CQ ranking

[The Hitch]

given up caring. Im too busy trying to win velogames.

Thats like Radioshack going for the team competition once they found out they couldnt win the big one

 

[hrotha]

One thing about this game is that once you send in your squad you don't have to do anything else. You're set. Whether Dim cares or not, his team will end up with the same score. Maybe it would be interesting to introduce new rules for next year so that there's some managing to do during the season, but then again one of the big appeals of this game is its simplicity. Something to think about when the season ends, I suppose.

 

[kurtinsc]

Well, overall I'm not doing great. But at least I made a few good picks that let me feel slightly better about myself.

I'm not happy about the Matt Lloyd pick right now... but Ben Hermans is already 80 points past his score from last year with his top 10 today. And I'm the only one who picked him... so I can tout that to some degree about "getting one right".

 

[The Hitch]

FW is one of those races where a Quinella is, well more likely than usual. Because it generally comes down to who is the strongest at the finish. Its easier to predict who will be the 5 strongest climbers on the day than to predict who will attack when and where etc.

The other such races will be the grand tours which also come down to strongest in the mountains.

 

[The Hitch]

Team 2011 Points position

AAC1983 4811 1
ingsve 4518 2
Pcutter 4410 3
Handbrake 4337 4
theyoungest 4304 5
The Hitch 4283 6
Gotland 4172 7
microdose 4117 8
LukeSchmid 4097 9
Kazistuta 3979 10
MADRAZO 3924 11
Waterloo Sunrise 3892 12
Spider1964 3844 13
Bicing 3829 14
Kevin Rudd's Hairdryer 3771 15
Jancouver 3761 16
Sneekes 3689 17
Parrulo 3684 18
Ham-N-Eggs 3629 19
Moondance 3599 20
The Amateur 3597 21
pabryan 3574 22
trotters aotearoa 3565 23
Bumeington 3564 24
mortand 3554 25
mc_mountain 3521 26
Sydney21 3512 27
Timmy-loves-Rabo 3487 28
Jakob747 3464 29
Kwibus 3398 30
kurtinsc 3349 31
Jukebox 3341 32
lancaster 3312 33
sublimit 3311 34
coppiman 3308 35
Squire 3300 36
auto de fé 3295 37
nvpacchi 3273 38
nobilis 3239 39
Kvinto 3233 40
EvansIsTheBest 3230 41
Object 3218 42
jaylew 3195 43
henry olonga 3174 44
XlandaluzeX 3167 45
tgsgirl 3150 46
skidmark 3149 47
Sasquatch 3149 47
Moncoutie 3116 49
Joy118118 3099 50
roundabout 3072 51
Tuarts 3066 52
Armchair cyclist 3030 53
Passista 3002 54
Ferminal 2984 55
The Cobra 2974 56
Mellow Velo 2969 57
Jan the Man 2935 58
AntonioRossi 2921 59
Hugo Koblet 2860 60
auscyclefan94 2838 61
royalpig180 2821 62
Contre la montre 2817 63
Barrus 2810 64
Jpettersen 2766 65
Jiaying 2684 66
Zaschrona 2643 67
will10 2632 68
sosososik 2580 69
Spare Tyre 2541 70
whittashau 2480 71
al_pacino 2472 72
sigsky 2467 73
jens_attacks 2427 74
Arnout 2336 75
zapata 2330 76
togo95 2292 77
deValtos 2286 78
Rocksteady 2260 79
Erick 8-A 2198 80
luckyboy 2166 81
hrotha 2159 82
Vonn Brinkman 2039 83
Team Sky Fans 2030 84
Libertine Seguros 2014 85
Blues in the bottle 1974 86
who dat 1917 87
Wiggins_fan 489 88

 

[Eric8-A]

80th place. I've only been counting my points and ignoring my placing in the game. Plus, everytime the updates are put up, it always seems like I'm in the same place.

 

[Jancouver]

I have been slowly climbing up and up and up until now.
I believe this is my first week when I lost position and quite honestly last week's 13th will probably stay my highest rank in this game. I was hoping to make it to the Top10 after the cobbles but I guess it wasnt meant to be.
Congrats to those who moved higher

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Am I the only one who looks to see what position I'm in, but can't remember most of the riders on my team?

 

[ingsve]

Am I the only one who looks to see what position I'm in, but can't remember most of the riders on my team?

Hehe, by this time I have pretty much all riders on my team memorized.

 

[joy118118]

Team 2011 Points position

AAC1983 4811 1
ingsve 4518 2
Pcutter 4410 3
Handbrake 4337 4
theyoungest 4304 5
The Hitch 4283 6
Gotland 4172 7
microdose 4117 8
LukeSchmid 4097 9
Kazistuta 3979 10

download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YGKMCJQ0

Weekly ranking:

Rank - Team - Weekly ranking
1 - coppiman - 513
2 - pabryan - 450
3 - Tuarts - 420
4 - Jan the Man - 383
5 - Sydney21 - 373
6 - tgsgirl - 357
7 - Kazistuta - 351
8 - AntonioRossi - 350
9 - Sneekes - 349
10 - sosososik - 348

download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0ZZ42RYV

happy Hugo will come back next week

 

[kurtinsc]

We're now reaching the point where more then a rider or two are in positive territory. My net positive riders so far:

Cobo +70 (infinite return)
Degenkolb +21 (121.53%)
Haussler +63 (135.10%)
Hermans +79 (135.43%)
Seeldrayers +39 (197.5%)
Swift +62 (130.54%)
Talansky +12 (115.79%)


My guys furthest away from breaking even:

Van den Broeck -553 (21.64%)
Van Garderen -423 (20.34%)
Keukeleire -390 (18.58%)
Danielson - 306 (3.16%)
Ciolek -301 (13.01%)


And my "yet to score a point" list:

Matt Lloyd (sigh)
Franco Pellizotti (sigh)
Romain Sicard (wth?)
Taylor Phinney (will he ever get that knee fixed?)

 

[Jukebox]

Am I the only one who looks to see what position I'm in, but can't remember most of the riders on my team?

Nope, I'm in about the same boat. Sometimes after a race I'll have a moment where I do remember. Like in AGR yesterday I was pleasantly surprised when I remembered that I have Gerrans on my team and scored some points.

 

[Moondance]

And my "yet to score a point" list:

Matt Lloyd (sigh)
Franco Pellizotti (sigh)
Romain Sicard (wth?)
Taylor Phinney (will he ever get that knee fixed?)

My commiserations comrade... I have all of those deadbeats as well

 

[will10]

my "yet to score a point" list:
Matti Breschel (hmmmm)
Vladimir Efimkin (retired)
Franco Pellizotti (suspended)
Thomas Dekker (desperately hoping he'll get a contract for the 2nd half of the season, probably with Miche )

 

[luckyboy]

Looking like some good buys for me..

Chalapud +87pts
Cobo +70pts
Joly +28pts
Di Luca +7pts
J.Martinez +7pts
Vande Velde -8pts
Pena -9pts
Quintana -12pts
Laverde -20pts
Ballan -35pts


Got a couple with no points/not going to score any more..

Ignatiev
Kirchen (no team)
Usov (no team)
Ricco (suspended)
Pellizotti (suspended)
S.Masciarelli
Grillo (no team)
C.Martinez

 

[Eric8-A]

I completely forgot about Phinney. I agree, will he ever get his knee fixed? I was expecting good things from the guy.

 

[MADRAZO]

Team 2011 Points position

AAC1983 4811 1
ingsve 4518 2
Pcutter 4410 3
Handbrake 4337 4
theyoungest 4304 5
The Hitch 4283 6
Gotland 4172 7
microdose 4117 8
LukeSchmid 4097 9
Kazistuta 3979 10
MADRAZO 3924 11
Waterloo Sunrise 3892 12
Spider1964 3844 13
Bicing 3829 14
Kevin Rudd's Hairdryer 3771 15
Jancouver 3761 16
Sneekes 3689 17
Parrulo 3684 18
Ham-N-Eggs 3629 19
Moondance 3599 20
The Amateur 3597 21
pabryan 3574 22
trotters aotearoa 3565 23
Bumeington 3564 24
mortand 3554 25
mc_mountain 3521 26
Sydney21 3512 27
Timmy-loves-Rabo 3487 28
Jakob747 3464 29
Kwibus 3398 30
kurtinsc 3349 31
Jukebox 3341 32
lancaster 3312 33
sublimit 3311 34
coppiman 3308 35
Squire 3300 36
auto de fé 3295 37
nvpacchi 3273 38
nobilis 3239 39
Kvinto 3233 40
EvansIsTheBest 3230 41
Object 3218 42
jaylew 3195 43
henry olonga 3174 44
XlandaluzeX 3167 45
tgsgirl 3150 46
skidmark 3149 47
Sasquatch 3149 47
Moncoutie 3116 49
Joy118118 3099 50
roundabout 3072 51
Tuarts 3066 52
Armchair cyclist 3030 53
Passista 3002 54
Ferminal 2984 55
The Cobra 2974 56
Mellow Velo 2969 57
Jan the Man 2935 58
AntonioRossi 2921 59
Hugo Koblet 2860 60
auscyclefan94 2838 61
royalpig180 2821 62
Contre la montre 2817 63
Barrus 2810 64
Jpettersen 2766 65
Jiaying 2684 66
Zaschrona 2643 67
will10 2632 68
sosososik 2580 69
Spare Tyre 2541 70
whittashau 2480 71
al_pacino 2472 72
sigsky 2467 73
jens_attacks 2427 74
Arnout 2336 75
zapata 2330 76
togo95 2292 77
deValtos 2286 78
Rocksteady 2260 79
Erick 8-A 2198 80
luckyboy 2166 81
hrotha 2159 82
Vonn Brinkman 2039 83
Team Sky Fans 2030 84
Libertine Seguros 2014 85
Blues in the bottle 1974 86
who dat 1917 87
Wiggins_fan 489 88

Im pretty surpriced im close to the top 10 as my team is actually doing quite horrible:


CAVENDISH Mark 1241 (horrible season so far)
RICCO Riccardo 756 (out)
CUNEGO Damiano 659 (just mediocre)
BALLAN Alessandro 474 (doing pretty well)
TAARAMÄE Rein 383 (doing pretty well)
BOZIC Borut 370 (totally surpassed by Feillu as Vacansoleil nr 1 and very dissapointing so far)
LÖFKVIST Thomas 319 (dissapointing so far)
Viviani Elia 312 (has done well but then almost dissapeared from racing)
BLANCO RODRIGUEZ David 300 (very dissapointing so far)
FELLINE Fabio 288 (set back by injury and thus very dissapointing so far)
VALLS FERRI Rafael 256 (dissapointing so far)
HAUSSLER Heinrich 251 (dissapointing so far, still a good pick)
GUARNIERI Jacopo 232 (very dissapointing so far)
NUYENS Nick 220 (finally a succesfull pick)
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres 181 (doing well and a good pick but could have done better)
HOWARD Leigh 155 (dissapointing so far)
RATTO Daniele 150 (very dissapointing so far, most of all his climbing seems very stagnated)
GERRANS Simon 140 (doing well)
SAMOILAU Branislau 133 (doing horrible so far, hopefully saving his power)
DI LUCA Danilo 113 (doing very mediocre but still a good choise)
VANDE VELDE Christian 90 (too early to judge him, but decent so far)
NAVARRO GARCIA Daniel 90 (hoped for a contadorban picking him so he will not do much)
KASHECHKIN Andrey 84 (totally invisible so far)
MASCIARELLI Francesco 66 (also pretty invisible so far)
PELLIZOTTI Franco 60 (out)
SOLER HERNANDEZ Juan Mauricio 47 (also invisible and continues with the crashes)
BETANCOURT GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 45
SEELDRAEYERS Kevin 40 (doing decently)
MADRAZO RUIZ Angel 20 (doing well so far)
LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose 16 (doing well so far)
SCHUMACHER Stefan 5 (mediocre but still solid choise)
GUARDINI Andrea 4 (finally someone doing very well, hopefully he will get a giro ticket)
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 0 (decent and could not do worse than last year)

 

[Jancouver]

Three weeks in a row with a top10 score finally brings me in the overall top10.

I've been kicking myself a lot over my forgetting of Di Luca, but hopefully his performance in Amstel is a good indicator of his abilities in the bigger races, so he won't be a major factor in this years game.

My two bad buys are Pellizotti (should have picked Di Luca instead) and Kritskey, who was my potential scoop, but he's not even racing for Itera-Katusha atm.

A lot of my not so sure picks have zero points as well, so my placing is mainly due to the "known faces" Cunego, Ballan, Haussler, Gerrans, Nuyens, D&G, Taaramae and Boonen.

You should do a new count and give Ballan & Cunego zero points because it is very much possible that at the end of the year you wont have any points from those two suckers.

 

[Jakob747]

Im pretty surpriced im close to the top 10 as my team is actually doing quite horrible:


CAVENDISH Mark 1241 (horrible season so far)
RICCO Riccardo 756 (out)
CUNEGO Damiano 659 (just mediocre)
BALLAN Alessandro 474 (doing pretty well)
TAARAMÄE Rein 383 (doing pretty well)
BOZIC Borut 370 (totally surpassed by Feillu as Vacansoleil nr 1 and very dissapointing so far)
LÖFKVIST Thomas 319 (dissapointing so far)
Viviani Elia 312 (has done well but then almost dissapeared from racing)
BLANCO RODRIGUEZ David 300 (very dissapointing so far)
FELLINE Fabio 288 (set back by injury and thus very dissapointing so far)
VALLS FERRI Rafael 256 (dissapointing so far)
HAUSSLER Heinrich 251 (dissapointing so far, still a good pick)
GUARNIERI Jacopo 232 (very dissapointing so far)
NUYENS Nick 220 (finally a succesfull pick)
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres 181 (doing well and a good pick but could have done better)
HOWARD Leigh 155 (dissapointing so far)
RATTO Daniele 150 (very dissapointing so far, most of all his climbing seems very stagnated)
GERRANS Simon 140 (doing well)
SAMOILAU Branislau 133 (doing horrible so far, hopefully saving his power)
DI LUCA Danilo 113 (doing very mediocre but still a good choise)
VANDE VELDE Christian 90 (too early to judge him, but decent so far)
NAVARRO GARCIA Daniel 90 (hoped for a contadorban picking him so he will not do much)
KASHECHKIN Andrey 84 (totally invisible so far)
MASCIARELLI Francesco 66 (also pretty invisible so far)
PELLIZOTTI Franco 60 (out)
SOLER HERNANDEZ Juan Mauricio 47 (also invisible and continues with the crashes)
BETANCOURT GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 45
SEELDRAEYERS Kevin 40 (doing decently)
MADRAZO RUIZ Angel 20 (doing well so far)
LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose 16 (doing well so far)
SCHUMACHER Stefan 5 (mediocre but still solid choise)
GUARDINI Andrea 4 (finally someone doing very well, hopefully he will get a giro ticket)
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 0 (decent and could not do worse than last year)

Daniele Ratto have changed his focus somewhat MADRAZO!

He still characterizes himself as a climber/rouleur, but now says his ambition is other places than in the GT’s. As a U-23 and Junior, he always dreamt of being a similar type of rider as Ivan Basso. This winter he has put on an additional 5kilograms. His stature is now 1.80cm - 69kilograms. Together with his brother or step-brother (Different fathers!) Enrico Peruffo from Team Vorarlberg they have worked a lot on his ability as a finisheur to sharpen him even more for the hilly one-day classics. Now he aims for races such as Liege-Bastogne-Liege, San Sebastian and Lombardia etc. A class act that for sure still will have an amazing career. The GT stamp, however, even I must recognize is gone.

 

[auscyclefan94]

We're now reaching the point where more then a rider or two are in positive territory. My net positive riders so far:

Cobo +70 (infinite return)
Degenkolb +21 (121.53%)
Haussler +63 (135.10%)
Hermans +79 (135.43%)
Seeldrayers +39 (197.5%)
Swift +62 (130.54%)
Talansky +12 (115.79%)


My guys furthest away from breaking even:

Van den Broeck -553 (21.64%)
Van Garderen -423 (20.34%)
Keukeleire -390 (18.58%)
Danielson - 306 (3.16%)
Ciolek -301 (13.01%)


And my "yet to score a point" list:

Matt Lloyd (sigh)
Franco Pellizotti (sigh)
Romain Sicard (wth?)
Taylor Phinney (will he ever get that knee fixed?)

Phinney will be back at Romandie and has been training well. The he will ride ToC and nationals.

btw, people worrying about Ballan shouldn't be too concerned yet as he is still racing and is riding Trentino.

 

[Eric8-A]

I can already tell he'll score some points at nationals.

 

[will10]

Always good to get an annus horribilis out of the way early in your career

 

[LukeSchmid]

My positive riders are Cobo, Deignan, Galimzyanov, Gerrans, Goss, Haussler, Matthews and Vaitkus.

My riders yet to score Betancourt, Brandle, Vladimir Efimkin, Kasheckin, Pellizotti and Phinney.

Apart from those I am most worried about Porte, Ivanov and Oss.

 

[Kazistuta]

You should do a new count and give Ballan & Cunego zero points because it is very much possible that at the end of the year you wont have any points from those two suckers.

Might be so, but to me it seems like an old story with nothing new added. If they should happen to get banned later this year, that's the nature of this game.

 

[MADRAZO]

Daniele Ratto have changed his focus somewhat MADRAZO!

He still characterizes himself as a climber/rouleur, but now says his ambition is other places than in the GT’s. As a U-23 and Junior, he always dreamt of being a similar type of rider as Ivan Basso. This winter he has put on an additional 5kilograms. His stature is now 1.80cm - 69kilograms. Together with his brother or step-brother (Different fathers!) Enrico Peruffo from Team Vorarlberg they have worked a lot on his ability as a finisheur to sharpen him even more for the hilly one-day classics. Now he aims for races such as Liege-Bastogne-Liege, San Sebastian and Lombardia etc. A class act that for sure still will have an amazing career. The GT stamp, however, even I must recognize is gone.

Thanks for the info

Too bad with the climbing potential he showed earlier, but he could definetly also have a great career in such 1-day races, and already last year I guess he also showed some strong sprinting-potential that could be developed further. The results in the classics will propably first come a bit later then, as that is often the case with such races. A development a bit like Felline I guess that I had also hoped for in stageraces but now seems primed to be a super 1-day racer.

Btw. concrats on the recent very strong showings from one of your other hyped talents Tosh Vandersande.