The 2012 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[TeoSheva]

Top Ten (Last Week):

1(1) Mellow Velo 2536
2(7) mc_mountain 2338
3(6) Timmy-loves-Rabo 2326
4(4) hrotha 2216
5(5) EvansIsTheBest 2181
6(8) shalgo 2175
7(2) Michele 2144
8(58) Reuell 2142
9(26) Lortnoc 2138
10(4) TeoSheva 2119

the 110 points of Kwiatosky costed me 6 positions!
But I'm still in the top10 and Horner is coming

 

[TeoSheva]

Tirreno Adriatico
Enrico Gasparotto
Marco Pinotti
Enrico Battaglin
Filippo Pozzato
Luca Ascani
Andrew Talansky
Jelle Vanendert
Peter Velits
Matti Breschel
Michael Matthews
Chris Horner
Matteo Carrara

very good team I will say

 

[greenedge]

I wonder who Rabo will want sprinting out of Matthews/ Breschel???

 

[Midnightfright]

From 4th last place to 79th I'm slowly rising. All those people in the top 70 better watch out.

 

[TeoSheva]

I wonder who Rabo will want sprinting out of Matthews/ Breschel???

Matthews for sure...

 

[gustienordic]

From 4th last place to 79th I'm slowly rising. All those people in the top 70 better watch out.

From 4th to 10th to 25 I'm dropping exponentially!

 

[LaFlorecita]

And it keeps getting better...

I'm back where I started...

Lol... At least I made the top 100 several weeks in a row.

This shows my cycling knowledge is, like, 0.

 

[jsem94]

I've been somewhere around rank 35 all along.

 

[skidmark]

Glad that you enjoyed the race.
However you do have 2 stage wins 100 points and TJVG could podium so you are going better than most.

You're right, it's true that last year I would see the guys at the top of the board complain that they had a 'bad' week when it was much better than mine, and I was like 'well I'd trade you places in a sec'. There's pressure at the top to stay there, I guess.

Also, a quick look at the spreadsheet shows me that nobody else has Van Garderen in their team that's higher than 44th place, so I'm gonna cross my fingers that he gets the top 4 finish I think he's capable of...

 

[Eric8-A]

Dropped down to the 80's. Oh well, I was in the top slots during the Tour Down Under.

 

[Eric8-A]

Tirreno - Adriatico

Danilo Di Luca
Manuel Belletti
Filippo Pozzato
Mikhail Ignatiev
Adriano Malori
Andre Greipel
Matti Breschel
Thomas Lofkvist

 

[CQmanager]

Tirreno - Adriatico

Danilo Di Luca
Manuel Belletti
Filippo Pozzato
Mikhail Ignatiev
Adriano Malori
Andre Greipel
Matti Breschel
Thomas Lofkvist

I'm dont think Di Luca will score any points but I will definitely be interested watching that old fart. The only points you will get for sure are from Greipel, everything else is in the stars

 

[Eric8-A]

I can expect a point or two from Belletti, occupying the final slot for points.

 

[vladimir]

Some of my big guns need to deliver at T-A, but probably not before stage four. With nine riders in Paris-Nice and none of them in the top 50 yesterday I'm used to be disappointed anyway

BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
KREUZIGER Roman
VANENDERT Jelle
POZZATO Filippo
OSS Daniel
BRESCHEL Matti
CHAVEZ RUBIO Johan Esteban
LANDA MEANA Mikel

 

[greenedge]

I hope Vanendert and Pozzato can show something at T-A.

Kreuziger to hopefully get me points along with Velits for GC. Nibali and Evans are also the other favourites.

 

[skidmark]

I feel like Kashechkin is poised to do something big in Paris-Nice. He showed some good form making the top 100 in the opening TT, and today he finished ahead of 8 guys.

 

[Sylvester]

I really picked an awful team, it seems. COME ON IGOR ANTON AND NICOLAS ROCHE YOU BOTH STILL CAN WIN PARIS-NICE

 

[Popchu]

Rigoberto Uran strong in Paris-Nice. Hope he gets his chance this year in some stage races.

 

[jsem94]

Spilak still in there for me.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

 

[greenedge]

For me i just hope Boonen gets another stage win and Haussler-Howard can show themselves.

 

[Eric8-A]

Kiserlovski is my best shot at GC for Paris-Nice. Maybe LL Sanchez can move up a spot or two on GC after the time trial and give me some extra points.

I'm bummed Greipel missed out in the sprint today. There's another chance tomorrow though.

 

[taiwan]

Almost wish I had picked a more unique team now that the season's underway. It feels like your team is only those riders that few other people have, because if e.g. Velits scores, it doesn't help you actually win.

Glad I still have a couple of less popular bigs to cheer for.

 

[hrotha]

Of course it helps. It's all about the combos: how many people have Velits AND Boonen AND Breschel AND Rogers?

Me, I'm not doing that well in PN. Larsson, Boonen and Bole scored me some points, but I only have Kiserlovski for the GC.

 

[taiwan]

Of course it helps. It's all about the combos: how many people have Velits AND Boonen AND Breschel AND Rogers?

Me, I'm not doing that well in PN. Larsson, Boonen and Bole scored me some points, but I only have Kiserlovski for the GC.

I get your point. I CBF checking, but I suspect there are 20-30 teams that do have all those and more. Reason being it's about knowing or being up to date with riders, and if you follow cycling closely you'll know all the bargains.

Velits scoring will stop you losing, but it won't seperate you from the other top teams if you're doing well, so you won't win that way. On the other hand, the game's nice and obbjective that way. Like a race, you need to make the selection, and then you need to have a little extra.