Update #9: Stybar sets a high bar
With a marquee 1.HC Strade Bianche on the menu and a pre-classic tuneup 2.1 race in West Flanders, this week was quiet, but still had the potential for some high scores. It ended up that the needle of results was threaded perfectly by unpopular picks, resulting in some of the lowest scores since the week that Rujano and Mancebo were the high scorers in January (eg. I got 73 points but was only in 58th for the week). Zdenek Stybar, owned by a small-enough-to-celebrate-but-large-enough-to-be-notable 22 teams, scored 140 points for his victory in Italy. To illustrate how off the week was for most other picks, a whopping 24 teams scored 140 points or above, meaning there were only 2 teams that didn't have Stybar that scored more than him,
as a team. Yipes. 1st through 4th at West Flanders were picked a grand total of 2 times in this game, while 2nd through 5th at Strade Bianche were picked a total of 11 times in this game.
That said, Stybar fans feasted. With help from 3rd place Sergent in West Flanders (unique pick) and 10th place Wisniowski (as well as the 15 points Ewan got on the opening day of Langkawi and 5 for Chaves in SB), tanja takes first place by 7 points, their first placing 'in the points' this season!
Top scorers this week
Rank Team Points this week
1 tanja 261
2 tom_jelte 254
3 LaFlorecita 238
4 Geraint Too Fast 233
5 jeroenk 228
Frequent thread contributor LaFlorecita gets the highest mover prize, moving up 31 places, followed by last year's winner Pentacycle making a jump of 26 places. With almost-unique-pick Contador headlining a Froomeless T-A this week, this could be the first of a few appearances in the weekly rankings.
High movers this week
Rank Team Up/down
1 LaFlorecita (+31)
2 Pentacycle (+26)
3 CraZyCaLL (+24)
4 Ruudz0r (+21)
5 waleweter (+20)
The green jersey competition got tight at the top this week. jeroenk scored points for the fifth(!) week this year and pulled within 2 of leader afpm90, and 6 of the current top 8 overall teams scored points this week. Much like the Strade Bianche itself, the results list is a mix of those contending for the overall rankings, and those that shine more in the week-to-week results.
Points competition
Rank Team Points
1 afpm90 71
2 jeroenk 69
3 asdfgh101 65
3 greenedge 65
5 Geraint Too Fast 64
6 ingsve 61
7 search 61
8 tom_jelte 57
8 Object 57
10 Ludwig_ 53
Some serious movement in the top 10 overall. A yo-yo week for Geraint Too Fast, who after falling a bunch of spots from not having Stannard last week, gained them all back by having Stybar this week. trackstand is still in first, but after another great week jeroenk pulls within 33 points. asdfgh101, search and Londonpat surge into the top 10 with moves between 6 and 8 spots, whereas will10, DJ Sprtsch and Just Some Guy move the opposite way, between 5-10 spots down. Given that it was such a low scoring week, that's just a testament to how close this game is overall.
Overall top 10
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (-) trackstand 2476
2 (+1) jeroenk 2443
3 (+5) Geraint Too Fast 2333
4 (-2) Object 2270
5 (-1) theyoungest 2266
6 (+7) asdfgh101 2259
7 (-) PeterB 2228
8 (-3) skidmark 2214
9 (+8) search 2205
10 (+6) Londonpat 2182
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