2025-26 CX Game

[Armchair Cyclist]

Almost done: Maldegem, Middelkerke and Lille.

	Armchair	Devil's Elbow	JR1012	RhD	Samu
Vandeputte Niels	230​	.	230​	.	.
Vanthourenhout Michael	.	.	.	.	194​
Alvarado Ceylin del Carmen	180​	.	.	.	.
Orts Felipe	.	.	.	176​	.
Schreiber Marie	.	.	.	170​	.
Bentveld Leonie	.	134​	.	.	134​
Wyseure Joran	.	124​	124​	.	124​
Brouwers Julie	.	.	106​	.	.
Norbert Riberolle Marion	.	.	98​	.	.
Kuypers Gerben	.	.	.	.	94​
Nieuwenhuis Joris	82​	82​	82​	.	82​
van Alphen Aniek	.	80​	.	.	80​
Michels Jente	78​	78​	.	.	.
Meeussen Witse	74​	74​	.	.	.
Kamp Ryan	.	.	70​	.	70​
Clauzel Hélène	.	.	.	64​	.
Bakker Manon	62​	.	.	.	.

Not a huge haul, even with three races

1​	SamuCuenca	913​
2​	JR1012	904​
3​	ArmchairCyclist	801​
4​	DevilsElbow	753​
5​	RedheadDane	512​
	CollectiveWisdom	598​
	Default	718​

Standings

1​	SamuCuenca	23471​	(-)
2​	DevilsElbow	21378​	(-)
3​	JR1012	19608​	(-)
4​	ArmchairCyclist	18435​	(-)
5​	RedheadDane	13290​	(-)
	CollectiveWisdom	21078​
	Default	15916​

It looks like the remaining events are Waaslandcross and Brussels University next weekend, and Oostmalle a week later. I might wait and do all three in one update if you think you can bear the suspense...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

And so it ends: Waaslandcross, Brussels University and the untelevised (by TNT at least) final fling at Oostmalle.

	Armchair	Devil's Elbow	JR1012	RhD	Samu
Vandeputte Niels	230​	.	230​	.	.
Alvarado Ceylin del Carmen	212​	.	.	.	.
Kuypers Gerben	.	.	.	.	166​
Norbert Riberolle Marion	.	.	152​	.	.
Vanthourenhout Michael	.	.	.	.	148​
Bakker Manon	140​	.	.	.	.
Nieuwenhuis Joris	120​	120​	120​	.	120​
Wyseure Joran	.	100​	100​	.	100​
Bentveld Leonie	.	97​	.	.	97​
Vandebosch Toon	94​	94​	.	.	.
Brouwers Julie	.	.	92​	.	.
Orts Felipe	.	.	.	88​	.
Franck Alicia	.	78​	78​	.	78​
Michels Jente	78​	78​	.	.	.
Meeussen Witse	76​	76​	.	.	.

And as far as I am concerned, the best update was kept til last:

1​	ArmchairCyclist	1024​
2​	JR1012	998​
3​	SamuCuenca	837​
4​	DevilsElbow	715​
5​	RedheadDane	300​
	CollectiveWisdom	623​
	Default	534​

Final standings

1​	SamuCuenca	24308​	(-)
2​	DevilsElbow	22093​	(-)
3​	JR1012	20606​	(-)
4​	ArmchairCyclist	19459​	(-)
5​	RedheadDane	13590​	(-)
	CollectiveWisdom	21701​
	Default	16450​

Congratulations to Samu: avoidance of van Empel was important, and your unique pick in the same price range, Vantourenhout, although not in profit, scored consistently.

It would not have made any different if we had excluded points that the riders had before the game started: the positions were unaffected (those points were about 10% of the total of all scores)

Samu, Devil's Elbow and RhD all had contributions from all 18 riders: JR had one rider that failed to get any points (I Holmgren) and I had three no-shows (Iserbyt, Baroni and Holmgren again)

Felipe Orts moved narrowly into profit compared to last season in his last race, meaning that RhD had 5 riders on the right side of the balance line: JR had ten and the rest of us had 11, so more than a third of picks even on the more successful teams by that measure were in the red.

I suspect that a Collective Ignorance team might have thrashed us all: I'll break down the numbers and rider details a bit more sometime in the next few days.

In the mean time, don't forget your selections for the Spring Classics game.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Trying to resolve my tracking of scores with those of PCS, although their scores have some oddities (like giving a 16 year old Swedish girl points from a ME race in the US, and including 2025 Waaslandcross in the rankings points for this season)

I underscored Chaladonova by 40 points and Zemanova by 80 (I'm going to say PCS were slow in posting the NC results) and Orts by 50 and Wyseure by 80, for reasons I can't spot, and some errors in the Default selection too.

So the almost as previously announced final scores are:

1​	SamuCuenca	24508​
2​	DevilsElbow	22253​
3​	JR1012	20766​
4​	ArmchairCyclist	19539​
5​	RedheadDane	13680​
	CollectiveWisdom	21861​
	Default	16540​

Where we each got our points:

	Armchair	Devil's Elbow	JR1012	RhD	Samu
Vandeputte Niels	2628​	.	2628​	.	.
van Alphen Aniek	.	2213​	.	.	2213​
Nys Thibau	.	2195​	.	.	2195​
van der Poel Mathieu	.	.	2175​	.	.
Vanthourenhout Michael	.	.	.	.	2043​
Alvarado Ceylin del Carmen	2039​	.	.	.	.
Bakker Manon	1850​	.	.	.	.
Nieuwenhuis Joris	1850​	1850​	1850​	.	1850​
Del Grosso Tibor	1689​	1689​	1689​	.	1689​
Pieterse Puck	1625​	.	.	1625​	1625​
Zemanová Kristýna	1617​	1617​	1617​	.	1617​
Orts Felipe	.	.	.	1579​	.
Aerts Toon	.	1508​	.	.	1508​
Norbert Riberolle Marion	.	.	1497​	.	.
Bentveld Leonie	.	1382​	.	.	1382​
Brouwers Julie	.	.	1314​	.	.
Wyseure Joran	.	1321​	1321​	.	1321​
Michels Jente	1240​	1240​	.	.	.
Casasola Sara	.	1146​	.	1146​	1146​
van Anrooij Shirin	1122​	1122​	1122​	.	1122​
Kuypers Gerben	.	.	.	.	1113​
Mason Cameron	.	.	1106​	.	.
Clauzel Hélène	.	.	.	1034​	.
Kuhn Kevin	.	.	1027​	1027​	.
Kamp Ryan	.	.	985​	.	985​
Rochette Maghalie	.	935​	.	935​	935​
Ronhaar Pim	933​	933​	.	933​	933​
Vandebosch Toon	933​	933​	.	.	.
Meeussen Witse	866​	866​	.	.	.
Brunner Eric	.	.	.	859​	.
Schreiber Marie	.	.	.	707​	.
Vas Blanka	.	.	671​	671​	.
Verdonschot Laura	592​	592​	.	592​	.
Boroš Michael	.	.	570​	570​	.
Bäckstedt Zoe	.	.	.	568​	.
Franck Alicia	.	565​	565​	.	565​
Worst Annemarie	.	.	483​	.	.
Konwa Marek	.	.	.	415​	.
De Moyer Kenay	409​	.	.	.	.
Degenkolb Hannes	.	.	.	325​	.
Van Aert Wout	.	.	.	320​	.
Chladoňová Viktória	.	.	.	266​	266​
van Empel Fem	146​	146​	146​	.	.
Nielsen Daniel Weis	.	.	.	108​	.
Baroni Francesca	0​	.	.	.	.
Holmgren Isabella	0​	.	0​	.	.
Iserbyt Eli	0​	.	.	.	.

and our profit and loss on each rider:

	Armchair	Devil's Elbow	JR1012	RhD	Samu
Del Grosso Tibor	1289​	1289​	1289​	.	1289​
Zemanová Kristýna	1266​	1266​	1266​	.	1266​
van Alphen Aniek	.	1215​	.	.	1215​
van Anrooij Shirin	1122​	1122​	1122​	.	1122​
Nieuwenhuis Joris	987​	987​	987​	.	987​
Kuypers Gerben	.	.	.	.	772​
van der Poel Mathieu	.	.	750​	.	.
Michels Jente	722​	722​	.	.	.
Meeussen Witse	572​	572​	.	.	.
Nys Thibau	.	563​	.	.	563​
Vandeputte Niels	501​	.	501​	.	.
Kamp Ryan	.	.	429​	.	429​
Mason Cameron	.	.	397​	.	.
Bakker Manon	380​	.	.	.	.
Bentveld Leonie	.	380​	.	.	380​
De Moyer Kenay	316​	.	.	.	.
Rochette Maghalie	.	305​	.	305​	305​
Brouwers Julie	.	.	289​	.	.
Pieterse Puck	235​	.	.	235​	235​
Vandebosch Toon	168​	168​	.	.	.
Brunner Eric	.	.	.	126​	.
Kuhn Kevin	.	.	79​	79​	.
Orts Felipe	.	.	.	74​	.
Norbert Riberolle Marion	.	.	-19​	.	.
Alvarado Ceylin del Carmen	-38​	.	.	.	.
Degenkolb Hannes	.	.	.	-61​	.
Franck Alicia	.	-63​	-63​	.	-63​
Boroš Michael	.	.	-100​	-100​	.
Chladoňová Viktória	.	.	.	-120​	-120​
Nielsen Daniel Weis	.	.	.	-140​	.
Ronhaar Pim	-217​	-217​	.	-217​	-217​
Casasola Sara	.	-259​	.	-259​	-259​
Wyseure Joran	.	-284​	-284​	.	-284​
Worst Annemarie	.	.	-313​	.	.
Vanthourenhout Michael	.	.	.	.	-343​
Konwa Marek	.	.	.	-359​	.
Holmgren Isabella	-394​	.	-394​	.	.
Baroni Francesca	-406​	.	.	.	.
Verdonschot Laura	-408​	-408​	.	-408​	.
Clauzel Hélène	.	.	.	-422​	.
Van Aert Wout	.	.	.	-505​	.
Schreiber Marie	.	.	.	-609​	.
Aerts Toon	.	-728​	.	.	-728​
Bäckstedt Zoe	.	.	.	-794​	.
Vas Blanka	.	.	-857​	-857​	.
Iserbyt Eli	-2225​	.	.	.	.
van Empel Fem	-2295​	-2295​	-2295​	.	.

Riders who scored >1000 points, or profit >300

	price	points	profit (or loss)	teams
BRAND Lucinda	3641​	3360​	-281​	0​
VANDEPUTTE Niels	2127​	2628​	501​	2​
FOUQUENET Amandine	787​	2320​	1533​	0​
VAN ALPHEN Aniek	998​	2213​	1215​	2​
NYS Thibau	1632​	2195​	563​	2​
VAN DER POEL Mathieu	1425​	2175​	750​	1​
VANTHOURENHOUT Michael	2386​	2043​	-343​	1​
ALVARADO Ceylin del Carmen	2077​	2039​	-38​	1​
VAN DER HEIJDEN Inge	2082​	1940​	-142​	0​
NIEUWENHUIS Joris	863​	1850​	987​	4​
BAKKER Manon	1470​	1850​	380​	1​
DEL GROSSO Tibor	400​	1689​	1289​	4​
PIETERSE Puck	1390​	1625​	235​	3​
ZEMANOVÁ Kristýna	351​	1617​	1266​	4​
ORTS Felipe	1505​	1579​	74​	1​
AERTS Toon	2236​	1508​	-728​	2​
NORBERT RIBEROLLE Marion	1516​	1497​	-19​	1​
BENTVELD Leonie	1002​	1382​	380​	2​
SWEECK Laurens	1773​	1347​	-426​	0​
WYSEURE Joran	1605​	1321​	-284​	3​
BROUWERS Julie	1025​	1314​	289​	1​
VERSTRYNGE Emiel	1127​	1284​	157​	0​
HENDRIKX Mees	617​	1271​	654​	0​
MICHELS Jente	518​	1240​	722​	2​
CASASOLA Sara	1405​	1146​	-259​	3​
VAN ANROOIJ Shirin	0​	1122​	1122​	4​
KUYPERS Gerben	341​	1113​	772​	1​
MASON Cameron	709​	1106​	397​	1​
VAN DER HAAR Lars	1981​	1068​	-913​	0​
CLAUZEL Hélène	1456​	1034​	-422​	1​
KUHN Kevin	948​	1027​	79​	2​
FONTANA Filippo	165​	777​	612​	0​
NEFF Jolanda	0​	604​	604​	0​
MEEUSSEN Witse	294​	866​	572​	2​
BESHIR Tofik	0​	572​	572​	0​
DRUMMOND Ryan	62​	530​	468​	0​
KAMP Ryan	556​	985​	429​	2​
CARRIER Rafaelle	56​	465​	409​	0​
HLADÍKOVÁ Kateřina	0​	407​	407​	0​
CLARK Tyler	477​	869​	392​	0​
GERY Célia	407​	770​	363​	0​
GUNSALUS Lizzy	364​	726​	362​	0​
ŘÍMAN Jakub	0​	360​	360​	0​
ZOERNER Lauren	463​	818​	355​	0​
GARIBOLDI Rebecca	516​	863​	347​	0​
BAŽANT Kryštof	0​	344​	344​	0​
VAN KEMPEN Jules	441​	780​	339​	0​
BURQUIER Line	24​	349​	325​	0​
KNOLL Nico	0​	320​	320​	0​
DE MOYER Kenay	93​	409​	316​	1​
INGUANZO Gonzalo	232​	543​	311​	0​
DRAKE Ffion	91​	400​	309​	0​
ROCHETTE Maghalie	630​	935​	305​	3​
ESTERMANN Rebekka	104​	407​	303​	0​
DURAFFOURG Lauriane	0​	302​	302​	0​

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Best possible team
Interesting to see that, although she was not in profit for the year, Brand still makes the best possible team: that's food for thought in picking tactics.

	cost	points	teams
BRAND Lucinda	3641​	3360​	0​
VANDEPUTTE Niels	2127​	2628​	2​
FOUQUENET Amandine	787​	2320​	0​
VAN ALPHEN Aniek	998​	2213​	2​
NYS Thibau	1632​	2195​	2​
VAN DER POEL Mathieu	1425​	2175​	1​
NIEUWENHUIS Joris	863​	1850​	4​
BAKKER Manon	1470​	1850​	1​
DEL GROSSO Tibor	400​	1689​	4​
PIETERSE Puck	1390​	1625​	3​
ZEMANOVÁ Kristýna	351​	1617​	4​
HENDRIKX Mees	617​	1271​	0​
MICHELS Jente	518​	1240​	2​
VAN ANROOIJ Shirin	0​	1122​	4​
KUYPERS Gerben	341​	1113​	1​
MASON Cameron	709​	1106​	1​
FONTANA Filippo	165​	777​	0​
KAMP Ryan	556​	985​	2​

So for a cost of 17990, a score of 31136 was possible. Samu's winning score is 78.7 % of that.

Collective Ignorance
This doesn't show us up as much as I had suspected: Samu and DE both beat it

	cost	points
BRAND Lucinda	3641​	3360​
FOUQUENET Amandine	787​	2320​
VAN DER HEIJDEN Inge	2082​	1940​
SWEECK Laurens	1773​	1347​
VERSTRYNGE Emiel	1127​	1284​
HENDRIKX Mees	617​	1271​
VAN DER HAAR Lars	1981​	1068​
STROHMEYER Andrew	889​	993​
CLARK Tyler	477​	869​
GARIBOLDI Rebecca	516​	863​
ZOERNER Lauren	463​	818​
VAN KEMPEN Jules	441​	780​
FONTANA Filippo	165​	777​
GERY Célia	407​	770​
GUNSALUS Lizzy	364​	726​
VAN DE PUTTE Victor	514​	681​
RODRÍGUEZ Sofia	516​	621​
NEFF Jolanda	0​	604​

So that's a 16760 spend to get 21092.