The 2013 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[Geraint Too Fast]

From a CQ perspective the Giro was great, considering I only started with Cav, Evans, & Roux.

 

[asdfgh101]

Can somebody please upload an update tomorrow?

I know that some people import the CQ data into older versions of the spreadsheet and bearing in mind that Hugo is still busy for a little while yet it would be great to see how the Giro as well as TOC, BR, TDB/RVB and various one day races have affected the standings.

Thanks if anyone can help.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Can somebody please upload an update tomorrow?

I know that some people import the CQ data into older versions of the spreadsheet and bearing in mind that Hugo is still busy for a little while yet it would be great to see how the Giro as well as TOC, BR, TDB/RVB and various one day races have affected the standings.

Thanks if anyone can help.

I'll do it if Hugo is not available (does anybody know when he'll come back ?) and/or someone doesn't beat me to it. I can see why you are excited as it is one of the biggest week of the year in terms of points.
For example my team, who is not doing particularly well will bring in a decent amount of points (actually I saw your scoring rider this week are pretty close to mine so it should give you a pretty good idea of what you are in for) :
Evans ~350
Thomas, Gilbert ~120 each
Kruijswijk ~50
Aru ~35
Coquard ~30
Pinot ~25
Rolland, Barguil, Le Bon ~15 each
Bardet ~10
Dombrowski, Kennaugh, Reimer 5 each
Total ~800 points for the week (and I expect some to beat it handily)

Here is the selction of the top 10 of the giro to speculate on ranking changes before the update is out :
Nibali -> nobody this year (I had him last year)
Uran -> Dim
Evans -> 18.Valve(pithy), AAC193, Akubra... 32 teams
Scarponi -> none
Betancur -> al_pacino, cineteq, CraZyCaLL... 11 teams
Niemiec -> martyfulu, bicing, taiwan, FlorinM, tomazo
Majka -> adamski, AFrank, blues in the bottle... 26 teams
Santambrogio -> none
Pozzovivo -> martyfulu (he also has Majka and Niemiec)

 

[jaylew]

I must have broken a record for least points scored during a GT. I scored 19 points for the ENTIRE Giro.

1 lousy finisher - Cobo. Time for a huge nosedive for my team.

 

[whittashau]

I really needed good points from the Giro to have any hope of finishing within the top 100 this season, but sadly the only riders that scored decently for me were Bettaglin, Felline, Betancur, Atapuma, Majka, Aru and Caruso.

Also, I'd just like to thank OPQS for turning Brambilla from a top 10 climber at the Giro into the worlds smallest rouleur and sprint train member.

 

[Jakob747]

My main assets in the Giro where Betancur and Majka.

In second row guys like Duarte, Atapuma, Aru and Rosa. Battaglin did great until he abandoned due to crash.

 

[JRanton]

Froome-dog is now officially the best rider in the world based on current CQ ranking.

Not many were predicting that pre-Vuelta 2011.

 

[asdfgh101]

I had Malori, Ulissi and Evans (plus some popular picks) so a good week for me. My squad is good but not great (although from 33 the only rider i regret selecting at this point is my final pick; Madrazo) and i'm keen to see if i have a shot at a high placing as pretty much all year i've flirted with dropping too far back.

 

[Tigerion]

Think I scored around 128 points from the giro

Maybe a few points from ToC but have a feeling I and tumbling down the rankings. Really regretting dropping Evans from the shortlist now, oh well didn't expect him to do two grand tours

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Update 20 : New update makes CQ Game history
This update covering the GC of the Bayern Rundfahrt, the Tour of Belgium and most importantly the Giro, is one of the most expected and important of the year and it didn't disappoint. Indeed, with six teams scoring more than a thousand points and an average score of 636 points per team (compare it to last week's top score of 484) it turned the rankings upside down.


whittashau, with big points from Gilbert, Betancur, D. Caruso, Thomas, T. Dumoulin and Atapuma, scores an astonishing total of 1108 points and yet is undone by dogboy. Intxausti, Majka, Kangert, Thomas, Malori and D. Caruso among other are enough to see him take the honors of the week's highest scorer.

The week's top scorers
1. dogboy 1190
2. whittashau 1108
3. Dim 1104
4. asdfgh101 1054
5. shalgo 1024

Unsurprisingly, many of the week's high scorer are also on the rise. Again whittashau, though improving his ranking by an impressive 38 places, is barely edged out by asdfgh101 who jumped 41 places up to 28th. Jakob747, shalgo and taiwan also improved by more than 30 places.

The week's high jumpers
1. asdfgh101 +41
2. whittashau +38
3. shalgo +36
4. taiwan +31
4. Jakob747 +31

After a disappointing Giro, will10's dominance of the game is broken. The former leader fades into 5th position, while HelgeBlendet drops out of the top 10. It is adamski101, a former leader of the game this year, who takes up the free spot in the top ten, by sneaking into tenth. However the real news of the update, which is a first in the history of the CQ Ranking Game and is unlikely to be happen again anytime soon, is that we don't have one but two leaders ! Geraint Too Fast just manages to hang on to a rampaging Dim (and his unique pick Uran) to finish dead even. There is something ironic in the fact that after so many high profile races throughout the year, Geraint Too Fast had to rely on a 9th place of his unique pick Aldegheri in Race Park Horizon 1 (a 1.2 race in Ukraine he probably didn't even knew existed) to match Dim.

The top 10
1. Dim 6284
1. Geraint Too Fast 6284
3. element 6125
4. ironted 5986
5. will10 5957
6. SteelyDan 5921
7. Falze 5836
8. al_pacino 5672
9. bicing 5671
10. adamski101 5642

Download : Update 20

 

[asdfgh101]

Thankyou the update is very much appreciated.

It seems that i may still have a chance.

TDS and the big national races will be important and then of course it's the TDF. How many of the leaders will have bona fide contenders? Will Cavendish propel certain teams to the top?

The rider i fear the most is Betancur. If he can perform well in the Autumn classics he could be the key to winning the game.

 

[taiwan]

+31, yay!

Thanks for the update.

 

[dogboy]

I can't believe I finally had a good week! My team has been pretty awful. I hope that top score is enough to get me a little bit further from the cold, dark cellar. Thanks for the update.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Of course I knew about Race Park Horizon 1, it was the main reason why I picked Aldegheri...
But seriously, I've enjoyed following my unique picks so far this year - Jerome Baugnies and Sam Bennett also got some minor points this week.

 

[mc_mountain]

Dim breaks the tie, for now, with 40 points for Ben Jacques-Mayne's 4th place in US Nats.

 

[Tigerion]

Down 38 positions, congrats to those who had a good giro

Edit: Awwww man, I'm even being beaten by the collective wisdom team now

 

[shalgo]

Nice to have at least one good week, even if my chances at another top ten finish this year still look very slight.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Thanks for doing the update, EvansIsTheBest! It's very much appreciated while I lay the final touch on my master's thesis.

And what a spectacular situation having two teams tied for first place at this point in the game!

 

[Ferminal]

I forgot that I picked Chaves

 

[search]

don't worry, he can still win the world championships

 

[Bumeington]

Highest score at this point last year over 9000! Will 15,000 be good enough for the win at the end of the year?

 

[sublimit]

Time the Lincoln Grand Prix was WT category. Anything to get some points from Pete Kennaugh.

 

[al_pacino]

I forgot that I picked Chaves

Just think what a great pick he'll be next time


Top ten though

 

[HelgeBlendet]

After the cobbled classics I talked about going dowhill. Was more a Schleck-like descent, but finally I dropped out of the Top10.

Not sure if I'm able to climb back.

 

[taiwan]

Finally Albasini has some races on his calendar Sort of an off the wall pick admittedly. Didn't expect him to be absent from whole chunks of the calendar though