The 2020 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Armchair Cyclist]

Unless the UCI decide again to ignore their own rules, no WorldTeam would be allowed.

 

[Koronin]

Unless the UCI decide again to ignore their own rules, no WorldTeam would be allowed.

Well it's possible the UCI will allow the race to have a few WT teams if it wants to. I wouldn't be shocked if the reasoning they would use (if they decide to) would be the races in Australia were cancelled.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Before we move on to the 2021 version of the game for good, I wonder if someone is able to compute the best possible team for 2020. I've always enjoyed seeing the best picks in previous years.

 

[SafeBet]

Yeah I was wondering about that as well. Squire's end of the season stats were also very interesting.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Before we move on to the 2021 version of the game for good, I wonder if someone is able to compute the best possible team for 2020. I've always enjoyed seeing the best picks in previous years.

I'll have a go.

The "Impeccable picks" (if you are not familiar with this from the CQ games I run, these are the riders who scored higher than everyone else in that price range)

So, for example, if last year you had 32 names in your squad, and still had 650 points in your budget, you would have been better off picking Almeida and sending in your team with 538 points 'wasted' than any other selection you might have made (but how many of us would be courageous enough to leave that many points unspent?)

Rider	Budget in range	Points earned
ROGLIC Primoz	3235 or more​	3004​
POGACAR Tadej	1519 to 3234​	2044​
VAN AERT Wout	898 to 1514​	1702​
DEMARE Arnaud	818 to 897​	1236​
PORTE Richie	651 to 817​	1185​
ALMEIDA Joao Pedro Gonçalves	112 to 650​	1114​
BAGIOLI Andrea	83 to 111​	377​
KRIEGER Alexander	42 to 82​	314​
KACZMAREK Jakub	18 to 41​	226​
FEDOROV Yevgeniy	2 to 17​	210​
SIMMONS Quinn	0 to 1​	205​

You could have sent that set in as an 11 man team well within budget (7378) and got a winning score of 11617.

I make no guarantee that this bunch couldn't be beaten (@Hakkie2 usually does better than me in trying to find maximum combinations), but the best I have found is:

Rider	Cost	Score	Teams
POGACAR Tadej	1519​	2044​	3
VAN AERT Wout	898​	1702​	11
DEMARE Arnaud	818​	1236​	0
PORTE Richie	651​	1185​	2
ALMEIDA Joao Pedro Gonçalves	112​	1114​	19
KELDERMAN Wilco	402​	913​	26
GANNA Filippo	436​	854​	2
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao	521​	853​	1
HINDLEY Jai	317​	849​	2
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh	268​	649​	43
BOUHANNI Nacer	276​	565​	52
KÄMNA Lennard	155​	518​	46
GESCHKE Simon	205​	446​	0
KUSS Sepp	233​	434​	8
BAGIOLI Andrea	83​	377​	35
CERNY Josef	100​	373​	0
VERMEERSCH Gianni	132​	348​	0
KRIEGER Alexander	42​	314​	6
TESFATSION Natnael Ocbit	54​	292​	0
HAILU Biniam Girmay	55​	277​	7
EEKHOFF Nils	74​	245​	18
KACZMAREK Jakub	18​	226​	0
RICKAERT Jonas	23​	211​	13
FEDOROV Yevgeniy	2​	210​	0
WACKERMANN Luca	55​	208​	0
VERMEERSCH Florian	16​	208​	0
SIMMONS Quinn	0​	205​	76
HOLLER Nikodemus	17​	194​	2
MORIN Emmanuel	5​	146​	1
KOOIJ Olav	0​	144​	0
LEVASSEUR Jordan	4​	126​	2
KANTER Max	8​	125​	63
MARQUEZ ROMAN Marti	0​	113​	0

Spending 7499 for 17692 points (I had a slightly higher score with a team including Brajkovic, but realised that he would not have been available at his 2019 price)


And don't forget that the 2021 CQ Manager game is not the only one starting this month: there is also the 3 year long Emerging Riders CQ game as well [/shameless plug]

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Rider	Cost	Score	Teams
ALMEIDA Joao Pedro Gonçalves	112​	1114​	19
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh	268​	649​	43
BOUHANNI Nacer	276​	565​	52
KÄMNA Lennard	155​	518​	46
SIMMONS Quinn	0​	205​	76
LEVASSEUR Jordan	4​	126​	2
KANTER Max	8​	125​	63

Seven members of the ideal team, not bad at all (would never have guessed that Kanter was on it).