The 2016 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Brullnux]

Yates and Meintjes finally performing, I hope I haven't jinxed it and I can get to my goal of a top 100

 

[LaFlorecita]

Only scored points in yesterday's Suisse prologue and the Dauphiné, I think

This week's points
Suisse
Cancellara 56

Dauphiné
Contador 173
Martin Dan 228
Rosa 94
+ perhaps some 5-pointers
A little less than I had wanted from Contador in the GC but with his stage win and 5 days in the lead he still scores a respectable amount for this race (229).
Martin and especially Rosa are a nice surprise. I knew Martin could get a top 10 but 3rd is great, and Rosa hasn't done very well in stage races so far but he was great this week.

 

[Brullnux]

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Yates and Meintjes finally performing, I hope I haven't jinxed it and I can get to my goal of a top 100

Nice, 7th and 9th. Could've been 6th and 8th but this will do. Hopefully Meintjes can top-10 at the Tour and Yates do a Chavez-esque Tour, but I don't think Yates will. Maybe a stage or something will be nice, or even a couple of top-5s.

 

[Squire]

Damn, I didn't put Gaviria in my team for him to be Santa Claus.

 

[LaFlorecita]

This week's update by DJW

Update #22: Froome's Dauphiné win equals a win for freshman

Both the weekly top 10 and overall have been heavily shaped by the big GC hitters at the Critérium du Dauphiné, won by Chris Froome. Those who shelled out for Froome, Contador or Bardet have been rewarded with good GC and stage points, whilst popular picks Dan Martin (3rd) and Adam Yates (7th) made it a pretty high scoring week.

Away from the Dauphiné, there were the smaller tours of Slovakia and Malopolska won by Mauro Finetto and Mateusz Taciak respectively. More significantly for the game, however, were the wins for Grega Bole, Dylan Groenewegen and Kenny Dehaes at the Tour of Korea, Rund um Koln and Ronde van Limburg. And, of course, Spartacus took the prologue and first leader's jersey at the Tour de Suisse.

This Week's Top scorers

Rank Team Points this week
1 freshman 733
(Froome, Martin, Navarro)
2 Slapshot 674
(Contador, Martin, Yates)
3 the_fool_on_the_hill 632
(Martin, Alaphilipe, Yates)
4 togo95 631
(Martin, Alaphilipe, Yates)
5 18-Valve. (pithy) 622
(Martin, Rosa, Dehaes)
6 Vesica 605
(Martin, Alaphilipe, Rosa)
7 greenedge 592
(Martin, Yates, Navarro)
8 Amsterdam 586
(Martin, Yates, Cancellara)
9 La Florecita 575
(Contador, Martin, Rosa)
10 jeroenk 562
(Martin, Yates, Navarro)


As can be seen from above, GC and stage positions from the Dauphine more or less dominate the weekly standings. freshman was one of only two people to select Froome for the game but also did well with a selection of other picks this week. Slapshot and LaFlorecita are rewarded for being the only two in the game to pick Contador. Three of eight Alaphilippe teams also make the top 10. Funnily enough, all of the top 10 had Dan Martin.

The highest scoring unique pick of the week was Giacomo Nizzolo for Chrisdk.


High movers this week

Rank Team Up / down this week
1 freshman +26
2 18-Valve. (pithy) +21
3 the_fool_on_the_hill +20
4 Vesica +16
= Amsterdam +16

freshman's superb weekly score also puts him top of the high movers board with a whopping 26 place jump. All of the top 5 high movers were also in the top 10 in the weekly standings.



Polka Dot Jersey

Rank Team Points
1 Emericlabordure 110
2 Eric10 78
3 EvansIstheBest 72
4 the_fool_on_the_hill 71
5 ironted 64

Very little change in the Polka Dot competition but the_fool_on_the_hill's good week continues as their team moves into 4th place. Emericlabordure's lead continues however, whilst freshman is up to 8th overall.

Green Jersey

Rank Team Points
1 Emericlabordure 215
2 ironted 117
3 Pentacycle 116
4 comodoro 113
5 Roda_na_Frente 108

No change at all in the top 5 as Emericlabordure's lead continues here too. Good weeks for Slapshot, togo95 and LaFlorecita see them rise to 6th, 8th and 10th respectively.


Top 10 Overall

Rank Team Points this week Up / down
1 LaFlorecita 7718 +3
2 jeroenk 7705 +2
3 Skidmark 7587 -1
4 Nicosix 7565 -3
5 theasian 7495 -2
6 Maaaaaaaarten 7471 +1
7 Squire 7406 +2
8 Kjellus 7381 =
9 Ferminal 7352 +1
10 Trackstand 7315 +1


Quite a big shake up in the top 10, with 4 teams passing the significant 7500 point mark.

LaFlorecita and jeroenk keep pace with each other in their almost neck and neck battle but this week they both manage to leapfrog Nicosix, skidmark and theasian to move into the top two spots on the podium. The gap between 1st and 2nd is only 13 points.

In fact former leader Nicosix has dropped three places, theasian has dropped two and skidmark only one. trackstand moves up one place to sneak into the top 10.

After Emericlabordure's jump into the top 10 last week, they scored bottom this week and drop back out to 19th. Kjellus is the only team in this week's top 10 to stay put.
Spreadsheet at Dropbox

 

[LaFlorecita]

 

[Jancouver]

Re:

Congrats LaFlo!

 

[the asian]

Re:

Congrats.

Drop for me was expected as my Dauphine line up wasn't particulary strong.

Hoping for a better showing at the Suisse and a return to the top 3!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Thanks guys
Now hoping for a good performance by TJVG in Suisse

For the other races this week I have
ZLM Tour: Meersman, Kittel, Phinney, Venturini

Slovenia: Zurlo

Route du Sud: Hardy, Jeannesson, Demare, Offredo, Martinez, Dassonville

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Yay I even gained a spot.

Next week with Suisse can be tricky though, because I don't have Talansky. I have TJVG and Lopez (and Jeannesson in Route du Sud), hopefully that will be enough!

And congrats LaFlorecita. I didn't expect you to do so well while picking Contador!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Oops, jinxed Tejay

 

[del1962]

Re:

Oops, jinxed Tejay

looking better now

 

[togo95]

Pretty good Tour de Suisse for me. Lopez, Talansky and Van Garderen all getting some handy points. And Cancellara not winning both ITTs

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Pretty good Tour de Suisse for me. Lopez, Talansky and Van Garderen all getting some handy points. And Cancellara not winning both ITTs

Nice ! That'll earn you a lot of points

For my team, I had to choose between Bongiorno and Lopez/Meersman and Arredondo. Went with the latter combo, but Lopez alone scored way way more than Meersman and Arredondo combined! Doh
Route du Sud is a bit disappointing for me too, I expected Jeannesson to get a top 10, maybe even a top 5.

 

[Vesica]

After a nice score last week, I expect a good score for this week as well: Lopez and TJVG in Switzerland, Jack Haig 2nd in Slovenia, Marc Soler 2nd + stage in Route du Sud.

 

[adamski101]

Had my best week in a long time.

Lopez, Barguil, Talansky and Van Garderen at Suisse.
Haig in Slovenia and Soler at Route du Sud.
Plus a few other points here and there. By my quick calculations I think its 1207 points this week.

 

[Kjellus]

I think I'll have one of my best weeks ever in this game.
COSTA, VAN GARDEREN, VANMARCKE, CANCELLARA, TALANSKY, LOPEZ, PHINNEY, KITTEL, CHERNETSKIY, GAVIRIA, SOLER, HAIG all scoring good points

Edit: and Stetina and Pardilla

 

[skidmark]

not much time to check in these days, but I've got 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th at Suisse... enough to get me to 1st for the first time in 4 years? I guess I'll find out in 5 days when I have internet again...

 

[LaFlorecita]

Wow wow so many people with massive scores this week I didn't do so well so I'll probably drop a few places (skidmark looks good for 1st) but hopefully I can stay within striking distance.

 

[Falze]

Shame about the illness for LaTour - not a popilar choice and could have picked me up a few good points

Lopez and TVG should give me a soild score, but they are popular picks

 

[GP Blanco]

not much time to check in these days, but I've got 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th at Suisse... enough to get me to 1st for the first time in 4 years? I guess I'll find out in 5 days when I have internet again...

I thought I scored well with the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 8th in Switzerland and the 2nd in Slovenia.

 

[HelgeBlendet]

Bad week for me compared to others... No Lopez, Talansky or TJVG for me. Cancellara as my top scorer in Switzerland + some minor placings. Jack Haig and Eliot Lietaer kind of save the week for me, but I expect to drop a few places.

 

[kiilike]

not much time to check in these days, but I've got 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th at Suisse... enough to get me to 1st for the first time in 4 years? I guess I'll find out in 5 days when I have internet again...

I thought I scored well with the 1st, 3rd, 6th and 8th in Switzerland and the 2nd in Slovenia.

I also think, this week is best chance for me to shine this year
5th, 6th, 8th, 13th and 4 stage wins in TdS, 2nd Route de Sud, 6th Tour de Slovenie

 

[LaFlorecita]

Like the previous few weeks, here is DJW's update

Update #22: "Terbuatline" times for Yates teams and a big Suisse shake-up

Huge movements all over the table this week, in part down to MA Lopez's Tour de Suisse win. There were plenty of high scoring teams who benefitted from GC wins for Rein Taaramae (Tour of Slovenia), Sep Vanmarcke (Ster ZLM) and Nairito (Route du Sud).

There were a host of 2.1 and 2.2 races won by popular faces as well, but perhaps bigger news is that CQ have docked Simon Yates all but 5 of his season's points, leaving many of the teams who selected him in disarray.

This Week's Top scorers

Rank Team Points this week
1 Kjellus 1387
(Lopez, Talansky, Van Garderen, Costa, Vanmarcke)
2 Cykeltyven 1342
(Lopez, Barguil, Van Garderen, Vanmarcke)
3 adamski101 1213
(Lopez, Barguil, Van Garderen, Talansky)
4 waleweter 1178
(Lopez, Barguil, Van Garderen, Talansky)
5 StephenC2020 1169
(Lopez, Van Garderen, Talansky, Kelderman)
6 Blues in the bottle 1167
(Lopez, Barguil, Van Garderen, Talansky)
7 Squire 1151
(Lopez, Barguil, Van Garderen, Talansky)
8 al_pacino 1145
(Lopez, Barguil, Van Garderen, Vanmarcke)
9 R_O_Shipman 1112
(Lopez, Barguil, Van Garderen, Vanmarcke)
10 GP Blanco 1099
(Lopez, Van Garderen, Barguil, Kelderman)


All of the big scorers this week had multiple riders high up in the GC at Tour de Suisse, most commonly Lopez, Van Garderen and Talansky. Kjellus supplemented those riders with Vanmarcke, Soler and Haig (among others) for a fairly remarkable weekly score.


Jakob749 gets the prize for highest scoring unique pick of the week with Rein Taaramae.

High movers this week

Rank Team Up / down this week
1 Cykeltyven +51
2 adamski101 +42
3 GP Blanco +33
4 Jpettersen +27
5 Blues in the bottle +26

No surprise that four of the weekly top 10 appear here but Jpettersen also creeps into the top 5 with a range of Suisse riders. Note that Cykeltyven moved up OVER 50 PLACES, but none of the 5 are currently in the top 30 overall.



Polka Dot Jersey

Rank Team Points
1 Emericlabordure 110
2 Eric10 78
3 EvansIstheBest 72
4 the_fool_on_the_hill 71
5 ironted 64

Absolutely no change in the top 5 of this competiton this week, nor in the top 10 for that matter.

Green Jersey

Rank Team Points
1 Emericlabordure 215
2 Kjellus 128.3
3 ironted 117
4 Pentacycle 116
5 comodoro 113

Kjellus' winning week sees them jump to 2nd in this competition, but Emericlabordure still retains a sizable lead.


Top 10 Overall

Rank Team Points this week Up / down
1 Kjellus 8768 +7
2 jeroenk 8676 =
3 Skidmark 8653 =
4 Nicosix 8557 +3
5 theasian 8421 =
6 Maaaaaaaarten 8175 =
7 vladimir 8155 +4
8 trackstand 8097 +2
9 abbulf 8096 +3
10 CraZyCaLL 8087 +16


A pretty bizarre week in the top 10 as our former Maillot Jaune LaFlorecita drops 10 places out of the top 10, as does former leader Nicosix.

Her team is replaced by Kjellus who leapfrogs 7 teams to take the new race lead. jeroenk and skidmark retain their positions on the podium.

abbulf, CrazyCall and vladimir all climb into the top 10. No-one in the current top 10 dropped a position this week.


As ever, if someone could post this over on CN that would be great.

Checkout the spreadsheet on Dropbox.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Well my time at the top didn't last very long It was to be expected with only 200 points or so, but I am still 11th, maybe I can climb back into the top 10 in the next few weeks, and a great final position is still possible - a top 20 would be nice and top 10 would be amazing