Update: Guybrush(es) away the competition
A relatively quiet week with the Tour de Romandie and the Vuelta a Asturias providing the bulk of the scoring during my last update. I now leave you in the hands of Maaaaaaaarten for the month of may which hopefully means no more bad puns as the update's title.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week
1 Guybrush 622
2 karaev 545
2 zaka_fan 545
4 ChrisDK 523
5 Josedin 431
GuyBrush has a very unique team and his rare picks came through big time this week. Bernal (picked 3 times), Carapaz (Martinez (13), Sepulveda (8) and the star of the show Tivani (1) combined for more than 600 points. Karaev and zaka_fan tied for 2nd with completely different approaches (Roglic, Fernandez vs. Porte, Fuglsang and Kruijswijk). ChrisDK used big weeks by Bernal and Kruijswijk as well as a nice showing by Morkov to crack 500 points. Josedin is the only other team with Roglic and he was responsible for a mere 416 of their 431 points this week.
This Week's High Movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 karaev (+27)
2 HelgeBlendet (+17)
3 Nicosix (+12)
4 ChrisDK (+11)
4 PeterB (+11)
Less points scored means less opportunity to move up which explains why karaev's team is the only one jumping more than 20 places. HelgeBlendet gets a nice boost courtesy of Latour, Carapaz and Bohli. NicoSix will probably hope Porte, Nieve and Sepulveda can build on their performance of the past week for the rest of what has been a frustrating season so far for the three riders. ChrisDK and PeterB both jump 11 spots on the back of Kruijswijk's big week (with help from Bernal and Figlsang respectively).
Green Jersey Competition
1 LightBing 150
2 Kryvo 108
3 Roubaix 102
4 ChrisDK 98
5 fauniera 95
ChrisDK gets a 3rd top-4 finish this year to move up to 4th. PeterB also moved up into the top 10 but the rest of the leaderboard is otherwise exceptionnally calm.
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team
1 LightBing 6078
2 Eyeballs Out 5836
3 trackstand 5799
4 ruvu75 5791
5 TheArt 5732
6 GP Blanco 5626
7 escartin 5566
8 Gigs_98 5561
9 scrooll07 5547
10 Kryvo 5543
LightBing strecth their lead out to 240 points (Latour, Fernandez, J. Silva). Most teams in the top 10 rise or fall a couple spots but nothing really noteworthy besides Koronin (113 points, -2 spots) and MADRAZO (101, -4) exiting the top of the leaderboard. But they are still close enough to follow the example of the two teams replacing them : scrooll07 (Carapaz, Fernandez) and Kryvo (Latour, I. Izaguirre) hovered around the top 10 after leaving it and have now made their comeback.
The Month's High Scorers
Rank Team Points this Month
1 Wallenquist 2123
2 LightBing 2056
3 Gigs_98 2047
4 karaev 1971
5 Maaaaaaaarten 1913
6 bminchow 1837
7 trackstand 1796
8 ruvu75 1766
9 Yellow Knight 1746
10 fauniera 1724
No really surprise there as the team that dominated the last update also feature highly here. Wallenquist, LightBing and Gigs_98 all crack 2k points. Karaev gets 1300 from his two most expensive riders (Roglic and Alaphilippe) while Maaaaaaaarten spreads the scoring around (7 riders at 100+ points).
The Month's High Movers
Rank Team Up/down
1 karaev (+45)
2 Yellow Knight (+40)
3 Maaaaaaaarten (+37)
4 bminchow (+35)
5 Wallenquist (+33)
6 Gigs_98 (+32)
7 Akuryo (+30)
8 DFA123 (+29)
8 Jakob747 (+29)
10 fauniera (+28)
Seven of the ten teams on the high scoring list return on the high movers' list. The exceptions are Akuryo (Alaphilippe, Latour, Mas, Kreuziger and Jakobsen), DFA123 (Alaphilippe, Mas, Lopez, I. Izaguirre, Gasparotto) and Jakob747 (Alaphilippe, Lopez, Woods, Carapaz, Mas).
Link to the update :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5k6qhvnnu3cnz0m/CQ 2018 update 16.xlsx?dl=0