Update #27: Giallo has a big week as TdF churns along
The Tour is the biggest event of the year, causing many other events to be scheduled around it rather than opposing it, yet it only gives out about 10% more points than the other Grand Tours. This tends to mean the vast majority of players in this game are left waiting for the GC points to come in, crossing their fingers for three long weeks that their well-placed guy won't have it all go up in smoke in a second with a crash. But there are always a few teams that have high stage scorers, and can cobble together some points from the smaller races taking place.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 Giallo 442
2 triley36 367
3 Bicycle_Boy 314
4 oliveira 284
5 Yellow Knight 280
A top 10 finisher last week, Giallo really pours on the points this week, winning by 75 points with 442 total. A huge chunk of that came from Sagan, who had 233 himself, but contributions from Valverde and Alaphilippe helped, as did points from smaller races: Javier Moreno got 45 from Austria, unique pick Jose Fernandes got 30 from a 2.2 race in Portugal, and Youcef Reguigui got 30 from an interestingly placed national championships. Last week's winner triley36 had won on the back of the Sagan-Gaviria combo, and this was certainly again the case (Cav with 4 points was their only other scorer), and Bicycle_Boy slides into third with points from Sagan, Alaphilippe and Giovanni Carboni.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 Giallo (+18)
2 Brullnux (+11)
2 Shawnm4747 (+11)
4 Bicycle_Boy (+10)
5 AupaPyama (+8)
Giallo doubles up, with a bit more upwards movement than last week's somewhat lower-scoring field. Brullnux and Shawnm4747 tie for second thanks to, no mystery, Peter Sagan.
Green Jersey Competition
Rank Team Total
1 Squire 178
2 Eric10 162
3 LightBing 150
4 Kryvo 147
5 greenedge 145
Status quo at the top as there's no change in the top 5; lower down, ChrisDK moves up to 7th after scoring 9 points on the week, and weekly points leader Giallo slides into 9th overall after a second good week in a row. If Sagan can keep it up (not as likely in this mountainous week), there's a chance the 14 teams with him can continue to score here.
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Profit
1 (-) Squire 9511 2011
2 (-) ruvu75 9403 1917
3 (-) TheArt 9152 1674
4 (-) Eyeballs Out 9108 1611
5 (-) Wallenquist 8936 1547
6 (+1) Total Package 8783 1284
7 (-1) trackstand 8666 1180
8 (-) GP Blanco 8626 1140
9 (-) Gigs_98 8611 1112
10 (+1) Kryvo 8559 1066
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bit of movement this week, with Total Package and trackstand switching places, as well as Kryvo sliding in while displacing MADRAZO. Wallenquist and Total Package had the best points weeks of the top 10, scoring 224 and 188 while no one else scored more than 117. So even if there isn't much movement, some gaps are closing, although Squire's lead goes out by 52 points over 2nd place.
Next week, it's Tour Tour Tour, plus one stage of Qinghai Lake on Sunday. Although as I said above, it's the mountains in the Tour for the most part, so the team makeup to be successful might be a bit different than the last two weeks.
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