The 2019 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

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Catalunya
KNOX James
VAKOČ Petr
BAUHAUS Phil
POWER Robert
RIABUSHENKO Alexandr
MUÑOZ Cristian Camilo
FRANKINY Kilian
MÄDER Gino
GIBBONS Ryan
O'CONNOR Ben

The average age here is pretty young. I dont think Im expecting too many points, but a few have potential at least to do something.
 
510 points for the week, if I counted correctly. Major contributions by Nibali, Bettiol, Halvorsen, Moschetti and Barbier. Pretty satisfied with that but I'm guessing some will have cracked the 1000 point barrier.

My team for Catalunya doesn't look too great. Mark Padun disappeared from the startlist and I'm starting to wonder what is delaying the start of his season. A bit worried.
I'll have to hope for a good result for Zaka, and maybe Fabbro can score a few GC points as well. And who knows, maybe Riabushenko can get a result in one or two select group sprints. Chaves will probably only be a domestique. Barguil starting here is already a victory after his bad crash in Paris-Nice. Anything beyond an anonymous ride will be a bonus.

My riders for Catalunya:
Esteban Chaves
Aliaksandr Riabushenko
Ilnur Zakarin
Matteo Fabbro
Warren Barguil
 
Well, an interesting week - the absolute nadir of my CQ experience this year was watching VdP lying on the ground waiting for an ambulance on Wednesday, and then also realizing in the replay that the Cofidis and Roompot riders that placed 4th and 5th in the sprint were not the Cofidis and Roompot riders that I had. Yeesh. Really glad VdP is fine, I said way back after the team reveal that he's my biggest risk and in a few ways the linchpin of my team. Van Aert - a comparison in terms of similar skills and cost - had a good week with 100 points from MSR, but VdP had a terrible crash and 140 points, so that's a wash maybe. Can't wait for those guys to go head to head on the road.

Nibali got 200 fewer points than last year in MSR but about 75 more than I expected, so that's not terrible either. He looks like he's rounding into form, a showing next month in Alps and Liege would be great ahead of the Giro. Barbier got boxed in/sat up in both sprints this week and got pretty minor points, and Gav and Nizzolo would have gotten a better haul if the front group wasn't quite as big, but hey it all adds up. I've still got some real useless riders but I needed a win like VdP's to start to pick up at least.
 
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Koronin said:
MADRAZO said:
Koronin said:
armchairclimber said:
Catalunya team

Hodeg
Chaves
Schachmann
Nibali
Ciccone
Lambrecht

Scope for some points but in such a stellar field, points will be hard to come by.

Is Nibali going to this one? I didn't see him on the start list I saw.

Antonio is


Ok, I didn't think Vincenzo was. Thanks.

Yeah, my mistake ... wishful thinking.
 
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LaFlorecita said:
510 points for the week, if I counted correctly. Major contributions by Nibali, Bettiol, Halvorsen, Moschetti and Barbier. Pretty satisfied with that but I'm guessing some will have cracked the 1000 point barrier.

My team for Catalunya doesn't look too great. Mark Padun disappeared from the startlist and I'm starting to wonder what is delaying the start of his season. A bit worried.
I'll have to hope for a good result for Zaka, and maybe Fabbro can score a few GC points as well. And who knows, maybe Riabushenko can get a result in one or two select group sprints. Chaves will probably only be a domestique. Barguil starting here is already a victory after his bad crash in Paris-Nice. Anything beyond an anonymous ride will be a bonus.

My riders for Catalunya:
Esteban Chaves
Aliaksandr Riabushenko
Ilnur Zakarin
Matteo Fabbro
Warren Barguil
Padun was sick a month ago, but at this point there must be something else behind his late start to the season. I can't find any news about it though and this worries me.
 
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del1962 said:
Catalunya Riders

Nairo
Vakoc
Egan
Chaves
Kamna
Munoz
Richie
Ilnur Z
Bart De Clerq

Hoping for 3 in the top 5 and another in the top 10

That's a solid team. I had not seen De Clercq was on the startlist so that makes it nine riders in this race for me:

De Clercq, Óscar Rodríguez, Chaves, Vakoc, Bauhaus ( :rolleyes: ), Bakelants, Reichenbach, Spilak, Gibbons.

I'm only expecting something from Gibbons. The start list is too tough for the others to be in contention.
 
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SafeBet said:
Padun was sick a month ago, but at this point there must be something else behind his late start to the season. I can't find any news about it though and this worries me.
Same thing as last year, if i remember correctly. He then appeared in April and was good immediately. Also would like to know what's going on here.
 
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I agree. That is some solid GC right there. Especially if Porte has any ideas of actually seeing if he can compete.


tobydawq said:
del1962 said:
Catalunya Riders

Nairo
Vakoc
Egan
Chaves
Kamna
Munoz
Richie
Ilnur Z
Bart De Clerq

Hoping for 3 in the top 5 and another in the top 10

That's a solid team. I had not seen De Clercq was on the startlist so that makes it nine riders in this race for me:

De Clercq, Óscar Rodríguez, Chaves, Vakoc, Bauhaus ( :rolleyes: ), Bakelants, Reichenbach, Spilak, Gibbons.

I'm only expecting something from Gibbons. The start list is too tough for the others to be in contention.
 
hopefully good weeks from bettiol, nibali and sajnok can drag me upwards from the embarrassing depths of 7th last. somewhere where I hope to never return.

you can add me to the people wondering where padun is...
 
Update #11: Teams Continue to Move up and Down a Googolplex Places in the Overall Standings

Spring is here, most riders are in action, and the hits just keep on coming. Tirenno-Adriatico GC points were up for grabs, as well as the first monument of the season, and 3 1.HC races. Last week we saw a team leap double digits into top spot and multiple teams have similar leaps into the top 10. Well, it's happened again!

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank Team Points this week
1 Googolplex 803
2 Object 760
3 Nicosix 746
4 Kryvo 677
5 Lortnoc 627

Googolplex was tied for first way back in week 1 in January, but now surges back to have an outright win this week, cracking 800 points! How did their team get it done? Well, it would have been even more points if not for the 0.31 seconds that Adam Yates (241 points, 6 teams) lost out to Roglic on the T-A overall, so that's one big factor. Some decent points from more popular riders like Nibali (118 points this week) and Bettiol (103) and mid-popular like Halvorsen (84) and Moschetti (62) give a solid basis, plus some handfuls of a dozen or two from a few other riders. Object slides into second mostly on the backs of Yates/Nibali/Bettiol/Halvorsen and Van der Poel, who scored 140 points after a scary crash earlier in the week looked like it had scuppered his classics campaign. Nicosix, no stranger to this chart after winning in week 5, comes in third with a similar setup (sans VdP and Bettiol but with good points from Trentin and rare pick Sasha Weemaes).

This Week's High Movers

Rank Team Up/down
1 Kryvo (+38)
2 EvansIsTheBest (+30)
3 Lortnoc (+29)
4 AlyKaptan (+28)
5 Nyssinator (+25)

A different list here, as some of the last group was the rich getting richer (ie. they were already high in the standings). Here, Kryvo jumps up over a third of the table - 38 spots - as one of what must be a very few teams with both Van Aert and van der Poel (and the requisite Nibali and Bettiol). EITB shows up this week too (top contributor not already mentioned - Philipsen with 77 points), and Lortnoc gains a respectable 29 places to round out the podium.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank Team Total
1 Googolplex 118
1 Popchu 118
3 Nicosix 103
4 MADRAZO 95
4 just_some_guy 95

Before last week, MADRAZO and jsg were tied for first place, with Googolplex, Popchu and Nicosix in a three way tie behind with 73 points. Since then, Popchu won last week, Googolplex won this week, and Nicosix got third this week, so the order is flipped. There's now a two-way tie for first, Nicosix 15 points back in 3rd, and a two-way tie for 4th between teams that were tied for 1st before last week. Pretty crazy flipping of the standings. Speaking of crazy flipping of the standings...

Top 10 Overall

Rank Up/down Team Points
1 (+10) Nicosix 2726
2 (-1) Popchu 2721
3 (+23) Googolplex 2588
4 (-2) Blues in the bottle 2586
5 (-2) MADRAZO 2558
6 (+22) Object 2532
7 (-1) shalgo 2515
8 (-) Amis_Velo 2480
9 (+5) TheArt 2471
10 (+7) bminchow 2412

After rocketing up the standings last week to storm the top spot, Popchu drops down to second to Nicosix, whose team has their own meteoric rise to claim top spot by a mere 5 points. The week's winner Googolplex moves from 26th to 3rd, and Object has a similar rise to 6th. The re-entry into the top 10 of TheArt and bminchow means that 5 of the top 10 have entered this week, while we lose Salvarani, del1962, just some guy (who I think has been in the top 10 all season maybe?), 18-Valve and Leadbelly.

Phew! What are we gonna get this week from the star-studded Catalunya, the, uhhhh, One Day of De Panne, and E3?

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Thanks for the (sad) update!

-27 spots. :eek:

From Top 10 after the Bonga Bonga race, I think this is the ninth consecutive slide.

Geeeeez, I can't catch a break. :cool:
 
Amazingly my team isn't the last place team. I am surprised by that. On a positive note I have 5 riders in positive territory with points. Granted is a very popular pick in Bettiol. My two unique picks in positive territory are Nicholas Schultz and Bernard Eisel. Of course Eisel only needed 10 points to match last year's numbers and he's got 15. My other two riders in positive territory are Simone Petilli and Marcos Mathis, both of whom are on two other teams each.

However, my team is still a train wreck.
 
Thanks for the update. Nice to move up 7 spots in a week that I thought was decent but not exceptional :)

Looking forward to tomorrow's Driedaagse De Panne and the start of Coppi e Bartali.

My team for De Panne:
Edoardo Affini
Harry Tanfield
Marcel Kittel
Kristoffer Halvorsen
Luke Rowe
Max Walscheid
Matteo Moschetti
Fernando Gaviria
Nacer Bouhanni
Rudy Barbier

If it ends in a sprint, I could score a nice amount of points, with a couple popular and less popular sprinter picks in the race. Fingers crossed.

Coppi e Bartali:
Vincenzo Albanese
Lucas Hamilton
Robert Stannard
Mattia Cattaneo

Hamilton was top-10 in this race last year and looked good in Australia at the start of the season. Normally it should be a good race for Cattaneo as well. Points for Albanese and Stannard would be a bonus, although this is the type of race that could suit them in theory.
 
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escartin said:
hopefully good weeks from bettiol, nibali and sajnok can drag me upwards from the embarrassing depths of 7th last. somewhere where I hope to never return.

you can add me to the people wondering where padun is...

hmm, turns out they dragged me up to the wondrous heights of 8th last! :rolleyes:

good lord, this season is going badly.