CQ ranking

[Tuarts]

Click the link called 'click here'

 

[auscyclefan94]

58th position! You guys all must of had bobridge, gerro and goss! I am feeling miserable about my chances already in this game!

 

[will10]

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[Barrus]

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Strange it worked for me.

Anyway, I have at least gotten around 40 points, and now I only need about 7450 points more, or else I'll be banned, at least that what some of the members seem to want



Also the amount of points Microdose had is amazing, and I am amazed ACF did not end higher, probably ahs less Australian riders than I expected

 

[auscyclefan94]

Strange it worked for me.

Anyway, I have at least gotten around 40 points, and now I only need about 7450 points more, or else I'll be banned, at least that what some of the members seem to want



Also the amount of points Microdose had is amazing, and I am amazed ACF did not end higher, probably ahs less Australian riders than I expected

The guys who I had competing were tim roe, leigh howard, mark renshaw & Sutton. I am kind of regretting some of my selections now, have a feeling some of the riders won't get as many opportunities for their teams.

 

[Contre la montre]

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It didn't work for me either and i really don't feel like downloading a toolbar.

Anyway I just checked my team and it turns out I don't have any Australian riders. But I expect to score heavily in the Dutch nationals

 

[auscyclefan94]

It didn't work for me either and i really don't feel like downloading a toolbar.

Anyway I just checked my team and it turns out I don't have any Australian riders. But I expect to score heavily in the Dutch nationals

yes you do. You have gerrans and davis and you are on 82 points.

 

[The Hitch]

The first update is out!

microdose and his australian national team has taken the lead and is the first official leader of the 2011 CQ Ranking Manager Game!

Top 10:

1. microdose 495 points
2. Pcutter 418 points
3. trotters aotearoa 325 points
4. Spider1964 290 points
5. AAC1983 263 points
6. Kevin Rudd's Hairdryer 248 points
7. EvansIsTheBest 232 points
8. LukeSchmid 219 points
9. deValtos 215 points
10. coppiman 211 points

The spreadsheet can be downloaded here:
http://www.2shared.com/document/tVxM0D4C/CQ_Rankings_Spreadsheet.html

How many of those are Australian?

Sagan was the highest ranked first year espoir on CQ, and the junior MTB world champion, as well as the runner-up at the junior cyclocross world championships... that could have prompted some to pick him. Do we have a neo pro like that this year? There aren't many kids with that kind of palmares.

THats my point. Unlikely to find another Sagan this year.

Phinney is certainly someone with a very impressive junior background - I'm not saying he will, but he could have a Sagan-esque early season.

As mentioned earlier, some neo will rock up and have a blinding couple of months, no doubt.

Phinney could but he costs way more than Sagan did then. And i dont think hell win as much as Sagan did. But with BMC in need of a team leader (for races Cuddles wont ride), i saw him as a neccesary pick. Hopefully he does a lot of races and can ratch up points from tts, sprints and a jersey or 2.

 

[Contre la montre]

yes you do. You have gerrans and davis and you are on 82 points.

Thanks for pointing that out. I checked my team on my own spreadsheet that I made before sending in my final team. My laptop has since crashed with the new team on it. Most of my documents are backups from my USB stick. Also I noticed I have a lot less Dutch riders then I thought I did. I was convinced I had Boom, but I do recall I thought he was rather expensive and he is not in the team I send in. With the team I did send in I recall mentioning I was going to win the contest because I didn't let myself be guided by chauvinism. Otherwise I certainly would've had Boom and Gesink. 82 points is that any good so far? I've only seen the top ten.

 

[Contre la montre]

It didn't work for me either and i really don't feel like downloading a toolbar.

Anyway I just checked my team and it turns out I don't have any Australian riders. But I expect to score heavily in the Dutch nationals

When I switched my browser for some reason it did work. That might work for others aswell

 

[will10]

When I switched my browser for some reason it did work. That might work for others aswell

Was worth a try but won't work here for me on IE or Google Chrome

 

[sublimit]

I copied and pasted, and its not great but it gives you an idea.


Team 2010 Points 2011 Points

microdose 7499 495
Pcutter 7495 418
trotters aotearoa 7457 325
Spider1964 7423 290
AAC1983 7495 263
Kevin Rudd's Hairdryer 7413 248
EvansIsTheBest 7500 232
LukeSchmid 7488 219
deValtos 7491 215
coppiman 7498 211
skidmark 7490 210
Spare Tyre 7492 204
Mellow Velo 7499 189
auto de fé 7500 189
The Cobra 7471 154
Sneekes 7385 154
Moondance 7483 151
Object 7410 140
Tuarts 7466 134
Bicing 7498 133
Handbrake 7496 119
Moncoutie 7499 119
Ferminal 7473 110
Team Sky Fans 7480 110
jaylew 7499 102
who dat 7231 102
Zaschrona 7488 97
Sasquatch 7370 93
MADRAZO 7500 92
Sydney21 7500 92
Passista 7496 92
The Amateur 7492 84
Contre la montre 7500 82
Ham-N-Eggs 7500 81
Waterloo Sunrise 7471 81
theyoungest 7498 81
Kvinto 7479 81
sublimit 7457 81
Armchair cyclist 7500 81
whittashau 7327 78
Jukebox 7493 77
royalpig180 7492 77
mc_mountain 7500 75
Gotland 7494 70
The Hitch 7459 70
Kazistuta 7497 70
ingsve 7476 70
tgsgirl 7495 70
mortand 7500 70
Bumeington 7492 70
sosososik 7468 70
Squire 7499 70
XlandaluzeX 6805 70
Jan the Man7499 70
Hugo Koblet 7495 70
pabryan 7411 70
lancaster 7497 60
auscyclefan94 7485 48
Barrus 7436 44
AntonioRossi7493 33
Jiaying 7475 33
Timmy-loves-Rabo7488 26
Kwibus 7500 11
Jpettersen 7408 11
Parrulo 7473 11
al_pacino 7496 11
togo95 7450 11
Joy118118 7500 11
Jakob747 7477 11
Jancouver 7500 7
Rocksteady 7469 7
roundabout 7490 0
will10 7469 0
luckyboy 7500 0
Arnout 7490 0
nvpacchi 7470 0
Vonn Brinkman 7474 0
nobilis 7499 0
Blues in the bottle 7498 0
henry olonga 7500 0
zapata 7494 0
kurtinsc 7495 0
Erick 8-A 7495 0
hrotha 7500 0
jens_attacks 7500 0
Libertine Seguros 7492 0
sigsky 7499 0
Wiggins_fan 3292 0

 

[Spare Tyre]

How many of those are Australian?

Most of them, I imagine. trotters aotearoa is probably from New Zealand.

 

[sublimit]

ACF is a traitor to his country for not having enough Australian riders!
Is it me or is Wiggins_fan team rubbish? probably would be a better cross country ski team than cycle racing.

 

[ingsve]

ACF is a traitor to his country for not having enough Australian riders!
Is it me or is Wiggins_fan team rubbish? probably would be a better cross country ski team than cycle racing.

Oh, I didn't see that team. I guess I might have to change my prediction of no one ending up with less tham 7500 points or else Wiggins_fan will get banned from the forums. Then again the team only costs 3292 so I could just change the prediction to that no one will earn less points than their team cost.

 

[theyoungest]

58th position! You guys all must of had bobridge, gerro and goss! I am feeling miserable about my chances already in this game!

Haha, I'm ahead of ACF, when the only available result is the Aussie nationals. Whodda thunk. I feel a winning season coming up.

BTW, don't you have Gerrans on your team? He seems a good pick, especially for an Aussie cycling fan.

 

[will10]

little wonder that microdose is leading, his entire team is Aussie!

 

[Denkoff]

Can I participate?

 

[Jancouver]

I got 7 points for the Australian Benjamin King, yet the Ben King on my team is the US rider (Cost 149 CQ points) . Hey, I dont mind getting points for both of those guys

 

[Barrus]

Can I participate?

I doubt it, seeing as the season has already begun and points are already earned

 

[jaylew]

It didn't work for me either and i really don't feel like downloading a toolbar.

Anyway I just checked my team and it turns out I don't have any Australian riders. But I expect to score heavily in the Dutch nationals

Doesn't work for me either. It either re-directs to a russian/ukranian women site or wants me to download an run an executable, which I'm certainly not doing.

 

[AntonioRossi]

Doesn't work for me either. It either re-directs to a russian/ukranian women site or wants me to download an run an executable, which I'm certainly not doing.

same thing here

 

[ingsve]

Doesn't work for me either. It either re-directs to a russian/ukranian women site or wants me to download an run an executable, which I'm certainly not doing.

Are you clicking the right link? You should not click the link that says "Download 2shared toolbar" but instead the link in tiny text above it that says "Save file to your PC: click here"

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

No it wont.

Are people actually under the impression that they will find another Sagan?

Well even if you did, and an increase from 84 to 929 in a youngster is very rare, but if you did, I think this 1000 point increase will be absorbed by the collective power of the guys i listed. There are just too many riders this year who had low Cq scores but tons of potential for very high ones. TOo many. 1 Sagan, even 2 sagans(unrealistic) or for the sake of argument 3, i think will be absorbed.

Meanwhile the rest of your youngsters are getting a stage opportunity here, a break there, and finishing races. Not really increasing much on their totals.

I'm not saying that I have the new Sagan but I am petty sure someone has him and I would be very surprised not to see that person on the podium.

And even a Keukeleire (about 500 points increase) will turn out more profitable than a Deignan (even if he repeats his 2009 Vuelta, which he won't) or a Vande Velde.

And youngsters scoring 500 points increase is not unusual : Ladagnous (2008 to 2009), R. Feillu (2006 to 2007), Porte (2009 to 2010), C. Pineau (2009 to 2010), Mollema (2009 to 2010), Pardilla (2009 to 2010), Fuglsang (2008 to 2009), Hoogerland (2008 to 2009), Le Lay (2008 to 2009), El Farès (2008 to 2009) to name a few (mostly french because I know them best).

In the meantime, how many dopers score this kind of increase : Basso, Ventoso, Petacchi, Scarponi, Vinokourov, Ricco. All were and are stars that present more guarantees than the dopers coming back this year except Schumacher (which interestingly had a 800 points increase in 2006), Rebellin (which had a 1000 points increase in 1999), Di Luca (which had 1000 points variations from one season to another quite frequently) and Pellizoti IMO.

As for youngsters scoring 1000 points increase these last years we had Haussler (2009), Boassen Hagen (2009), Greipel (2008), Ricco (2007), Kashechkin (2006), Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (2006), history is bound to repeat itself and I insist that youngsters, not dopers will win this game.

 

[jaylew]

Thanks. Of course it's the smallest, most discreet link on the page. Should have known. I was clicking the big red download button.