The 2017 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[adamski101]

Re:

so its closed, iv a team ready to enter??

Still have a couple of hours

 

[manafana]

Hey Skidmark, I pm'ed you, and also with the team for yoyokt who can't get online to give in her team tonight

Appreciate all your work, and don't see why people are making it out like your gaining some unfair advantage same people who would never help out either

 

[postmanhat]

Re:

I have never played this game but one italian rider looks as an absolute must have to me. Surely the easiest pick I made.

That's got me worried

I have 7 Italians but wouldn't put any of them in that category. I missed Gerrans and Demare last year so hope I haven't made a similar mistake

7 ITA, BEL
3 FRA, SPA, COL
2 RUS
1 from assorted others, but no Dutchies

21 WT and 12 PCT

0 Sky riders last year but 5(!) this year. 2 each from UAE, Lotto Soudal, Wanty and Nippo. Much better mixture of classics/GT riders than last time and have also gone from 0 to 4/5 sprinters. Have tried to be a bit less emotional in the choices, particularly with the big picks. And my New Year's Resolution is not to live in the past, so have not gone for a certain Colombian..

 

[Valv.Piti]

I hope I still can make it, Skidmark. Gonna send you a team in 20 minutes or so, ugh, this is gonna be baaaad. Totally forgot...

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

I just managed to get a team together before the deadline, I have zero ambition to do well this year but my team is fun (and after looking at the stats absurdly young). Can't wait for the new season to start and good luck to all.

Some stats about my team :
Youngest : 18
Average : 22.8
Oldest: 32

Point repartition:
0 1000+
6 500-999
4 250-499
9 100-249
14 0-99

Nationalities:
9 FRA
5 ITA
4 BEL
4 GER
3 COL
2 NED
1 AUS
1 DEN
1 ECU
1 GBR
1 SUI
1 USA

I have never played this game but one italian rider looks as an absolute must have to me. Surely the easiest pick I made.

That's got me worried

I have 7 Italians but wouldn't put any of them in that category. I missed Gerrans and Demare last year so hope I haven't made a similar mistake

I'd categorize only five-six riders as must have this year and two are Italian and I have another I consider to be one of the better bargain from the rest of the riders available.

 

[escartin]

I am still not too sure who these must have Italians are. I am curious to find out. I have 3 and although 2 of them might be on quite a few lists, I could only justify one of them as kind of must have and even then I am not sure he is indispensable. I doubt many people have my 3rd Italian, justifiably so as he is a bit of a risky pick...

 

[Squire]

Re:

I am still not too sure who these must have Italians are. I am curious to find out. I have 3 and although 2 of them might be on quite a few lists, I could only justify one of them as kind of must have and even then I am not sure he is indispensable. I doubt many people have my 3rd Italian, justifiably so as he is a bit of a risky pick...

I'd say one of the Italians is among the top two most obvious picks. Not entirely sure who the other one he's talking about is. Could be a certain ProConti hilly sprinter with two broken collarbones last season.

I have six Italians, just to be sure

EvansIsTheBest, nice to see you back! Would be too bad if someone from the top 5 overall rankings didn't return to the game. Now hopefully no. 6 (ingsve) has also showed up.

 

[Jancouver]

My team since we are past the second deadline. Or are we?

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833
ARU Fabio 777
DENNIS Rohan 738
EWAN Caleb 552
DEGENKOLB John 550
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479
BONIFAZIO Niccolo 347
OOMEN Sam 336
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas 282
VIVIANI Elia 275
COSTA Adrien 274
KÖNIG Leopold 264
KÜNG Stefan 225
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto 140
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen 133
MÜHLBERGER Gregor 125
BRESCHEL Matti 116
VERVAEKE Louis 109
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 108
DANIEL Gregory 104
SCHACHMANN Maximilian 101
ACEVEDO CALLE Janier Alexis 87
SCHLEGEL Michal 83
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat 79
PONZI Simone 78
KÄMNA Lennard 48
PELUCCHI Matteo 45
VAN STAEYEN Michael 27
ARREDONDO MORENO Julian David 17
DOULL Owain 7
MALORI Adriano 2
MCNULTY Brandon 0

 

[skidmark]

It's 23:59 CET on the 3rd, which means it's publication deadline! No more changes, no more teams, feel free to post and discuss starting now.

I'm working on the popularity tab and am about 60 teams in, will try to get done before I have to go out for dinner but it's more likely it'll be up in about 7 hours or so. Until then, let's just have some discussion. Good luck everyone!

 

[Jancouver]

It's 23:59 CET on the 3rd, which means it's publication deadline! No more changes, no more teams, feel free to post and discuss starting now.

I'm working on the popularity tab and am about 60 teams in, will try to get done before I have to go out for dinner but it's more likely it'll be up in about 7 hours or so. Until then, let's just have some discussion. Good luck everyone!

Just post your team ... the 2017 winner right

 

[skidmark]

Here's my team:

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833
ARU Fabio 777
DENNIS Rohan 738
EWAN Caleb 552
DEGENKOLB John 550
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479
BONIFAZIO Niccolo 347
OOMEN Sam 336
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas 282
VIVIANI Elia 275
COSTA Adrien 274
KÖNIG Leopold 264
KÜNG Stefan 225
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto 140
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen 133
MÜHLBERGER Gregor 125
BRESCHEL Matti 116
VERVAEKE Louis 109
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 108
DANIEL Gregory 104
SCHACHMANN Maximilian 101
ACEVEDO CALLE Janier Alexis 87
SCHLEGEL Michal 83
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat 79
PONZI Simone 78
KÄMNA Lennard 48
PELUCCHI Matteo 45
VAN STAEYEN Michael 27
ARREDONDO MORENO Julian David 17
DOULL Owain 7
MALORI Adriano 2
MCNULTY Brandon 0

 

[Jancouver]

Here's my team:

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833
ARU Fabio 777
DENNIS Rohan 738
EWAN Caleb 552
DEGENKOLB John 550
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479
BONIFAZIO Niccolo 347
OOMEN Sam 336
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas 282
VIVIANI Elia 275
COSTA Adrien 274
KÖNIG Leopold 264
KÜNG Stefan 225
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto 140
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen 133
MÜHLBERGER Gregor 125
BRESCHEL Matti 116
VERVAEKE Louis 109
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 108
DANIEL Gregory 104
SCHACHMANN Maximilian 101
ACEVEDO CALLE Janier Alexis 87
SCHLEGEL Michal 83
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat 79
PONZI Simone 78
KÄMNA Lennard 48
PELUCCHI Matteo 45
VAN STAEYEN Michael 27
ARREDONDO MORENO Julian David 17
DOULL Owain 7
MALORI Adriano 2
MCNULTY Brandon 0

Haha, very funny. How many times did you change your team after seeing all the other teams huh? Just curious. I mean, be honest!

 

[Squire]

This is really hard... I already built 2 teams with completely different riders and I am happy with both of them... Can't decide between some old guys that changed teams and should have better season and some really young guys that have a ton of potential...

I used completely different tactics. First of all I made a team of "must have riders". This year it was around 15 riders. Then I build a long list of riders (this year around 50 names) who for ever the reason I think might do better next year and try to combine them so that in the final, I wont exceed 7500 points and the will have 33 names.
This year I spend around 7-8 hours creating a team, more then ever before. The short list of must have riders was done within half hour, but then it became a nightmare. I had to alter a game plan, and had to drop some interesting "must have" riders too so I would fit in game rules.
In the end I am confused too ;-)

To the bolded: In my view, there are only 3-4 absolute must-haves. Maybe just two. Most of the other spots in my team have been changing a lot. There are a few more than the must-haves which have been constant, but that's mostly because I decided early on that they would definitely be in my team, and I don't expect them to be in almost everybody else's team.

My strategy analysis for this year was from a slightly different perspective than last time, so this year my team shouldn't look like skidmark's less talented brother. I'm still going for the "scientific approach", but I'm pretty sure I won't top the popularity rankings again this year, and I might even have a potentially unique pick.

Hoping to break into the podium spots in 2017!

I agree this season has the fewest certain picks ever in the game and I also think only 2-4 are completely must haves. Then on the other hand there is a big group of riders that are obviously good picks, and I have also had maybe 10-15 of those in my team at all time besides the 4 certain ones, but all those might end up being sacrificed if needed to fit the puzzle. With the lack of very obvious picks this year I would also predict that the winningscore might end up a bit lower than previous years.

I'm curious to see if we agreed on the must-haves. Degenkolb and Viviani should be absolutely nailed on for every team, and for the other semi-must-haves I was thinking along the lines of König and Power. Considered throwing Spilak in there too, but you can easily win the game without him, I guess.

 

[manafana]

Here's my team:

GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833
ARU Fabio 777
DENNIS Rohan 738
EWAN Caleb 552
DEGENKOLB John 550
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479
BONIFAZIO Niccolo 347
OOMEN Sam 336
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas 282
VIVIANI Elia 275
COSTA Adrien 274
KÖNIG Leopold 264
KÜNG Stefan 225
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto 140
VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen 133
MÜHLBERGER Gregor 125
BRESCHEL Matti 116
VERVAEKE Louis 109
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 108
DANIEL Gregory 104
SCHACHMANN Maximilian 101
ACEVEDO CALLE Janier Alexis 87
SCHLEGEL Michal 83
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat 79
PONZI Simone 78
KÄMNA Lennard 48
PELUCCHI Matteo 45
VAN STAEYEN Michael 27
ARREDONDO MORENO Julian David 17
DOULL Owain 7
MALORI Adriano 2
MCNULTY Brandon 0

Haha, very funny. How many times did you change your team after seeing all the other teams huh? Just curious. I mean, be honest!

give it a rest jancover don't play if your not happy

 

[HelgeBlendet]

Here we go!

ARU Fabio 777
KWIATKOWSKI Michal 611
BENOOT Tiesj 588
DEGENKOLB John 550
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479
LAMPAERT Yves 391
GESINK Robert 369
OOMEN Sam 336
BUCHMANN Emanuel 306
MCCARTHY Jay 290
VIVIANI Elia 275
KÖNIG Leopold 264
POLITT Nils 254
KÜNG Stefan 225
BOOM Lars 212
MAMYKIN Matvey 199
CICCONE Giulio 195
DILLIER Silvan 190
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158
TEUNS Dylan 150
VALLS FERRI Rafael 129
VALLEE Boris 83
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat 79
POWER Robert 77
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume 61
BOECKMANS Kris 60
HERKLOTZ Silvio 60
KÄMNA Lennard 48
MARONESE Marco 18
ARREDONDO MORENO Julian David 17
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio 5
MALORI Adriano 2
CINK Ondrej 0

 

[Pentacycle]

Anybody else have Holst Enger or Latour??

ARU Fabio 777
LATOUR Pierre 645
KWIATKOWSKI Michal 611
BENOOT Tiesj 588
EWAN Caleb 552
DEGENKOLB John 550
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479
ENGER Sondre Holst 464
OOMEN Sam 336
SPILAK Simon 301
VIVIANI Elia 275
KÖNIG Leopold 264
VLIEGEN Loïc 241
DILLIER Silvan 190
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 159
PETILLI Simone 126
LUDVIGSSON Tobias 115
VERVAEKE Louis 109
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 108
GOUGEARD Alexis 107
CIMOLAI Davide 106
PONZI Simone 78
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume 61
BOECKMANS Kris 60
ZARDINI Edoardo 48
PELUCCHI Matteo 45
VINCENT Léo 38
BIERMANS Jenthe 33
VAN STAEYEN Michael 27
MALORI Adriano 2
VAN ROOY Kenneth 0
OLIVIER Daan 0
CINK Ondrej 0

 

[Gigs_98]

God, how could I miss Intxausti

 

[Jancouver]

The last four riders removed from my team:

KWIATKOWSKI Michal 611
TAARAMÄE Rein 321
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao 262
MARTINELLI Davide 196

Swapped Kwiatko for BONIFAZIO & NAVARDAUSKAS combo so it will be fun to watch if those two can bring more points than the flower-boy.

The other three, I just could not fit them in but they would be on my team if any other rider was injured etc.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

This is really hard... I already built 2 teams with completely different riders and I am happy with both of them... Can't decide between some old guys that changed teams and should have better season and some really young guys that have a ton of potential...

I used completely different tactics. First of all I made a team of "must have riders". This year it was around 15 riders. Then I build a long list of riders (this year around 50 names) who for ever the reason I think might do better next year and try to combine them so that in the final, I wont exceed 7500 points and the will have 33 names.
This year I spend around 7-8 hours creating a team, more then ever before. The short list of must have riders was done within half hour, but then it became a nightmare. I had to alter a game plan, and had to drop some interesting "must have" riders too so I would fit in game rules.
In the end I am confused too ;-)

To the bolded: In my view, there are only 3-4 absolute must-haves. Maybe just two. Most of the other spots in my team have been changing a lot. There are a few more than the must-haves which have been constant, but that's mostly because I decided early on that they would definitely be in my team, and I don't expect them to be in almost everybody else's team.

My strategy analysis for this year was from a slightly different perspective than last time, so this year my team shouldn't look like skidmark's less talented brother. I'm still going for the "scientific approach", but I'm pretty sure I won't top the popularity rankings again this year, and I might even have a potentially unique pick.

Hoping to break into the podium spots in 2017!

I agree this season has the fewest certain picks ever in the game and I also think only 2-4 are completely must haves. Then on the other hand there is a big group of riders that are obviously good picks, and I have also had maybe 10-15 of those in my team at all time besides the 4 certain ones, but all those might end up being sacrificed if needed to fit the puzzle. With the lack of very obvious picks this year I would also predict that the winningscore might end up a bit lower than previous years.

I'm curious to see if we agreed on the must-haves. Degenkolb and Viviani should be absolutely nailed on for every team, and for the other semi-must-haves I was thinking along the lines of König and Power. Considered throwing Spilak in there too, but you can easily win the game without him, I guess.

Degenkolb, Aru, Viviani, Küng really stand out for me. Malori has a lower ceiling but is proably one of the safest and best picks available.

 

[barmaher]

CONTRERAS PINZON Rodrigo
DOULL Owain
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Jacques
GANNA Filippo
PELUCCHI Matteo
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida
BOECKMANS Kris
BOSWELL Ian
POWER Robert
MAS NICOLAU Enric
DE PLUS Laurens
GOUGEARD Alexis
POWLESS Neilson
VALLS FERRI Rafael
SOLER GIMENEZ Marc
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley
GAUDU David
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian
POLITT Nils
COSTA Adrien
VIVIANI Elia
SENECHAL Florian
MORTON Lachlan
BUCHMANN Emanuel
FERNANDEZ ANDUJAR Ruben
STUYVEN Jasper
LANDA MEANA Mikel
DEGENKOLB John
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
URAN URAN Rigoberto
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel

I missed Malori and Arredondo of the obvious good options. Regret leaving out Kung, Aru and GaviriaAru. They were on my shortlist.

 

[skidmark]

I got 131 teams by my count. I'll list them below, let me know if you sent me a message and are not represented there. I somehow have a couple more unread messages in my inbox than a week ago, but I've scoured my inbox and am certain I've got everyone. But who knows, I could be entering so many teams I just can't see the obvious...

18-valve
abbulf
adamski101
al_pacino
AlyKaptan
ansimi
Archieboy
Armchair Cyclist
armchairclimber
AupaPyama
barmaher
Bicycle Boy
Blues in the Bottle
bminchow
bort
Brullnux
Carlo Algatrensig
ChrisDK
comodoro
Cqmanager
CraZyCaLL
Crevaison
del1962
DFA123
DJ Sprtsch
DJW
Eric10
escartin
EvansIsTheBest
Eyeballs Out
Falze
fauniera
Ferminal
freshman
Geraint Too Fast
Gigs_98
Googolplex
Gotland
GP Blanco
greenedge
Guigsteam
Guybrush
hakkie2
HelgeBlendet
Hugo Koblet
Hugo87
Italian Gigolo
Jakob 747
Jancouver
JeroenK
Joelsim
Josedin
Jpettersen
just some guy
kabete
Karaev
Kazistuta
Kjellus
Kryvo
laarsland
LaFlorecita
Leadbelly
lenissart
LightBing
Londonpat
LosBrolin
Ludwigzgz
LukasCPH
Maaaaarten
MADRAZO
Magnumpti
manafana
Martin
Mellow Velo
merengues
minessa
Nicosix
nuvolablu
Object
oliveira
Pantani1
Pentacycle
PeterB
Pirrewiet
Poles & Co.
Polliwop
Popchu
postmanhat*
PremierAndrew
PunchingRouleur
R_O_Shipman
Roar Like A Mouse
rote_lanterne
Russell23
SafeBet
Schleckamagurky
scrooll07
search
shalgo
Shawnm4747
Simple
skidmark
Slapshot
snccdcno
Sneekes
sodak_za
Spice Girls
Squire
sublimit
Team Roubaix
the asian
the attacking vikings
ThePirate81
Tigerion
togo95
tom-jelte
torcia_86
Total Package
trackstand
Trudgin
Tych23
VeloRooms
Vesica
vladimir
vroome.exe
Wallenquist
will10
WKA311
Yellow Knight
yoyokt
zlev11

Lots of names that aren't there who are longtime players: ingsve, hilltopfinisher, mc_mountain, skibby, the fool on the hill, trotters aotearoa, uspostal, etc, as well as previous winner Cykeltyven and last year's minor comps winner Emericlabordure. Some changes, but over 130 is still robust participation.

 

[ThePirate81]

YATES Adam 689
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 594
DEGENKOLB John 550
VUILLERMOZ Alexis 437
GESINK Robert 369
GENIEZ Alexandre 348
BONIFAZIO Niccolò 347
HAAS Nathan 315
WOODS Michael 338
ROLLAND Pierre 281
VIVIANI Elia 275
RUFFONI Nicola 254
KÜNG Stefan 225
VAN DER SANDE Tosh 205
MAMYKIN Matvey 199
DE MARCHI Alessandro 198
GAUDU David 196
PEDERSEN Mads 195
CONTI Valerio 186
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar 165
MULLEN Ryan 165
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 159
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158
LUDVIGSSON Tobias 115
VERVAEKE Louis 109
DE PLUS Laurens 94
MAS NICOLAU Enric 92
FILOSI Iuri 90
FICARA Pierpaolo 50
GANNA Filippo 40
VINCENT Léo 38
PETERS Nans 20

How could I miss Malori ???

 

[MADRAZO]

My team:

Had rememberered the deadline wrong as 5/1 and had planned a couple of evenings to finish the team, so missing those it ended in quite a panic so had to make all the final decisions very quickly.

The only certain picks for me were Aru, Degenkolb and Spilak and then König, Landa were also close to be certain. The rest could have been replaced though many were in the team from the start till the end like Lampaert, Viviani, Küng and Minali, but I think all riders that in theory could have been sacrificed.

In the end most importantly I was very much in doubt about picking Kwiatkowski or Gaviria or perhaps both. I liked but were not convinsed about a lot of 200-400 riders so that would have meant sacrificing several of those. I would particulary have liked to skip Sam Oomen who despite the huge talent will likely struggle to improve enough next season being as young as he is, but the rest were harder to sacrifice as all seemed good picks. Anyways me having to decide very quickly in the end meant I did not have enough time to considder these sacrifices and in the end I just had to go with only one of Gaviria and Kwiatkowski. I feel I might regret this as Gaviria should be a good pick. However the conservative part of me still ended on cheaper Kwiatkowski, that should potentially improve more compared to last season despite me being more sure Gaviria would improve. I was still very close to change Kwiatkowski and Ooomen to Gaviria and Sprengers or Vervaeke. Also in the very end I considdered changing Dillier, Arredondo and Power to Vervaeke, Sprengers and Looij. So Sprengers, Vervaeke, Looij and Gaviria are the biggest losers in my quick final selectionproces.

Anyways the team ended up like this

ARU Fabio 777 (obvious pick with the failed 2016 and the Giro-Vuelta double)
KWIATKOWSKI Michal 611 (have a feeling he might dissapoint, but too afraid to leave him out, afterall scored almost 2000 2 years ago and could do so again)
DEGENKOLB John 550 (obvious after all the missed races)
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479 (cant do worse and should do a lot better)
LAMPAERT Yves 391 (solid pick that missed a lot of points due to injury last season that he should get again in 2017)
BONIFAZIO Niccolo 347 (clear nr. 1 sprinter for Bahrain, should mean he can improve a lot and also has the talent to do so)
JANS Roy 347 (replacing B. Planckaert in his new team, Planckaert climbs better but Jans is not bad and is quicker so should be able to score big in the 1.1 races, is a likely winner of the European Tour)
OOMEN Sam 336 (I think he is my weakest pick,but still a supertalent now 1 year older and very likely to improve. How much is the question.
SPILAK Simon 301 (obvious for the price with his huge potential in the weely races)
VIVIANI Elia 275 (still one of the fastest in the world and should improve a lot back focussing 100% on the road)
KÖNIG Leopold 264 (obvious pick after his unlucky 2016)
SEPULVEDA Eduardo 244 (has been quite unlucky and should be able to improve a lot if he escapes bad luck)
WALSCHEID Maximilian 239 (a wild card where I was very much in doubt. He should have huge potential as a new supersprinter, but Im in doubt about how much chances he will get compared to riders like Arndt and Bauhaus. I hope he will show quickly that he is the fastest of the 3 and if so he could become a great pick)
VANDENBERGH Stijn 238 (a pick a bit with the heart but now finally a captain in the classics, should give Vandenbergh a big chance to at least double his points.)
KÜNG Stefan 225 (fairly obvious pick as a huge talent that missed a lot of 2016, should improve well)
BOOM Lars 212 (bad 2016 season but he should be able to revenche that)
MAMYKIN Matvey 199 (huge talent that should improoe well)
DILLIER Silvan 190 (2016 was compromissed a lot by his track-rding. He should be back and at least reach the score from 2014 and 2015 in 2017. Likely not a superpick, but a obvious solid pick that will at least double his score)
ALBANESE Vincenzo 159 (one of the few neos that made my team. Should be very well suited to the italian 1 day races and perhaps be the guy replacing some of Colbrellis results in these)
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158 (too much potential to leave out at the price, despite getting sceptical, but cant do worse at least)
VALLS FERRI Rafael 129 (very unlucky 2016, the potential is definetly there to make a huge profit)
BRESCHEL Matti 116 (I dont think he is done yet like some do, and he still has huge potential if he escapes bad luck)
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 108 (likely waste of a spot, but did not dare leave him out)
GOUGEARD Alexis 107 (hard to ignore him getting over 500 points in 2015 and still only 23 years old so could easily do that again)
CONSONNI Simone 89 (another neo making the team, due to his huge potential for the italian one day races. Hopefully he will get enough chances for himself, despite being quite similar to Swift)
PONZI Simone 78 (a boring pick but very cheap for a guy normally making around 500 points a year and that were set back by injury in 2016. He should be a solid pick)
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat 79 (missed almost all of the seaaon and to good a rider not to be picked this cheap despite being on Team Sky and likely mostly riding as a helper)
POWER Robert 77 (a bit of a joker after his long break and doubtfull he will fullfill the potential as quick now, but still a huge talent that should improve and could improve
TROFIMOV Yury 62 (should be a solid pick for the price in his new role for Caja Rural)
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume 61 (sceptical but huge potential still and now he gets his chance as captain, could do very well if motivated)
MINALI Riccardo 26 ( very cheap for the new nr. 1 sprinter on Astana)
ARREDONDO MORENO Julian David 17 (had sort of decided to skip him but then in the end the puzzle fitted with him and cant do worse and could be well be a pick like Marko Kump in 2015 if the seating-problems gets solved.
DOULL Owain 7 (doubtfull how much chances he will get but Moscon still did well with Sky and very cheap for a huge talent like him)

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

PINOT Thibaut 1104
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 833
ARU Fabio 777
KWIATKOWSKI Michal 611
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 594
DEGENKOLB John 550
POZZOVIVO Domenico 472
BONIFAZIO Niccolo 347
VIVIANI Elia 275
KÖNIG Leopold 264
BOOM Lars 212
MAMYKIN Matvey 199
DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 158
TEUNS Dylan 150
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto 140
TEUNISSEN Mike 113
SPRENGERS Thomas 108
MAS NICOLAU Enric 92
VALLEE Boris 83
PONZI Simone 78
POWER Robert 77
TROFIMOV Yury 62
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume 61
KISERLOVSKI Robert 55
MINALI Riccardo 26
GIRAUD Benjamin 21
ORRICO Davide 13
FERNANDEZ AYARZAGUENA Egoitz 8
VORGANOV Eduard 6
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio 5
MALORI Adriano 2
GRIJALBA PEREZ Fernando 2
GARCIA ETXEGIBEL Egoitz 0

Hopefully there's a unique pick in there - most likely Orrico, Fernandez, or Grijalba.

 

[adamski101]

Well here is my team;

ARU Fabio 777
YATES Adam 689
MOSCON Gianni 622
BARGUIL Warren 613
KRUIJSWIJK Steven 594
BENOOT Tiesj 588
DEGENKOLB John 550
LANDA MEANA Mikel 479
VIVIANI Elia 275
KÖNIG Leopold 264
WALSCHEID Maximilian 239
KÜNG Stefan 225
MAMYKIN Matvey 199
BYSTRØM Sven Erik 164
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 159
BOHLI Tom 120
RAVASI Edward 114
GOUGEARD Alexis 107
DE PLUS Laurens 94
DIBBEN Jonathan 82
INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Beñat 79
POWER Robert 77
TROFIMOV Yury 62
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume 61
LEDANOIS Kevin 49
REYES ORTEGA Aldemar 47
PELUCCHI Matteo 45
PLANCKAERT Edward 45
GANNA Filippo 40
ARREDONDO MORENO Julian David 17
DOULL Owain 7
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio 5
MALORI Adriano 2

At various moments I had the likes of Gaviria, Ewan, Kwiatkowski, Bonifazio and Oomen in draft selections, but ultimately they didn't make the cut. Cannot believe I missed Ponzi, may well regret that one. But overall I am quite happy with my team and should be interesting to see how they go.