The 2013 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[DJ Sprtsch]

Tour de San Luis
ARU Fabio
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose
HUSHOVD Thor
POZZATO Filippo
ULISSI Diego
VAN LEIJEN Joost

TDU
GILBERT Philippe
PONZI Simone
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
SCHLECK Andy
SUTTON Christopher
THOMAS Geraint

 

[Housoe]

TDU
Gilbert
Geraint Thomas
CJ Sutton
Andy schleck
Tyler Ferrar
Nathan hass
Laclan Morton
Jack Boobridge
Andrea Guardini
Simone ponzi

San luis
Juan jose Cobo
Daniel oss
Thor Hushovd

I have suprisingly many riders in tour down under. My hopes are in Ferrar, Hass and Ponzi to score some points, as they are not in that many other players teams.
So go Ferrar for the sprints and hass for the GC.

 

[LaFlorecita]

San Luis 2.1
ARU Fabio
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose
VAN LEIJEN Joost
HUSHOVD Thor
POZZATO Filippo

TDU WT
GILBERT Philippe
STANNARD Ian
THOMAS Geraint
SCHLECK Andy
FARRAR Tyler
MORTON Lachlan David
BOARO Manuele
BOBRIDGE Jack
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin

I hope for 150-200 points this week

 

[Froome19]

TDU

Philippe Gilbert
Christopher Sutton
Geraint Thomas
Andy Schleck
Nathan Haas
Steele Von Hoff
Jack Bobridge
Andrei Amador Bipkazacova
Davide Appollonio

Sans LUIS

Juan Jose Cobo
Joost Van Leijen
Thor Hushoud
Filippo Pozzato
Sonny Colbrelli
David Arroyo

 

[LaFlorecita]

TDU

Philippe Gilbert
Christopher Sutton
Geraint Thomas
Andy Schleck
Nathan Haas
Steele Von Hoff
Jack Bobridge
Andrei Amador Bipkazacova
Davide Appollonio

Sans LUIS

Juan Jose Cobo
Joost Van Leijen
Thor Hushoud
Filippo Pozzato
Sonny Colbrelli
David Arroyo

Froomie.. dude..

 

[will10]

Froomie.. dude..

Boobridge and Ferrar were funnier.

 

[Froome19]

Froomie.. dude..

What? I was just copying it off CN's startlist
And anyways http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/andrei-amador-bipkazacova

 

[LaFlorecita]

What? I was just copying it off CN's startlist
And anyways http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/andrei-amador-bipkazacova

is it some weird russian way of writing "bikkazakova"

 

[Eric8-A]

Petacchi gives me my first points.

 

[skidmark]

if I had last year's team, I would've gotten minor points from Modolo and Howard. Two of a very few riders on my team who had a worse 2012 than 2011. And yet I didn't pick either of them this year, hmm...

 

[greenedge]

15 points from Ponzi and Von Hoff.

Hoping that on Corkscrew one of Rojas, Gilbert, Ponzi or Thomas can win.

If not i will be happy for an OGE rider.

Had Demare and Renshaw in last years squad.

 

[Jancouver]

Few points from Ponzi, Ferrari and Rojas. Not bad.

Does anyone has Renshaw? I dont think anybody has him or Demare or Gorilla.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Few points from Ponzi, Ferrari and Rojas. Not bad.

No points for Rojas. Only the top-8 get points anymore.

The CQ point scales were changed as of 1/1/2013...

 

[Ferminal]

Ponzi better get busted soon otherwise a lot of us are going to regret it.

 

[will10]

No points for Rojas. Only the top-8 get points anymore.

The CQ point scales were changed as of 1/1/2013...

I thought it was top 8 in "normal" WT stage races like Down Under last year too? Can't load CQ here to check...

Ponzi better get busted soon otherwise a lot of us are going to regret it.

I had him in my team at 7500 but was a bit concerned about picking the Mantova guys (Pozzato being the obvious exception).

When I gained a point I dropped him for Aru, convincing myself that not only was Ponzi a risky pick but he'd probably be riding for Guardini a lot of the time. I left Guardini out thinking he wouldn't get to the sprint in enough WT races, but didn't think that some of the other fast Astana guys would get more freedom...like Ponzi.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

I thought it was top 8 in "normal" WT stage races like Down Under last year too? Can't load CQ here to check...

Ah, you're right. There are fewer points to be had, though.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Update 2: Calm before the storm

The international cycling season finally got kicked off last week, but CQ game wise it could hardly be felt. Only 849 points total were earned this week which is less than 7 points average for each team.

hilltopfinisher earned the most points this week with 79 points - all coming from Gaëtan Bille who finished 3rd overall in Tropicale Amissa Bongo. Dim was a close second as he scored 72 this weak. 12 coming from Christophe Kern and 60 from one of his obscure picks, Tsgabu Gebremariam Grmay, who finished 5th overall in Tropicale Amissa Bongo and has now almost doubled his 2012 score already. Nice pick Dim.

This week's top scorers

1. hilltopfinisher - 79
2. Dim - 72
3. Blackbandit222 - 48
3. bicing - 48
5. cj2002 - 45

Because of the many points - everything's relative you know - hilltopfinisher and Dim scored this week they are also our two high jumpers, moving up 45 and 38 places respectively. Interestingly, but not surprising, the top 5 for this week's high jumpers is identical to the top 5 for this week's top scorers.

This week's high jumpers

1. hilltopfinisher +45
2. Dim +38
3. Blackbandit222 +28
4. bicing +26
5. cj2002 +25

The top 10 remains more or less unchanged this week, but we will be seeing a lot of changes in next week's update.

Top 10

1. (1) Akubra - 466
2. (2) King Of The Worlds - 270
3. (3) AAC1983 - 230
4. (6) bubbles - 195
5. (7) Ferminal - 191
6. (8) VeloRooms - 189
6. (4) coinneach - 189
8. (5) Kvinto - 184
9. (9) ingsve - 170
9. (9) sublimit - 170

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[al_pacino]

Thanks for the update Hugo. I think i'm already higher than I was all last season.

Its nice to see one of my uniques from last year, Gaëtan Bille, have a decent start this year(it's true this game does make you follow more riders).

Missed rider gripe #1 JIM Songezo - CN ran an interesting article on him during my team making process and he came quite close to making it. Already 5x his score.

 

[Afrank]

Ponzi better get busted soon otherwise a lot of us are going to regret it.

Not me
Dennis is out, Guardini failed me in this stage, Sutton was nowhere to be seen, but at least I still have Ponzi. Hopefully he has a good season (hopefully better than 2011) and Mantova doesn't take him out.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Ponzi scored me my first points of this year !

 

[the asian]

I didn't select anybody from Astana. Have Pozzato and Bole, so didn't want to add any other implicated guys.
Hope it doesn't backfire because Ponzi really is good value.

 

[TeoSheva]

Ponzi is already a contender for this TDU...

 

[theyoungest]

I had Ponzi on my team... not sure why I got rid of him. Underrated rider.

 

[taiwan]

Ponzi better get busted soon otherwise a lot of us are going to regret it.

My anti-doping ethics always go out the window when picking my team for a game If anything I lean towards guys who are probably juicing.

 

[Tigerion]

No points for me last week so I've dropped to my lowest ever position in the game. Although that isn't hard considering it is my first year.
At least Howard has given me a few points this week so far, hopefully he can get up for a win before the next update.