The 2013 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[Afrank]

Introducing Team Afrank

GILBERT Philippe 1086
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 707
LEUKEMANS Björn 469
POZZATO Filippo 460
PINOT Thibaut 442
GUARDINI Andrea 404
TAARAMÄE Rein 384
BRESCHEL Matti 329
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres 317
REBELLIN Davide 276
DENNIS Rohan 271
MAJKA Rafal 260
RUJANO GUILLEN Jose Humberto 251
JUNGELS Bob 233
DOWSETT Alex 227
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 194
THOMAS Geraint 181
BATTAGLIN Enrico 152
PONZI Simone 165
BOLE Grega 125
NUYENS Nick 99
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 96
ROUX Anthony 80
HUSHOVD Thor 76
SUTTON Christopher 61
KERN Christophe 58
VOROBYEV Anton 46
HEPBURN Michael 24
SCHLECK Andy 20
VAN LEIJEN Joost 6
KENNAUGH Peter 0
BOBRIDGE Jack 0
OSPINA HERNANDEZ Argiro Alonso 0

Total 7499

 

[Duartista]

Here's mine:

GILBERT Philippe 1086
POZZATO Filippo 460
PINOT Thibaut 442
TAARAMÄE Rein 384
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin 366
FEILLU Romain 349
CARUSO Damiano 338
BRESCHEL Matti 329
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres 317
CHAVES RUBIO Johan Esteban 314
OFFREDO Yoann 295
RUJANO GUILLEN Jose Humberto 251
BARDET Romain 250
KÖNIG Leopold 224
ATAPUMA HURTADO John Darwin 216
STANNARD Ian 215
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 194
THOMAS Geraint 181
LÖFKVIST Thomas 170
PONZI Simone 165
TRENTIN Matteo 158
BATTAGLIN Enrico 152
ANACONA GOMEZ Winner Andrew 133
NUYENS Nick 99
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 96
ARROYO DURAN David 88
HUSHOVD Thor 76
SUTTON Christopher 61
HEPBURN Michael 24
SCHLECK Andy 20
KENNAUGH Peter 0
BOBRIDGE Jack 0
OSPINA HERNANDEZ Argiro Alonso 0

Total: 7483

 

[The Hitch]

CAVENDISH Mark 1150
GILBERT Philippe 1086
CANCELLARA Fabian 1031
EVANS Cadel 843
MOLLEMA Bauke 724
FARRAR Tyler 521

**** me

 

[Afrank]

For whoever asked for a source, read it and weep http://www.procycling.no/article3542101.ece:D

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[Hugo Koblet]

Oh by the way, I'm sure some minor mistakes will appear in the next days. Just PM me or write them here in the thread.

I also hope that someone (you're listening, Skibby the bush kangaroo?) will do some of that awesome statistics!

 

[The Hitch]

Now lets wait for Skippy the bush kangaroo to crunch the numbers

 

[Hugo Koblet]

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Delete the smiley at the end

Basically this whole Pinot-thing is because I semi trolled The Hitch and said I would drop a bomb at 00.00 that made a former winner change his team. The bomb was that Pinot is currently injuried, but I don't know how bad it is. It doesn't sound that bad from the news article.

 

[ingsve]

How many of you knew that Pinot is injured?

I did and a removed him from my team because of it.

Edit: I consider Pinot to be a gamble at the price he is at and with the added element of a possible injury I chose to keep him off my team especially since I'm already gambling on some other riders as well.

 

[Afrank]

Delete the smiley at the end

Basically this whole Pinot-thing is because I semi trolled The Hitch and said I would drop a bomb at 00.00 that made a former winner change his team. The bomb was that Pinot is currently injuried, but I don't know how bad it is. It doesn't sound that bad from the news article.

Ah, of course, thanks.

Hopefully the injury isn't too bad, and at least the Tour is a ways away.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

I'm pretty gutted that my last unique pick, Emilien Viennet, was picked by one of the last teams to enter the competition

 

[asdfgh101]

Tendonitis for Pinot per the link. Just a week ago Madiot used the injury as a metaphor for French cycling's obsession with the TDF at the expense of other races... after confirming Pinot as the only definite starter

 

[The Hitch]

I did and a removed him from my team because of it.

WHo was the guy you said you were surprised not to see his nationality coming up. I thought it was Holler if not Rujano. You have neither

Bole?

 

[MADRAZO]

My team

Like always I went into total panic and made 4 changes (that I will propably soon regret) in the last hour after the team had been quite stable for weeks until then.

Got too scared to have Evans after the virus-mentionings, and a bad history with the expensive riders in this competition, so he was replaced by Betancourt and then to get the points fitting out went Löfkvist and Kadri also replaced by Matthews and Catteneo. And then also I had been unsure about the last 0-pointer for very long and in the end decided to skip young Ospina for Finetto doing his comeback.

So my final team looks like this:


Gilbert Philippe 1086
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 669
Tiernan-Locke Jonathan 591
Farrar Tyler 521
Kelderman Wilco 401
Taaramäe Rein 384
Rojas Gil Jose Joaquin 366
Felline Fabio 366
Feillu Romain 349
Breschel Matti 329
Rujano Guillen Jose Humberto 251
Dombrowski Joseph Lloyd 194
Thomas Geraint 181
MATTHEWS Michael 359
Ponzi Simone 165
ARU fabio 162
Millar David 160
Battaglin Enrico 152
Bole Grega 125
Appollonio Davide 102
CATTANEO Mattia 88
Nuyens Nick 99
Cobo Acebo Juan Jose 96
Roux Anthony 80
Hushovd Thor 76
SUTTON Christopher 61
Coquard Bryan 33
Hepburn Michael 24
Schleck andy 20
Van Leijen Joost 6
Kennaugh Peter 0
Bobridge Jack 0
FINETTO MAURO 0


Btw. already regreting not picking Rebellin. Had not been researching his price well enough and thought he was at another price without realy checking. But thats entirely my fault. Hopefully it will not matter too much.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

The above list is by the way a prime example of how NOT to send in your team

 

[auscyclefan94]

So has the deadline started?

 

[will10]

My last last-minute change was Ponzi for Aru. I'd been unsure on Ponzi for a while as he was rumoured to have been named in the initial Padua investigation documents, so when the last few adjusted scores pushed me over the limit I plumped for Aru.

Trentin, Millar, Dowsett, Kruopis, Rollin, Offredo, Vorobyev, Duarte and Guardini were all in my team at some point, so will probably come back to haunt me.

 

[ingsve]

WHo was the guy you said you were surprised not to see his nationality coming up. I thought it was Holler if not Rujano. You have neither

Bole?

Martin Reimer. Looking through the list it seems only 3 other teams have picked him. He costs 0 since he returns from retirement last year. He is likely to be super motivated so as long as he is back in decent shape. As a sprinter on a small ProConti team I think he is likely to at least get a fair share of opportunities even with Ciolek obviously being the main sprinter.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

129 teams, 119 have included Andy Schleck (2, apparently, stripped from the team because of being over budget)

So 8 teams who either thought he wasn't good enough value, had forgotten about him, or are second choice teams.

 

[Jakob747]

I hope I have a lot of unique picks.

Nairo Quintana

Carlos Alberto Betancur

Diego Ulissi

Thibaut Pinot

Rein Taarmae

Sep Vanmarcke

Tom Jelte Slagter

Fabio Duarte

Johan Esteban Chaves

Elia Favilli

Cameron Meyer

Rafal Majka

Romain Bardet

Darwin Atapuma

Mikel Landa

Joe Dombrowski

Kristijan Durasek

Fabio Aru

Enrico Battaglin

Salvatore Puccio

Winner Anacona

Kenneth Vanbilsen

Enrico Barbin

Warren Barguil

Yonathan Monsalve

Kenny Elissonde

Mattia Cattaneo

Jeffry Johan Romero Corredor

Kristian Sbaragli

Diego Rosa

Jonathan Fumeaux

Alexis Vuillermoz

Argiro Ospina

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Greatest optimist award:
to Phoenix118, who reckons that Tom Boonen can improve considerably on his price of 2202 points (and who also one of two entrants to have bought Contador at 2272)

 

[The Hitch]

129 teams, 119 have included Andy Schleck (2, apparently, stripped from the team because of being over budget)

So 8 teams who either thought he wasn't good enough value, had forgotten about him, or are second choice teams.

Whats the point of having a second choice team if you dont even have schleck in it?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Hushovd almost as popular as Schleck: on 118 teams I believe. Bobridge and Geraint Thomas also on more than 100 teams.

 

[taiwan]

OK I give up. Where are people getting this information from?

 

[Sylvester]

GILBERT Philippe
GOSS Matthew
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas
FARRAR Tyler
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat
TAARAMÄE Rein
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
FEILLU Romain
MEYER Cameron
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd
THOMAS Geraint
KOCJAN Jure
PONZI Simone
ARU Fabio
MILLAR David
BATTAGLIN Enrico
KADRI Blel
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin
APPOLLONIO Davide
NUYENS Nick
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose
MONSALVE PERTSINIDIS Yonathan Alejandro
CATTANEO Mattia
HUSHOVD Thor
SUTTON Christopher
SILIN Egor
FISCHER Murilo Antonio
SCHLECK Andy
VAN LEIJEN Joost
SUAREZ SUAREZ Juan Pablo
BOBRIDGE Jack

Come on Ramunas, make me proud! Navardauskas is by far my riskiest pick, but I have high hopes for the guy.

 

[Afrank]

OK I give up. Where are people getting this information from?

All the teams are listed in the download at Hugo's link here.

It's here. The moment we've been waiting for. 129 teams. 1 winner.

http://cqmanager.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CQ-Rankings-2013.xls