The 2015 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[LaFlorecita]

my Tirreno team

CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto
JUUL JENSEN Christopher
GAUDIN Damien
RUFFONI Nicola
STYBAR Zdenek
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt
MOSER Moreno
STANNARD Ian

not much besides Alberto but he should score me some good points

 

[skidmark]

Thanks for the update, did better than expected considering that I do not have Styby

Small suggestion, could you include the popular wisdom teams in the "normal" ranking and not just at the bottom? I always look how they fare and would find this fun

Keep up the good work

Pat

I was thinking of occasionally mentioning them in the updates, although I keep forgetting. I can make a note to do it next time for sure, and maybe have a small mention each time. I think I prefer that than having them ranked, just because it screws up the actual placings for participants (although I did just notice a discrepancy between the main sheet and the update sheet, like LaFlo jumps 31 spots on the update sheet but 33 on the main; I guess I'll look into that).

 

[skidmark]

For those curious, the two 'popularity teams' we made would currently rank as follows:

Pop Team 1 (that's the one with most popular riders with Froome included as the main expensive pick) - 2023, currently 29th place

Pop Team 2 (same as above with slightly different configuration around Sagan as expensive pick) - 1818, currently 50th, or 51st if the above team was also included in the standings.

 

[Tigerion]

Better than expected result, I only lost a few places. I guess low scores all round helped with that.

Looks like nobody has Boonen which I guess is a good thing, although that will make the classics less interesting.
Team looks like it is going to suffer with Froome dropping out, there is a hell of a lot of points there that need to be recouped somehow.

 

[diggercuz]

Well, this is certainly not a post that will be talking about how fantastic i am at this game. After week 1 where i was 33rd it has been steadily heading backwards from there although this week i am up two (or none depending on where i look) positions to a mighty 113, over 1000 points behind the leader...

So to take my mind off my very average start and being very bored at work I decided to see if i could make a startlist generator and i think it works...

Grabbed the startlists from Cycling Fever and it seemed to work Ok so if this is something that anyone would like i would be happy to do it.

If anyone has any suggestions for it let me know. For next week I reckon on the first page i might put a list of everyones names alphabetically with a link to their individual page to make it easier to find your list...

link to startlist 9 - 15 March

On another note surely i have to get better with Aru and Quintana racing now...

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

Cheers, Dig.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Well, this is certainly not a post that will be talking about how fantastic i am at this game. After week 1 where i was 33rd it has been steadily heading backwards from there although this week i am up two (or none depending on where i look) positions to a mighty 113, over 1000 points behind the leader...

So to take my mind off my very average start and being very bored at work I decided to see if i could make a startlist generator and i think it works...

Grabbed the startlists from Cycling Fever and it seemed to work Ok so if this is something that anyone would like i would be happy to do it.

If anyone has any suggestions for it let me know. For next week I reckon on the first page i might put a list of everyones names alphabetically with a link to their individual page to make it easier to find your list...

link to startlist 9 - 15 March

On another note surely i have to get better with Aru and Quintana racing now...

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

Cheers, Dig.

Wow that must have been a lot of work thanks, looks good!

 

[vladimir]

Well, this is certainly not a post that will be talking about how fantastic i am at this game. After week 1 where i was 33rd it has been steadily heading backwards from there although this week i am up two (or none depending on where i look) positions to a mighty 113, over 1000 points behind the leader...

So to take my mind off my very average start and being very bored at work I decided to see if i could make a startlist generator and i think it works...

Grabbed the startlists from Cycling Fever and it seemed to work Ok so if this is something that anyone would like i would be happy to do it.

If anyone has any suggestions for it let me know. For next week I reckon on the first page i might put a list of everyones names alphabetically with a link to their individual page to make it easier to find your list...

link to startlist 9 - 15 March

On another note surely i have to get better with Aru and Quintana racing now...

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

Cheers, Dig.

Awesome work, and very cool
Would be very nice to have such a list published on a regular basis! However there seems to be some spelling issues. At a first glance I notice that Purito is missing on the personal pages for Tirreno.

 

[diggercuz]

Ah I knew there would be a few issues.

I will have a look tomorrow morning and see where the spelling errors are...

If anyone else picks up an error speak up!

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Supercool beans!

 

[Netserk]

Wow, such awesomeness!

 

[Jancouver]

Well, this is certainly not a post that will be talking about how fantastic i am at this game. After week 1 where i was 33rd it has been steadily heading backwards from there although this week i am up two (or none depending on where i look) positions to a mighty 113, over 1000 points behind the leader...

So to take my mind off my very average start and being very bored at work I decided to see if i could make a startlist generator and i think it works...

Grabbed the startlists from Cycling Fever and it seemed to work Ok so if this is something that anyone would like i would be happy to do it.

If anyone has any suggestions for it let me know. For next week I reckon on the first page i might put a list of everyones names alphabetically with a link to their individual page to make it easier to find your list...

link to startlist 9 - 15 March

On another note surely i have to get better with Aru and Quintana racing now...

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

Cheers, Dig.

Great idea, great work! Thanks for your efforts!

 

[Jspear]

Well, this is certainly not a post that will be talking about how fantastic i am at this game. After week 1 where i was 33rd it has been steadily heading backwards from there although this week i am up two (or none depending on where i look) positions to a mighty 113, over 1000 points behind the leader...

So to take my mind off my very average start and being very bored at work I decided to see if i could make a startlist generator and i think it works...

Grabbed the startlists from Cycling Fever and it seemed to work Ok so if this is something that anyone would like i would be happy to do it.

If anyone has any suggestions for it let me know. For next week I reckon on the first page i might put a list of everyones names alphabetically with a link to their individual page to make it easier to find your list...

link to startlist 9 - 15 March

On another note surely i have to get better with Aru and Quintana racing now...

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

Cheers, Dig.

Holly Molly that's nice. Great work.

 

[rote_laterne]

Well, this is certainly not a post that will be talking about how fantastic i am at this game. After week 1 where i was 33rd it has been steadily heading backwards from there although this week i am up two (or none depending on where i look) positions to a mighty 113, over 1000 points behind the leader...

So to take my mind off my very average start and being very bored at work I decided to see if i could make a startlist generator and i think it works...

Grabbed the startlists from Cycling Fever and it seemed to work Ok so if this is something that anyone would like i would be happy to do it.

If anyone has any suggestions for it let me know. For next week I reckon on the first page i might put a list of everyones names alphabetically with a link to their individual page to make it easier to find your list...

link to startlist 9 - 15 March

On another note surely i have to get better with Aru and Quintana racing now...

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

Cheers, Dig.

Great idea, thanks for sharing your work.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Wow this is pretty sweet! Thanks diggercuz!

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Wow nice! That's awesome

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

As above: great stuff.

You might be aware that the game is run across two forums: would you be willing to post it at VR too, or have one of us do so?

 

[diggercuz]

As above: great stuff.

You might be aware that the game is run across two forums: would you be willing to post it at VR too, or have one of us do so?

I would be happy to do so...

On another note thanks everyone for all the kind words, appreciated. Will endeavor to have the start lists done regularly on monday morning - i do however reserve the right to have mistakes in there every now and then!

I am planning on getting the start lists directly from cycling fever (just discovered that site and i am very much impressed with whoever runs that site) so hopefully everything goes smoothly.. Once again, if any mistakes are noticed let me know...

 

[diggercuz]

Awesome work, and very cool
Would be very nice to have such a list published on a regular basis! However there seems to be some spelling issues. At a first glance I notice that Purito is missing on the personal pages for Tirreno.

Yep - fixed that, was Joquain on the start list page so was not matching correctly.

I have now put a sheet at the start with page links for individual teams so you can get to your page quicker...

Anyway here is the link

 

[skidmark]

Yep - fixed that, was Joquain on the start list page so was not matching correctly.

I have now put a sheet at the start with page links for individual teams so you can get to your page quicker...

Anyway here is the link

Whoa, I took a look at it this morning and thought it was just a page listing all the riders in the game on various start lists - I didn't realize it was linked to each of our teams! That's super awesome. Thanks for sharing, this game keeps getting better. I'm sure it won't stop me obsessively checking start lists for future races, but it will be nice to confirm once it's finalized, that's for sure.

 

[greenedge]

Great work diggercuz

 

[diggercuz]

Whoa, I took a look at it this morning and thought it was just a page listing all the riders in the game on various start lists - I didn't realize it was linked to each of our teams! That's super awesome. Thanks for sharing, this game keeps getting better. I'm sure it won't stop me obsessively checking start lists for future races, but it will be nice to confirm once it's finalized, that's for sure.

Ah cheers.

I do realise that i will miss a few races due me only speaking english (although i am starting to learn french - very very slowly) and also that some start lists seem hard to come by so at this stage if its on cycling fever ill get it...

So yeah, there will be a few races where some teams actually have a few more riding but i think i will cover the majority of the big scoring races...

 

[Jancouver]

Ah cheers.

I do realise that i will miss a few races due me only speaking english (although i am starting to learn french - very very slowly) and also that some start lists seem hard to come by so at this stage if its on cycling fever ill get it...

So yeah, there will be a few races where some teams actually have a few more riding but i think i will cover the majority of the big scoring races...

Maybe not as good as the cyclingfeever but procyclingstats.com is also good source for start lists.

Kudos to you!

 

[Tigerion]

Re:

As above: great stuff.

You might be aware that the game is run across two forums: would you be willing to post it at VR too, or have one of us do so?

I would be happy to do so...

On another note thanks everyone for all the kind words, appreciated. Will endeavor to have the start lists done regularly on monday morning - i do however reserve the right to have mistakes in there every now and then!

I am planning on getting the start lists directly from cycling fever (just discovered that site and i am very much impressed with whoever runs that site) so hopefully everything goes smoothly.. Once again, if any mistakes are noticed let me know...

Fantastic work Digger

If you are still super bored, a suggestion would be to have a column listing the rider popularity on the start list. That way looking at the start list will give an idea on how many people are looking to score points in each race.
For example I don't have anybody riding in the last two races on the start list. Is that common or am I unlucky. Knowing how popular the riders are would help me know if I need to worry about having nobody in those races.

 

[diggercuz]

Re: Re:

Fantastic work Digger

If you are still super bored, a suggestion would be to have a column listing the rider popularity on the start list. That way looking at the start list will give an idea on how many people are looking to score points in each race.
For example I don't have anybody riding in the last two races on the start list. Is that common or am I unlucky. Knowing how popular the riders are would help me know if I need to worry about having nobody in those races.

Ah yep, changed it so you can have a look at the start lists and see the popularity next to each rider - im assuming that is what you mean?

Anyway not quite sure how to post a link now with this "fancy" looking board but if you go back through the old posts and find the most recent link that should take you to the updated file.

I was also planning on putting on the link page the number of riders you have for each race however that could prove a little more difficult than i was thinking however i will try and work it out...

Cheers, Dig.

 

[skidmark]

Well, Sagan doesn't win again, on a stage tailored for him. In isolation, yeah he got boxed in and yeah, he was faster than anyone else in the finish, and yeah, losing 12 points and however many for the jersey isn't the biggest deal. But the trend is worrying. On the positive side, this could cause him to really try to hang in tomorrow to get the win, since he hasn't had one yet and Monday's stage will likely be a Cav-style bunch gallop. Tomorrow I think depends on how much the GC guys push it on the high mountain, the answer to which I think will be 'they're waiting for Terminillo'. So he could actually get more points from not winning today. Beyond that, the proof is really going to be in the pudding of the monuments. I'm basically betting, by picking him, that Sagan can repeat his results in most races (maybe a bit less in the TdF, and if he does well in the monuments it might give him lower placings at E3 and GW), but improve on his 10th/16th/6th in MSR/RVV/PR respectively. All it takes is for an ill-timed puncture for one of those to be out of the question, of course, but if all goes well he can top 5 each of them, I'm certain. His issue has been with winning, not with sticking with it until the end (except in Strade Bianche, of course). If that happens, he comes out maybe a hundred or a few ahead of last year. And then, he has to be a favourite for the worlds, which are in North America, which make me think the Alberta/Canadian races/Worlds might be on the menu, where he could of course pick up hundreds more. Still hopeful.