The 2019 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[postmanhat]

Re:

I knew Porte would be **** after his most recent post on IG / Twitter. Dude has zero motivation outside of a few races. Horrible pick ..shoulda known better.

It was depressingly predictable in some ways. For my team to do well he has to have a good season. And given the paucity of points offered by his schedule now, that pretty much means winning the Tour. Lambrecht was also disappointing.

On the plus side, Van Der Poel has added another race to his Spring series, and Gaudu seems to showing more intent so far this year

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Gaudu and Powless are having promising starts to their season but I can't say anybody on my team has been lighting the world on fire. A little disappointed about not having Pogacar as I felt he was still a year away but congrats on those that picked him.

 

[tobydawq]

Re: Re:

I knew Porte would be **** after his most recent post on IG / Twitter. Dude has zero motivation outside of a few races. Horrible pick ..shoulda known better.

It was depressingly predictable in some ways. For my team to do well he has to have a good season. And given the paucity of points offered by his schedule now, that pretty much means winning the Tour. Lambrecht was also disappointing.

On the plus side, Van Der Poel has added another race to his Spring series, and Gaudu seems to showing more intent so far this year

Nice, I hadn't seen that. Hopefully he will wipe the floor with the others like he usually does in Boucles de la Mayenne.

My rare Reichenbach pick is not looking good so far. Today, he was positioned excellently on the lower slopes of the Jebel Hafeet but he blew up completely, and now I have to consider myself lucky if he'll finish in the top 30. Evenepoel seems to be my best rider for the GC but he isn't exactly rare.

And the sprints aren't going well for me, either. I am not too pleased with how well UAE are going. I think Gaviria is the most picked rider that I don't have. On the other hand, I do have Ewan, and I hope he can win tomorrow (actually, I hope Valverde will win).

Edit: I just checked, and Gaviria is indeed my most popular non-pick. Right in front of Meintjes and Cavendish but they have really not made me regret not picking them yet, so I guess this race hasn't been all bad.

 

[skidmark]

Update #7: There's no CQ Game climber like armchairclimber

It was a week with a lot of GC outcomes, but like last week, alot of the top spots were taken by rare or unpicked riders, which made the week not as huge as it could have been for some game participants - there were only 13 teams scoring over 300 points on the week. But certainly there were a good few gamers who should be happy with their haul.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank Team Points this week
1 armchairclimber 410
2 comodoro 386
2 tobydawq 386
4 MADRAZO 362
5 Mellow Velo 352

If you perused the popularity tab of the spreadsheet last week, the thought probably crossed your mind that the top of the leaderboard would likely include most of the 7 teams that got the 212 points from Tadej Pogacar's fantastic breakout in Algarve. And indeed, that's the case. armchairclimber claims top spot with almost half of their team's points coming from non-Pogacar sources, such as Sam Oomen (79 points, 2 teams) and Giulio Ciccone (66 points, 4 teams). In a very tight fight behind, we see a tie for second place between comodoro (Pogacar of course, but also 56 points from Alexander Vlasov and 50 from Trentin) and tobydawq (no Pogacar but an impressive showing by a committee of relatively rare picks including 150 points from SK Andersen, and 30-50 from the likes of Trentin, Kung, Spilak, Gibbons and Oscar Rodriguez). Interestingly, comodoro would have had sole possession of 2nd place if Louis Meintjes hadn't somehow managed to lose two points this week (did he get reclassified down a spot in the national RR or something?)

This Week's High Movers

Rank Team Up/down
1 armchairclimber (+51)
2 Mellow Velo (+36)
3 comodoro (+33)
4 will10 (+32)
5 Jakob747 (+29)

A similar look at the top here, with armchairclimber moving up a massive 51 spots, rocketing up the table. Mellow Velo gets a moment on the podium for this one, almost solely due to Pogacar, Oomen and Gaviria's points.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank Team Total
1 MADRAZO 95
1 just_some_guy 95
3 Popchu 73
3 Googolplex 73
5 TheArt 68

Things tighten up here as well, as MADRAZO has another strong showing, parlaying 22 weekly points into a tie for first place with jsg. Meanwhile, Popchu gains 16 points to get into another tie, for third place, with Googolplex.

Top 10 Overall

Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (-) MADRAZO 1627
2 (+3) Amis_Velo 1411
3 (-1) TheArt 1387
4 (-1) just_some_guy 1376
5 (+9) Salvarani 1362
6 (+2) Blues in the bottle 1358
7 (+3) Otoxiep87 1340
8 (+19) tobydawq 1329
9 (-5) Squire 1312
10 (+13) Popchu 1304

MADRAZO's team outgains everyone around with 4th on the week, and now has a commanding 216 point lead on second place, which is now occupied by Amis Velo. Some big leaps into the top 10 this week from Salvarani, tobydawq and Popchu, while yoyokt, Falze and del1962 have to say bye to the top tier for now.

Spreadsheet at dropbox

 

[armchairclimber]

Well you could knock me down with a feather. I knew it would be a good week but I never imagined I'd be the week's top scorer. Thank you Pog.

 

[Tonton]

310 points for the week! 18 places up! I never cease to amaze myself!

Merci Tibo! Now win the Tour and 15 stages and I'll be golden .

 

[Koronin]

Well my team did a little better than I thought they had done.

 

[Tonton]

I wish I had known the rules better, done more work, not shown up with 25 riders and neglect the 0 point riders like Remco. But I didn't go ftw anyways, just the fun.

Gaviria's win, Gaudu now, looking good for this week .

 

[Koronin]

I wish I had known the rules better, done more work, not shown up with 25 riders and neglect the 0 point riders like Remco. But I didn't go ftw anyways, just the fun.

Gaviria's win, Gaudu now, looking good for this week .

Of the riders that were on my long list before getting my final the team, the one rider I'm wishing I found a way to keep is Trentin. The others I'm ok with having not picked (mostly sprinters on that list).

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Finally my team makes a move. Up 24 places!
My riders for Het Newspaper: S. Kragh Andersen, Theuns, De Buyst, Van Aert, Van der Hoorn. And Betancur...
In the Emirates I have Gaudu, Zakarin, Nibali and probably some more 5-pointers.

 

[tobydawq]

I have Søren Kragh, Trentin, Küng, Boom, Rowe and Bakelants for Omloop. Not too shabby.

 

[Salvarani]

I cracked the top 10 . I dont think I will stay for long though lol

 

[tobydawq]

Remco abandons but Ewan/Moschetti goes 1-2!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Moschetti gets an awesome and unexpected 2nd place and Gaudu avoids time loss. But Evenepoel, Nibali and Zakarin all were victims of the crashes. A day of highs and lows.

 

[Salvarani]

I have a pretty weak classics team...

Omloop
Trentin
Touze

Hope Trentin form continues through next month

Faun Environnement
Frankiny

My unique... has had good start to his season so far and is not that far off breaking-even already!

Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne
Trentin

Royal Bernard Drome
Frankiny



Knox and Gaudu keeping their GC spots at UAE, and Ewan winning another stage with some points from my other sprinters in that race also, it might not turn out to be such a bad week.

 

[Koronin]

Remco abandons, although as I think almost everyone has him it's not a big deal. Valverde affected by the crash and had to use too much energy in the chase to do anything once he got back. Good save on his and the team's part however.


Riders for a few upcoming races:

Classic de l'Ardèche Rhône Crussol

Surgio Samitier

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Jurgen Roelandts
Jaime Castrillo
Rory Sutherland


Kuurne - Brussel - Kuurne

Logan Owen
Jaime Castrillo
Jurgen Roelandts
Rory Sutherland

 

[armchairclimber]

Hoping for Gaudu to stay in the top three at UAE. Would like to see more from Scachmann and Lambrecht... and maybe Mareczko to figure in a sprint. My classics team isn't great this weekend. Philipsen and Van Aert are my main hopes for points.

 

[shalgo]

Hoping for some points from Taco, Boom, Rowe, Theuns, and Van Asbroeck during Opening Weekend.

 

[Tonton]

Gaviria and Ewan won, Gaudu's hanging in there, for Omloop I have Ian Stannard, it could turn out to be a great week!

 

[tobydawq]

Goddammit!!! Both Rowe and Kragh Andersen are out of the weekend races due to illness.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Re:

Goddammit!!! Both Rowe and Kragh Andersen are out of the weekend races due to illness.

No, that's a bummer! I had really been looking forward to seeing Kragh Andersen ride Omloop

 

[skidmark]

My weekend:

Het Niewsblad

Giacomo Nizzolo
Edward Theuns
Lars Boom
Baptiste Planckaert

KBK

same as above minus Planckaert, plus

Dan McLay
Nacer Bouhanni
Tom Van Asbroeck

That's not so bad, especially in the latter race. Het Volk is always an interesting one, where the break that gets up the road often contains a mix of second-tier favourites sprinkled sometimes with heavy favourites. Hard to predict is what I'm saying... other than Planckaert, I could see any of the other guys podiuming if things break right, but 'normally' I wouldn't expect much. KBK could be good for Nizzolo if they sprint for him, for Theuns, or for any of the 3 additions on my team not in Omloop.

Ardeche & Drome

... nobody? Eep.

My team is still not firing on all cylinders, with GC guys (Lambrecht, Sivakov, and more popular ones like Aru) looking like they don't have their stuff yet and sprinters getting some results but still not with consistency... it's hard to be satisfied, but I'm still patient.

 

[jon ezeitza]

Another stage that wins me the Eritrean whose name is difficult to know what it is (may be HAILU Biniam Girmay). It has been in the Tour of Rwanda. He has the face of a grandfather, but they say he is 19 years old. I picked it up by 0 points and it has already given me 48. This is going well.
Oh, and he has no team!

 

[ThePirate81]

Omloop
Trentin
Van Aert
Stallaert
Boom
Planckaert

Ardèche
Hardy
Lietaer

Kuurne
Trentin
Bouhanni
Boom
Van Staeyen

Drome
Hardy
Lietaer

Looking forward to a more selective Omloop with the new route. Trentin could be there hopefully.
Time to see Wout Van Aert back in action,I expect he'll peak for Strade Bianche to take his first big win on the road.

 

[Salvarani]

Gaudu, Knox and De Plus saving me from not having that many riders in action this weekend