April Year 2
Top rider scores
Julian Alaphilippe has given reason to believe that, out of the riders in the game, he may be the star of this batch, with 2 second places in classics. He is in about 3/4 of the teams, but may be an omission fatal to the chances of many. He not surprisingly dominates this month's table of rider scores. Simon Yates, a more popular but as yet less fruitful pick than his brother, also scored highly mainly through his Pais Vasco performance. The other 100 + scorers this month were far less popular selections: Fraile more than doubled his game score through the Pais Vasco mountains jersey and a win in the Giro del Appennino; Lampaert's top ten in Roubaix maintains his position as one of the top scorers in the game so far; Sepulveda's second place in Turkey was acheived in May, but is included in this round up, and gained value through the last stage DNF of a rider at the opposite end of the career spectrum; Vuillermoz reaped most of his points in the Fleche Wallonne; and Barbero's manager will be pleased with the range of points picked up from various races in a busy month.
Here are the top 11 for the month (11th very close to 10th, 12th some points adrift, hence the odd cut off)
Rider, April 2015 pts, teams
ALAPHILIPPE Julian, 413 ,35
YATES Simon, 257 ,42
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar, 160 ,1
LAMPAERT Yves, 156 ,3
SEPULVEDA Eduardo, 135 ,5
VUILLERMOZ Alexis, 123 ,1
BARBERO CUESTA Carlos, 122 ,2
EWAN Caleb, 95 ,44
VALLEE Boris, 92 ,3
DE BIE Sean, 79 ,12
SENECHAL Florian, 75 ,23
Team points this month
The top 4 riders in terms of popularity yielded over 800 points between them this month, so most teams scored fairly high. But the honours for the second month in a row go to Skidmark, with Sepulveda and Lampaert making most of his distinction from the hoi poloi. Ludwigzgz is a close second, with rare picks Vuillermoz and Barbero coming up trumps.
Rank this month, Team, Pts this month
1 Skidmark 1251
2 Ludwigzgz 1196
3 MC_Mountain 1115
4 Ray200 1091
5 NairoQ 1083
6 Ingsve 1071
7 HugoKoblet 1063
8 Search 1044
9 Karaev 1034
10 GPBlanco 1028
11 Bellsax 1025
12 Madrazo 1022
13 Il_Pirata 1019
14 Cyivel 1015
15 Oliveira 1014
16 Florecita 1007
17 Dazed_and_Confused 1004
18 Comodoro 1002
19 Kazistuta 999
20 Tuart 986
21 18Valve 985
22 Jakob747 974
23 Armchair_Cyclist 972
24 Ruudz0r 970
25 Rote_Laterne 961
26 GeraintTooFast 910
27 Leadbelly 903
27 ItalianGigolo 903
29 Fauniera 899
30 Blackbandit222 895
31 Afrank 891
32 Ansimi 861
33 Mutschi 842
34 Hilltop_Finisher 666
35 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 640
36 Fus87 638
37 asdfgh101 614
38 Josedin 609
39 Vladimir 598
40 Froome19 594
41 Just_Some_Guy 555
42 Del1962 516
43 Al_Pacino 448
44 Mellow_Velo 427
45 Manafana 412
CollectiveWisdom 964
Current ranking
The top two at the beginning of the month were the top two during the month: is it already a two horse race, with them standing about 1000 points clear of the field. The third best score this month launches MCMountain into the top ten, in his second successive month as highest riser, and Ingsve and Comodoro slip into that vaunted company as well, as Hilltop Finisher, and more dramatically Froome19 and Al Pacino, yield their status there.
1 Ludwigzgz 6793
2 Skidmark 6639
3 HugoKoblet 5694
4 Rote_Laterne 5518
5 GPBlanco 5463
6 MC_Mountain 5412
7 Blackbandit222 5408
8 Ruudz0r 5406
9 Ingsve 5384
10 Comodoro 5302
11 Karaev 5286
12 Fauniera 5233
13 Hilltop_Finisher 5188
14 Leadbelly 5169
15 Jakob747 5143
16 Tuart 5078
17 Florecita 5075
18 Madrazo 5030
19 Kazistuta 5007
20 18Valve 4988
21 Mutschi 4980
22 Froome19 4949
23 Al_Pacino 4829
24 asdfgh101 4822
25 Dazed_and_Confused 4748
26 ItalianGigolo 4712
27 Del1962 4697
28 Afrank 4583
29 Oliveira 4468
30 Armchair_Cyclist 4406
31 Bellsax 4365
32 Cyivel 4350
33 Search 4251
34 The_Fool_on_the_Hill 4238
35 NairoQ 4208
36 Mellow_Velo 4048
37 Ray200 4030
38 Fus87 3913
39 GeraintTooFast 3763
40 Ansimi 3703
41 Il_Pirata 3521
42 Manafana 3493
43 Just_Some_Guy 3026
44 Vladimir 2981
45 Josedin 2930
CollectiveWisdom 5332
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