The 2012 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[Jancouver]

My team. Seems like many others had the same ideas


GALIMZYANOV Denis 698
KREUZIGER Roman 528
BOONEN Tom 502
HAUSSLER Heinrich 496
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon 439
PHINNEY Taylor 344
GUARDINI Andrea 332
HOOGERLAND Johnny 303
POZZATO Filippo 301
RENSHAW Mark 286
PORTE Richie 261
DI LUCA Danilo 232
TALANSKY Andrew 229
SOHRABI Mahdi 210
LARSSON Gustav Erik 206
VELITS Peter 205
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis 190
KLUGE Roger 174
NOVIKOV Nikita 172
TEKLEHAIMANOT GIRMAZION Daniel 165
DEVOLDER Stijn 145
KARPETS Vladimir 139
ROGERS Michael 137
CHICCHI Francesco 136
DAVIS Allan 118
KING Benjamin 115
BRESCHEL Matti 98
IGLINSKIY Maxim 82
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 60
INFANTINO ABREU Rafael 54
MAASKANT Martijn 47
RABON Frantisek 35
CANTWELL Jonathan 27

 

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KÖNIG Leopold

Nice pick.

 

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Gutierrez?

I have him. For 127 it's a good pick. The problem is he might now have to help Cobo/ Valverde at stage races ( even the one week ones )

 

[mc_mountain]

CANCELLARA Fabian 1432
URAN URAN Rigoberto 732
RENSHAW Mark 286
KENNAUGH Peter 273
TALANSKY Andrew 229
DUQUE Leonardo Fabio 212
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis 190
STYBAR Zdenek 172
ROGERS Michael 137
VOGONDY Nicolas 127
DAVIS Allan 118
BAUER Jack 101
PUCCIO Salvatore 100
ROE Timothy 56
MEYER Travis 47
MINGUEZ AYALA Miguel 42
DEMPSTER Zakkari 40
VAN IMPE Kevin 35
LEMARCHAND Romain 35
RABON Frantisek 35
ARGUELYES RODRIGES Arkimedes 16
TEYCHENNE-COUTET Mathieu 15
DOMENE REYES Ramon 12
VAUGRENARD Benoît 11
MOLARD Rudy 9
COURTEILLE Arnaud 6
HONKISZ Adrian 5
BATEK Dariusz 5
CARLINI Ettore 5
BONNAIRE Olivier 5
DI FRANCESCO Gianmarco 4
VONA Emanuele 3
TIOZZO Thomas 3

Total 4498

Technically at only 4498 points down on last year I am top I reckon I can stay there for 3 or 4 weeks at least..

im afraid you equal 1st with everyone else - why didnt you add say Cav and EBH?

 

[Squire]

I have him. For 127 it's a good pick. The problem is he might now have to help Cobo/ Valverde at stage races ( even the one week ones )

He only have to win one little flat stage race with a TT and do well at the nats to surpass his '11 score. Don't think he would've targeted the same races as Cobo/Valverde anyway.

 

[Duartista]

MENCHOV Denis 691
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor 634
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen 617
FEDRIGO Pierrick 546
ROLLAND Pierre 541
BOONEN Tom 502
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 453
CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan 296
OFFREDO Yoann 295
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres 286
PORTE Richie 261
KERN Christophe 258
MARTENS Paul 246
FELLINE Fabio 222
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis 190
STYBAR Zdenek 172
DEMARE Arnaud 148
KELDERMAN Wilco 134
BARDET Romain 130
MASCIARELLI Francesco 127
TRENTIN Matteo 93
ATAPUMA HURTADO John Darwin 90
DURBRIDGE Luke 65
HEPBURN Michael 64
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 60
MONTAÑA CADENA Freddy Emir 52
ANACONA GOMEZ Winner Andrew 47
SLAGTER Tom Jelte 41
VALLS FERRI Rafael 39
ALARCON MORALES Jose Antonio 12
GALVIZ GARCIA Carlos Johan 7
OSORIO CARVAJAL Frank Jair 4
ROMERO CORREDOR Jeffry Johan 2

I think I am the only one with Galviz or Alarcon. Hopefully at least one of them will be in positive territory by the end of Tachira.

 

[skidmark]

Well, browsing through the teams, it seems that, unsurprisingly, I have lots of picks the same as others (of course, there are 126 teams). There are some obvious names, and some riders hyped here on the forums. I picked through and I think that only 10 others and 9 others picked Leigh Howard and Michael Hepburn, respectively, which would be fine for me if they do well but I don't really like either of them (or their team) so I would only be happy in the CQ sense.

My main excitement, however, is that only 2 other people have Sacha Modolo. He's been a fave of mine for awhile (I picked him last year too), and he was my absolute last switch in this game, 1 minute before I sent it in this morning. So that's nice, that I can cheer for a rider in a race situation, cheer because he's on my CQ team, but cheer extra loud because he's my most unique pick. I'm surprised he wasn't picked by more, frankly, as last year he took a back seat to Belletti for awhile and didn't learn how to win until July. He could do quite well in MSR and the Olympics, IMO.

Also, as he's my most expensive pick at 532, I think there are only 3 players (antoniorossi, sublimit and youri900, with Kreuz at 528) with a lower 'highest' pick. Damn, I guess as I thought it over and over I was more averse to taking risks.

Edit: I see only 12 others picked Costa, so that revelation a few days ago didn't affect that many teams (as I assume at least some of those others had either figured out he was cheaper or were going to take him at the higher price)

Edit 2: I just remembered that Modolo was my second last pick. I scrambled around for a last pick, as I had Quintana and had to drop at least 21 points. After considering Valls and Agostini because they both would have given me exactly 7500, I went with Matthias Brandle at 25 points. Only 2 others picked him too. So that's great, last year I didn't have anyone more unique than 5 picks, this year my 2 last picks are more unique than that. I've gotta pick at the last minute every year...

 

[Eric8-A]

GREIPEL Andre, only me and Eric8 have faith in the big german, go andre!

I think now with the departure of Gilbert, he'll be a more protected rider. He should be able to get more victories, and I hope I can see him reach at least 2000. And it may be because I'm just skimming, but the teams do not look that similar.

 

[FF'Wilco]

ROGERS Michael
BRESCHEL Matti
DI LUCA Danilo
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis
PUCCIO Salvatore
PORTE Richie
WAEYTENS Zico
HOWARD Leigh
RENSHAW Mark
VELITS Peter
KELDERMAN Wilco
SUAREZ SUAREZ Juan Pablo
MOSER Moreno
BRAJKOVIC Janez
SILIN Egor
PLAZA MOLINA Ruben
DEMARE Arnaud
LARSSON Gustav Erik
MAJKA Rafal
STYBAR Zdenek
KREUZIGER Roman
PHINNEY Taylor
LANDA MEANA Mikel
SICARD Romain
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres
BATTAGLIN Enrico
SARMIENTO TUNARROSA Cayetano Jose
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander
DAVIS Allan
BOONEN Tom
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
HAUSSLER Heinrich
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor


Seems like Howard, Sarmiento and Silin are my most non obvious picks. Looking at my team i wouldnt change anything even now

 

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CANCELLARA Fabian 1432
URAN URAN Rigoberto 732
RENSHAW Mark 286
KENNAUGH Peter 273
TALANSKY Andrew 229
DUQUE Leonardo Fabio 212
HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis 190
STYBAR Zdenek 172
ROGERS Michael 137
VOGONDY Nicolas 127
DAVIS Allan 118
BAUER Jack 101
PUCCIO Salvatore 100
ROE Timothy 56
MEYER Travis 47
MINGUEZ AYALA Miguel 42
DEMPSTER Zakkari 40
VAN IMPE Kevin 35
LEMARCHAND Romain 35
RABON Frantisek 35
ARGUELYES RODRIGES Arkimedes 16
TEYCHENNE-COUTET Mathieu 15
DOMENE REYES Ramon 12
VAUGRENARD Benoît 11
MOLARD Rudy 9
COURTEILLE Arnaud 6
HONKISZ Adrian 5
BATEK Dariusz 5
CARLINI Ettore 5
BONNAIRE Olivier 5
DI FRANCESCO Gianmarco 4
VONA Emanuele 3
TIOZZO Thomas 3
Total 4498

But why???

 

[Panda Claws]

The winning team?

VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen
VIVIANI Elia
KREUZIGER Roman
BOONEN Tom
ROCHE Nicolas
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
VANENDERT Jelle
GUARDINI Andrea
KWIATKOWSKI Michal
POZZATO Filippo
OFFREDO Yoann
PORTE Richie
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
MONSALVE PERTSINIDIS Yonathan Alejandro
DELAPLACE Anthony
KHALMURATOV Muradjan
VELITS Peter
GEORGES Sylvain
PARDILLA BELLON Sergio
VANTOMME Maxime
ROGERS Michael
DAVIS Allan
BRESCHEL Matti
PINEAU Cédric
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
HOFLAND Moreno
IGLINSKIY Maxim
MOSER Moreno
VAN DER SANDE Tosh


This is my first time playing this game so what do you all think of my team?

 

[taiwan]

I reckon Stybar may prove to be a wise pick, actually. On my shortlist, but there were others I fancied more.

 

[Eric8-A]

Mattos Andriato
Robert Kiserlovski
Dave Zabriskie
Gustav Larsson
Frantisek Rabon
Mikel Nieve
Luis Leon Sanchez
Jurgen Van Den Broeck
Martijn Maaskant
Romain Sicard
Mikhail Ignatiev
Daniel Oss
Tom Boonen
Jose Sarmiento
Vladimir Karpets
Juan Pablo Suarez
David Veilleux
Allan Davis
Matti Breschel
Filippo Pozzato
Manuel Belletti
Andrew Anacona
Danilo Di Luca
Karsten Kroon
Andriano Malori
Richie Porte
Peter Stetina
Michael Rogers
Andre Greipel
Andrey Kashechkin
Thomas Lofkvist
Jens Voigt
David De La Fuente

 

[Panda Claws]

I reckon Stybar may prove to be a wise pick, actually. On my shortlist, but there were others I fancied more.[/QUOTE.

Meh, he looked pretty good this year but I do not think he can actually break through.

 

[skidmark]

Other favourites so far:

- Squire picking Valverde - well, he may not increase his points a ton, but he'll probably get you a bunch.

- Youri900 picking Sastre

- Rocksteady's all North American team (where is microdose this year? and Wiggins_fan?)

 

[Eric8-A]

I see several people went and chose Maxim Iglinskiy. I had him on my team for a while, but then ended up switching him with Kroon.

 

[Jancouver]

I knew that I will see lots of obvious names on almost every team but I was surprised to see HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis on half of the teams. Was he mentioned in this thread or something? I wasnt reading because I didnt want to be influenced by others but I didnt expect that.

On the other hand. I have about 10 guys that were picked by less than 10% of the teams so that is a plus. Especially happy to see my most expensive pick (GALIMZYANOV Denis) on only three other teams

 

[taiwan]

Maxim Iglinsky: I put him in without great confidence, because I'm not sure why he's been underperforming.

@Panda Claws exactly. I thought he was pretty convincing in only his first year on the road.

Anyone else backing Degenkolb, by the way?

 

[Eric8-A]

I knew that I will see lots of obvious names on almost every team but I was surprised to see HENAO MONTOYA Sergio Luis on half of the teams. Was he mentioned in this thread or something? I wasnt reading because I didnt want to be influenced by others but I didnt expect that.

Pretty much when he was confirmed with Sky, he was being talked about.

 

[Eric8-A]

Maxim Iglinsky: I put him in without great confidence, because I'm not sure why he's been underperforming.

His highest score was somewhere around 500+ points. I took him out because of the new guys coming into Astana. There were more Astana riders I wanted to add to my team, but I didn't think they'd score high enough since I saw them being put to work as domestiques.

 

[skidmark]

Pretty much when he was confirmed with Sky, he was being talked about.

Yeah, there was a lot of talk about him as an 'obvious' pick in last year's CQ thread as early as April when he was rumoured to sign for sky. Then more and more in Utah and Colorado. Not so much in this thread.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

I think stybar is doing too much atm. Might pay for it during the road season.

Points wise their good but space wise I dont think so. Voigt is 40 now.

voight is too old agreed, but maaskant has potential to be a very good buy. Unlucky last couple seasons, looked very good at omloop before the crash.

 

[Eric8-A]

We all love Jens Voigt. That's why I picked him.

 

[AntonioRossi]

seems like quite a few also picked Ruben Plaza. damn

 

[AntonioRossi]

We all love Jens Voigt. That's why I picked him.

I love voigt as well but in the end I did not pick him. I dont see him improving much now he is on the radioshack squad