The obvious gap in the stable of CQ games on these sites has been anything based on women's races. Years ago I bemoaned the fact that the downloadable updates, produced weekly on the men's racing side of the CQ site, only appears about 3 or 4 times a year for the women. And I left it at that.
Until, that is, I was doing one of the updates in the Spring Classics game, when it suddenly occurred to me that I had there the spreadsheet template that could provide a game based on any calendar with a limited number of races. Like the World Tour. Add in the World Championships as well, and the game can deal with the vast bulk of the points earned by the top riders. So I made a few adjustments to the Spring Classics spreadsheet, and compiled the scores for the races that happened this year and will be WWT (or WC) to see what that throws up.
This method is not ideal: 482 women got points in this selection of races (as opposed to 1336 if we were to include all the 2022 races to date), and for some riders, even fairly high in the rankings, very few of their points (this year at least) came from WWT races. So, for example, Agnieszka Skalniak-Sojka, Ricarda Bauernfeind and Silvia Zanardi are all in the CQ top 50 but have 5% of their points or less on this tally; Olga Shekel is 90th in the CQ ranking but none of her 206 points come from races I would include. The way around this would be to have the game updated by 13 or so pages worth of CQ table being copied and pasted into a spreadsheet every time an update is required, but that's not what I am offering and I fear it would be such a pain to do that it would not be maintained. (If anyone wants to do that, I will happily withdraw this proposal in favour of their game and offer any spreadsheet help I can give)
This year's scores are lower than can be expected next year: Omloop van Nieuwsblad and Swiss Tour will have a higher points scale than this year (when they have not been WWT), and TDU, Cadel Evans RR, UAE Tour and the two Chinese races are all to be added/revived. But to give an idea of what scores could have been achieved this year (3rd column would be proposed game scores: 4th column would have been their cost if the game were played this year):
Until, that is, I was doing one of the updates in the Spring Classics game, when it suddenly occurred to me that I had there the spreadsheet template that could provide a game based on any calendar with a limited number of races. Like the World Tour. Add in the World Championships as well, and the game can deal with the vast bulk of the points earned by the top riders. So I made a few adjustments to the Spring Classics spreadsheet, and compiled the scores for the races that happened this year and will be WWT (or WC) to see what that throws up.
This method is not ideal: 482 women got points in this selection of races (as opposed to 1336 if we were to include all the 2022 races to date), and for some riders, even fairly high in the rankings, very few of their points (this year at least) came from WWT races. So, for example, Agnieszka Skalniak-Sojka, Ricarda Bauernfeind and Silvia Zanardi are all in the CQ top 50 but have 5% of their points or less on this tally; Olga Shekel is 90th in the CQ ranking but none of her 206 points come from races I would include. The way around this would be to have the game updated by 13 or so pages worth of CQ table being copied and pasted into a spreadsheet every time an update is required, but that's not what I am offering and I fear it would be such a pain to do that it would not be maintained. (If anyone wants to do that, I will happily withdraw this proposal in favour of their game and offer any spreadsheet help I can give)
This year's scores are lower than can be expected next year: Omloop van Nieuwsblad and Swiss Tour will have a higher points scale than this year (when they have not been WWT), and TDU, Cadel Evans RR, UAE Tour and the two Chinese races are all to be added/revived. But to give an idea of what scores could have been achieved this year (3rd column would be proposed game scores: 4th column would have been their cost if the game were played this year):
Rank | Name | CQ pts from WWT +WC | 2021 pts | All 2022 CQ pts |
1 | VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek | 1729 | 1813 | 1750 |
2 | LONGO BORGHINI Elisa | 1061 | 1254 | 1192 |
3 | VOLLERING Demi | 1010 | 1293 | 1175 |
4 | WIEBES Lorena | 987 | 773 | 1615 |
5 | BALSAMO Elisa | 936 | 704 | 1129 |
6 | KOPECKY Lotte | 936 | 993 | 1042 |
7 | LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup | 784 | 760 | 947 |
8 | LABOUS Juliette | 733 | 553 | 797 |
9 | LIPPERT Liane | 731 | 383 | 832 |
10 | CAVALLI Marta | 714 | 638 | 859 |
20 | CORDON-RAGOT Audrey | 382 | 231 | 576 |
30 | SIERRA CAÑADILLA Arlenis | 286 | 519 | 580 |
40 | GEORGI Pfeiffer | 206 | 414 | 405 |
50 | JACKSON Alison | 162 | 333 | 295 |
100 | VERHULST Gladys | 75 | 282 | 232 |
150 | PIERGIOVANNI Federica | 39 | 78 | 50 |
200 | SWINKELS Sylvie | 22 | 9 | 43 |
300 | CHRISTOFOROU Antri | 8 | 23 | 143 |
400 | HARRIS-BLAIN Pearl | 4 | 0 | 4 |