6 Flo 15363
7 HugoKoblet 15218
8 DJW 15210
9 Scrooll07 15185
10 MCMountain 14953
11 Madrazo 14886
12 RoteLaterne 14797
13 Skidmark 14724
14 Blues_in_the_Bottle 14676
15 Del1962 14537
16 Togo 14420
17 GPBlanco 14409
18 Karaev 14112
19 Leadbelly 14045
20 AmisVelo 13902
21 HilltopFinisher 13806
22 Vladimir 13439
23 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 13367
24 Comodoro 13366
25 Joelsim 13077
26 LukasCPH 13047
27 Jakob747 12763
28 Abbulf 12559
29 ItalianGigolo 12515
30 Kazistuta 12166
31 Josedin 11886
32 Trudgin 11741
33 Bomboloni 10917
34 0w1s 10113
35 Laarsland 9525
36 JustSomeGuy 8303
37 GuilhermeRibeiro 4173
CollectiveWisdom 15577
Unique picks of Calmejeane and Enric Mas make Alykaptan a very deserved winner, leaving the rest of us wondering how he found them three years ago: congratulations, and thanks to all competitors (if anyone is still following at this stage)
Full analysis of rider scores etc to follow on some cold wet December evening.
Here's the spreadsheet at Dropbox if you don't want to wait.