The 2013 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[asdfgh101]

Armchair how are you able to collate the numbers?

Edit: ctrl+f, options-whole workbook

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

I think I have 4 unique picks - Rovny, S.Bennett, Baugnies & Aldegheri (all of my continental riders).

Also, 5 other teams have Cav, Gilbert & Cancellara.

 

[Sylvester]

Best of luck with Baugnies. I picked him last year - no success. He's definitely going to better his score as he's ridiculously cheap this year.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Armchair how are you able to collate the numbers?

Edit: ctrl+f, options-whole workbook

exactly: two to subtract in most cases (last two pages of the workbook, unless a zero point scorer in either of last two years)

 

[taiwan]

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

Thanks (my phone doesn't like it that much though).

 

[asdfgh101]

No unique riders for me

Thought about Stefano Locatelli, he would have been the one.

Minor point: The season could have started with the Australian National ITT, so deadline on the 8th and finished with the last of the National Championships (Colombia and Paraguay were both 17 November last year, 9 days after the last 2.1 ended).

 

[Ferminal]

ffs, the team I submitted had Ospina instead of Finetto, why did I use 2 spreadsheets.

EVANS Cadel 843
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander 707
GALLOPIN Tony 493
POZZATO Filippo 460
PINOT Thibaut 442
TAARAMÄE Rein 384
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin 366
MATTHEWS Michael 359
KLÖDEN Andreas 311
CHAVES RUBIO Johan Esteban 314
HERMANS Ben 288
MEYER Cameron 276
REBELLIN Davide 276
BARDET Romain 250
JEANNESSON Arnold 242
KÖNIG Leopold 224
CHERNETSKIY Sergey 175
COLBRELLI Sonny 146
VON HOFF Steele 142
BARBIN Enrico 121
KASHECHKIN Andrey 102
NUYENS Nick 99
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 96
BOLE Grega 125
HUSHOVD Thor 76
SUTTON Christopher 61
KERN Christophe 58
COQUARD Bryan 33
SCHLECK Andy 20
VAN LEIJEN Joost 6
SUAREZ SUAREZ Juan Pablo 5
OSPINA HERNANDEZ Argiro Alonso 0
BOBRIDGE Jack 0

Total 7500

 

[auscyclefan94]

GILBERT Philippe 1086
FARRAR Tyler 521
APPOLLONIO Davide 102
HUSHOVD Thor 76
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 96
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin 366
DEVENYNS Dries 208
LANGEVELD Sebastian 227
BOBRIDGE Jack 0
KLÖDEN Andreas 311
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin 101
RUJANO GUILLEN Jose Humberto 251
THOMAS Geraint 181
MILLAR David 160
KONOVALOVAS Ignatas 68
SUTTON Christopher 61
ROSSELER Sébastien 32
HENDERSON Gregory 127
DEVOLDER Stijn 96
SEELDRAEYERS Kevin 114
SCHLECK Andy 20
HERMANS Ben 288
EVANS Cadel 843
HOWARD Leigh 150
MEYER Cameron 276
RAVARD Anthony 46
POZZATO Filippo 460
BRESCHEL Matti 329
NUYENS Nick 99
GADRET John 179
PETACCHI Alessandro 297
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 318


I took a couple of risks with some of my picks, but I believe they will pay off with a bit of luck.

 

[AntonioRossi]

think I ended up with only one unique pick - vermote. Quite surprised to see other people with Rick Zabel as well I only picked him because I ended up over 7500

 

[CQmanager]

My team should be called "The biggest losers" team as I simply selected riders that were underperforming last year. Since I have the data from last year available, I just run a simple report comparing 2011 and 2012. Didnt have time to really work on my team so this was a two minute effort. Quite honestly, I'm not even sure who some of those guys I selected are Good luck to all!

VAN AVERMAET Greg 793
MOLLEMA Bauke 724
BENNATI Daniele 578
FARRAR Tyler 521
LEUKEMANS Björn 469
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor 436
HUTAROVICH Yauheni 413
TAARAMÄE Rein 384
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin 366
FEILLU Romain 349
RUJANO GUILLEN Jose Humberto 251
DOWSETT Alex 227
KÖNIG Leopold 224
BRUTT Pavel 201
THOMAS Geraint 181
GADRET John 179
KOCJAN Jure 175
PONZI Simone 165
BOLE Grega 125
KADRI Blel 102
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin 101
NUYENS Nick 99
LASTRAS GARCIA Pablo 97
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 96
ROUX Anthony 80
HUSHOVD Thor 76
RAVARD Anthony 46
SCHLECK Andy 20
VAN LEIJEN Joost 6
NOVIKOV Nikita 5
SUAREZ SUAREZ Juan Pablo 5
BOBRIDGE Jack 0
KENNAUGH Peter 0

 

[asdfgh101]

Stat of the day:

CQManager's squad has a 2011 score of 21,607 without Gilbert, Evans or Cancellara (i'm dubbing it the all-comeback team). Edit; you beat me to it!

Winner likely have a 2011 score between ~15,000 and ~18,000. If anybody can do it with <12,000 i will be very impressed.

Obviously the success of the most popular riders will determine the winning score but it is likely that it will take less points to win the competition this year. Anybody scoring over 15,000 should likely be proud of their achievement.

 

[The Hitch]

My team should be called "The biggest losers" team as I simply selected riders that were underperforming last year. Since I have the data from last year available, I just run a simple report comparing 2011 and 2012. Didnt have time to really work on my team so this was a two minute effort. Quite honestly, I'm not even sure who some of those guys I selected are Good luck to all!

VAN AVERMAET Greg 793
MOLLEMA Bauke 724
BENNATI Daniele 578
FARRAR Tyler 521
LEUKEMANS Björn 469
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor 436
HUTAROVICH Yauheni 413
TAARAMÄE Rein 384
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin 366
FEILLU Romain 349
RUJANO GUILLEN Jose Humberto 251
DOWSETT Alex 227
KÖNIG Leopold 224
BRUTT Pavel 201
THOMAS Geraint 181
GADRET John 179
KOCJAN Jure 175
PONZI Simone 165
BOLE Grega 125
KADRI Blel 102
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin 101
NUYENS Nick 99
LASTRAS GARCIA Pablo 97
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose 96
ROUX Anthony 80
HUSHOVD Thor 76
RAVARD Anthony 46
SCHLECK Andy 20
VAN LEIJEN Joost 6
NOVIKOV Nikita 5
SUAREZ SUAREZ Juan Pablo 5
BOBRIDGE Jack 0
KENNAUGH Peter 0

That's surprising. Gva and anton 2011 combined was about 1840. Gilbert 2011 was 3000.

So.from a 2011 perspective you should have taken Gilbert rather than them 2 ( and would have had about 200 for another pick).

 

[Ferminal]

Nice to see a few on the Gallopin bandwagon including two top10s from last year!

No one took Van Dijk

 

[CQmanager]

That's surprising. Gva and anton 2011 combined was about 1840. Gilbert 2011 was 3000.

So.from a 2011 perspective you should have taken Gilbert rather than them 2 ( and would have had about 200 for another pick).

I didnt want any rider over 1000 points and I was excepting that he will be very popular pick. One of those risky moves. Quite honestly, he can make or break any team. I didnt even want those two 700 points pick but that would mean more work and I just wanted to go based on those reports without thinking about it too much.

The downside is that I dont have any rider who did good last year and still has potential to improve. All these are "2012 losers"

 

[skidmark]

Nice to see a few on the Gallopin bandwagon including two top10s from last year!

One one took Van Dijk

I was very close to selecting Gallopin. In the end it came down to the crucial question 'could I really see him doubling his points?', and I was hesitant. So I picked... Farrar? Ugh.

 

[Makiavelli]

here's Makiavelli Racing. I'm starting to regret not adding Offredo to my team

BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto
TIERNAN-LOCKE Jonathan
BOUHANNI Nacer
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
KITTEL Marcel
KREDER Raymond
TAARAMAE Rein
COUSIN Jerome
KELDERMAN Wilco
CHICCHI Francesco
HUSHOVD Thor
FAVILLI Elijah
ROWE Luke
THOMAS Geraint
STANNARD Ian
LANGEVELD Sebastian
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd
KREDER Raymond
PETIT Adrien
VELITS Martin
CIACCHINI Andrea
DEIGNAN Phillip
BENEDETTI Cesare
STEELS Stijn
VAN POPPEL Boy
LOFKVIST Thomas
VANMARCKE Sep
SCHLECK Andy
VELITS Martin
AGOSTINI Stefano
BOBRIDGE Jack
FAIRLY Caleb

 

[the asian]

I certainly had a hard time picking my team.
My season will depend on Lampre. I have Ulissi, Ferrari and Pozzato.
I'm also hoping that Meersman will be the latest to fly under the wings of the good Basque Dr.


GILBERT Philippe
ULISSI Diego
MEERSMAN Gianni
POZZATO Filippo
PINOT Thibaut
FERRARI Roberto
TAARAMÄE Rein
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
MATTHEWS Michael
FEILLU Romain
BRESCHEL Matti
RUJANO GUILLEN Jose Humberto
ZAUGG Oliver
DEKKER Thomas
THOMAS Geraint
GADRET John
LÖFKVIST Thomas
BATTAGLIN Enrico
BOLE Grega
APPOLLONIO Davide
NUYENS Nick
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose
MONSALVE PERTSINIDIS Yonathan Alejandro
SICARD Romain
ARROYO DURAN David
HUSHOVD Thor
SUTTON Christopher
COQUARD Bryan
HEPBURN Michael
SCHLECK Andy
MORTON Lachlan
BOBRIDGE Jack
KENNAUGH Peter



Riders who were in my team and then later left out- Robert Gesnik, Winner Anacona, Mikel Astarloza, Olivier Le Gac, Matteo Trentin, Tosh Van Der Sande, Sacha Modolo, Anton Vorobyev.

 

[mc_mountain]

if anyone wants to check my team its in the spreadsheet. I've certainly gambled on leaving some riders out - but at the moment I am relatively content.

Anyone pick any brazilians to try and get an early lead?

Also anyone who has expressed an interest in the CQ youth game over on Velorooms the deadline is 8 January 11.59pm GMT

 

[auscyclefan94]

I just realised that my team is one of the highest scoring teams going on 2011 results. Hopefully that will hold me in good stead and my riders will make big improvements in 2013.

 

[the asian]

I just realised that my team is one of the highest scoring teams going on 2011 results. Hopefully that will hold me in good stead and my riders will make big improvements in 2013.

Kloden, Pettachi, Millar

You really have picked some old hacks there.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Kloden, Pettachi, Millar

You really have picked some old hacks there.

Perhaps, but you have to take risks in this game. I think those guys could improve enough for them to be quite profitable.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

No one took Van Dijk

I only dropped him two days ago.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Perhaps, but you have to take risks in this game. I think those guys could improve enough for them to be quite profitable.

I also picked Millar and Petacchi, even though I expected that the latter wouldn't be all that popular. Millar could easily triple his score, though. Must pick, IMO.

 

[Popchu]

I hope I didn't forget some obvious picks.

Go Colombia (Duarte - Chaves - Atapuma - Ospina)!

ROLLAND Pierre
FARRAR Tyler
KISERLOVSKI Robert
POZZATO Filippo
HAUSSLER Heinrich
VANENDERT Jelle
PINOT Thibaut
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
BRESCHEL Matti
DUARTE AREVALO Fabio Andres
CHAVES RUBIO Johan Esteban
PETACCHI Alessandro
RUJANO GUILLEN Jose Humberto
ATAPUMA HURTADO John Darwin
LÖFKVIST Thomas
PONZI Simone
BOLE Grega
KARPETS Vladimir
APPOLLONIO Davide
CHAINEL Steve
DEVOLDER Stijn
COBO ACEBO Juan Jose
ROUX Anthony
HUSHOVD Thor
HEPBURN Michael
SCHLECK Andy
NOVIKOV Nikita
BOBRIDGE Jack
OSPINA HERNANDEZ Argiro Alonso

 

[Eric8-A]

Here's my team:

Jure Kocjan
Argiro Ospina
Jose Rujano
Andrew Anacona (back from 2012)
Joseph Dombrowski
Alex Dowsett
Ramon Carretero
John Gadret
Jean Christophe Peraud
Dominik Nerz
Alexandre Geniez
Jack Bobridge
Andy Schleck
Thor Hushovd
Juan Jose Cobo
Nick Nuyens
Alessandro Petacchi
Andrey Amador
Romain Feillu
Juan Pablo Suarez (third year being on my team)
Rafael Andriato (back from 2012)
Kiel Reijnen
Rory Sutherland
David Millar
Esteban Chaves
Simone Ponzi
Geraint Thomas
Dave Zabriskie (third year being on my team)
Igor Anton
Mikel Nieve (back from 2012)
Thomas Dekker
Nelson Oliveira
Jakob Fuglsang