CQ ranking

[will10]

Just realised another risky doper choice got off the mark this week: http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/rider_palm.asp?riderid=78&year=2011&all=1&current=0

 

[luckyboy]

That would be me.
Pre-cancer, he was one of the best France had to offer.
Hopefully, there will be more pay days from free Seb.

Yeah I got him too

 

[hrotha]

Yeah I got him too

Me too. Sébastien Joly Posse represent.

 

[The Hitch]

Just realised another risky doper choice got off the mark this week: http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/rider_palm.asp?riderid=78&year=2011&all=1&current=0

Will probably lose it. If not one way then another.

 

[luckyboy]

Gonna be fun waiting to see what happens to Ballan, Cunego, Ignatiev + Karpets

 

[The Hitch]

Cunego and Ballan will send my team crashing down like The Walls of Jericho.

 

[AntonioRossi]

boy van poppel gave a few points to me today at ronde van drenthe and so did TGBM

 

[ansimi]

All right, my team is set. I tried for depth and pretty consistent riders so I hope to get at least a few points from most of my riders.

Their rider list is terribly out-of-date so be sure to check start lists before the deadline.

Good luck everybody, especially those of you high in the overall standings

 

[luckyboy]

Got 37pts from Andy, 24 from Cunego, 5 from Di Luca, 5 from Vande Velde today + the 35 between Chalapud, Quintana and Martinez.

 

[ingsve]

It seems like this week we'll have a lot less big scorers than in the past few weeks. Many of the top riders this week are riders that haven't been picked by many people.

 

[luckyboy]

Did many people pick big scorers from last year (Gilbert, AC, Nibali, Rodriguez etc.)?

 

[ingsve]

Did many people pick big scorers from last year (Gilbert, AC, Nibali, Rodriguez etc.)?

No, those few of the top scorers that got picked was only picked by a couple of people. When you get down to around 12-1400 there are a few riders like Cavendish, Gesink and EBH that got picked by a few more but still not that many. The standout among these is Cavendish with 21 picks.

 

[The Hitch]

Interestingly Amstel has one of those thanks for finishing 5 points on offer.

 

[roundabout]

That was the reason i picked Arvesen.

And of course he decides not to finish races anymore.

Ronde DNF, Roubaix DNF (ok, a bit hard to finish without a saddle), today DNF

Another edit: and Amstel is a different ballgame to beating up the helpless Andronis in the Appennino.

 

[theyoungest]

Thank you Simon Gerrans, I always believed in you

 

[luckyboy]

That was the reason i picked Arvesen.

And of course he decides not to finish races anymore.

Ronde DNF, Roubaix DNF (ok, a bit hard to finish without a saddle), today DNF

Same. He's slowly creeping to last year's 24pts.

 

[The Hitch]

Thank you Simon Gerrans, I always believed in you

Unfortunately the 5 people above you and the first 5 or 6 people below you all have him

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I have basically lost interest in this season cq game, too far behind
12' the year of timmy. I think if i keep saying it, it must come true.

 

[luckyboy]

Also when we pick the winner we get 10pts + 3pts because we got him in the right place + 3pts because he was in the top 5. That seems weird.

 

[The Hitch]

I have basically lost interest in this season cq game, too far behind
12' the year of timmy. I think if i keep saying it, it must come true.

So youre behind after the Ttt (warm up races) and Strade Bianchi (Cobbles). Dont worry, we still have Mount Etna (Ardennes) Grossglockner (Giro) Zoncolan (Tour) and Finnestre (figure it out) to come before the 32km ITT to finish it off (Worlds). But you never know which races (Romandie, Suisse, Dauphine etc) can produce a Laquilla.

 

[ingsve]

Interestingly Amstel has one of those thanks for finishing 5 points on offer.

Of course it does. It's a WT race.

 

[ingsve]

After two weeks of picking the obvious winner that didn't win I now gamble and of course the obvious winner wins...I'm reall good at this game.

 

[ingsve]

That was the reason i picked Arvesen.

And of course he decides not to finish races anymore.

Ronde DNF, Roubaix DNF (ok, a bit hard to finish without a saddle), today DNF

Another edit: and Amstel is a different ballgame to beating up the helpless Andronis in the Appennino.

He's had the job of protecting the leaders from the start of the race the past few weeks so he has put in a lot of work early in the races. Today he was set to protecting Nordhaug who unfortunately had some problem breathing during the race, possibly due to allergies but still managed to finish in the second main group.

 

[The Hitch]

Of course it does. It's a WT race.

Well its a bit strange because if you look at the Giro Tour Vuelta for example, the Tour winner gets slightly more than the Giro or Vuelta winners, and the guys finishing in the bottom 100 or so are similarly getting 17 for the Giro rather than the nice round 20 figure for the Tour.

Similarly Amstel winner gets less points than the Liege winner. So why are the bottom guys getting the same nice round 5 points and not 4 or 3.

 

[Anonymous]

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