The 2013 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[Froome19]

I am worried this disappointment thing will become rather frequent when Quintana is racing this year.

 

[jaylew]

Why? He just wrecked at a bad time. I don't think it's indicative of anything.

 

[Froome19]

Why? He just wrecked at a bad time. I don't think it's indicative of anything.

I hope so too

Just... Ryo likes him

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Man, only 100 points for me too plus some minor points.

Here I was thinking we'd finally score big now we're having WT races again.

Kelderman abandonds and underperformes; Breschel, Matthews didn't do anything; Taaramae was still recovering from ilness...

And at TA Mollema lost 6 minutes on the first serious MTF, while Slagter lost 7 today, so no hopes of a GC there for me either. Just hoping for some stage points with TGBM and Slagter tomorrow

 

[jsem94]

I think this week was absolute rubbish for me. No more Swedes in the top 10 I presume.

 

[The Hitch]

I hope so too

Just... Ryo likes him

Well duh. He's pretty much the only rider who ryo has ever gotten right ( even henao he ruined by saying he can win Paris roubaix).

 

[greenedge]

Peraud nearly into profit already

good pick- I was tempted by him, Evans, Menchov and Kloden but had no guts to pick them.

Porte gets me 463 points from P-N and I had Rojas, Quintana and Gilbert also go ok.

Now all Porte needs to do is have Wiggins crash at the Giro and he can take a top 3.

Kreder also gets me 36 points today- though how he could not even come 2nd surprises me- gifted out maybe???

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Cobbles cobbles I need cobbles

Stop giving me stage racing and climbing

I need points by Langeveld, Vanmarcke, Pozzato, Hushovd, Nuyens and Thomas.

How am I ever going to get near the front if it goes on like this?

 

[HelgeBlendet]

97 points out of PN and TA doesn't look much better

 

[GP Blanco]

Cobbles cobbles I need cobbles

Stop giving me stage racing and climbing

I need points by Langeveld, Vanmarcke, Pozzato, Hushovd, Nuyens and Thomas.

How am I ever going to get near the front if it goes on like this?

I don't want to spoil your Monday morning but Vanmarcke seems to miss the classics because of a knee injury.

twitter.com/sepvanmarcke/status/310753320895651840/photo/1

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Update will be up later today. I'm busy right now, and will be watching TA later

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

I don't want to spoil your Monday morning but Vanmarcke seems to miss the classics because of a knee injury.

twitter.com/sepvanmarcke/status/310753320895651840/photo/1

oh shiiiiiiiiiiittt

Ah well, when GIlbert disappoints everybody and I win LBL with TGBM, I'll be back in buisiness.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Update #9: greenedge edges it

With Paris-Nice out of the way, a lot has happened in this game. greenedge had a very good week - well, it's hard not to with Porte in your team - as did Akubra who is the only other team with Porte in it. The average score for the week was 177 points which makes greenedge point harvest quite impressive.

This week's top scorers:

1. greenedge - 653
2. Akubra - 537
3. jaylew - 514
4. cj2002 - 451
5. taiwan - 426

greenedge is also this week's high jumper as he moves up an incredible 79 places - from 92nd to 13th. Akubra is also among the highest jumping teams this week, as he jumps 52 places.

This week's high jumpers:

1. greenedge +79
2. jaylew +54
3. Akubra +53
4. cj2002 +48
5. coinneach +39

It's getting a bit tiresome to say, but once again Skibby the bush kangaroo tops the leaderboard, and he just keeps opening up the gap with steady performances. He's now 262 points ahead of nordicICE1024 who once again overtakes Geraint Too Fast for 2nd place.

Three new teams enter the top 10 this week: taiwan, who's one of this week's top scorers, jumps from 46th to 9th, *Falze* moves to 5h from 15th while Tigerion jumps from 12th to 8th. Out goes ingsve, TeoSheva and jsem94.

For the 9th week in a row is AAC1983 among the top 10 teams - as the only team to have done that - but he's losing ground as he's now in 10th position.

Top 10:

1. (-) Skibby the bush kangaroo - 2426
2. (+1) nordicICE1024 - 2164
3. (-1) Geraint Too Fast - 2072
4. (-) bicing - 2041
5. (+10) *Falze* - 1990
6. (-1) gustienordic - 1980
7. (-1) DnthasldHoff - 1928
8. (+4) Tigerion - 1914
9. (+37) taiwan - 1913
10. (-2) AAC1983 - 1911

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[TeoSheva]

I'm out of the top10 just for the mismatch between PN and TA

 

[Jancouver]

Just 100 points this week. Ouch!

 

[taiwan]

Woah, didn't expect to be top ten at this point!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Dropped another 7 spots

 

[LaFlorecita]

Five of my guys dnf'ed today... that's 25 points... Worst of all Manuele who could've done well tomorrow

 

[Netserk]

Seems like a lost year for me

104th

 

[HelgeBlendet]

Down 16 places... Lesson learned so far: Trust your heart and not your head selecting the team. At least when you don't know anything about cycling like me

 

[jsem94]

Yup, this week was rubbish. Tirreno and Paris-Nice has hurt me severely.

 

[skidmark]

I'm not even going to look at the spreadsheet this week. My top finisher in P-N was... Gilbert in the mid-30s. Ugh, sadly him and Rojas were my high scorers this week. Kelderman crashed (after being dropped the day before), Lofkvist nosedived after looking stealthily good for a few days, and Barguil and Sicard looked overmatched in a breakaway with mediocre climbers. Doesn't augur well.

On the other hand, my 2012 CQ team seems to be doing great with Porte, Talansky and Van Garderen. Way to go guys.

And T-A... well, let's just say I stopped looking at the results sheet after Prati del Tivo when I saw that my highest finisher out of 9 on my team was none other than Andy Schleck. In 74th place. Hoo boy.

Alright, Pippo, Breschel, Hushovd better show in MSR or I'm gonna be mad. Also, can't wait to see Rebellin back in action in a few italian races soon. When your best hope is a 42 year old on a Polish continental team, you know you're struggling.

 

[Tigerion]

Woah, didn't expect to be top ten at this point!

I don't know about you but I didn't expect to be in the top ten at all

 

[the asian]

Up 9 paces to 33rd, mainly thanks to Ulissi.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Here is the all-time top 10 after Paris-Nice. Either people did not take too many classics rider this year or we are not going to see the same scores as in 2012.
1 Mellow Velo (2012) 2836
2 EvansIsTheBest (2012) 2651
3 Pcutter (2011) 2621
4 microdose (2011) 2599
5 hrotha (2012) 2573
6 TeoSheva (2012) 2561
7 mc_moutain (2012) 2532
8 Timmy-loves-Rabo (2012) 2506
9 shalgo (2012) 2498
10 skidmark (2012) 2488
(11 Skibby the bush kangaroo (2013) 2426)