Update #7: Froome Fans Fly High, Unique Pick Wins the Week
Given the amount of riders in action and points to be had, one can't help but feel that the number of points scored this week was somewhat modest - no fewer than 5 stage races ranked 2.1 and 2.HC, alongside the 1.HC Laigueglia, and the highest points scorer is 444 - certainly a good score, but not even the highest of the year despite having by far the most riders in action.
Part of that was that top spots in races were dominated by unpopular riders - four of the stage race winners (Ben Gastauer, Rafaa Chtioui, Rafael Valls, Geraint Thomas) were picked by a grand total of zero teams, and Laigueglia winner Cimolai was picked by one team (Trudgin, who got no help from the rest of their team and finished 67th on the week). Obvious beneficiaries this week were the 36 teams that picked Chris Froome. Yet it was a non-Froome team, propelled by a high-scoring unique pick (Gavazzi, 84 points from second in Laigueglia) that topped the rankings. afpm90 had a strong team effort this week, with 5 riders getting over 50 points (Gavazzi, Porte, Intxausti, Hivert and Edgar Pinto) and a total of 444 points. Ludwig_ leads the Froome brigade in 2nd, and many of the other top scorers contain him on the team (146 points go a long way in weeks like this).
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 afpm90 444
2 Ludwig_ 419
3 comodoro 400
4 just some guy 397
5 topprak 393
The high movers list is unsurprisingly similar, as most of the teams with Froome had some ground to gain with their most expensive pick just starting his season.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 Ludwig_ (+35)
2 topprak (+34)
2 comodoro (+34)
4 LaVelocipede (+31)
5 afpm90 (+28)
The green jersey competition is becoming quite fun - with the week's win (combined with a top 5 a few weeks ago), afpm90 moves into first place despite barely cracking the top 100 overall; this was what was hoped for from this competition, to have a competition that did more than restate the top of the overall rankings. ingsve moves up into 2nd overall in this competition after scoring in the top 15 for an impressive 4th week in the 7 this competition has been running. We are at the point of the competition where a week's win will only get you into a tie for 10th overall; it is starting to reward repeated showings.
Points Competition Standings
Rank Team Points
1 afpm90 71
2 ingsve 61
3 greenedge 59
4 Object 57
5 Ludwig_ 53
6 Ferminal 49
7 trackstand 48
8 Kjellus 47
9 DJ Sprtsch 46
10 jeroenk 45
10 Vesica 45
10 the asian 45
10 Zam_Olyas 45
And in the overall, some change to be sure - the only position in the top 10 that did not move is leader trackstand, who actually slightly increased his lead over his nearest rivals with a solid if unspectacular 32nd on the week. Leaving the top 10 are our 9th and 10th of the past week, blues in the bottle and ansimi, and rocketing into the top 10 are Jeroenk (from 11th to 4th) and Just Some Guy, leaping an impressive 17 spots to 7th overall.
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (-) trackstand 2122
2 (+1) Object 1964
3 (+2) Geraint Too Fast 1923
4 (+7) jeroenk 1900
5 (+1) theyoungest 1886
6 (+2) skidmark 1880
7 (+17) just some guy 1837
8 (-6) PeterB 1829
9 (-5) Armchair cyclist 1816
10 (-3) DJ Sprtsch 1806
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