- Dec 28, 2010
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Update #23: bminchow beaming up the rankings with big week!
Last year, the post-Tour de Suisse update provided the highest score of the year when Kjellus collected 1387 points. The scores are not quite as dramatic this time around, but three teams still reached the ton.
Simon Spilak, who's picked by 49 teams, was obviously the rider to have this week. Being 2.WT1, the Tour de Suisse had some juicy points for the other high finishers as well. There was also a big amount of 2.1 races to choose from in the Tour preparation, and several of them had important CQ game riders score significant points, like Carapaz, De Plus, Roglic, Rolland and, quite unexpectedly, Silvan Dillier, who won the mountainous Route de Sud.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 bminchow 1110
2 Manafana 1001
3 Gigs_98 1000
4 abbulf 955
5 just some guy 850
bminchow is no longer "crashing and burning", but completely destroying the opposition! Dominant victory this week, with a cushion of more than 100 points. The Tour de Suisse was kind to bminchow, who has Spilak, Frank, Soler and Küng score more than 50 points. But a handsome amount of points was won in the other races too: Dillier leading the line with 126, while De Plus, Haig and Kragh Andersen also chip in with more than 50 each.
Manafana and Gigs_98 barely scrape past 1000 points on the week to make it a full four-digit podium. Manafana was helped by good performances from some interesting rare picks, like Kruijswijk, Van Aert, Verona and Santaromita while also having many of the more popular high scorers. Gigs will be especially happy about Mühlberger's points, I imagine.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team up/down
1 Manafana (+31)
2 abbulf (+29)
2 bminchow (+29)
4 AupaPyama (+21)
5 Gigs_98 (+20)
Many of the same teams are represented in the highest movers' list. Worth noting is last year's podium finisher abbulf, who's finally showing some signs of life. Also deserving of some more plaudits is Gigs_98, who makes a massive leap all the way into the overall top ten!
Green Jersey Competition
Rank Team Total
1 the asian 171
2 Blues in the bottle 157
3 Kazistuta 141
4 Geraint Too Fast 136
5 GP Blanco 135
the asian has had enough of sharing the limelight with Blues in the bottle, and takes the green jersey all to themselves by finishing 9th on the week, which is rewarded by 14 points. GP Blanco scores 18 points to bump Kryvo out of the top 5. Nine teams have so far failed to score a point in this competition, among them last year's winner skidmark.
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (+2) the asian 8093
2 (+4) GP Blanco 8032
3 (-1) Squire 7918
4 (+1) Maaaaaaaarten 7915
5 (-4) tom_jelte 7845
6 (+3) fauniera 7825
7 (+5) Googolplex 7762
8 (-4) Object 7753
9 (+1) jeroenk 7606
10 (+20) Gigs_98 7557
Great week for the asian, who not only takes back sole leadership of the green jersey, but reclaims their overall lead as well! The rare pick of Primoz Roglic is really paying well. The same can be said for GP Blanco, who moves up onto the podium. Last week's leader, tom_jelte, is back to their usual habit of floating around the mid-reaches of the top 10. As mentioned, Gigs_98 makes a pole vault into the top ten, and is joined by Googolplex. Experienced CQ'ers Hugo Koblet and Kazistuta are the casualties.
The milestone of overall profit is reached this week, with 13 teams now in the green!
Next week we will have the unpredictable national championships. Will the asian's comeback be a lasting one?
Spreadsheet at dropbox
Last year, the post-Tour de Suisse update provided the highest score of the year when Kjellus collected 1387 points. The scores are not quite as dramatic this time around, but three teams still reached the ton.
Simon Spilak, who's picked by 49 teams, was obviously the rider to have this week. Being 2.WT1, the Tour de Suisse had some juicy points for the other high finishers as well. There was also a big amount of 2.1 races to choose from in the Tour preparation, and several of them had important CQ game riders score significant points, like Carapaz, De Plus, Roglic, Rolland and, quite unexpectedly, Silvan Dillier, who won the mountainous Route de Sud.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 bminchow 1110
2 Manafana 1001
3 Gigs_98 1000
4 abbulf 955
5 just some guy 850
bminchow is no longer "crashing and burning", but completely destroying the opposition! Dominant victory this week, with a cushion of more than 100 points. The Tour de Suisse was kind to bminchow, who has Spilak, Frank, Soler and Küng score more than 50 points. But a handsome amount of points was won in the other races too: Dillier leading the line with 126, while De Plus, Haig and Kragh Andersen also chip in with more than 50 each.
Manafana and Gigs_98 barely scrape past 1000 points on the week to make it a full four-digit podium. Manafana was helped by good performances from some interesting rare picks, like Kruijswijk, Van Aert, Verona and Santaromita while also having many of the more popular high scorers. Gigs will be especially happy about Mühlberger's points, I imagine.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team up/down
1 Manafana (+31)
2 abbulf (+29)
2 bminchow (+29)
4 AupaPyama (+21)
5 Gigs_98 (+20)
Many of the same teams are represented in the highest movers' list. Worth noting is last year's podium finisher abbulf, who's finally showing some signs of life. Also deserving of some more plaudits is Gigs_98, who makes a massive leap all the way into the overall top ten!
Green Jersey Competition
Rank Team Total
1 the asian 171
2 Blues in the bottle 157
3 Kazistuta 141
4 Geraint Too Fast 136
5 GP Blanco 135
the asian has had enough of sharing the limelight with Blues in the bottle, and takes the green jersey all to themselves by finishing 9th on the week, which is rewarded by 14 points. GP Blanco scores 18 points to bump Kryvo out of the top 5. Nine teams have so far failed to score a point in this competition, among them last year's winner skidmark.
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (+2) the asian 8093
2 (+4) GP Blanco 8032
3 (-1) Squire 7918
4 (+1) Maaaaaaaarten 7915
5 (-4) tom_jelte 7845
6 (+3) fauniera 7825
7 (+5) Googolplex 7762
8 (-4) Object 7753
9 (+1) jeroenk 7606
10 (+20) Gigs_98 7557
Great week for the asian, who not only takes back sole leadership of the green jersey, but reclaims their overall lead as well! The rare pick of Primoz Roglic is really paying well. The same can be said for GP Blanco, who moves up onto the podium. Last week's leader, tom_jelte, is back to their usual habit of floating around the mid-reaches of the top 10. As mentioned, Gigs_98 makes a pole vault into the top ten, and is joined by Googolplex. Experienced CQ'ers Hugo Koblet and Kazistuta are the casualties.
The milestone of overall profit is reached this week, with 13 teams now in the green!
Next week we will have the unpredictable national championships. Will the asian's comeback be a lasting one?
Spreadsheet at dropbox
- Oct 23, 2011
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I like how the only three players who picked Roglic are currently 1st, 2nd and 4th. Hopefully I can overtake squire and we can have the Roglic teams get a full podium 😛.
I'm liking my team a bit, but it's also quite weird. I'm missing a couple of quite well performing popular picks, but somehow always manage to earn enough points to more or less compensate for it. I feared when Gaviria started winning all those Giro stages. I feared when Aru was immediately very strong after coming back from his injury. I feared when I saw a lot of my direct opponents had Spilak. However, somehow I've always got a few quite uncommon picks to survive in the top and am currently less than 200 points removed from 1st. 🙂
All I need is Aru to sacrifice himself working for Fuglsang thus finishing behind Meintjes in the GC and Ewan to find himself one or two races with a lot of flat stages and a mediocre sprint field and I might just start dreaming of that 1st spot! 😱
I'm liking my team a bit, but it's also quite weird. I'm missing a couple of quite well performing popular picks, but somehow always manage to earn enough points to more or less compensate for it. I feared when Gaviria started winning all those Giro stages. I feared when Aru was immediately very strong after coming back from his injury. I feared when I saw a lot of my direct opponents had Spilak. However, somehow I've always got a few quite uncommon picks to survive in the top and am currently less than 200 points removed from 1st. 🙂
All I need is Aru to sacrifice himself working for Fuglsang thus finishing behind Meintjes in the GC and Ewan to find himself one or two races with a lot of flat stages and a mediocre sprint field and I might just start dreaming of that 1st spot! 😱
- Feb 18, 2015
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Wow, I was expecting that this would be a good week for me, but I definitely didn't expect to be in the top 10 😱
Anyway, I don't expect it to stay that way especially looking at the tour de france where I have hardly any riders which I expect to score high.
Anyway, I don't expect it to stay that way especially looking at the tour de france where I have hardly any riders which I expect to score high.
Way off that this year, both in TdS and for the whole season. Dissapointing season so far.Squire said:
Thanks for the update Squire! Sad to say my team was bumped down 11 places, but that's what happens when you don't have Spilak and the host of other riders who went great this week. Glad that Schachmann's moved into profit, hopefully at Eneco or Poland he can go well.
Richie's domination of the TDF can't come soon enough!
Richie's domination of the TDF can't come soon enough!
- Jan 20, 2011
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Pleased to be back at the top ! though dont't know how long it will last.
I'm also over the moon about my last minute selection of Roglic, (A very inspiring one) 🙂 🙂
Going forward, much will depend on the performances of Roglic, Taaramae, Aru & Gaviria.
Taaramae has had a dissapointing season so far, but he did show some signs of life in the TDS, and if he can have a decent Tour (the reason i picked him up in the first place) and a latter half to the season and score about 300 points, It'll be great for me, as only one other has picked him.
Roglic obviously has chances to score in the Tour and the World's ITT.
Gaviria should also pick a handul of points in the late season one day races.
I'm also over the moon about my last minute selection of Roglic, (A very inspiring one) 🙂 🙂
Going forward, much will depend on the performances of Roglic, Taaramae, Aru & Gaviria.
Taaramae has had a dissapointing season so far, but he did show some signs of life in the TDS, and if he can have a decent Tour (the reason i picked him up in the first place) and a latter half to the season and score about 300 points, It'll be great for me, as only one other has picked him.
Roglic obviously has chances to score in the Tour and the World's ITT.
Gaviria should also pick a handul of points in the late season one day races.
- Dec 28, 2010
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Update #24: National championships cause end-of-month upheaval
It was time for national championships, and perhaps the busiest week of the entire season in terms of number of races. Lots of races means lots of points! Provided, of course, that you have riders who score them. Some did, and some didn't, which causes quite a little stir in the standings.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 archieboy 791
2 Gigs_98 774
3 HelgeBlendet 735
4 GP Blanco 733
5 Joelsim 713
archieboy has an impressive collection of riders who did well at the nationals. Not only do they have two NC1 champions in Aru and Naesen with 140 points each, but a total of 17 point scorers, of which 11 scored 30 or more points! It must have been like Christmas eve for archieboy when the results of the weekend ticked in.
Gigs_98 follows up last week's 3rd place with a 2nd place this week. Notably, they have the rare Dutch and Austrian champions Sinkeldam and Mühlberger in addition to the Arus, Kwiatkowskis and Degenkolbs. HelgeBlendet rounds out the podium, while GP Blanco's 4th is worth paying attention to.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team up/down
1 MADRAZO (+15)
1 Polliwop (+15)
3 Joelsim (+12)
4 nuvolablu (+11)
5 adamski101 (+10)
5 HelgeBlendet (+10)
In a week not marked by big moves, MADRAZO and Polliwop share the spoils as best climbers.
This Month's High Scorers
Rank Team up/down
1 Gigs_98 2295
2 GP Blanco 2122
3 MADRAZO 1993
4 Total Package 1945
5 bminchow 1930
A Kruijswijkian end to the month means that Gigs_98 has the best CQ team for June. Spilak and Aru with over 300 points each are big contributors. The same combination is the driving force behind all of the monthly top 5. Interestingly, 3 out of the 5 Sinkeldam teams are on this list (Gigs, GP Blanco and Total Package).
This Month's High Movers
Rank Team up/down
1 MADRAZO (+38)
2 Ludwigzgz (+29)
3 vroome.exe (+26)
3 Armchair cyclist (+26)
5 Hakkie2 (+25)
MADRAZO is on the move these days, winning both the weekly and monthly prize for highest mover. The monthly one is by a big margin over 2nd placed Ludwigzgz. MADRAZO is brought up from 94th to 56th thanks to strong showings from Spilak, Aru, Dillier, Küng, Degenkolb and Lampaert.
Green Jersey Competition
Rank Team Total
1 the asian 171
2 Blues in the bottle 169
3 GP Blanco 161
4 Kazistuta 141
5 Geraint Too Fast 136
Perhaps the biggest news in the green jersey competition is that skidmark has finally scored their first points, thanks to a weekly 13th place. Are we sensing a comeback? GP Blanco makes a jump from 5th onto the podium here, but that's not the jump they're most interested in...
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (+1) GP Blanco 8765
2 (-1) the asian 8631
3 (+2) tom_jelte 8352
4 (+3) Googolplex 8333
5 (+5) Gigs_98 8331
6 (-) fauniera 8319
7 (-3) Maaaaaaaarten 8264
8 (-5) Squire 8229
9 (-1) Object 8209
10 (+2) Hugo Koblet 8093
There's a new leader in town! A Roglic-fuelled performance, topped off by some Lampaert and Sinkeldam sees GP Blanco dominate the competition for the time being. Only perennial podium presence the asian is anywhere close. 3rd through to 9th are bunched together within 150 points, while there is a 400+ points gap up to 1st.
The familiar face of tom-jelte is back onto the podium at the expense of yours truly, who fall five places! Hugo Koblet moves back into the top ten, bumping out jeroenk.
As has been noted recently in this thread, the three Roglic teams look fearsome. GP Blanco and the asian comfortably occupy 1st and 2nd, while Maaaaaaaarten, who might be a bit handicapped by lacking Aru, is also looking quite solid in 7th.
Spreadsheet at dropbox
It was time for national championships, and perhaps the busiest week of the entire season in terms of number of races. Lots of races means lots of points! Provided, of course, that you have riders who score them. Some did, and some didn't, which causes quite a little stir in the standings.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 archieboy 791
2 Gigs_98 774
3 HelgeBlendet 735
4 GP Blanco 733
5 Joelsim 713
archieboy has an impressive collection of riders who did well at the nationals. Not only do they have two NC1 champions in Aru and Naesen with 140 points each, but a total of 17 point scorers, of which 11 scored 30 or more points! It must have been like Christmas eve for archieboy when the results of the weekend ticked in.
Gigs_98 follows up last week's 3rd place with a 2nd place this week. Notably, they have the rare Dutch and Austrian champions Sinkeldam and Mühlberger in addition to the Arus, Kwiatkowskis and Degenkolbs. HelgeBlendet rounds out the podium, while GP Blanco's 4th is worth paying attention to.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team up/down
1 MADRAZO (+15)
1 Polliwop (+15)
3 Joelsim (+12)
4 nuvolablu (+11)
5 adamski101 (+10)
5 HelgeBlendet (+10)
In a week not marked by big moves, MADRAZO and Polliwop share the spoils as best climbers.
This Month's High Scorers
Rank Team up/down
1 Gigs_98 2295
2 GP Blanco 2122
3 MADRAZO 1993
4 Total Package 1945
5 bminchow 1930
A Kruijswijkian end to the month means that Gigs_98 has the best CQ team for June. Spilak and Aru with over 300 points each are big contributors. The same combination is the driving force behind all of the monthly top 5. Interestingly, 3 out of the 5 Sinkeldam teams are on this list (Gigs, GP Blanco and Total Package).
This Month's High Movers
Rank Team up/down
1 MADRAZO (+38)
2 Ludwigzgz (+29)
3 vroome.exe (+26)
3 Armchair cyclist (+26)
5 Hakkie2 (+25)
MADRAZO is on the move these days, winning both the weekly and monthly prize for highest mover. The monthly one is by a big margin over 2nd placed Ludwigzgz. MADRAZO is brought up from 94th to 56th thanks to strong showings from Spilak, Aru, Dillier, Küng, Degenkolb and Lampaert.
Green Jersey Competition
Rank Team Total
1 the asian 171
2 Blues in the bottle 169
3 GP Blanco 161
4 Kazistuta 141
5 Geraint Too Fast 136
Perhaps the biggest news in the green jersey competition is that skidmark has finally scored their first points, thanks to a weekly 13th place. Are we sensing a comeback? GP Blanco makes a jump from 5th onto the podium here, but that's not the jump they're most interested in...
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (+1) GP Blanco 8765
2 (-1) the asian 8631
3 (+2) tom_jelte 8352
4 (+3) Googolplex 8333
5 (+5) Gigs_98 8331
6 (-) fauniera 8319
7 (-3) Maaaaaaaarten 8264
8 (-5) Squire 8229
9 (-1) Object 8209
10 (+2) Hugo Koblet 8093
There's a new leader in town! A Roglic-fuelled performance, topped off by some Lampaert and Sinkeldam sees GP Blanco dominate the competition for the time being. Only perennial podium presence the asian is anywhere close. 3rd through to 9th are bunched together within 150 points, while there is a 400+ points gap up to 1st.
The familiar face of tom-jelte is back onto the podium at the expense of yours truly, who fall five places! Hugo Koblet moves back into the top ten, bumping out jeroenk.
As has been noted recently in this thread, the three Roglic teams look fearsome. GP Blanco and the asian comfortably occupy 1st and 2nd, while Maaaaaaaarten, who might be a bit handicapped by lacking Aru, is also looking quite solid in 7th.
Spreadsheet at dropbox
- Dec 28, 2010
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- 2,782
- 19,180
Because the current week has basically no races taking place in June, I decided to let this one be the end-of-month update. I'll do the next one too, as by this game's conventions it normally goes under June. I don't know if skidmark has found anyone to do July, but I'm unfortunately unavailable.
- Oct 23, 2011
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Not having Aru really hurting me now. 🙁
Anyway, hopefully I'll survive the TDF in a position near the top despite missing Aru.
Tour de France
ROLLAND Pierre
DEGENKOLB John
KWIATKOWSKI Michal
LANDA Mikel
FRANK Mathias
MEINTJES Louis
ROGLIC Primoz
SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
Hmmmm some decent riders, but some decent riders are either there for domestiquing or have a Giro in their legs already (or both, in the case of Landa).....
Anyway, hopefully I'll survive the TDF in a position near the top despite missing Aru.
Tour de France
ROLLAND Pierre
DEGENKOLB John
KWIATKOWSKI Michal
LANDA Mikel
FRANK Mathias
MEINTJES Louis
ROGLIC Primoz
SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
Hmmmm some decent riders, but some decent riders are either there for domestiquing or have a Giro in their legs already (or both, in the case of Landa).....
- Dec 28, 2010
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Re:
But seriously, so many things can still happen.
Someone can go on a great fall classics run (in either the Italian, Belgian or French ones), or someone can do a fantastic Vuelta (maybe Zakarin, Yates, Roson or Pozzovivo). Someone like Van Poppel (hopefully for me) could refind his form and podium a couple of WT sprinters' classics. Or Taaramäe can get you a bunch of points in Austria (so annoyed my picks Mamykin and Spilak are not going there). Or someone could break their leg tomorrow. My team already has a few guys who've been cripples for most of the season, so it's unlikely that most teams won't have significant injuries or illness in the remaining months.
But of course, if everyone keeps delivering average performances, GP Blanco is looking good. 😉
Me, me, me! 😀the asian said:
But seriously, so many things can still happen.
Someone can go on a great fall classics run (in either the Italian, Belgian or French ones), or someone can do a fantastic Vuelta (maybe Zakarin, Yates, Roson or Pozzovivo). Someone like Van Poppel (hopefully for me) could refind his form and podium a couple of WT sprinters' classics. Or Taaramäe can get you a bunch of points in Austria (so annoyed my picks Mamykin and Spilak are not going there). Or someone could break their leg tomorrow. My team already has a few guys who've been cripples for most of the season, so it's unlikely that most teams won't have significant injuries or illness in the remaining months.
But of course, if everyone keeps delivering average performances, GP Blanco is looking good. 😉
- Dec 26, 2012
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My Tour de France team:
ARU Fabio - hopefully top 5
KÜNG Stefan - focus on the two TT's. Maybe yellow jersey after Düsseldorf
SEPULVEDA Eduardo - top-20 of the GC at most
BENOOT Tiesj - could do well in a breakaway but the chance of winning a stage is low
ROGLIC Primoz - focus on the TT's and hopefully a nice GC
LANDA MEANA Mikel - Just the points of finishing the race
SINKELDAM Ramon - hopefully he will finish
DEGENKOLB John - hopefully some sprint points but the team is fully committed to Contador
FELLINE Fabio - could take points in lots of different of stages but the that applied to Degenkolb applies to him.
My biggest points are expected to come from the TT's and Aru's GC.
ARU Fabio - hopefully top 5
KÜNG Stefan - focus on the two TT's. Maybe yellow jersey after Düsseldorf
SEPULVEDA Eduardo - top-20 of the GC at most
BENOOT Tiesj - could do well in a breakaway but the chance of winning a stage is low
ROGLIC Primoz - focus on the TT's and hopefully a nice GC
LANDA MEANA Mikel - Just the points of finishing the race
SINKELDAM Ramon - hopefully he will finish
DEGENKOLB John - hopefully some sprint points but the team is fully committed to Contador
FELLINE Fabio - could take points in lots of different of stages but the that applied to Degenkolb applies to him.
My biggest points are expected to come from the TT's and Aru's GC.
- Dec 29, 2011
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Knew my week wasn't bad, but didn't expect a top3 week, especially missing Naesen and Mühlberger who I considered, but ultimately thought they would't score that much... Oh well.. Still pretty happy with the season so far despite having guys like König.
Tour
Landa
Kwiatkowski
Aru
Küng
Degenkolb
Buchmann
McCarthy
Politt
Benoot
Gesink
Cink
Van Keirsbulck
You know... I really don't like it when my line-up looks like it has no major weakness and could score lots of points... Where's the fun if you start with high expectations and they get crushed over 3 weeks? So I just point out, that this team is kinda weak in the TT and sprinter department. Also, some breakaways would be really cool and Gesink, Buchmann and Landa going for KOM? Everyone of those guys finishing would make me happy based on points that'll score alone.
Austria
Ciccone
Viviani
Neat!
Tour
Landa
Kwiatkowski
Aru
Küng
Degenkolb
Buchmann
McCarthy
Politt
Benoot
Gesink
Cink
Van Keirsbulck
You know... I really don't like it when my line-up looks like it has no major weakness and could score lots of points... Where's the fun if you start with high expectations and they get crushed over 3 weeks? So I just point out, that this team is kinda weak in the TT and sprinter department. Also, some breakaways would be really cool and Gesink, Buchmann and Landa going for KOM? Everyone of those guys finishing would make me happy based on points that'll score alone.
Austria
Ciccone
Viviani
Neat!
- Dec 29, 2011
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Or we just try to paint them in a bad light so that they'll be more unique next year when they score big again. 😉
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