Uppdate #12: Go with the Flo! Thousand points cracked by weekly winner as lead changes hands again
This was a busy week with a lot of popular and semi-popular riders flaming out. Cavendish, Boasson Hagen, Ewan, Stannard, and semi-popular expensive picks like Froome and Sagan all had disappointing weeks. Richie Porte continued his tear, and the game's most popular rider Sergio Henao returned to racing about as soon as one could have hoped, culminating with a 6th place stage finish on the mountain stage of Coppi e Bartali and his first 8 points of the year (beyond the game, good news for his health, as his injury could have been career-ending). With all that going on, and all the races from 2 WT 1-day races to the 1.HC DDV to Catalunya to Criterium International, the week's winner was going to get points from alot of places and from more unique picks. When the dust settled, it was self-professed Contador fangirl LaFlorecita taking the week's honours with a whopping 1048 points, besting second place by over 100 just like Trudgin last week. Unique pick Contador scored well, of course, and not-so-unique pick Porte, but also Stybar and, with one of the canniest and most impressive rides I've seen in cycling in awhile, old man Luca Paolini all scored over 100 points for LaFlo. Atapuma, Ratto, Strotoni and Gatto and a few other smaller points added up to that massive total. Second place kjellus, quiet since the first week co-win after the Aussie nats, had the Porte/Paolini combo as well, as well as Atapuma, but got supplementary points from Roelendts, Keukeleire, Pantano and Chaves among others. Third place Nicosix had some of the abovementioned riders plus Dan Martin, Fedrigo and Boudat to name a few. Lots of names scoring this week.
This week's top scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 LaFlorecita 1048
2 Kjellus 929
3 Nicosix 926
4 simple 917
5 PeterB 915
In the high movers, LaFlo tops things again with a massive 60 point jump to 34th. Different names make up the rest of the top 5, with last year's winner Pentacycle making his first appearance on an update this year, leaping 35 places to 60th overall.
This week's high movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 LaFlorecita (+60)
2 Jspear (+40)
3 simple (+39)
4 mutschi (+35)
4 Pentacycle (+35)
For the monthly standings (we won't count the points on offer on Tuesday in De Panne as this month, hope that's okay), weekly 5th high scorer PeterB (remember this name, it will be important later on) takes the honours, with a 'sh*t is getting real in March' score of 2445 for the month. More than half that total is from 3 riders (Porte, Uran, Paolini), but Roelandts, Stannard, Seb Henao and Ewan have all scored more than 100 points for the team this month.
Monthly Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this month
1 PeterB 2445
2 Ruudz0r 2431
3 greenedge 2424
4 Popchu 2361
5 asdfgh101 2360
6 Geraint Too Fast 2331
7 LaFlorecita 2329
8 Kazistuta 2313
9 Nicosix 2288
10 derrudi 2274
For movement on the rankings table, LaFlo had a great week, but one team had an even better month. Ruudz0r moved up an eye-watering 85 points on the month, more than half the entire table.
This month's high movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 Ruudz0r (+85)
2 LaFlorecita (+74)
3 Eyeballs Out (+53)
4 Popchu (+49)
5 AlyKaptan (+47)
6 Nicosix (+46)
7 derrudi (+45)
8 cj2002 (+43)
9 Jspear (+41)
10 EvansIsTheBest (+38)
For the green jersey competition, LaFlo's strong showing a few weeks ago combined with this week's win, and kjellus' 2nd place this week after splitting top spot back in week 1 makes for a new top 2 overall. LaFlo is in the lead by the slimmest of margins, and previous leader The Hitch drops to third.
Points Competition
Rank Team Points
1 LaFlorecita 85
2 Kjellus 82
3 The Hitch 72
4 afpm90 71
5 asdfgh101 69
5 jeroenk 69
7 search 67
8 greenedge 65
9 Geraint Too Fast 64
10 Ceramiche_Cauz 62
And finally... perhaps no surprise here, the top of the table was overturned again. All of last week's top 4 had disappointing weeks (I'm sure Geraint Too Fast felt the same pain I did watching Sagan bleed hundreds of points in the final 4km of E3), and the new leader leaps into the position from 5th! I told you to remember the name - PeterB is our new leader! No one maintained their position in the top 10, as asdfgh101, Skibby and *Falze* all jump over 5 spots into the top 10, while Object (who falls all the way out from the podium last week), trackstand and the youngest all fall over 6 places out of the top 10. Be sure to scroll down the table, some insane snakes-and-ladders type jumps all over the place.
Top 10 overall
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (+4) PeterB 4274
2 (-1) Geraint Too Fast 4254
3 (+4) greenedge 4086
4 (-2) jeroenk 4071
5 (+4) Kazistuta 4035
6 (+5) asdfgh101 3987
7 (-1) will10 3942
7 (+9) Skibby the bush kangaroo 3942
9 (-5) skidmark 3906
10 (+8) *Falze* 3857
Spreadsheet at dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ebd7rsbaa7s3f ... 2.xls?dl=0
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