The 2014 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[lenissart]

I'm really starting to regret Contador !

Two other big regrets : Kenaugh and Cataldo was on my shortlist, but the incredible roster of Sky team made me remove them.
Now, Porte is bad, Wiggo close to retired, Henao suspended, kiriyenka close t othe end too ... so they have switched their gregarii jersey for a leading one ... grrrr

 

[oliveira]

After some doubts raised in early year it seems Torku will ride Tour of Turkey, so Cobo can do a Cobo.

http://www.tourofturkey.org/2014/teams

 

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Update #12: Points galore can't topple the leader

As expected, week #12 of the 2014 cq ranking game ended in an overflow of points, nearly 100 participants scored 500 or more - but was this enough for anyone to overthrow the leader Geraint Too Fast? The answer is "no - it wasn't", another solid week for him was enough to maintain the top of the ranking, with upcoming Pentacycle and SteelyDan following closely.

With the overload of cycling races the points came from various sources, some gained them in Spain, where Contador could increase his score again, others in Italy from young Kennaugh or in Belgium and France, where John Degenkolb, Peter Sagan and Jicé Peraud gained glory

So did anyone have all of them? No, of course not, but EvansIsTheBest came close, Contador, Degenkolb and Kennaugh maed him score 964 points which was enough to become this week's top point scorer. Also Somar13, despite having a pool of only 29 riders, and Trudgin scored more than 900 points. This weeks Top are rounded out by The_Hitch and Team_Roubaix.

It also were Somar13 and Trudgin who thereby became this week's high movers, followed by kiilike, Netserk and Team Roubaix.


This Week's Top Scorers

1 EvansIsTheBest 964
2 Somar13 931
3 Trudgin 907
4 The Hitch 866
5 Team_Roubaix 846


This Week's High Movers

1 Somar13 (+51)
2 Trudgin (+48)
3 kiilike (+36)
4 Netserk (+30)
4 Team_Roubaix (+30)



This Month's Top Scorers

1 SteelyDan 2034
2 MCardinalR 2026
3 EvansIsTheBest 1947
4 Pentacycle 1927
5 Yellow Knight 1912


This Month's High Movers

1 minessa (+85)
2 Trudgin (+82)
3 Netserk (+78)
4 R_O_Shipman (+77)
4 Grimm (+77)


Top 10 Overall

1 (-) Geraint Too Fast 3612
2 (+2) Pentacycle 3581
3 (-1) SteelyDan 3555
4 (-1) Yellow Knight 3415
5 (+21) EvansIsTheBest 3361
6 (+12) del1962 3289
7 (-2) freshman 3272
8 (+9) MCardinalR 3260
9 (-1) Ruvu75 3254
10 (+11) Oliveira 3251

Point wise week #13 of the cq ranking game is likely to be much calmer, but with the Driedaagse de Panne and especially the Ronde van Vlaanderen coming up this cannot be said about the kind of racing we can expect - and those with the cobbles classics contenders in their teams will keep their fingers crossed for their guys to deliver.

Spreadsheet / CQ Update #12

 

[del1962]

Thanks for the update, into the top ten, will probably drp back out next week with the types of races this week not really suiting my riders

 

[LaFlorecita]

+19 +60 in the last 3 weeks

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Wow, top scorer with probably my best score for an update ever Up 21 places to fifth, really didn't expect the week to be that good. Really happy considering the fact that three riders on my team (Degenkolb, Contador, Boonen) have scored more than the rest combined. If Degenkolb and Contador continue to perform at the same standard for the next two weeks I have a good chance to lead after PR before starting my free fall through the rankings.

 

[skidmark]

Well, I only went down by one spot, I suppose that's alright considering. This week will be relatively quiet, I've got Le Bon in de Panne for whom I've got my fingers crossed, and then him, Boonen, EBH, Phinney, van Baarle and Gerdemann for Flanders... obviously Boonen is a favourite but Phinney and Le Bon are question marks at best (they're both more suited to Roubaix, and of course Phinney has been ill even if he did finish in the front group of G-W), and I've been fooled by hoping for EBH in these races for 5 years now, so I won't be fooled again. Looks like it's up to Contador to swoop back in next week and make my team look respectable again.

 

[Netserk]

I got mentioned in an update, season saved!

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Phew, one more week of glory . I expect they'll be a new leader next week, unless EBH does something in RvV...

 

[Ferminal]

It seems that everyone (CQ) spelt Beltran wrong, I demand my five points.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

I'm starting to be kind of disappointed with Bennati. I figured if MSR and GW were easy editions he could sprint to top 10's score decent points, being a pretty rare pick. Now, both times he made the first group, but it looked like he barely even bothered to sprint.

 

[LaFlorecita]

I'm starting to be kind of disappointed with Bennati. I figured if MSR and GW were easy editions he could sprint to top 10's score decent points, being a pretty rare pick. Now, both times he made the first group, but it looked like he barely even bothered to sprint.

He can't be bothered anymore. That's why I didn't pick him.

 

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It seems that everyone (CQ) spelt Beltran wrong, I demand my five points.

wrong spelling = 0 points. Sorry, same rules for everybody

 

[manafana]

the big push is coming for me once cobo comes good and actually does some proper racing

 

[skidmark]

Grrr, after 2 straight years picking him to no avail, Gillaume Van Kiersbulck breaks out. I knew it was coming, I knew it was coming. First Hepburn, then him. If Sicard breaks out this year I'll stab my eyes out. (I picked him all 3 years before this one)

On the plus side, Colli gets an unexpected handful of points to open his season, meaning I only have 4 riders who haven't yet scored. Now they just need to start scoring MORE.

 

[vladimir]

Grrr, after 2 straight years picking him to no avail, Gillaume Van Kiersbulck breaks out. I knew it was coming, I knew it was coming. First Hepburn, then him. If Sicard breaks out this year I'll stab my eyes out. (I picked him all 3 years before this one)

On the plus side, Colli gets an unexpected handful of points to open his season, meaning I only have 4 riders who haven't yet scored. Now they just need to start scoring MORE.

Really annoyed for not picking G v K myself. I had him last year and he was probably in at least 18 of 20 early versions of my team for this year. Still cannot understand how and why he didn't make the final cut

 

[TeoSheva]

I'm 143th

really really bad...

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Grrr, after 2 straight years picking him to no avail, Gillaume Van Kiersbulck breaks out. I knew it was coming, I knew it was coming. First Hepburn, then him. If Sicard breaks out this year I'll stab my eyes out. (I picked him all 3 years before this one)

On the plus side, Colli gets an unexpected handful of points to open his season, meaning I only have 4 riders who haven't yet scored. Now they just need to start scoring MORE.

It's always bittersweet when a former pick performs well. On one hand, you are happy for the guy that he managed to break through (since in my case I usually pick riders I like) and also that you weren't mistaken when you thought he had potential. But on the other hand, you had to drag him around as a burden for a year (or more) and when finally he scores, you can't take the profit. Van Keirsbulck was in my first draft but in the end, I took him out because I expected his breakthrough to come next year so I know how you feel. Don't worry about Sicard, he will continue to do nothing this year. He just doesn't have the right mentality to suceed (I guess stealing traffic cones while being drunk is much more appealing to him) which is a shame since he is clearly very talented. So your eyes should be safe

Colli scored pretty well today so you must be pleased with that at least and don't worry, your teams have always finished the year strongly so you should be fine in the long run.

After Catalunya, Hesjedal put in another decent showing today so I am now feeling pretty confident he will turn out to be a decent pick (of course it won't matter much since he is so popular but it is always nicer when your team actually scores).

Looking at the top teams, RVV shouldn't see huge discrepancies in points since everyone has Boonen and then it will come down to who will score more between Roelandts+Phinney, Stybar, Degenkolb, Kristoff and Boasson Hagen (ok, the teams with EBH will probably lose some ground but otherwise it should be pretty evenly matched). Of course, if Sénéchal does break clear on the Koppenberg with Trentin to win his first monument in front of the Italian while Degenkolb wins the sprint for third in front of Boonen, all those predictions would become moot. Also, in that scenario I would take the lead. For some reason I feel it won't happen

 

[skidmark]

Looking at the top teams, RVV shouldn't see huge discrepancies in points since everyone has Boonen and then it will come down to who will score more between Roelandts+Phinney, Stybar, Degenkolb, Kristoff and Boasson Hagen (ok, the teams with EBH will probably lose some ground but otherwise it should be pretty evenly matched). Of course, if Sénéchal does break clear on the Koppenberg with Trentin to win his first monument in front of the Italian while Degenkolb wins the sprint for third in front of Boonen, all those predictions would become moot. Also, in that scenario I would take the lead. For some reason I feel it won't happen

Yeah I'm interested to see if there are really any great shakes from today; doesn't seem like a ton of points from too many riders that were picked by more than a handful of teams, Boonen aside.

For me, ever the fool, once G Thomas was dropped and Eddy was looking good I was like 'wow, is this FINALLY gonna be it?' Aaaaand, 22nd place, 8th in a group of 8 or something. Sigh. Phinney looked good, and stayed out of crash trouble by being in the break, so that's good as I'm looking to him for P-R. More worrying is Le Bon, who's my most unique pick and so the rider I'm kind of rooting for most, crashing out early. P-R is more his race, as I said in an earlier post, but you can't get a showing if you're too hurt to race.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

Think I got about 50 points (+ Boonen) this week.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Think I got about 50 points (+ Boonen) this week.

48 plus Boonen for me. All in RVV

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

This week was pretty poor. I only scored in RVV with Boonen, Degenkolb and a couple of 5-pointers. Next week should be better with a big line up for Pais Vasco which includes 8 of my 10 most expensive picks :
Contador
Barguil
Villella
Kennaugh
Brajkovic
LL Sanchez
Hesjedal
Van den Broeck
Vanendert
A Schleck
Cunego
S Yates

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Yeah next week will be pretty intresting for me too!

Pais Vasco
SERPA Jose Rodolfo
CHAVES Johan Esteban
ATAPUMA John Darwin
KENNAUGH Peter
SCHLECK Andy
JUNGELS Bob
HESJEDAL Ryder
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen
MONFORT Maxime
VANENDERT Jelle
BARGUIL Warren
VILLELLA Davide
SANCHEZ Luis Leon

Sarthe
VOECKLER Thomas
DENNIS Rohan
MORTON Lachlan
COPPEL Jérome
FEILLU Romain

Scheldeprijs
BOONEN Tom
MARKUS Barry
VAN POPPEL Danny

Paris-Roubaix
BOONEN Tom
BENNATI Daniele

Best team for PR ever here

 

[Panda Claws]

After a few disappointing weeks I need to strike back.



Vuelta Pais Vasco
GILBERT Philippe
MONFORT Maxime
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen
HESJEDAL Ryder
SCHLECK Andy
VANENDERT Jelle
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon

Sarthe
DOWSETT Alex
SELLA Emanuele

Scheldeprijs
BOONEN Tom
FENN Andrew
STEEGMANS Gert
NUYENS Nick
ENGOULVENT Jimmy
WIGGINS Bradley
ISTA Kevin

Paris-Roubaix
GUARNIERI Jacopo
PHINNEY Taylor
BOONEN Tom
ZDENEK Stybar
STEEGMANS Gert
DOCKER Mitchell
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
WIGGINS Bradley
ENGOULVENT Jimmy

 

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(only a short update today, I am not at home at the moment...)

Update #13: Dutch lead on the Pavé

The first part of the big pavé classics season ended with a surprise and Pentacycle at the top after week #13 of the CQ Ranking game 2014. A score of 276 points was enough to take the lead from Geraint Too Fast.
Contador's 56 points from today's first stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco were included in this update, but even without that, it had just been enough to keep up the momentum from the last weeks, when he moved up 17 spots in just 14 days.

This week's Top Scorer is Tanja, the only team with Fabian Cancellara, whereby she also became this week's highest mover.

This Week's Top Scorers

1 tanja 552
2 Grimm 477
3 CQmanager 463
4 search 398
5 lenissart 371

This Week's High Movers

1 tanja (+40)
2 CQmanager (+33)
3 zlev11 (+17)
3 Panda Claws (+17)
3 coinneach (+17)

Top 10 Overall

1 (+1) Pentacycle 3857
2 (-1) Geraint Too Fast 3793
3 (+1) Yellow Knight 3731
4 (-1) SteelyDan 3730
5 (-) EvansIsTheBest 3599
6 (+2) MCardinalR 3559
7 (+2) Ruvu75 3548
8 (+2) Oliveira 3546
9 (-2) freshman 3480
10 (-4) del1962 3478

With Contador currently leading the Vuelta al Pais Vasco Pentacycle can hope to retain the lead in week #14. Or will a suprise winner at Paris Roubaix give us a new leader again?! We will see next week, when the grand cq game founder Hugo Koblet takes over to bring back some style to this

Spreadsheet / CQ Update #13

(the points for Beltran have been adjusted, so 5 more for everyone with him)