Update #28: Object extends the lead again
This past week saw races in Burgos and Norway, with most of the popular expensive riders in the game taking the week off. As such, the leaders on the week were those with the best combo of relatively rare riders. Not a high scoring week overall, but still enough difference amongst the top teams overall to bring out some gaps.
This Week's Top Scorers
Vladimir has the magic combo this week, coming out on top by 16 points. Their team's highest scorer was Romain Bardet with 106 points for his 47 owners, but oh it could have been so much more. Mark Padun (10 teams) picked up 92 points, and Pavel Sivakov (31 teams) got 78. Vladimir rounds this out with a few riders scoring in the 30-50 range. Eyeballs Out gets the runner up spot with some points from rare riders in Norway - Odd Christian Eiking (130 points, 3 teams) and Samuele Battistella (83 points, 2 teams) add to Bardet and Sivakov points. Lortnoc rounds out the podium with Bardet, Sivakov and 110 points from Fabio Aru (14 teams), who manages his best GC finish in years at Burgos.
This Week's High Movers
By this point of the season, there's not much movement in weeks like this, and shalgo nabs the spot as highest mover by moving up 7 spots in the overall with the Bardet/Sivakov/Aru combo. Vladimir doesn't quite manage the double win, but is up there in second, while ray10 rounds out the podium.
Green Jersey Competition
No scoring in the top 5 this week and so no change in order; Otoxiep87 still leads. The highest overall placement scoring is del1962 in 10th, although I do want to give a shoutout to del's team for their consistency, as this is the 4th week in a row they've scored points for being in the top 15 of the week, and the 7th out of the last 10 weeks there.
Top 10 Overall
The last few weeks had seen little change at the top but Otoxiep87 was chipping away at Object's lead; that was all reversed this week as Object scores 298 points to Otoxiep87's 38 points. Object also gains at least 100 points on everyone else in the top 6. The only change in and out of the top 10 is that mineralJ comes in at the expense of Armchair Cyclist.
This week we are back to the WorldTour with Poland (albeit not with a top-tier WT lineup), and the return of the Tour of Denmark. And of course, the first two stages of the Vuelta will be on this update! Last grand tour of the year is coming.
spreadsheet at dropbox
(ps sorry I messed up the link last week,
Thanks for update as always.