The 2015 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Jancouver]

Good day today! I have the TdF podium!

1. Styby
2. Sagan
3. Coquard

+ EBH 7th

 

[skidmark]

With today's 3rd place, Sagan has 1390 points on the season. Last season after stage 7 of the Tour, he had 1320. I picked him because 1) I thought he could really break through in the classics and 2) he had to have a better late season than last year. #1 flopped, but with his surprising ToC win and his form since then, he's turned into an okay pick instead of a disaster, as it was looking after Paris-Roubaix. If he can stay out of trouble in the Tour, get some more high placings, come 1st or 2nd in the green jersey competition, he could go into the last part of the season maybe about 100 points ahead of last year. I don't know his schedule, but if he uses the Canadian races as a warmup for the Worlds, he could get a boatload of points, and if he does as well at the worlds as he's capable, he could get alot more. If he didn't get any more points after the TdF, he'd be kind of a disappointing pick, but he could still be a great one in this game.

 

[Jancouver]

With today's 3rd place, Sagan has 1390 points on the season. Last season after stage 7 of the Tour, he had 1320. I picked him because 1) I thought he could really break through in the classics and 2) he had to have a better late season than last year. #1 flopped, but with his surprising ToC win and his form since then, he's turned into an okay pick instead of a disaster, as it was looking after Paris-Roubaix. If he can stay out of trouble in the Tour, get some more high placings, come 1st or 2nd in the green jersey competition, he could go into the last part of the season maybe about 100 points ahead of last year. I don't know his schedule, but if he uses the Canadian races as a warmup for the Worlds, he could get a boatload of points, and if he does as well at the worlds as he's capable, he could get alot more. If he didn't get any more points after the TdF, he'd be kind of a disappointing pick, but he could still be a great one in this game.

I agree

 

[LaFlorecita]

this week's points:

Qinghai Lake
Marko Kump - 83

Austria
Pawel Poljanski - 55 --> into profit now
Moreno Moser - 35

Tour
Richie Porte - 12
Reinardt Janse van Rensburg - 3
Alberto Contador Velasco - 6
Zdenek Stybar - 82

Now it's Alberto's time to shine

 

[del1962]

Austria

Mohoric 5
Moser 35

TDF
Cav 115
Froome 145
Eddie 35
Richie 12
Sagan 201
Purito 80

 

[Jancouver]

Jan Hirt 3rd overall in Austria and into profit.

yay!

 

[skidmark]

I had a decent week.

Qinghai - Kump 83 points

Austria - Latour 65 points
Moser 35 points
Mohoric and Chevrier 5 points

TdF - Rodriguez 80 points
Sagan 201 points
Cav 115 points
EBh 35 points

plus a smattering from the TTT today (including Dennis with 20) and some small stuff like Yates getting a couple on the Mur de Huy. 600 points with only one GC this week is pretty decent.

 

[rote_laterne]

Thanks to Cavendish and Sagan I'm still in the top 100.

I have the same riders scoring in the TdF as skidmark minus Rodriguez, Teuns scored 38 in Austria. Petty that Mühlberger didn't finish the Tour.

Tour de France (2.UWT)
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
CAVENDISH Mark
KANGERT Tanel
KÖNIG Leopold
SAGAN Peter
SEPULVEDA Eduardo
STANNARD Ian
VANMARCKE Sep
YATES Simon

Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta Mont Blanc (2.2U)
http://www.girovalledaosta.it/index...=229&Itemid=686&lang=it#movistar-team-ecuador
BOUHANNI Rayane
KÄMNA Lennard

TdF looks pretty meh for the coming weeks, I do hope that some of my riders do the Oberösterreichrundfahrt.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Kump turning out to be a pretty good pick. Always nice when a random low profile pick suddenly does well in Qinghai, Hainan, Langkawi etc. these races are even worse than TDU regarding the points you can earn compared to the level of the race

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

Kump turning out to be a pretty good pick. Always nice when a random low profile pick suddenly does well in Qinghai, Hainan, Langkawi etc. these races are even worse than TDU regarding the points you can earn compared to the level of the race

"random"?! Shame on you surely everyone should have seen he was going to do great again, considering his 2012 season

Me at the start of the season

KUMP Marko - 28 points, 34 picks
Back to Adria. Last season with them he scored almost 400 points. With some WT experience, I am hoping for him to break the 400 point barrier.

 

[LaFlorecita]

It will be a miracle if Alberto earns me over 200 points! Depressing.

 

[skidmark]

Oof, watching Froome romp away to another TdF while almost 40 people have him is not the greatest thing... on the plus side, if he does run away with it that probably means his points pretty much stop after Paris, because barely anyone ever follows up a TdF win with a competitive showing afterwards. Fingers crossed for the same type of shutdown from Quintana. If that happens, Froome will be a good-but-not-amazing pick for the year, and Quintana will not be far ahead of last year.

I guess Gesink pleasantly surprised, and Porte gobbled up some points, but the guy on my team that I'm paying most attention to is Purito. His showing today could go both ways for me. He could have gotten top 5 (or even podium) on top Purito shape in this Tour, but falling 10 minutes behind so early also means he can go for stages more when it's not all out, either in an early break or attacking with 7k to go on a stage where contenders are sort of looking at each other. Of course Mende looks good, and maybe he can even (successfully this year) chase the KoM jersey. All told, if he goes up the road and wins a couple of stages, he can still top 10 and make up the points difference to his maximal placing with stage wins. Plus, if he's riding into form ala 2013, that means not only the last week of the Tour but the Vuelta could be good to him. So I'm taking today on the chin.

 

[LaFlorecita]

It will be a miracle if Alberto earns me over 200 points! Depressing.

I just realized this will mean he will be "good value" for next season

 

[Jspear]

80 points today from Porte, Gesink, and Yates. I'm happy with that.

 

[skidmark]

I know it's already Friday but would we be able to get an update for this week? At this point it might make sense to just do one in a few days, but points for the green jersey etc have to be tallied, so it would be good to have something for this week, even if no huge summary.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Re: Re:

"random"?! Shame on you surely everyone should have seen he was going to do great again, considering his 2012 season

Yeah I expected him to be a decent pick, that's why I picked him, but I didn't expect him to get over 200 points from a race in China.

 

[Netserk]

Update #27: The Fabulous Four strikes!

While the Fabulous Four in the Tour has been reduced to a dominant one, the other Fabulous Four here in the CQ-Manager game is picking up steam in a week dominated by Tour stage points, though with some points from other smaller races as well. It is thus no surprise that the winner of this update is Schleckamagurky, who as the only one has all of the Fab Four in his team. Although there were quite some points on offer in Austria, no one had the winner De La Parte, only one had runner-up Hermans and just two had third overall Hirt.

This week's top scorers

Schleckamagurky has other than the Fab Four the common pick of Cavendish and the perhaps best cheap pick so far, Marko Kump. Latour and Moser contribute with some points as well. GP Blanco may only have half of the Fab Four, but it is the two most successful of the week (Froome and Sagan) as well as the rare pick of Berhane. karaev scores well with just missing Froome from the four, while having Cav, Kump, Latour and rare pick Poljanski as well. skidmark has more or less the same as our update winner, just with EBH instead of Quintana and Froome. Jancouver is one of the two with Hirt and he has Sagan, Štybar, Cav, Coquard and EBH as well.

This week's high movers

Green Jersey competition

Top Ten Overall

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/cazhe490s5jik4f/CQ_2015_update_27.xls

 

[derrudi]

I thought to check in again with this game today; I'm very pleased and very surprised to see I'm doing well. I love it! The end of the tour will change the ranking a bit I suppose, so I'happy I checked in when I did

 

[Jancouver]

Thanks for the update Netserk!

So far so good but I know this will not last as I have nobody for the TdF GC.

 

[PeterB]

Re:

I thought to check in again with this game today; I'm very pleased and very surprised to see I'm doing well. I love it! The end of the tour will change the ranking a bit I suppose, so I'happy I checked in when I did

That was a cardinal mistake not checking regularly from the start! Now you completely missed all the excitement of trying to enter the Top 10, falling out of it, entering it again, going down, up, almost nr.1, down, up...

 

[mutschi]

Thanks to Cavendish and Sagan I'm still in the top 100.

Thanks to D Martin and W Kelderman I am not in the top 50.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Will I get more than 500 points out of the TDF? so far... 107 points

 

[Jspear]

What week does update 27 cover?

 

[rote_laterne]

Thanks to Cavendish and Sagan I'm still in the top 100.

Thanks to D Martin and W Kelderman I am not in the top 50.

Well, I'm aiming low.

Thanks for the update, Netserk.

Sagan only 45 points off his 2014 score and not expected by me it seems like the green jersey is his again (knocking on wood). So he might turn out as a decent or maybe even good pick in the end.

 

[Netserk]

Re:

Update #28: Double up



This week's top scorers

This week's high movers

Green Jersey competition

Top Ten Overall

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/view/cg70y72ggkvylz0/CQ_2015_update_28.xls