The 2015 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Jspear]

Thanks Flo! You did a wonderful job. Now you can sit back and watch your team rise places as Alberto scores in the Tour.

I'm still hanging on the top 10 by my fingernails. My Tour lineup could keep me there, depending on how others' picks do (especially Froome/Quintana):

Tour de France

Gaudin
Dennis
Cavendish
De Gendt
Boasson Hagen
Simon Yates
Rodriguez
Gesink
Porte
Stannard
Sagan

Not a bad lineup. Obviously I'm pulling for my most expensive picks, Sagan and Rodriguez, for stages and overall respectively. And it could be a good Tour for them - if the 'big 4' weren't so big and he were a few years younger, I'd say this was Rodriguez's best shot at a GT, it's pretty much custom made for his skills. Even at 36, if he avoids the usual crashes and there are surprises like last year, he could conceivably podium. Sagan will take a backseat to Contador, but there are enough stages that look possible for him to do himself that he could still score a bunch of points.

Other than that, Cav can mop up sprint stages now that Kittel is out, EBH is kind of the man for MTN, and could conceivably go for green, Dennis could go well in the TTs and TTT, and I'd be surprised if Yates didn't at least contend for a mountain breakaway stage sometime. Gesink could top 10 if things go well and top 15 if they only go okay. Gaudin and De Gendt really only have possibilities in breakaways, and Porte/Stannard only have chances of anything if Froome comes to grief. I could see Dennis or Rodriguez having a chance at yellow after stage 3, and I could see Sagan and EBH with a chance of it after stage 4.

That's my optimists' outlook. Who knows what will happen once the opening week crashes pile up...

What do other folks think about their TdF teams?

Mine sucketh.
Only real hope is Cav. Maybe Simon Yates for a stage or two. Slim pickings.

 

[del1962]

Tour de France

Froome
Edet
Plaza
Kudus
Gaudin
Cavendish
De Gendt
Boasson Hagen
Rodriguez
Gesink
Porte
Stannard
Sagan
Paolini

14 riders starting

With lots of potential points, I hope Kudus finds some form.

Interest elsewhere

Austria

All these may start

Dombrowski
Moser
Mohoric
Bettiol

Qinghai Lake

Malaguti may start

 

[HelgeBlendet]

Tour

Boom
Gaudin
Stannard
Jungels
Senechal
EBH
Janse van Rensburg R
Sagan
Yates S.
Gesink
Nerz
Kudus
Meintjes

With Kittel out, not picking Cav might bite me even more now. Still, 13 starters who could score all over the place (Top10 GC not likely). Boom, Gaudin, Senechal, Jungels, Stannard, EBH, JVR via breakaways, Sagan for the sprints and points, Gesink, Nerz, Kudus, Meintjes as wildcard Top20 GC and maybe one of the for KOM? Thanks to all you Cav-pickers (throw in Purito, Froome, Contador, etc), I still expect to drop a bit during the Tour.

Austria

Mohoric
Moser
Denifl

Hopefully, Denifl continues to recover. I stopped predicting Mohoric and Moser long ago....

 

[Popchu]

Tour de France
SAGAN Peter
QUINTANA ROJAS Nairo Alexander
STYBAR Zdenek
CAVENDISH Mark
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
PORTE Richie
GESINK Robert
OSS Daniel

 

[GP Blanco]

Tour de France
SENECHAL Florian
CAVENDISH Mark
DE GENDT Thomas
YATES Simon
GESINK Robert
FROOME Christopher
PORTE Richie
STANNARD Ian
SAGAN Peter

Of course I'm hoping that Froome will win the GC and some mountain stages and Sagan will take the points jersey and some stages. Cavendish for the flat sprints and Gesink and Yates for a top-10 and some results in the mountain stages.

Tour of Austria
GOUGEARD Alexis
JAUREGUI Quentin
LATOUR Pierre-Roger
SENNI Manuel
HOOGERLAND Johnny
MOHORIC Matej
MOSER Moreno

Hopefully Latour still has his Route de Sud shape. The other riders can surprise or do nothing at all.

Tour of Qinghai Lake
GRMAY Tsgabu Gebremaryam
KUMP Marko

Grmay for the GC and Kump for the sprints

 

[LaFlorecita]

Gatto wins the stage in Sibiu Tour

 

[rote_laterne]

Thanks for keeping us updated, Flo.
Nationals were pretty good for me. I don't really have GC contenders for the TdF but some guys who can sprint or climb and are Top 20 material. Also some riders in Tour of Austria, none in Sibiu and I don't know what more races are going on.

 

[PeterB]

Tour de France squad:

RODRíGUEZ Joaquim
URAN Rigoberto
PORTE Richie
GESINK Robert
CAVENDISH Mark
DENNIS Rohan
YATES Simon
STANNARD Ian
PAOLINI Luca
DE GENDT Thomas
GAUDIN Damien

This should be a successful team; unfortunately, most of the riders are on everyone's teams, so in reality it is only Rodriguez and Uran who really matter.

Tour de France

Wow, Froome, Rodriguez, Sagan, and Cavendish all in one team, I wonder if anyone can beat this...

 

[LaFlorecita]

Sibiu Cycling Tour (2.1)
GATTO Oscar

Tour de France (2.WT)
CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto
VALGREN ANDERSEN Michael
STYBAR Zdenek
GAUDIN Damien
PORTE Richie
STANNARD Ian
PAOLINI Luca
SENECHAL Florian
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt
GESINK Robert

Int. Österreich-Rundfahrt-Tour of Austria (2.HC)
POLJANSKI Pawel
MOHORIC Matej
MOSER Moreno
HOLST ENGER Sondre
VERHELST Louis

Tour of Qinghai Lake (2.HC)
KUMP Marko

 

[skidmark]

For the other races coming up soon, I have:

Sibiu Tour

Filosi

Despite a good finish in the prologue, he's naturally working for Grosu, so nothing there.

Austria

Mohoric
Moser
Clement Chevrier
Sondre Holst Enger
Latour

A young team. I was actually excited when Patrick Konrad wasn't selected for Bora's TdF team because I figured he could have a good result in Austria - but Bora's not even there?! That is weird. Anyway, these are young guys who have shown okay so far this year (but not really well, with the exception of Latour), and I'm hoping that with a spring of seasoning they are ready for some solid performances. Enger hasn't been used very much at all, but he's fast so I hope he can contend for some stages, and Mohoric has to show some of his massive talent sometime soon.

Qinghai Lake

Kump

I'm sure he'll take two stages and finish 2nd on two others or something like that. I'm bummed that Rusvelo isn't sending Foliforov (or Nippo sending Filosi), as this is the type of race I was hoping my bargain picks on PCT teams would swoop in for some points. Ah well. I guess my eyes are firmly on the Tour for now.

 

[skidmark]

Rohan! I forgive you all those 2nd places you got the last 2.5 years you've been on my CQ team. This is the big one. Totally makes up for doing virtually nothing since February. Thanks; now could you try to be good on the Mur de Huy and cobbles so I could get points for awhile?

 

[del1962]

Rohan! I forgive you all those 2nd places you got the last 2.5 years you've been on my CQ team. This is the big one. Totally makes up for doing virtually nothing since February. Thanks; now could you try to be good on the Mur de Huy and cobbles so I could get points for awhile?

How quick the party is over

 

[LaFlorecita]

4 stage races, 3 stage wins for me: Kump in Tour of Qinghai Lake, Enger in Tour of Austria and Gatto in Sibiu Tour

 

[skidmark]

Rohan! I forgive you all those 2nd places you got the last 2.5 years you've been on my CQ team. This is the big one. Totally makes up for doing virtually nothing since February. Thanks; now could you try to be good on the Mur de Huy and cobbles so I could get points for awhile?

How quick the party is over

Yes, well, the party shifted locations - at least I got wins from Kump and the heretofore invisible Enger; those 45 points, plus Sagan's (somewhat unexpected) 50 points get me some other good points from less 'popular' picks. Cav folded, but everyone has him so the loss is not as great. Now, hoping for J-Rod tomorrow!

 

[Kjellus]

Tour de France:
Froome
Rodriguez
Cavendish
Porte
Keukeleire
Gesink
Stannard
Yates S
Pantano
Paolini

 

[PeterB]

Already now I am starting to dislike the idea of a certain rider on my next year's team...

 

[LaFlorecita]

Massive 2 points from Styby today

 

[shalgo]

No update this week?

 

[Netserk]

Yes, sorry, but I've had a little bit of trouble. Will be up later today.

 

[shalgo]

No problem; I just couldn't remember if there was a gap in our schedule. There were not very many points on offer last week, in any case.

 

[Netserk]

Update #26: Prologue of July

A week with only few points on offer, where the most scoring rider wasn't selected (Finetto, winner of the Sibiu Tour), it is instead in the prologue of the Tour where we'll find the most successful rider of the week, Rohan Dennis, who with what was (perhaps) the fastest ITT/prologue ever in the Tour de France took a stage win and wore the yellow jersey for a day. A mention goes to badbrainaj with unique pick stage 2 winner Greipel on his team, although that is a poor consolation for being the worst scoring team of all

This week's top scorers
1 skidmark 241
2 RoudeLeiw 176
3 PeterB 170
4 theyoungest 168
5 Yellow Knight 160
5 uspostal 160

Organizer of this year's game, skidmark lands a (relatively) dominant win with the combination of Dennis, Sagan, Kump, Enger and Cavendish. RoudeLeiw has the same three Tour riders as skidmark and 1-point scorer Kudus to beat. PeterB has rare pick Koshevoy scoring this week. theyoungest has Kelderman (ofc), but also Gatto scoring for him. uspostal has with his unique pick, and this week's 2nd best picked rider, Cancellara a lot to be happy about with the opening weekend of the Tour, though he probably won't be so happy with the events since then.

This week's high movers
RoudeLeiw (+8)
Armchair cyclist (+7)
theyoungest (+6)
Roderick (+6)
fauniera (+6)

RoudeLeiw and theyoungest move a little up in the rankings as well with their good week. Fellow cq-organizer Armchair cyclist, Roderick and fauniera makes the cut as well with what was respectively the 12th, 8th and 27th most scoring teams of the week.

Green Jersey competition
1 derrudi 146
2 will10 130
3 Kjellus 128
4 afpm90 127
5 Londonpat 126
6 jeroenk 121
7 gustienordic 118
8 PeterB 108
9 shalgo 107
10 EvansIsTheBest 102

PeterB enters the top-10 with his 3rd place and 30 points as the only one in the top-10 with any fresh points.

Top Ten Overall
1 (-) Londonpat 10298
2 (-) Cykeltyven 10239
3 (-) derrudi 10048
4 (-) snccdcno 9790
5 (+1) PeterB 9743
6 (+1) will10 9635
7 (-2) shalgo 9622
8 (+2) skidmark 9548
9 (-1) Geraint Too Fast 9532
10 (-1) greenedge 9503

skidmark leapfrogs GTF and greenedge with his win, while shalgo sees himself passed by both will10 and PeterB, though with differences so small they're practically insignificant. Other than that things stay more or less as they were.

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/nkuulyek8c76z8z/CQ_2015_update_26.xls

PS: Constructive critique is very much welcome. I can already say that the speed will be much better next time

 

[Jspear]

Thanks! Tis all good.

 

[LaFlorecita]

+2, Thanks to The Cat, Kump and Enger. Hooray

 

[skidmark]

Update #26: Prologue of July

A week with only few points on offer, where the most scoring rider wasn't selected (Finetto, winner of the Sibiu Tour), it is instead in the prologue of the Tour where we'll find the most successful rider of the week, Rohan Dennis, who with what was (perhaps) the fastest ITT/prologue ever in the Tour de France took a stage win and wore the yellow jersey for a day. A mention goes to badbrainaj with unique pick stage 2 winner Greipel on his team, although that is a poor consolation for being the worst scoring team of all

This week's top scorers
1 skidmark 241
2 RoudeLeiw 176
3 PeterB 170
4 theyoungest 168
5 Yellow Knight 160
5 uspostal 160

Organizer of this year's game, skidmark lands a (relatively) dominant win with the combination of Dennis, Sagan, Kump, Enger and Cavendish. RoudeLeiw has the same three Tour riders as skidmark and 1-point scorer Kudus to beat. PeterB has rare pick Koshevoy scoring this week. theyoungest has Kelderman (ofc), but also Gatto scoring for him. uspostal has with his unique pick, and this week's 2nd best picked rider, Cancellara a lot to be happy about with the opening weekend of the Tour, though he probably won't be so happy with the events since then.

This week's high movers
RoudeLeiw (+8)
Armchair cyclist (+7)
theyoungest (+6)
Roderick (+6)
fauniera (+6)

RoudeLeiw and theyoungest move a little up in the rankings as well with their good week. Fellow cq-organizer Armchair cyclist, Roderick and fauniera makes the cut as well with what was respectively the 12th, 8th and 27th most scoring teams of the week.

Green Jersey competition
1 derrudi 146
2 will10 130
3 Kjellus 128
4 afpm90 127
5 Londonpat 126
6 jeroenk 121
7 gustienordic 118
8 PeterB 108
9 shalgo 107
10 EvansIsTheBest 102

PeterB enters the top-10 with his 3rd place and 30 points as the only one in the top-10 with any fresh points.

Top Ten Overall
1 (-) Londonpat 10298
2 (-) Cykeltyven 10239
3 (-) derrudi 10048
4 (-) snccdcno 9790
5 (+1) PeterB 9743
6 (+1) will10 9635
7 (-2) shalgo 9622
8 (+2) skidmark 9548
9 (-1) Geraint Too Fast 9532
10 (-1) greenedge 9503

skidmark leapfrogs GTF and greenedge with his win, while shalgo sees himself passed by both will10 and PeterB, though with differences so small they're practically insignificant. Other than that things stay more or less as they were.

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/nkuulyek8c76z8z/CQ_2015_update_26.xls

PS: Constructive critique is very much welcome. I can already say that the speed will be much better next time

Nice! I thought I had a good week, but #1 is sweet, despite it being a 'soft' week. Things should keep going well for my team this week, with Sagan's high placings and Rodriguez's win (and I have my fingers crossed for another high Sagan/Cav finish tomorrow, J-Rod on Saturday, and possibly Dennis getting TTT win points Sunday). For the smaller races, Latour seems like my only hope left in Austria (I was maybe hoping Chevrier or Mohoric would show a bit more staying power on the mountains, but they were good enough to have a promising result for the future but not enough for points), and Kump may pick up more points on the flats in Qinghai, but at least I don't have to worry about any popular picks gobbling up GC points with that crazy random leaderboard they have.

Thanks for doing the update! I have no constructive criticism to offer at this point. Just some related news - I will certainly be back in regular internet land in time to do the August 10th update and then take the reins for the rest of the season. Possibly the August 3rd update, but if you can do up to then inclusive, Netserk, that'd be great.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Finally some points in this TDF Styby!