Update #36: The standings get tighter as the end draws near
What a week and what a race on Sunday! Aside from the race fan excitement of watching Roubaix finally after 2.5 years and in the rain, the CQ excitement must have been through the roof, with the 39 teams with Moscon must have had quite the roller coaster, for example, and any of the teams with the top 3, or various riders who crashed and came back on and crashed again... anyway, the 4th monument comes a week before the 5th, the new Holy Week on this rescheduled calendar. For those wondering, a brief glance at the CQ page shows that after Lombardia and Paris-Tours next week, there remain a handful of .1 races the week of the 11th-17th, and the lone 1.1 Ronde van Drenthe is scheduled for the 24th (which I'll believe when I see), so effectively the game is winding up very soon. So, let's cherish these updates while we have them!
This Week's Top Scorers
postmanhat has a gigantic week, cracking 4 digits with a score of 1106. Of course their team had Colbrelli and his massive 280 points, 182 from Remco Evenepoel (it appears CQ released the update on Monday after he had scored 130 for winning in Italy), and was also one of the 7 teams who believed in one Florian Vermeersch and was rewarded with 175 points this week. Throw in Moscon (125) and Laporte (100) and you've got 4 of the top 6 from Roubaix and Remco. Good haul! Crevaison nabs second with the above less Vermeersch, and there's a tie for third with exactly 879 points between Amis Velo and tobydawq even though both have different sources (both have Remco, Moscon and Laporte, but tobydawq has Colbrelli while Amis Velo took a less likely route with Jakobsen and Cavendish).
This Week's High Movers
Yes, even with such high scores, week 36 of the season leads to some fairly modest gains and losses on the big chart, and sometimes a nine-way tie for fifth on this ranking. postmanhat doubles up here, moving up 8 spots for the 1100+ points their team scored. Blues in the bottle nabs second place with a 'Poel to Poel' team (perhaps the only team with Remco and Mathieu), and one of the two teams who decided Stevie Williams was worth a flier for 5 points and got 146 this week for a win at a race I didn't even know was happening. EvansIsTheBest nabs third.
Green Jersey Competition
This is the most interesting finish I can recall in this competition - I believe there was a two-way race that went down to the final week (iirc it was Squire surrendering the lead after leading all season to Emericlabordure?), but never a three-way race this close. Last week Bicycle Boy pulled barely ahead of Otoxiep87, and this week neither score, but Jon Ezeitza scores 16 points to pull within a handful of the lead. Either the second or third teams can pull into the lead with a 13th place or higher on one of the final weeks. Hugo Koblet is mathematically within a weekly win of the lead as well, so if nobody scores, the Ronde van Drenthe goes on and Hugo is loaded with riders, he would win by 1.67 points. Anyway, this will be fun to follow the next two weeks.
Top 10 Overall
The attention the last two weeks has been at the top, as Squire has made dramatic gains on Object's lead, which had been around 1200 points a few weeks ago. It is now down to 213, with Squire gaining another 121 this week. The bad news for Squire is that Object has Remco while Squire doesn't, and there are like 5 races in Italy this week. The good news for Squire is that Remco's win on October 4th is already factored into this ranking. But it's a very narrow path, with few opportunities remaining.
Further down on the rankings there is a bit of place switching, with tobydawq jumping back into the top 10 at the price of Boris98.
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