2022-2024 Emerging Riders CQ Game

[Armchair Cyclist]

That was quite a thorough rebuttle

Spreadsheet open, morning appointment cancelled...

 

[Cordi333]

Arnaud de Lie has overtaken Pogacar and Bernal to be the highest scoring pick in the game's history, and is within 100 points of overhauling Valverde as the highest first three (main) years of those whose careers took off since CQ has been lodging points.

Juan Ayuso is just 6 points short of overtaking Evenepoel to be 4th in the game era (still behind not only Valverde, but also Sagan, Quintana, Cunego and Cavendish had the game started when CQ did)

And still, the 2024 of Arnaud has been kinda disappointing considering his results of last year and this year performances (showing a big problem for the future: that he's super strong but he may have the worst brain in pro cycling, regarding saving energy, knowing your own limits, playing team tactics... A weakness that is going to be a huge mountain to climb in order to become a succesful classic rider in the highest scenarios).

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 3 Month 9 Sept 9th to Oct 6th

Almost done

TIBERI Antonio	180​	22​	Tour de Luxembourg GC win
ZAMBANINI Edoardo	174​	2 (Edk Deus, Jon E)​	9th Montreal, 10th Quebec, 4th Cro race GC
DE LIE Arnaud	173​	24​	Binche-Chimay-Binche win, Paris Tours 7th, Quebec 13th
FRETIN Milan	154​	1 (Leadbelly)​	3rd 3 times: Chauney, Binche-Chimay-Binch and Munsterland
HEALY Ben	147​	4​	World's RR 7th
BARONCINI Filippo	135​	32​	Super 8 Impanis win
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	114​	38​	Luxembourg GC 5th + stage win
VAN GILS Maxim	111​	13​	Montreal 4th
LUND ANDRESEN Tobias	108​	1 (Los Brolin)​	Cro Race GC 2nd + stage win and podiums
LAMPERTI Luke	96​	1 (Devil's Elbow)​
HAGENES Per Strand	96​	8​
PENHOËT Paul	84​	2 (Jon E, Nathan)​
GREGOIRE Romain	82​	12​

A double monthly win, as Jon Ezeitza also came top in the update for the 2024-6 edition that I posted earlier

1	JonEzeitza	1165​	Tiberi, Zambanini, Baroncini, Ayuso, Van Gils, Penhoet
2	Salvarani	1118​	Tiberi, De Lie,Baroncini, Ayuso, Van Gils
3	LosBrolin	1113​	Tiberi, De Lie,Baroncini, Ayuso, Lund
4	Bminchow	1018​	Tiberi, De Lie,Baroncini, Ayuso, Van Gils
5	Nathanptz	1017​	De Lie, Ayuso, Van Gils, Hagenes, Penhoet, Gregoire
6	Skidmark	968​
7	DevilsElbow	940​
8	Rufs	939​
9	SafeBet	929​
10	Scrooll07	924​
11	Comodoro	914​
12	Del1962	903​
13	Fivezzz	902​
14	Bonimenier	901​
15	Nakazar	899​
16	Laarsland	898​
16	Cordi	898​
18	AmisVelo	860​
19	Greenedge	856​
20	Madrazo	845​
21	Kazistuta	828​
22	Squire	813​
23	EvansIsTheBest	725​
24	Nyssinator	712​
25	Berflamand	703​
26	Ray10	701​
27	Repre	699​
28	EdkDeus	658​
29	Vladimir	650​
30	Armchair_Cyclist	640​
31	RoteLaterne	606​
32	Koronin	577​
33	LukasCPH	567​
34	JumboVismaFan	560​
35	Josedin	501​
36	RedheadDane	466​
37	Blues_in_the_Bottle	424​
37	Otoxiep87	424​
39	Riverside	295​
40	Leadbelly	246​
	CollectiveWisdom	921​
	CollectiveIgnorance	863​
	MainGame2022	870​
	Goodin2021	540​

Standings
Ray's 2nd place coming under real pressure now, but SafeBet quietly extends that lead by another 200 points or so. No coronation yet, but that's just because I'm fussy about not jumping the gun.

1​	SafeBet	24659	0​
2​	Ray10	22421	0​
3​	Laarsland	22315	0​
4​	LosBrolin	21729	1​
5​	Squire	21489	-1​
6​	DevilsElbow	21438	0​
7​	Nakazar	20983	0​
8​	Greenedge	20887	0​
9​	Nathanptz	20885	0​
10​	Scrooll07	20598	1​
11​	Berflamand	20547	-1​
12​	Bminchow	20439	0​
13​	Skidmark	19824	0​
14​	Bonimenier	19686	0​
15​	Madrazo	19171	1​
16​	JumboVismaFan	19023	-1​
17​	EvansIsTheBest	18844	0​
18​	Salvarani	18669	4​
19​	Fivezzz	18659	-1​
20​	Cordi	18516	0​
21​	Comodoro	18483	0​
22​	Nyssinator	18335	-3​
23​	AmisVelo	18065	0​
24​	Kazistuta	17478	0​
25​	Rufs	17472	0​
26​	Del1962	15982	0​
27​	JonEzeitza	15559	0​
28​	Vladimir	15003	0​
29​	Armchair_Cyclist	14399	0​
30​	Repre	14388	0​
31​	EdkDeus	14275	0​
32​	Koronin	14028	0​
33​	RoteLaterne	13882	0​
34​	Josedin	13529	0​
35​	RedheadDane	12813	2​
36​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	12811	-1​
37​	Otoxiep87	12774	-1​
38​	LukasCPH	11041	0​
39​	Riverside	9984	0​
40​	Leadbelly	6343	0​
	CollectiveWisdom	20449
	CollectiveIgnorance	18273
	MainGame2022	19472
	Goodin2021	13743

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Year 3 Month 10
The update only covers 7 to 20 October: I'm confident that there are no relevant races after that, but there probably will be minor adjustments and corrections that are not in the CQ download. I'll take the risk of assuming that they will be of negligible effect, and treat this as the end of year.

STRONG Corbin	235​	2​	Giro del Veneto win, Gran Piemonte 2nd
GREGOIRE Romain	149​	12​	Giro del Veneto 2nd, Veneto Classic 3rd
VAN TRICHT Stan	130​	15​	Coppa Bernocchi win
VERNON Ethan	112​	22​	2 stage wins and Pts classification win in Guangxi
ZAMBANINI Edoardo	72​	2​
CHARMIG Anthon	64​	4​
BARONCINI Filippo	61​	32​

1	JumboVismaFan	601​	Strong, Van Tricht, Vernon, Baroncini
2	EdkDeus	534​	Gregoire, Van Tricht, Vernon, Zambanini, Baroncini
3	EvansIsTheBest	530​	Gregoire, Van Tricht, Vernon, Baroncini
4	Josedin	431​
5	Berflamand	413​
6	Laarsland	407​
7	Comodoro	368​
8	Bonimenier	363​
9	Skidmark	361​
10	Nakazar	350​
11	Nyssinator	349​
12	Bminchow	333​
13	Madrazo	310​
14	Scrooll07	308​
15	Salvarani	274​
15	RedheadDane	274​
15	Leadbelly	274​
18	Fivezzz	258​
19	DevilsElbow	248​
20	Nathanptz	236​
20	Blues_in_the_Bottle	236​
22	Ray10	235​
23	AmisVelo	231​
24	RoteLaterne	230​
25	Armchair_Cyclist	223​
26	SafeBet	222​
27	Rufs	219​
28	LosBrolin	216​
28	Repre	216​
30	JonEzeitza	206​
31	Greenedge	205​
32	Del1962	201​
33	Riverside	198​
34	Cordi	186​
35	LukasCPH	154​
36	Squire	125​
37	Kazistuta	112​
38	Otoxiep87	72​
39	Koronin	33​
40	Vladimir	18​
	CollectiveWisdom	321​
	CollectiveIgnorance	814​
	MainGame2022	173​
	Goodin2021	200​

And that brings us, after nearly three years, to the (almost certainly) final standings

1​	SafeBet	24881	(-)
2​	Laarsland	22722	(+1)
3​	Ray10	22656	(-1)
4​	LosBrolin	21945	(-)
5​	DevilsElbow	21686	(+1)
6​	Squire	21614	(-1)
7​	Nakazar	21333	(-)
8​	Nathanptz	21121	(+1)
9​	Greenedge	21092	(-1)
10​	Berflamand	20960	(+1)
11​	Scrooll07	20906	(-1)
12​	Bminchow	20772	(-)
13​	Skidmark	20185	(-)
14​	Bonimenier	20049	(-)
15​	JumboVismaFan	19624	(+1)
16​	Madrazo	19481	(-1)
17​	EvansIsTheBest	19374	(-)
18​	Salvarani	18943	(-)
19​	Fivezzz	18917	(-)
20​	Comodoro	18851	(+1)
21​	Cordi	18702	(-1)
22​	Nyssinator	18684	(-)
23​	AmisVelo	18296	(-)
24​	Rufs	17691	(+1)
25​	Kazistuta	17590	(-1)
26​	Del1962	16183	(-)
27​	JonEzeitza	15765	(-)
28​	Vladimir	15021	(-)
29​	EdkDeus	14809	(+2)
30​	Armchair_Cyclist	14622	(-1)
31​	Repre	14604	(-1)
32​	RoteLaterne	14112	(+1)
33​	Koronin	14061	(-1)
34​	Josedin	13960	(-)
35​	RedheadDane	13087	(-)
36​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	13047	(-)
37​	Otoxiep87	12846	(-)
38​	LukasCPH	11195	(-)
39​	Riverside	10182	(-)
40​	Leadbelly	6617	(-)
	CollectiveWisdom	20770
	CollectiveIgnorance	19087
	MainGame2022	19645
	Goodin2021	13943

The top three have occupied the podium places since (I believe) the end of Year 1, except for a couple of brief displacements of Laarsland by Los Brolin. Ray had been top for nearly two years, but SafeBet has had an extraordinary final year to seal a follow-up victory after a dominant win in the previous cycle, ending up with the highest game total, the largest winning margin, greatest percentage of optimal score, and the biggest year 3 score (all by considerable increments over the previous).

More details to follow.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

SafeBet remains the undisputed king of this game, sitting in fourth and third respectively in the next two editions too.

Somewhere a country mile further back, pretty happy with finishing 5th.

 

[Anderis]

SafeBet remains the undisputed king of this game

I'm suprisied nobody has posted a pun about this, yet.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I'm suprisied nobody has posted a pun about this, yet.

It's because RhD hasn't played in any of the editions won by him.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The best possible team

DE LIE Arnaud	4687​	24​
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	3303​	38​
ZINGLE Axel	2534​	9​
VAN GILS Maxim	2115​	13​
MILAN Jonathan	1894​	4​
HEALY Ben	1892​	4​
VAUQUELIN Kévin	1829​	0​
STRONG Corbin	1818​	2​
SHEFFIELD Magnus	1812​	15​
GREGOIRE Romain	1732​	12​
WAERENSKJOLD Søren	1675​	14​
GALL Felix	1664​	1​
VAN EETVELT Lennert	1575​	0​
MARTINEZ Lenny	1473​	2​
TIBERI Antonio	1299​	22​
ONLEY Oscar	1282​	0​
LAZKANO LOPEZ Oier	1266​	2​
PLAPP Lucas	1205​	30​

That is a total of 35055: the highest previous figure was 31142, and, even leaving aside Covid affected years, it has been as low as 24677 (2015-17), so this is a seriously high scoring edition, mainly because of the presence of De Lie (the highest scoring rider by this metric in the time that CQ has been running (since 1999), Ayuso (8th) and Zingle (17th).
That is not to detract from the achievement in SafeBet's score as the highest ever: he has 71% of the maximum possible, beating the previous highest of 69.5% (Madrazo, 2015-17), and has the biggest winning margin (2159, previously 1430, also SafeBet, last year)

Perhaps more related to the presence of a number of high scorers this year is the very high year 3 scores:

rank of 2024 points		2024 points	position after Yr 2	Change in rank during Yr 3
1​	SafeBet	11075​	2​	(+1)
2​	Laarsland	9036​	3​	(+1)
3​	Greenedge	8955​	15​	(+6)
4​	DevilsElbow	8947​	8​	(+3)
5​	LosBrolin	8584​	4​	(-)
6​	Nakazar	8550​	7​	(-)
7​	Nathanptz	8518​	10​	(+2)
8​	Scrooll07	8480​	12​	(+1)
9​	EvansIsTheBest	8339​	22​	(+5)
10​	Ray10	8290​	1​	(-2)
11​	Squire	8260​	5​	(-1)
12​	Bminchow	8150​	9​	(-3)
13​	Comodoro	8141​	24​	(+4)
14​	Berflamand	7964​	6​	(-4)
15​	Bonimenier	7843​	14​	(-)
16​	Salvarani	7836​	21​	(+3)
17​	Madrazo	7718​	16​	(-)
18​	Skidmark	7590​	11​	(-2)
19​	JonEzeitza	7561​	32​	(+5)
20​	Nyssinator	7465​	20​	(-2)
21​	Fivezzz	7427​	18​	(-1)
22​	JumboVismaFan	7413​	13​	(-2)
23​	Rufs	7246​	25​	(+1)
24​	Cordi	7209​	17​	(-4)
25​	AmisVelo	7075​	19​	(-4)
26​	Del1962	6892​	26​	(-)
27​	Kazistuta	6593​	23​	(-2)
28​	Vladimir	6575​	30​	(+2)
29​	EdkDeus	6427​	31​	(+2)
30​	Repre	6412​	33​	(+2)
31​	Koronin	6156​	36​	(+3)
32​	Armchair_Cyclist	5794​	27​	(-3)
33​	Josedin	5368​	29​	(-5)
34​	RoteLaterne	5358​	28​	(-4)
35​	RedheadDane	5335​	37​	(+2)
36​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	4979​	34​	(-2)
37​	Otoxiep87	4833​	35​	(-2)
38​	LukasCPH	4325​	38​	(-)
39​	Riverside	3782​	39​	(-)
40​	Leadbelly	2465​	40​	(-)
	CollectiveWisdom	7785​
	CollectiveIgnorance	11002​
	MainGame2022	7359​
	Goodin2021	5783​

Kevin Vauquelin leads the Collective Ignorance team, and beats Vlasov to become the best scoring unselected player in the 9 completed editions, and is one of three such in the best possible team. The Collective Ignorance team got its second highest score ever, but it's worst position.

It should be noted that the best possible team has four riders that continue into the next cycle of the game: Gregoire, Van Eetvelt, Martinez and Onley lead the scoring in the 2023-25 Collective Wisdom team. This time around, Collective Wisdom has 6 of the best possible team, but also some non performers such as Umba and Vandenabeele: it also combines its best ever score with its worst ever placing. That means I probably ought to do a percentage of best possible rather than a straight total of points when I recalculate the performance of players across several years.

Evans is the Best, in 17th, is the highest placed manager without De Lie. Not picking the highest scorer ever is not the only mistake made though: between us, we picked 28 riders who remain eligible for the game in its 2025-27 edition (for which you should by now be at least thinking about making a shortlist), and two who scored not a single point in the three years.

The inter-Forum challenge:
Average scores
Cycling News 18611
Parlamento Ciclismo 16820
VeloRooms 14579

Conduct the post mortem on your own team here: it would be interesting to hear your discoveries.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'll tell you what I've discovered.
That riders I pick for these games seem rather unwilling to emerge...

 

[Cordi333]

My worst emerging game yet (and hopefully ever) but luckily the next 2 editions are looking good again.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Been playing a bit with my spreadsheet of the game's history.

Top ten scoring managers (completed games only)

			games completed	change
1​	Skidmark	133326​	9​	0​
2​	Madrazo	128541​	9​	1​
3​	Kazistuta	119458​	9​	2​
4​	Rote_Laterne	116181​	9​	0​
5​	Comodoro	112641​	9​	3​
6​	Ludwigzgz	110650​	8​	-4​
7​	Armchair_Cyclist	110440​	9​	-1​
8​	Vladimir	110044​	9​	-1​
9​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	105779​	8​	0​
10​	AmisVelo	101043​	7​	2​

There are 2 more teams who had been ever present, and one that did 8, that didn't make the top ten. Ludwigzgz falls from 2nd having not entered this edition, but has returned since.

Average scores are very much affected by what years someone has entered: some have had one good cycle then abandoned us, and those for whom this particularly high scoring edition has been their first go are clumped at the top.
So these are average scores for those who have been in at least half of the completed versions (ie, at least 5 out of 9). That means that SafeBet isn't winning on this metric (yet, but come back in a year...)

		editions	mean score	change
1​	Squire	6​	16336​	(+1)
2​	Cordi	6​	16245​	(-1)
3​	Skidmark	9​	14814​	(+2)
4​	HugoKoblet	6​	14708​	(-1)
5​	AmisVelo	7​	14435​	(+5)
6​	Madrazo	9​	14282​	(+5)
7​	Laarsland	7​	14058​	(+11)
8​	Jakob747	5​	13945​	(-1)
9​	Ludwigzgz	8​	13831​	(-1)
10​	Flo	6​	13597​	(+2)
11​	Kazistuta	9​	13273​	(+5)
12​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	8​	13222​	(+1)
13​	Karaev	7​	12989​	(+1)
14​	Del1962	7​	12935​	(+5)
15​	Rote_Laterne	9​	12909​	(-)
16​	Joelsim	6​	12720​	(+1)
17​	Comodoro	9​	12516​	(+6)
18​	Alykaptan	5​	12390​	(+2)
19​	Armchair_Cyclist	9​	12271​	(+2)
20​	Vladimir	9​	12227​	(+2)
21​	Jon Ezeitza	5​	12059​	(+5)
22​	LukasCPH	7​	11634​	(+2)
23​	Scrooll07	8​	11464​	(+5)
24​	Josedin	9​	10259​	(+5)
25​	Leadbelly	9​	9904​	(+2)

Collective Wisdom averages 15695; Collective Ignorance 16523

The problem of some cohorts of riders being much higher scoring than others is negated if we give each team a score which is their percentage of the best possible score. If we take the average, teams with few participations dominate, but those who are proving to be consistent show themselves .
Top 20:

	participations	average of %age of optimum
ValvPiti	1​	63.1​
Devil's Elbow	1​	61.9​
Berflammand	1​	59.8​
SafeBet	4​	59.8​
ThePirate81	1​	59.6​
Murrjt	2​	59.2​
Squire	6​	58.8​
Greenedge	2​	58.8​
Cordi	6​	58.5​
Nathanptz	2​	58.5​
Torcio86	1​	57.4​
Bonimenier	1​	57.2​
HugoKoblet	6​	56.8​
Bminchow	2​	56.2​
MC_Mountain	3​	56.1​
Jumbo Visma Fan	1​	56.0​
TheAsian	2​	55.3​
Evans is the Best	1​	55.3​
Nuvolablu	1​	55.2​
Nakazar	2​	55.1​

Collective Wisdom comes in at 57.8, the Ignorance collective at 61.7


Or we could take the total of the best three of these percentage scores for each participant, and add them, thus allowing those who have been loyal for longest to omit their poorer performances, and excludes those who haven't played enough to show consistency.
Top 20 by this metric

1​	Squire	191.9​
2​	Flo	188.9​
3​	SafeBet	188.8​
4​	Cordi	187.6​
5​	Madrazo	186.0​
6​	HugoKoblet	184.4​
7​	Ludwigzgz	183.3​
8​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	183.0​
9​	Skidmark	180.3​
10​	Laarsland	180.3​
11​	Del1962	176.6​
12​	AmisVelo	175.1​
13​	Jakob747	171.6​
14​	Joelsim	170.6​
15​	Alykaptan	169.6​
16​	GPBlanco	169.1​
17​	Vladimir	168.9​
18​	MC_Mountain	168.3​
19​	Armchair_Cyclist	168.1​
20​	Karaev	167.9​
	Collective Wisdom	185.7
	Collective Ignorance	208.1

I'll see if I can come up with some rider comparisons across the years tomorrow.

 

[Cordi333]

Wow, super cool stats!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Some rider stats from the game's archive file

Highest scoring riders by the criteria of this game while CQ has been in operation (excluding those whose careers were well established before 1999)

	from	to	points	popularity
DE LIE Arnaud	2022​	2024​	4687​	24/40
VALVERDE Alejandro	2003​	2005​	4603​	n/a
SAGAN Peter	2010​	2012​	4487​	n/a
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley	2017​	2019​	4110​	30/35
POGACAR Tadej	2018​	2020​	3924​	16/34
QUINTANA Nairo	2012​	2014​	3892​	n/a
CUNEGO Damiano	2003​	2005​	3770​	n/a
CAVENDISH Mark	2007​	2009​	3587​	n/a
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	2022​	2024​	3303​	38/40
EVENEPOEL Remco	2019​	2021​	3195​	28/31
BOUHANNI Nacer	2012​	2014​	3043​	n/a
SKJELMOSE JENSEN Mattias	2021​	2023​	3011​	1/37
KITTEL Marcel	2011​	2013​	2934​	n/a
ALMEIDA Joao Pedro Gonçalves	2019​	2021​	2876​	16/31
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando	2016​	2018​	2703​	36/37
SCHLECK Frank	2004​	2006​	2682​	n/a
KOOIJ Olav	2021​	2023​	2629​	29/37
ZINGLE Axel	2022​	2024​	2534​	9/40
SEVILLA Oscar	1999​	2001​	2528​	n/a
MOSCON Gianni	2016​	2018​	2525​	32/37

popularity is n/a for the years before the game started.



However, those are not actually the highest 20 scores: sometimes a rider can get a very high score while not yet at their game peak (ie, when they pass the 200 point threshhold during year 2).

So the best scores that have been achieved, while still available (or theoretically available, as some of these are before I started the game) for another year after it finished, are:

VALVERDE Alejandro	2004​	2006​	3673​	n/a
DE LIE Arnaud	2021​	2023​	3211​	1/37
SAGAN Peter	2009​	2011​	2712​	n/a
CUNEGO Damiano	2002​	2004​	2549​	n/a
QUINTANA Nairo	2011​	2013​	2401​	n/a
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando	2015​	2017​	2252​	14/33
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	2021​	2023​	2205​	15/37
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley	2016​	2018​	2055​	2/37
BOUHANNI Nacer	2011​	2013​	2024​	n/a
POGACAR Tadej	2017​	2019​	2015​	0/35
CAVENDISH Mark	2006​	2008​	1994​	n/a
EVENEPOEL Remco	2018​	2020​	1870​	0/34
KITTEL Marcel	2010​	2012​	1860​	n/a
NIBALI Vincenzo	2005​	2007​	1836​	n/a
VAN AVERMAET Greg	2006​	2008​	1824​	n/a
ZINGLE Axel	2021​	2023​	1745​	0/37
GREGOIRE Romain	2022​	2024​	1732​	12/40
JAKOBSEN Fabio	2017​	2019​	1676​	0/35
MOSCON Gianni	2015​	2017​	1606​	3/33
VAN EETVELT Lennert	2022​	2024​	1575​	0/40

Which actually shows that I was in error when I declared Vauquelin as the highest scoring unselected rider: that is only true of those who reached the end of eligibility without being picked. Pogacar and Evenepoel have higher scores.

You will also notice that Gregoire and Van Eetvelt are going into the next round of the game: remove 108 from Gregoire's score, and 139 from Ven Eetvelt's, and their 2025 scores will be added to that (so LVE only needs 394 next year to overhaul Vauquelin as highest scoring never picked rider, or 580 to beat Pogacar's unpicked score)

We can take it further, and look at the best score when a rider is still in the first year of a cycle (not necessarily a one year score, but one in which years 1 and 2 combined had no more than 199 points) These were, therefore, points taken almost exclusively in the first year in which the rider made himself noteworthy.

	picked in Jan of	Scored nearly all his points in	points
VALVERDE Alejandro	2003​	2005​	1781​
DE LIE Arnaud	2020​	2022​	1496​
KITTEL Marcel	2009​	2011​	1284​
AYUSO PESQUERA Juan	2020​	2022​	1182​
MOSER Moreno	2010​	2012​	1119​
HIGUITA GARCIA Sergio Andres	2017​	2019​	1101​
NIBALI Vincenzo	2004​	2006​	1046​
BOUHANNI Nacer	2010​	2012​	1032​
JEANNIERE Emilien	2022​	2024​	1017​
SAGAN Peter	2008​	2010​	1016​
DEL TORO ROMERO Isaac	2022​	2024​	1014​
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando	2014​	2016​	986​
EVENEPOEL Remco	2017​	2019​	952​
CAVENDISH Mark	2005​	2007​	943​
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley	2015​	2017​	925​
JAKOBSEN Fabio	2016​	2018​	922​
GREGOIRE Romain	2021​	2023​	892​
ZINGLE Axel	2020​	2022​	881​
QUINTANA Nairo	2010​	2012​	839​
MOSCON Gianni	2014​	2016​	784​

Note the remarkable fast-fading firework of a career of Moreno Moser featuring there. Any of these would have been a great pick eventually, albeit one that required foresight, courage, and patience, and maybe a bit of distrust in those you had otherwise considered. Only one of them was actually picked at that stage though: ValvPiti picked Sergio Higuita in 2017, and promptly said

I think picking Reyes and especially Higuita will prove to be a mistake, despite their talents, due to how the CQ rankings work. But its more fun to pick with your heart than your brain, especially in a 3 year long game.

Jeanniere and Del Toro are the newest appearing in that list: Del Toro was unpicked again for the 2023-25 edition, in which Jeanniere is a unique pick for Leadbelly. But in the 2024-26 version, the last for which they are eligible, Del Toro is near ubiquitous (40/42), while Jeanniere was not selected at all.




One more long-term rider stat that might be noted is the persistence with which hope was placed in some riders were selected.
Soren Waerenskjold was picked for 2019-2021, again in 2020-22, 2021-23 before finally putting himself out of availability while part of the just finished 2022-24 edition.
Aurelian Paret Peintre also was picked for 4 different cycles before he finally became, by the definition of the game, emerged, but managed to do so non-consecutively: 2015-17, 2016-18, then was overlooked in 2017-19 before another too-early-to-be-fruitful pick in 2018-21, and finally proved worthy of selection ( and went on to get a respectable 1106) in the 2019-21 game.

So your challenge for 2025-27 will be to avoid the premature Aurelien, while not missing out on the there-won't-be-a-second-chance Emilien.