The 2012 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[greenedge]

I think it's weird that not more teams have Iglinskiy in them. He's included in 47 teams, making him the 17th most popular pick in the game.

Here we're talking of a rider who for the previous four seasons scored more than twice the points he did in 2011 and in 2011 he only scored 14% of the points he did in 2010.

If that's not enough, we're talking of the rider who won Strade Bianche, finished 4th in Tirreno-Adriatico, 8th in Milano - San Remo, 7th in Gent - Wevelgem, 8th in Ronde van Vlaanderen in 2010 only to have a horrible 2011.

If that's not a bargain, then what is?

Good list of reasons for picking him, i was not so thorough but still picked him.

 

[greenedge]

Very close at the top as expected, I am now in position to take the lead if I have a good Romandie (I have the line-up now they need to not underperform : and Rolland).

You and Teo basically had the same team but Rolland could be a big factor.

 

[Handbrake]

Well, second time that I've had a top 5 week and I'm still 75th! My team is consistently inconsistent.

Duarte for the win tonight.

I like my Romandie team as long as Kreuziger isn't still tired

Tour de Romandie

DAVIS Allan
HESJEDAL Ryder
KREUZIGER Roman
LARSSON Gustav Erik
LLOYD Matthew
MADRAZO RUIZ Angel
ROLLAND Pierre
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
SICARD Romain
SPILAK Simon

I'd also like to send a get well message to Guillaume Boivin. I need you back soon.

 

[TeoSheva]

You and Teo basically had the same team but Rolland could be a big factor.

I don't think Rolland can be a big factor: IMO is Kreuziger vs Porte, and maybe Porte can take big advantage from the ITTs.

I'm confident in Kelderman and Kwiatosky too

 

[CQmanager]

Top 33 profitable riders AKA THE GREEN TEAM

NAME / 2011 / 2012
BOONEN Tom 502 1438
GERRANS Simon 727 749
FREIRE GOMEZ Oscar 522 658
BALLAN Alessandro 497 498
IGLINSKIY Maxim 82 439
GASPAROTTO Enrico 194 437
TERPSTRA Niki 401 422
KISERLOVSKI Robert 261 391
TIERNAN-LOCKE Jonathan 82 381
POZZATO Filippo 301 375
DEMARE Arnaud 148 358
TURGOT Sébastien 150 327
NORDHAUG Lars Petter 180 321
ROGERS Michael 137 303
VANMARCKE Sep 128 268
BRESCHEL Matti 98 263
DURBRIDGE Luke 65 261
FERRARI Roberto 250 254
CHICCHI Francesco 136 245
KREDER Michel 158 243
BOIVIN Guillaume 14 232
FAVILLI Elia 92 228
VELITS Peter 205 228
SPILAK Simon 194 220
BARTA Jan 179 215
MADRAZO RUIZ Angel 199 209
SZMYD Sylwester 111 198
REDA Francesco 66 179
FLORENCIO CABRE Xavier 74 171
SERRY Pieter 115 168
PORSEV Alexander 104 166
NIÑO CORREDOR Victor 37 166
FENN Andrew 88 165
COST / PROFIT 6497 / 11176

CQM

 

[togo95]

Nice, I'm finally going up. First time in the first half of the leaderboard

 

[Froome19]

I think it's weird that not more teams have Iglinskiy in them. He's included in 47 teams, making him the 17th most popular pick in the game.

Here we're talking of a rider who for the previous four seasons scored more than twice the points he did in 2011 and in 2011 he only scored 14% of the points he did in 2010.

If that's not enough, we're talking of the rider who won Strade Bianche, finished 4th in Tirreno-Adriatico, 8th in Milano - San Remo, 7th in Gent - Wevelgem, 8th in Ronde van Vlaanderen in 2010 only to have a horrible 2011.

If that's not a bargain, then what is?

Of course, I don't have him on my team though

I went through all of that but I couldnt find any reason as to why he underperfomed last season unlike with other riders (pozzato, gesink, rogers etc) and he hadnt proven himself a big enough a talent to be worth the risk

 

[taiwan]

I think it's weird that not more teams have Iglinskiy in them...

For sure he's one of the bargains who have come through, along with Boivin. The picks that haven't been so clever: number 1 is Valls. Did a fair bit of jiggling to get him into the team and... well, is he still alive?

 

[Kwibus]

For sure he's one of the bargains who have come through, along with Boivin. The picks that haven't been so clever: number 1 is Valls. Did a fair bit of jiggling to get him into the team and... well, is he still alive?

Good question... where did he go

 

[TeoSheva]

Good question... where did he go

he broke one rib during Vuelta a Murcia: will be ready for the middle of May.
Anyway, he's really cheap, so not a big loss....

 

[CQmanager]

UPDATE!

As promised, the Giro d'Italia CQ game is coming and will be open on Monday once the latest CQ update is available.

Just start thinking about 9 riders for your team based on the current CQ value http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/cqRankingRider.asp?current=1.

The total buying power has not been decided yet but it will be around 2000 points. Same rules as the current CQ game. The team with highest CQ value from Giro will win.

For those interested in this game, if you are current player, please contact me for a password because everything will be done through our website so please do not submit your teams to Hugo or me.

If you are a new player, you will be able to register through our game website. Please note that the current game website has option to register however that is only for writing comments on our website and the game login is separate!

IF you have any questions, ask here or message me.

CQM

 

[greenedge]

For sure he's one of the bargains who have come through, along with Boivin. The picks that haven't been so clever: number 1 is Valls. Did a fair bit of jiggling to get him into the team and... well, is he still alive?

At least he is only 39 points. I have Kern who has scored no points but costs 258.

 

[Eric8-A]

Even though Valls was cheap, I didn't expect a big turnout from him.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

UPDATE!

As promised, the Giro d'Italia CQ game is coming and will be open on Monday once the latest CQ update is available.

Just start thinking about 9 riders for your team based on the current CQ value http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/cqRankingRider.asp?current=1.

The total buying power has not been decided yet but it will be around 2000 points. Same rules as the current CQ game. The team with highest CQ value from Giro will win.

For those interested in this game, if you are current player, please contact me for a password because everything will be done through our website so please do not submit your teams to Hugo or me.

If you are a new player, you will be able to register through our game website. Please note that the current game website has option to register however that is only for writing comments on our website and the game login is separate!

IF you have any questions, ask here or message me.

CQM

Very cool. I'm looking forward to it!
Perhaps you should create a new thread once everything is ready on the website?

 

[TeoSheva]

UPDATE!

As promised, the Giro d'Italia CQ game is coming and will be open on Monday once the latest CQ update is available.

Just start thinking about 9 riders for your team based on the current CQ value http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/cqRankingRider.asp?current=1.

The total buying power has not been decided yet but it will be around 2000 points. Same rules as the current CQ game. The team with highest CQ value from Giro will win.

For those interested in this game, if you are current player, please contact me for a password because everything will be done through our website so please do not submit your teams to Hugo or me.

If you are a new player, you will be able to register through our game website. Please note that the current game website has option to register however that is only for writing comments on our website and the game login is separate!

IF you have any questions, ask here or message me.

CQM

I like it too!

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

UPDATE!

As promised, the Giro d'Italia CQ game is coming and will be open on Monday once the latest CQ update is available.

Just start thinking about 9 riders for your team based on the current CQ value http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/cqRankingRider.asp?current=1.

The total buying power has not been decided yet but it will be around 2000 points. Same rules as the current CQ game. The team with highest CQ value from Giro will win.

For those interested in this game, if you are current player, please contact me for a password because everything will be done through our website so please do not submit your teams to Hugo or me.

If you are a new player, you will be able to register through our game website. Please note that the current game website has option to register however that is only for writing comments on our website and the game login is separate!

IF you have any questions, ask here or message me.

CQM

Cool. When's the deadline?

 

[Eric8-A]

UPDATE!

As promised, the Giro d'Italia CQ game is coming and will be open on Monday once the latest CQ update is available.

Just start thinking about 9 riders for your team based on the current CQ value http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/cqRankingRider.asp?current=1.

The total buying power has not been decided yet but it will be around 2000 points. Same rules as the current CQ game. The team with highest CQ value from Giro will win.

For those interested in this game, if you are current player, please contact me for a password because everything will be done through our website so please do not submit your teams to Hugo or me.

If you are a new player, you will be able to register through our game website. Please note that the current game website has option to register however that is only for writing comments on our website and the game login is separate!

IF you have any questions, ask here or message me.

CQM

I totally just skipped through this. But it sounds neat.

 

[jsem94]

Sounds amazing!

 

[Ruudz0r]

My unique pick Colli is picking up points every where which is nice although it are most of the time small points. Further I had a disappointing week last week and went from 20th till 36th-38th or something .

CQ giro game sounds fun!

 

[Squire]

Not wanting to sound negative, the Giro CQ game looks like a great initiative for those who want to play it, but...

I stopped playing Velogames' grand tour games when they started to allow substitutions and added all sorts of secondary competitions etc.

I like the CQ game for its simplicity and no need for additional effort, so I just hope that this Giro game doesn't inspire any fancy ideas about the main game

Will it have its own thread?

 

[TeoSheva]

Will it have its own thread?

yes, it will

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Not wanting to sound negative, the Giro CQ game looks like a great initiative for those who want to play it, but...

I stopped playing Velogames' grand tour games when they started to allow substitutions and added all sorts of secondary competitions etc.

I like the CQ game for its simplicity and no need for additional effort, so I just hope that this Giro game doesn't inspire any fancy ideas about the main game

Will it have its own thread?

Don't worry, it won't affect the main game at all. It's just a test, but I think it sounds fun. It basically has nothing to do with this game - it just uses the same point system, that's all.

I think CQmanager's plan is to use http://www.cqmanager.net for the most part, but if we want to discuss it here on cyclingnews forum, we will create a new thread for it here.

 

[Kevin Rudd's Hairdryer]

LBL didn't quite go as expected.....

On to Romandie then!!

Tanel Kangert
Fredrik Kessiakoff
Thibault Pinot
Mikel Landa
Denis Menchov
Simon Spilak
Tom-Jelte Slagter
Pierre Rolland
Rafael Majka

Menchov, Spilak and Rolland should go well. Hoping some of these others can pull of something too.

Menchov was DNF today, what happened there?

 

[CQmanager]

Giro game update:
So the game is a go and riders for all teams will be selected through our website. With Hugo we have agreed on 3000 points per team. Team will have 9 riders. Hugo will provide all the details and I'm assuming a new thread will be created for the Giro game.

The whole idea behind the Giro game, at least from my side, is to test everything for next year, so we can select riders online and run the game through the website. This year we may also do games for TDF and Vuelta but we will see what kind of feedback we will get from the Giro game.

Again: if you would like to play and need login for the game site, please contact me and I will create a temporary password that you can change after you log in.

CQM

 

[Popchu]

Wow Di Corrado! That are some unexpected points for my team.