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?
Spreadsheet at dropbox
), Bakelants, Reichenbach, Spilak, Gibbons.
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