The 2013 CQ Ranking Manager Game

[Tigerion]

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

Well he did race Paris -Nice, Pais Vasco, the ardeens and Romandie so it isn't like a Hepburn who has done track, track and track.
He was also a lot more expensive than hepburn as well. Don't worry, when he gets his 2 stage wins at the tour you can relax

 

[taiwan]

Yeah actually what I said isn't accurate. He has benn racing, just not always at the sharp end.

 

[coinneach]

I must be the only one who had Cavendish in his Giro team and still went down the table!

 

[al_pacino]

Mattia Pozzo breaks his duck at the Tour of Kumano.

who knew eh?

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

awww ****, just checked the update again, out of top 50 again

Ah well, got some of my more expensive picks peaking for the TDF (Pinot, Rolland, TGBM), so now should be the time I planned to move up a bit. I planned to be higher than 50th by this time though, so as to attack ftw, seems like I missed the decisive break unfortunately.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

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

I thought that advantge would prove decisive in a very light week calendar-wise but Geraint Too Fast's "exotic" picks are working well for him at the moment. Joeaar looks good for the GC of the Tour of Estonia, ~150 points for the race if he does conserves the top spot on GC tomorrow and with the lack of any races of note (except the Dauphine prologue) during the week that might be enough for Geraint to finish top scorer and distance Dim.

 

[mc_mountain]

I thought that advantge would prove decisive in a very light week calendar-wise but Geraint Too Fast's "exotic" picks are working well for him at the moment. Joeaar looks good for the GC of the Tour of Estonia, ~150 points for the race if he does conserves the top spot on GC tomorrow and with the lack of any races of note (except the Dauphine prologue) during the week that might be enough for Geraint to finish top scorer and distance Dim.

Hopefully Dim won't be too disappointed - he's got Joeaar in the Youth CQ over on velorooms - hope to see you in that game in 2014 if I bring it over here as well.

 

[Ferminal]

Will be hard to stay with Rebellin/Schumacher. Last year he was the same time as Furlan.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

so what kind off team ya'll got in Dauphine and Suisse?

For me it's:
Dauphine
KENNAUGH Peter
THOMAS Geraint
HUSHOVD Thor
SLAGTER Tom Jelte
MATTHEWS Michael
TAARAMAE Rein
ELISSONDE Kenny
ROLLAND Pierre
VIVIANI Elia
BOECKMANS Kris

Suisse
SCHLECK Andy
MORTON Lachlan David
KELDERMAN Wilco
MOLLEMA Bauke
VANMARCKE Sep
KOCH Michel
WACKERMANN Luca
MEYER Cameron
PINOT Thibaut

Well, got some good riders active in all these races, but only Suisse might get me some big GC points....

 

[al_pacino]

Dauphine

KENNAUGH Peter
THOMAS Geraint
HUSHOVD Thor
TAARAMAE Rein
POELS Wouter
BARGUIL Warren

Suisse

ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd
SCHLECK Andy
GILBERT Philippe
PONZI Simone
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor
PINOT Thibaut


Not expecting a record week.

 

[greenedge]

Hoping for Porte to smash the Dauphinie.

 

[vladimir]

I really beleive I have a super strong team for Suisse and quite good for Dauphiné as well, so June should be a good month for climbing up the rankings:
Dauphine:
MOLARD Rudy
TAARAMÄE Rein
MATTHEWS Michael
THOMAS Geraint
GENIEZ Alexandre
SARMIENTO TUNARROSA Cayetano Jose
HUSHOVD Thor
SILIN Egor
Suisse:
DEHAES Kenny
CIMOLAI Davide
GILBERT Philippe
KREUZIGER Roman
PINOT Thibaut
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
PONZI Simone
VALLS FERRI Rafael
SCHLECK Andy
NOVIKOV Nikita

 

[taiwan]

Dauphinee:
Thomas, Hushovd, De Clercq, Dennis, Favilli, Madrazo, De la Cruz, Nieve.

Suisse:
Rojas, Dombrowski, Kloden, Stybar, Ponzi, Peraud, Albasini, Kocjan, Rujano? Preidler, Lofkvist, Schleck.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Dauphiné: VEILLEUX David...
At last some good luck there, maybe I will be in the top 100 after Suisse and Dauphiné, ha ha.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Matthews really letting me down so far.... he's even getting outclimbed by Viviani.

Taaramae looking good though

 

[greenedge]

Taaramae was so close

 

[taiwan]

Albasini has awoken.

 

[will10]

Rohan Dennis....

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Taaramae finally showing he's a great rider again, just in time for the TDF

 

[greenedge]

Taaramae loses time

Now all i need is for Froome to crack and Porte to come 1st

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Look out, Mollema's started winning.

Dennis was a nice surprise in the Dauphine, Taaramae not so much...

 

[HelgeBlendet]

I just hope Cam Meyer can hang on!

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Yay Meyer still in the leaders jersey, and TGBM looking good!

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

As it seems Hugo has not yet return and since I have enough time to post an update this week, here it is.

Update 22 : freddybobs dominates the Dauphine's week

The week's top scorers
freddybobs had a stellar week, scoring more than three times the average score of 217 and putting more than 100 points into his nearest competitor. Not surprising when you consider he had both Dennis and Froome. In fact the four Froome owners are the four highest scorers of the week.
1. freddybobs 681
2. chinaboy 570
3. bullet50000 569
4. Bumeington 558
5. Akubra 521


The week's high jumpers
Again freddybobs tops the classifcation with ease, surging from 88th to 34th. Meanwhile, taiwan keeps gaining places after his recent 31 places jump due to the Giro.
1. freddybobs +44
2. Bumeington +28
3. Tigerion +26
4. PeterB +24
5. taiwan +19


The top 10
While there was some movement in the top 10 with many teams swapping places (most notably element overcoming Dim to reach the second place), al_pacino is the only one who drops out of the top 10, slipping down to 12th while Karbonkel gains 3 places to 10th. Our leader was not under any threat this week and in fact extended his lead to almost 250 points. With both Mollema and Pinot going strong in Switzerland, it seems unlikely he will be challenged before the Tour de France.
1. Geraint Too Fast 6706
2. element 6469
3. Dim 6410
4. SteelyDan 6178
5. will10 6145
6. ironted 6135
7. bicing 6036
8. Falze 5985
9. adamski101 5951
10. Karbonkel 5834

Download : Update 22

 

[taiwan]

_o_

Another major rejig coming @ the Tour though.