Samu's 2024 Emerging Female Riders CQ Game

[Anderis]

Because I am taking the "emerging" part of this game to it's logical extreme.

How about doing it in the main game, then?

 

[RedheadDane]

How about doing it in the main game, then?

I'm doing it for the Spring Classics Game.
Unfortunately, one of my guys broke the collarbone...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I'm doing it for the Spring Classics Game.

1​	SlowClimber	532​	0​
34​	RedheadDane	37​	0​

 

[Anderis]

I'm doing it for the Spring Classics Game.

I just looked up your team. It very much feels like "I'll choose riders who are in a specific price range" team than "I'll choose riders to maximise my result" team.

EDIT: I knew something was wrong with your team. You only spent 80% of allowed budget.

 

[RedheadDane]

I just looked up your team. It very much feels like "I'll choose riders who are in a specific price range" team than "I'll choose riders to maximise my result" team.

EDIT: I knew something was wrong with your team. You only spent 80% of allowed budget.

It's a "I'll choose riders who've already had good results in the featured races" team.

 

[Dk one]

Yay, Bego and Anderson

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Madrazo is still comfortably in the lead. Anderis has moved up to 3rd.

Sadly both the teams in this game and in the main one have been affected by the stupid situation in Trofeo Binda, where a lot of riders weren't allowed to finish the race because the roads were reopened too soon.

1	Madrazo	938​
2	hfgon1	782​
3	Anderis	706​
4	DJW	696​
5	Samu Cuenca	655​
6	Rufs	630​
7	Armchair cyclist	608​
8	bminchow	558​
9	Archieboy	550​
10	Libertine Seguros	511​
11	LosBrolin	507​
12	Laurens147	393​
13	Dk one	357​
14	jon ezeitza	349​
15	JOSEDIN	202​
16	RedheadDane	92​

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Thank you for not posting the change in position column: I can pretend that I am holding steady, and hope no-one notices that I have dropped two spots.

 

[RedheadDane]

Not to brag, but I'm the Queen of Steady in these games.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The March results are in (including Ronde de Mouscron on April 1st). Madrazo's team is still comfortably in the lead, but Rufs and Libertine Seguros both managed to claw back a few points this month, so some great comebacks might still be on the horizon.

Rank	Player	2024 Score	March
1	Madrazo	1122​	519​
2	hfgon1	978​	490​
3	Anderis	891​	512​
4	DJW	872​	442​
5	Rufs	792​	541​
6	Armchair cyclist	777​	487​
7	Archieboy	752​	476​
8	bminchow	721​	483​
9	Samu Cuenca	720​	465​
10	Libertine Seguros	682​	546​
11	LosBrolin	674​	430​
12	Laurens147	578​	402​
13	jon ezeitza	439​	281​
14	Dk one	420​	201​
15	JOSEDIN	233​	58​
16	RedheadDane	92​	54​

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[Dk one]

The March results are in (including Ronde de Mouscron on April 1st). Madrazo's team is still comfortably in the lead, but Rufs and Libertine Seguros both managed to claw back a few points this month, so some great comebacks might still be on the horizon.

Rank	Player	2024 Score	March
1	Madrazo	1122​	519​
2	hfgon1	978​	490​
3	Anderis	891​	512​
4	DJW	872​	442​
5	Rufs	792​	541​
6	Armchair cyclist	777​	487​
7	Archieboy	752​	476​
8	bminchow	721​	483​
9	Samu Cuenca	720​	465​
10	Libertine Seguros	682​	546​
11	LosBrolin	674​	430​
12	Laurens147	578​	402​
13	jon ezeitza	439​	281​
14	Dk one	420​	201​
15	JOSEDIN	233​	58​
16	RedheadDane	92​	54​

Spreadsheet

Come on, my picked riders, emerge!!

 

[bminchow]

Okay. I guess we got all we are going to out of Puck this year. It is now time for Van Empel to do her thing. And lets get some emergence from Rayer, Bego and Moors while we are wishing for things. Lets see if anyone else is racing soon.

CQ Ranking

BÄCKSTEDT Zoe	No races scheduled
BEGO Julie	De Pijl
CZAPLA Justyna	De Pijl
GONTOVA Nadia	No races scheduled
MIERMONT Dilyxine	Chambery
MOORS Fleur	De Pijl
PIETERSE Puck	No races scheduled
RAYER Eglantine	De Pijl, Tour Swiss
SHARP Isabel	No races scheduled
SWINKELS Sylvie	No races scheduled
VAN EMPEL Fem	Amstel
VINKE Nienke	Amstel

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The April scores are in. Madrazo is still king, but Laurens147 and I managed to decrease our deficits quite a bit the past month. At the bottom of the table, RhD is now more than 1000 points behind our leader, but her team wasn't the worst this month.

Rank	Player	2024 Score	April
1	Madrazo	1349​	227​
2	hfgon1	1099​	121​
3	Anderis	1077​	186​
4	Samu Cuenca	1065​	345​
5	DJW	997​	125​
6	Rufs	981​	189​
7	Laurens147	935​	357​
8	Armchair cyclist	918​	141​
9	LosBrolin	917​	243​
10	Archieboy	894​	142​
11	bminchow	890​	169​
12	Libertine Seguros	847​	165​
13	Dk one	608​	188​
14	jon ezeitza	580​	141​
15	JOSEDIN	506​	273​
16	RedheadDane	248​	156​

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[Laurens147]

Great month for us

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Here are the results from the past month, including the last stage and GC of Vuelta a Andalucía, and the current overall standings:

Rank	Player	2024 Score	May
1	Madrazo	1615​	266​
2	Laurens147	1318​	383​
3	Anderis	1314​	237​
4	Samu Cuenca	1298​	233​
5	hfgon1	1228​	129​
6	Rufs	1167​	186​
7	DJW	1152​	155​
8	LosBrolin	1137​	220​
9	Armchair cyclist	1045​	127​
10	bminchow	1027​	137​
11	Libertine Seguros	1005​	158​
12	Archieboy	980​	86​
13	JOSEDIN	787​	281​
14	Dk one	785​	177​
15	jon ezeitza	691​	111​
16	RedheadDane	404​	156​

Madrazo is still comfortably in the lead, but Laurens147 has once again had a good month and has moved up to second place. It's a fairly close fight for the last two spots on the podium at the moment though.

Among our selected riders, only Cat Ferguson and Lauren Molengraaf haven't scored points yet.

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[Samu Cuenca]

I wasn't home in the beginning of the month, so I was waiting for the first July download from CQ before giving you all an update. However it took them until the end of the Giro to release it, so it contains results from the past 45 days.

@MADRAZO is still in the lead, but 7 players have scored more points than him since the last update, and I'm now "only" 205 points adrift (Kim Le Court's Giro performances helped me a lot here). @Anderis holds on to 3rd place, but @Rufs is only a couple of points behind at this stage, and a further 3 teams are within 30 points of the podium.

@Dk one has had the best month and a half out of everyone, but has only moved up one spot to 13th. @RedheadDane won't win this, but can at least find some solace in the fact that she's outperformed @jon ezeitza for the third update in a row.

Some other interesting things are that Cat Ferguson is now the only rider who hasn't scored points yet, and that Puck Pieterse remains the highest scoring rider among every possible pick with 350 points, despite her not having raced on the road for 3.5 months. But Usoa Ostolaza, who wasn't picked by anyone, is now just 7 points behind on 343.

Rank	Player	2024 Score	Points since last update
1	Madrazo	1960​	345​
2	Samu Cuenca	1755​	457​
3	Anderis	1629​	315​
4	Rufs	1627​	460​
5	hfgon1	1615​	387​
6	Laurens147	1609​	291​
7	LosBrolin	1601​	464​
8	DJW	1465​	313​
9	Armchair cyclist	1388​	343​
10	bminchow	1365​	338​
11	Archieboy	1361​	381​
12	Libertine Seguros	1341​	336​
13	Dk one	1256​	471​
14	JOSEDIN	1182​	395​
15	jon ezeitza	928​	237​
16	RedheadDane	736​	332​

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[Samu Cuenca]

A quick update before the start of Tour de France Femmes on Monday.
Some of our riders will take part in the race, so let's hope they will be able to bring home points next week.

With Puck Pieterse returning to road racing, I expect Madrazo will start to increase his lead over me once again, but time will tell.

Rank	Player	2024 Score	Points since last update
1​	Madrazo	2017​	57​
2​	Samu Cuenca	1827​	72​
3​	Anderis	1721​	92​
4​	Rufs	1699​	72​
5​	Laurens147	1668​	59​
6​	LosBrolin	1664​	63​
7​	hfgon1	1638​	23​
8​	Armchair cyclist	1495​	107​
9​	DJW	1465​	0​
10​	Libertine Seguros	1415​	74​
11​	Archieboy	1396​	35​
12​	bminchow	1388​	23​
13​	JOSEDIN	1280​	98​
14​	Dk one	1279​	23​
15​	jon ezeitza	942​	14​
16​	RedheadDane	761​	25​

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Wo-hoo: only manager to break the 100 mark during these 3 weeks.

I have done very poorly even by my own low expectations of the games this year (except for Jon Ezeitza's Women's CQ game at Parlamento Ciclismo, which I am inexplicably heading for the second year in a row), But I must be a sucker for self depreciation, because my main task for this afternoon is to get the Vuelta game posted (although not fully running until Monday). So keep an eye out for that one.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

After Cat Ferguson's stellar senior debut on Sunday, all of our riders have now scored points.
Due to her victory in the Groupama Ladies Race Slovakia in July, Viktória Chladoňová is still the highest scoring junior this season with 40 points, 4 more than Ferguson.

Things are heating up at the front, with Madrazo's lead over me having now shrunk to just 15 points.
Rufs has pulled ahead in the fight for third, but it's still quite tight.

RhD's stars of tomorrow continues to outperform jon ezeitza's team, but question is if the gap after the first few months will be too big to close before the end of the season comes along.

Rank	Player	2024 Score	Points since last update
1	Madrazo	2238​	221​
2	Samu Cuenca	2223​	396​
3	Rufs	1965​	266​
4	Anderis	1917​	196​
5	LosBrolin	1914​	250​
6	Laurens147	1853​	185​
7	hfgon1	1845​	207​
8	Libertine Seguros	1790​	375​
9	bminchow	1714​	326​
10	DJW	1684​	219​
11	Armchair cyclist	1670​	175​
12	Archieboy	1608​	212​
13	JOSEDIN	1580​	300​
14	Dk one	1426​	147​
15	jon ezeitza	1057​	115​
16	RedheadDane	898​	137​

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[Dk one]

Wup, wup, Cat Ferguson! And by god, I need the points

 

[RedheadDane]

Very rude of Cat Ferguson to emerge before she was supposed to start emerging.
She's not even a pro yet for frick's sake...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Very rude of Cat Ferguson to emerge before she was supposed to start emerging.
She's not even a pro yet for frick's sake...

It's your own fault for not picking even younger riders.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's your own fault for not picking even younger riders.

I was expecting her to do a few races for Movistar.
I wasn't expecting her to win them!

At this rate, she'll be too expensive before next year.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I was expecting her to do a few races for Movistar.
I wasn't expecting her to win them!

At this rate, she'll be too expensive before next year.

I actually wouldn't mind that, because she'll probably be on every single team otherwise.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Cat Ferguson has well and truly arrived, which has helped @Dk one massively in this update.
The biggest news, however, is that after over 8 months in the lead, @MADRAZO has now been overtaken. But it remains a very, very close battle, as you can see.

Rank	Player	2024 Score	Since last update
1​	Samu Cuenca	2295​	72​
2​	Madrazo	2294​	56​
3​	Rufs	2024​	59​
4​	Anderis	1978​	61​
5​	Laurens147	1972​	119​
6​	LosBrolin	1968​	54​
7​	Libertine Seguros	1942​	152​
8​	hfgon1	1908​	63​
9​	bminchow	1795​	81​
10​	DJW	1758​	74​
11​	Armchair cyclist	1737​	67​
12​	JOSEDIN	1708​	128​
13​	Archieboy	1666​	58​
14​	Dk one	1603​	177​
15​	jon ezeitza	1108​	51​
16​	RedheadDane	972​	74​

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