The 2015 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Martin]

this is a 1000th reply, 1001st post on this thread... lol...

 

[uspostal]

Moving up 31 places I can't believe it, I didn't have many riders last week thought the worse.
Thanks for doing the up-dates Skid. Inside the top 40 this late in the year WOO - HOO !!!

 

[Tigerion]

eeeks down 17 places, that's the worst result for me for a while. Van Den Broek was basically my only points this week

 

[the asian]

Thanks for the update Skidmark.

I'm Highly Uran dependent.

Glad that i picked him.

My team is more GC oriented, so hopefully by the end of the Tour i'll be in the Top 10.

Only regret is not picking up Ewan.

Wonder if he'll have a season like Coquard's maiden one.

 

[del1962]

I know it is only 2 points as it is a 2.2 but nice to see Alex Peters getting me them in the tour of Normandie, moving up on GC.

 

[postmanhat]

Definitely beginning to think I took the wrong Teuns. Hats off to whoever has Ed.

Nice to see Van Keirsbluck pick up some more points today though in DDV. Hopefully he's just warming up for the next month.

Only Henao in Settimana tomorrow, and Jungels in Corsica.

 

[LaFlorecita]

3rd for Ratto in Classica Corsica which brings him from 6 points to 46 points and only 9 points away from breaking even oh, how quickly things can change

 

[LaFlorecita]

Seems like another 5th place for Alberto in a WT stage race and similar points (104 for GC and 14 + 8 for stages compared to 125 from T-A) not what I was hoping for and Alberto could definitely use some luck! But Giro & TDF were always going to bring in the biggest chunk of his 2015 score. I guess if he scored a combined 1600 points in them I could be happy. 2000 points mark. And he'd be cheap enough to pick again next year

 

[skidmark]

I couldn't help but think when watching the finale of the Catalunya stage today how it would have been perfect for Rodriguez, sigh. Oh well, Porte is going to take points away from everyone else, Atapuma is doing decently, and no one in the top 10 is a really popular pick (I was worried about Froome coming in).

I didn't know my full lineups earlier this week as they weren't posted, but I think my only guys in Coppi e Bartali are Kump, Filosi and Sergio Henao (good to see him back!), of whom I expect little. For Criterium International I've got:

Konrad
Ledanois
McLay
Moser
Mohoric
Brajkovic

Could be alright - Brajko has been targeting this, and Konrad could certainly end in the top 10 if all goes well. The others, not so sure.

 

[Roude Leiw]

Not having richie the swimmer seems to become a more and more costly mistake. Happy that boudat scored his first win though

 

[skidmark]

These are the 7 teams with De Clerq (including 2 of our current top 20 overall), who must have their fingers crossed furiously right now:

adamski101
afpm90
arekw91
cj2023
GP_Blanco
snccdcno
uspostal

 

[Netserk]

Froome doing really bad so far At least Purito is doing worse

Ranking of the big 4 so far imo:

Quintana
Sagan

Froome
Purito

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

The week is going pretty well so far. Benoot was strong in Dwars and Boudat just scored his first points to go directly into profit

Hopefully Sagan can keep the momentum going tomorrow.

 

[LaFlorecita]

yesterday 2nd, 5th and 10th on GC in Catalunya, now 1st, 3rd and 7th Now if Alberto could pass Richie on GC and make it a 1-2

 

[LaFlorecita]

132 points for Stybar today

 

[Netserk]

Those last few km must have hurt for those with Sagan

 

[Akuryo]

The week is going pretty well so far. Benoot was strong in Dwars and Boudat just scored his first points to go directly into profit

Hopefully Sagan can keep the momentum going tomorrow.

Well, that plan went down the drain. Got in even behind the chasers. Seems like he had absolutely nothing left in the last 10k.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

It's funny that all of the big 4 have had problems so far this season. Makes the game very interesting.

 

[Jspear]

Re:

Those last few km must have hurt for those with Sagan

It hurt for me because of another game I'm doing.
I'm definitely glad I didn't pick him for this game though...doesn't seem like he'll be doing much this year.

 

[skidmark]

Re:

Those last few km must have hurt for those with Sagan

Yeah, good god. It went from 'hmm, I hope he gets 2nd here so he has motivation to go for top points in G-W too' to 'ohhhhhhh crap' in like 5 minutes. Sigh. Time to hit the panic button decisively. After Strade Bianche, I was like 'okay well he blew up here but he'll learn how to measure himself and get top placings from now on' and San Remo, although underwhelming, seemed to confirm that. Now, I just don't know. Fingers crossed I guess... unless he has a torrid late season with results in both the Canadian races and the Worlds, I don't see how he can do much better than 2000 tops, now. It's not only today, but the worrisome fact that he was cooked in a 200km race after doing what you could only expect a reasonable amount of work in the winning break to be. How's he gonna be in Flanders and Roubaix? I shudder to think.

At least Atapuma moved up the GC in Catalunya.

 

[LaFlorecita]

165 points from E3

The Cat almost into profit just 6 more points to break even

 

[uspostal]

Cancellara, is out for the rest of the spring classics The one guy I had that could make a big difference for my team being the only guy to have picked him. 1000+ points down the drain, good thing in the Volta a Catalunya I'm sitting 1,5,and 6 on GC

 

[greenedge]

Stybar and Trentin for me at E3 If only Sagan had held on though...

 

[slosada]

With my expensive picks resting this week, and many retirements, I collected some points
Porte and Atapuma in Catalunya
Trentin and King at E3
Chiarelllo in Uruguay (unique pick)

Let's see what Cano, Gaspar and Henao can do

 

[LaFlorecita]

Well Alberto crashed so it'll be difficult to move up or keep his GC placing that sucks. Hopefully he can stay in the top 5