2025 Women's CQ Manager game

RedheadDane · Wednesday at 8:44 AM

slow_climber said:
Already planning my team for next year

I've pretty much already built my team... though there's definitely room for changes. However, it's nice to have it ready if I forget in the middle of building all my other teams.

(And now I just hope nobody goes and does something as incredibly rude as Elinor Barker did this year. Just kidding... congratulations to them.)

Armchair Cyclist · 2025-10-23T14:56:28+0100

Some number crunching:

Most profitable riders:

	cost	score	profit	teams
REUSSER Marlen	247	1401	1154	19
FERRAND PREVOT Pauline	0	681	681	20
VAN DER BREGGEN Anna	0	678	678	19
LE COURT DE BILLOT Kimberley	298	796	498	1
WOLLASTON Ally	162	652	490	4
FERGUSON Cat	143	580	437	23
KASTELIJN Yara	237	660	423	0
ZANETTI Linda	150	572	422	0
BLASI CAIROL Paula	107	523	416	1
ANDERSEN Susanne	38	431	393	1
CHABBEY Elise	491	849	358	1
MALCOTTI Barbara	93	446	353	0
TRINCA COLONEL Monica	289	604	315	3
VAN DAM Sarah	106	416	310	0
ANDERSSON Caroline	176	462	286	2
UNEKEN Lonneke	13	291	278	3
VIGIE Margaux	58	335	277	0
FORTIN Valentine	52	328	276	0
HOLMGREN Isabella	96	369	273	11
AALERUD Katrine	308	577	269	1
GRIFFIN Mia	11	274	263	0
FISHER-BLACK Niamh	461	711	250	5

Most profitable by RoI (minimum profit 100 points)

	cost	score	%age profit	teams
FERRAND PREVOT Pauline	0	681	n/c	20
VAN DER BREGGEN Anna	0	678	n/c	19
BOSSUYT Shari	0	218	n/c	0
STEIGENGA Nicole	0	205	n/c	1
GERY Célia	0	202	n/c	7
VENERUCCI Valentina	0	110	n/c	0
LANGENBARG Puck	0	106	n/c	0
BOGLIO Cassia	0	104	n/c	0
PARRA ROJAS Jessica Marcela	1	129	12800	0
DICKSON Lauren	2	215	10650	0
VITILLO Matilde	4	155	3775	0
CALUORI Ginia-Lara	4	105	2525	0
GRIFFIN Mia	11	274	2391	0
UNEKEN Lonneke	13	291	2138	3
WOLFF Imogen	9	164	1722	4
HÄBERLIN Steffi	16	202	1163	0
ANDERSEN Susanne	38	431	1034	1
JASTRAB Megan	31	256	726	7
FORTIN Valentine	52	328	531	0
CHLADONOVA Viktoria	40	243	508	4
EHRLICH Emily	24	145	504	0
VIGIE Margaux	58	335	478	0
VALBUENA ROA Camila Andrea	32	183	472	0
REUSSER Marlen	247	1401	467	19
BLASI CAIROL Paula	107	523	389	1
COUZENS Millie	52	253	387	0
MALCOTTI Barbara	93	446	380	0
STIASNY Petra	65	299	360	1
LONDOÑO DAVID Juliana	33	136	312	0
FERGUSON Cat	143	580	306	23
WOLLASTON Ally	162	652	302	4

Didn't mean to hit send: more to follow.

Armchair Cyclist · 2025-10-24T00:22:28+0100

Best Possible

	cost	score	teams
WIEBES Lorena	1545	1776	1 (skidmark)
REUSSER Marlen	247	1401	19
CHABBEY Elise	491	849	1 (Samu Cuenca)
LE COURT DE BILLOT Kimberley	298	796	1 (Leadbelly)
FERRAND PREVOT Pauline	0	681	20
VAN DER BREGGEN Anna	0	678	19
KASTELIJN Yara	237	660	0
WOLLASTON Ally	162	652	4
TRINCA COLONEL Monica	289	604	3
FERGUSON Cat	143	580	23
ZANETTI Linda	150	572	0
BLASI CAIROL Paula	107	523	1 (Archie)
ANDERSSON Caroline	176	462	2
MALCOTTI Barbara	93	446	0
ANDERSEN Susanne	38	431	1 (Dk One)
UNEKEN Lonneke	13	291	3

totals	3989	11402	98

That team would have been in the bottom 5 on the popularity rankings. Ruvu's score was 71% of that (compared to 63% for last year's winner.

Collective ignorance
Between us, only 3 of the best possible team were totally overlooked. We can thank Skidmark, Samu, Leadbelly, Archie and Dk One for preventing the Collective Ignorance team (those that none of us picked, Doing what it did last year and beating the lot of us. But it beat all bar Ruvu:

	cost	score
BREDEWOLD Mischa	599	765
KASTELIJN Yara	237	660
OSTOLAZA ZABALA Usoa	406	655
RÜEGG Noemi	508	575
ZANETTI Linda	150	572
OTTESTAD Mie Bjørndal	318	566
WLODARCZYK Dominika	452	531
JANSEN Eline	279	518
GILLESPIE Lara	274	494
MALCOTTI Barbara	93	446
VAN DAM Sarah	106	416
WILLIAMS Lily	171	402
VALLIERES MILL Magdeleine	173	385
VIGIE Margaux	58	335
MIERMONT Dilyxine	109	330
FORTIN Valentine	52	328

	3985	7978

I think it has usually been the case when I have worked out the antithesis of the winner's team (the best possible team omitting all the members of that team) has usually out-scored the winner (though not the case for GT games): that happened again

Ruvu's picks	cost	score	teams	versus	Ruvu's non-picks	cost	score	teams
REUSSER Marlen	247	1401	19		WIEBES Lorena	1545	1776	1
FISHER-BLACK Niamh	461	711	5		CHABBEY Elise	491	849	1
FERRAND PREVOT Pauline	0	681	20		LE COURT DE BILLOT Kimberley	298	796	1
VAN DER BREGGEN Anna	0	678	19		KASTELIJN Yara	237	660	0
WOLLASTON Ally	162	652	4		AALERUD Katrine	308	577	1
TRINCA COLONEL Monica	289	604	3		ZANETTI Linda	150	572	0
FERGUSON Cat	143	580	23		BLASI CAIROL Paula	107	523	1
LIPPERT Liane	468	512	12		ANDERSSON Caroline	176	462	2
HENDERSON Anna	404	500	1		MALCOTTI Barbara	93	446	0
BACKSTEDT Zoe	198	393	12		ANDERSEN Susanne	38	431	1
DYGERT Chloe	449	371	4		VAN DAM Sarah	106	416	0
BUNEL Marion	482	324	13		COPPONI Clara	161	409	1
UNEKEN Lonneke	13	291	3		HOLMGREN Isabella	96	369	11
MOOLMAN PASIO Ashleigh	264	195	3		VIGIE Margaux	58	335	0
LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup	311	169	18		FORTIN Valentine	52	328	0
VAN DER DUIN Maike	34	80	7		STIASNY Petra	65	299	1

	3925	8142	166			3981	9248	21

Of course, such a comparison would have looked worse for any of the rest of us.

Even the winner, as will be seen in that table, had 4 riders that did not return a profit in the year: only Skidmark did better, with three, while 7 teams had at least half their riders make a loss. Two teams went even further, and had the team in total score less than their cost.

5 teams had riders that failed to score at all: two of them had two such non-scorers.

With such a high-scoring free-pick as PFP available, and the third highest scoring rider of the season so cheap to select, the Impeccable picks list is rather short:

WIEBES Lorena if you could afford 1545 or more on your last pick

REUSSER Marlen if you had 247-1544 points available

FERRAND PREVOT Pauline if you had less than 247 for the last player.

so depending on who your first 14 picks were, you could have been better off only spending 2798 points, leaving 30% of the budget unspent.

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