Timmy-loves-Rabo said:10 + 5
= 15
he is collecting points nicely tho, I originally had him in my team, but took him out mistake.
I made a lot of mistakes. Like Ricco for example...
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Timmy-loves-Rabo said:10 + 5
= 15
he is collecting points nicely tho, I originally had him in my team, but took him out mistake.
ingsve said:I'm a little worried about my pick of Marko Kump. It seems like the sprinter of choice in Geox seems to be Pelucchi rather than Kump.
taiwan said:Maybe just this race? Kump's been on the attack a lot (aggressive jersey). They could have just wanted to give Pelicchi an opportunity, or Kump a rest.
The Hitch said:Nobody has Antomarchi. The guy got 100 points just today and cost 27. Total of 119.
Impressive. Even if his team probably wont get too many big races.
Kump is more versatile than Pelucchi; Pelucchi is more of a pure flat terrain man; he's also a total neo-pro, while Kump has got some results in races like Coppi e Bartali for Adria Mobil. I suspect once we're into the season proper Kump will establish himself over Pelucchi. I thought I had Pelucchi as a sentimental pick since he cost nothing, but I was mistaken.ingsve said:I'm a little worried about my pick of Marko Kump. It seems like the sprinter of choice in Geox seems to be Pelucchi rather than Kump.
The Hitch said:Nobody has Antomarchi. The guy got 100 points just today and cost 27. Total of 119.
Impressive. Even if his team probably wont get too many big races.
The Hitch said:For those who like to look through cq rankings, check Cipos 2002 season.
A season a sprinter these days could only dream of.
He won a stage at TA.
He won 6, yes 6 Giro stages and the points classification. He came 2nd in one stage.
He won 3 stages at the Vuelta,
He did top 10 at flanders.
He won Ghent weglehelm.
He won Milan San Remo
And he won the Worlds.
In the end he came 4th overall. 2 of the guys in front of him were sprinters -Zabel and Mcewen, and the other was Lance in France.
9 grand tour stages, the race with the most points, a semi classic and the sprinters monument, and he could only get 3rd on the sprinters list.
Zabel who came 1st didnt win half of what Cipo won that year, and what he did win was mostly far inferior races. Yet he finished 500 ahead. Lance who did very little past TDF and the warmup Dauphine, finished 300 ahead.
Looking at that super season, its really strange to see such low returns.
For CQ purposes, a higher number of wins in lesser races counts more then a fewer number of quality wins.
kurtinsc said:Winning four 1.1 races gives you more points then winning MSR. Winning five gives you the same number of points as winning the world championships.
So think about it... a sprinter who won two of the Mallorca races then the two Mumbai races would have already gotten more points then they'd get for winning MSR. While we all look forward to the big events, performances in the smaller .1 and .HC races will likely determine the winner.
auscyclefan94 said:65th place, in theory I should start moving up as some stage races and one day classics start to get underway.
Ferminal said:More like whenever Cuddles starts racing (this week at Lugano or the week after at MSB?).
The Hitch said:For those who like to look through cq rankings, check Cipos 2002 season.
A season a sprinter these days could only dream of.
He won a stage at TA.
He won 6, yes 6 Giro stages and the points classification. He came 2nd in one stage.
He won 3 stages at the Vuelta,
He did top 10 at flanders.
He won Ghent weglehelm.
He won Milan San Remo
And he won the Worlds.
In the end he came 4th overall. 2 of the guys in front of him were sprinters -Zabel and Mcewen, and the other was Lance in France.
9 grand tour stages, the race with the most points, a semi classic and the sprinters monument, and he could only get 3rd on the sprinters list.
Zabel who came 1st didnt win half of what Cipo won that year, and what he did win was mostly far inferior races. Yet he finished 500 ahead. Lance who did very little past TDF and the warmup Dauphine, finished 300 ahead.
Looking at that super season, its really strange to see such low returns.
Barrus said:Woohoo, I already have one rider that has earned back his points
ingsve said:This weekend will be quite interesting I think. 7 oneday races in 2 days.
Hugo Koblet said:Update 6
al_pacino did the highest jump in the wrong direction as he moved from 43rd to 60th place.
The Hitch said:But in my example to which your responding to Zabel got a fewer number of lesser wins and Cipo got a higher number of quality wins.
You act as if there was only 1 Milan San Remo and hundreds of Tour de Mumbais. Of course winning 5, 1 day races is going to get more points than winning just MSR. Someone wins MSR every year. But you dont get someone winning 5 1.1 races every year.
Is there anything surprising that winning 5 hard 1 day races is worth more than MSR
As it happens no one did win all 5 Mallorca races. No one won 2 in Mallorca then 2 in Mumbai either. Somone will however win MSR. and someone will win PR. And someone will win LBL, RVV and GDL. And someone will come second. And someone will win the worlds and in a single day earn 400 cq points.
And there are 42 grand tour stages at 70 points, another 21 at 80 points. And there are overall classifications with 500 and 400 points for victories.
And there are dozens of secondary classics, and about 8 pt stage races which count as big races all with gold mines of points up for grabs.
When TA, PN, TDR, TDS, Dauphine, Eneco, Catalunia, Poland and TDu all offer 40 points for a stage alone, i cant see how a few 1 day races at 80 points are going to be the most important.