The 2013 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[*Falze*]

Thinking about the 2014 season....

I think Zabriske, Fletcha and Pinotti are due big bounce back years.


AC

 

[search]

yeh, too bad Zabriskie is not eligable for having been banned. But maybe you can take Rujano instead

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Update #36: The three-way battle becomes a four-way battle

With the last one day WorldTour race out of the way, it's time for update #36. Jakob747 is this week's top scorer with 591 points from Ulissi, Majka, Pinot and Vanbilsen while nck1000 is 2nd with points from Majka, Farrar, Pinot and the resurrected Van Emden.

This week's top scorers:

1. Jakob747 - 591
2. nck1000 - 524
3. adamski101 - 514
4. The Amateur - 485
5. DJ Sprtsch - 473

nck1000 continues his steak of 2nd places as he's also 2nd on this week's high jumpers list. This time it's DJ Sprtsch who takes the honor as he moves up 21 places.

This week's high jumpers:

1. DJ Sprtsch +21
2. nck1000 +19
3. Jakob747 +17
4. gerundium +16
5. keithmcmahon +14

With only a month to go - the game ends after Tour of Taihu Lake on November 10 - the fierce battle for the title has become even fiercer as adamski101 closes in the our three runaway leaders and now finds himself in a position to win the game, only trailing our new leader, Geraint Too Fast, by 203 points!

New entries in the top 10 is tomazo and The Amateur who pushes out squire and Nyssinator.

Top 10:

1. (+1) Geraint Too Fast - 12842
2. (+1) SteelyDan - 12838
3. (-2) will10 - 12750
4. (-) adamski101 - 12639
5. (-) chinaboy - 11991
6. (+1) vladimir - 11828
7. (-1) freddybobs - 11793
8. (+3) tomazo - 11597
9. (-) TeoSheva - 11511
10. (+5) The Amateur - 11505

On a quite different note, I'm sad to announce that this will be the last edition of the CQ Ranking Manager Game that I host. Because of job obligations I won't have the time to set it all up after New Year, but hopefully someone will take over.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/37lcgvtlpmcfg4j/CQ2013+Update+36.xls

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

On a quite different note, I'm sad to announce that this will be the last edition of the CQ Ranking Manager Game that I host. Because of job obligations I won't have the time to set it all up after New Year, but hopefully someone will take over.

A shame, really. Best pro cycling game on the web. Only downside is that there's no prize money involved...

I hope Armchair is up to the task. Have you contacted him?

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Many thanks for all of your work Hugo.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

A shame, really. Best pro cycling game on the web. Only downside is that there's no prize money involved...

I hope Armchair is up to the task. Have you contacted him?

No I haven't actually. But he would definitely do a very good job as would mc_mountain, so I kinda hope one of the two will take over.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

By the way, I just stumbled across this quote:

I've come online to declare that it will be easy to crack 20,000 points this year easily.

 

[Afrank]

Best of luck on your new job Hugo, and much thanks for all your work on the game. Shouldn't be too hard to find someone else to take over with so many people playing.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

No I haven't actually. But he would definitely do a very good job as would mc_mountain, so I kinda hope one of the two will take over.

Ah, I forgot about mc_mountain. Yeah, I agree. Either one of them would be great.

On the plus side you can submit a competitive team now, instead of having to worry about foreknowledge. Not that the teams were great this year...

By the way, I just stumbled across this quote:

Yeah. Plenty of gems, though. Like the ones from Rujano believers.

 

[skidmark]

Update #36: The three-way battle becomes a four-way battle

With the last one day WorldTour race out of the way, it's time for update #36. Jakob747 is this week's top scorer with 591 points from Ulissi, Majka, Pinot and Vanbilsen while nck1000 is 2nd with points from Majka, Farrar, Pinot and the resurrected Van Emden.

This week's top scorers:

1. Jakob747 - 591
2. nck1000 - 524
3. adamski101 - 514
4. The Amateur - 485
5. DJ Sprtsch - 473

nck1000 continues his steak of 2nd places as he's also 2nd on this week's high jumpers list. This time it's DJ Sprtsch who takes the honor as he moves up 21 places.

This week's high jumpers:

1. DJ Sprtsch +21
2. nck1000 +19
3. Jakob747 +17
4. gerundium +16
5. keithmcmahon +14

With only a month to go - the game ends after Tour of Taihu Lake on November 10 - the fierce battle for the title has become even fiercer as adamski101 closes in the our three runaway leaders and now finds himself in a position to win the game, only trailing our new leader, Geraint Too Fast, by 203 points!

New entries in the top 10 is tomazo and The Amateur who pushes out squire and Nyssinator.

Top 10:

1. (+1) Geraint Too Fast - 12842
2. (+1) SteelyDan - 12838
3. (-2) will10 - 12750
4. (-) adamski101 - 12639
5. (-) chinaboy - 11991
6. (+1) vladimir - 11828
7. (-1) freddybobs - 11793
8. (+3) tomazo - 11597
9. (-) TeoSheva - 11511
10. (+5) The Amateur - 11505

On a quite different note, I'm sad to announce that this will be the last edition of the CQ Ranking Manager Game that I host. Because of job obligations I won't have the time to set it all up after New Year, but hopefully someone will take over.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/37lcgvtlpmcfg4j/CQ2013+Update+36.xls

Whoa, exciting battle!

Sorry to hear you won't be hosting anymore, Hugo. As a few have said, this game is popular and awesome, and I'm sure someone will have the time/ability to organize it all. Thanks so much for your hard work, and of course your great idea that got it started! I still remember that first day you announced it, it sounded really awesome and then all of a sudden 25 people had responded, and I thought I had missed out. It was an idea destined to catch on.

 

[Jakob747]

Hugo - (Boss). Thank you, for all the work you’ve put into this! Really appreciated it.

Hopefully the game will go on. It’s a great competition.

See you around Hugo. If indeed someone carries on the torch, I hope you at least will have the time to participate.

 

[al_pacino]

Thanks for running the game Hugo. Just how much of an inbox nightmare is it towards the end of December when everyone is trying to rush their teams in?

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Thanks for all the kind responses. It's been a pleasure running the game even though I haven't always been that fast with the updates But I guess it's understandable when it's been most weeks for the last three years

I will definitely still be around, and I will also be able to help out if the new "host" needs some help with anything.

al_pacino: The last few days before the deadline are obviously the worst and on the busiest day it's not uncommon to recieve something like 25-30 PM's I guess.

skidmark: Yes, I remember that too. I never imagined the game would be that popular. And I didn't have the slightest idea how to use Excel. Originally my plan was to just manually update every picked rider's score from week to week. But then all of a sudden 20 teams were send in and I panicked because I realized how many different riders were chosen and how many I would have to update every week

 

[search]

And I didn't have the slightest idea how to use Excel. Originally my plan was to just manually update every picked rider's score from week to week. But then all of a sudden 20 teams were send in and I panicked because I realized how many different riders were chosen and how many I would have to update every week

à propos...maybe cqmanager or someone else can help out to automatize that for next year. Excel is okay, but setting up a website for the game again should not be too much work either.

 

[shalgo]

Thank you Hugo! I do hope that someone can take over the game for next year. In case someone does, can I make a pitch for keeping the Excel spreadsheet? Now that Hugo has done the hard work setting it up, it is easy to update and in fact allows people to to do their own updates when the organizer is unable to put together the update immediately.

 

[the asian]

Thanks Hugo for all the troubles you've taken to host this wonderful game over the past three years.
Hope somebody like MC Mountain or Armchair Climber takes over.

 

[mc_mountain]

No I haven't actually. But he would definitely do a very good job as would mc_mountain, so I kinda hope one of the two will take over.

If armchair is tempted he would get my vote, if only as my inbox will take a battering as will be already doing the youth game. I would probably have time to do the donkey work to set up the teams in the spreadsheet, if he needs help with that.

One of the things I've found doing the youth game, it is sometimes difficult to make the updates (the text anyway) seem interesting (well to compete with Hugo's anyway) - so my suggestion is that once the spreadsheet is established some posters take a month each to do the updates. I can think of people like skidmark, teosheva, search, evansisthebest and shalgo who could provide good updates and there will be others too, adding a bit of their personality to the basic template Hugo has established. then if Hugo has time he could have the honour of doing the updates for the last month.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

My GT game efforts are within my Excel capabilities as they are all on one page: my excel 'skills' are entirely down to trial and error. So while I would be happy to try to make sure the game does not disappear, I would need some expertise from others.

 

[LaFlorecita]

I would probably update every team manually

 

[TeoSheva]

My GT game efforts are within my Excel capabilities as they are all on one page: my excel 'skills' are entirely down to trial and error. So while I would be happy to try to make sure the game does not disappear, I would need some expertise from others.

I can help with excel...
I think that the main "problem" is to deal with all the teams that will be send at the beginning of the year... once the excel file is prepared with all the teams, the effort requested during the year is really low...

 

[TeoSheva]

- so my suggestion is that once the spreadsheet is established some posters take a month each to do the updates. I can think of people like skidmark, teosheva, search, evansisthebest and shalgo who could provide good updates and there will be others too, adding a bit of their personality to the basic template Hugo has established. then if Hugo has time he could have the honour of doing the updates for the last month.

that's a good idea

 

[TeoSheva]

if only as my inbox will take a battering

Instead to use the inbox of the forum we can create a dedicated email account where all the teams can be send and, sharing the the password between 3 or 4 of us, it would be much easier to do the work even in parallel, instead to load all the work on just one of us.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Even though I'm by no means an Excel wizard, I will be happy to answer technical questions and even helping out a bit. I can also do some updates during the season.

The had work that needs to be done is creating the tabs with the different teams, creating the rankings tab and the links to each team.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

On a different note, I think we will have a very interesting game next year - provided someone takes the game up. There are of course some more or less mandatory riders, but especially in the expensive department are there some hard and interesting choices to be made.

 

[search]

mmh, I am not so sure, I found about ~15 more or less mandatory riders in the price segment below ~150 points - that will open up opportunities for the higher priced riders of course but also take a bit of the diversity