Year in Review: September
The last full month of the cycling calendar was the biggest with regards to points in the CQ game. The Vuelta GC was decided early in the month, and even with the cancellation of some planned races (eg the Canadian races), the Worlds added significantly to point totals. And finally, since the last week of September ended on the Sunday of October 3rd, Paris-Roubaix points were counted towards September as well.
September's Top Scorers
Squire had a magnificent month, nabbing more than twice as many points as the highest scorers in August. By far, the best scorer on the team was Sonny Colbrelli, who got 949 points. Of course, 280 of those came from winning a monument, but that leaves another 650+ he got on the month from winning the Benelux Tour (in fact with stage points he totalled higher than P-R from this race), European championships, 10th at the Worlds, winning a 1.1 race and getting 2nd in a 1.PS race. A solid career in the span of a month. Somewhat further back for Squire was Michael Valgren coming alive with 425 points from his Worlds podium, as well as wins in a 1.PS and 1.1 race. Each of these riders was relatively rare (18 teams) and so this gave Squire a big leg up. Aside from them, the bright lights were many, including Laporte (317, 32 teams), Jordi Meeus (256, 8), Bernal (246, 83), Trentin (213, 36), Moscon (200, 39), Sagan (197, 55), and 8 more riders over 100. A huge month!
Total Package finishes a mere 16 points (or .3%) behind Squire for the month, good for second here but of course accompanied by the significant consolation of a rise up the overall standings. Total Package has the same bright lights at the top (Colbrelli and Valgren), but concentrates scoring with fewer riders, including Adam Yates (364, 13), then Laporte, Mader (250, 6), Bernal, Viviani (234, 32), Trentin, Sagan, and 4 more riders over 100. Northerner has a very decent third place showing, with of course Colbrelli leading the way, but Alaphilippe (523, 27) taking the place of Valgren, and a smattering of already named riders including Yates, Laporte, Bernal, Trentin, Moscon. Too much scoring this month to name them all!
Top 10 at the end of September
The die was pretty cast by this point - in the few remaining weeks, the top 8 would stay in the same order. But Object was lucky to have that 1200 point lead after August, because it had been reduced by 1000 at this point! Squire and Total Package parlayed their incredibly strong September showings into podium places in the overall.
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The last full month of the cycling calendar was the biggest with regards to points in the CQ game. The Vuelta GC was decided early in the month, and even with the cancellation of some planned races (eg the Canadian races), the Worlds added significantly to point totals. And finally, since the last week of September ended on the Sunday of October 3rd, Paris-Roubaix points were counted towards September as well.
September's Top Scorers
| Rank | Team | Points this month |
| 1 | Squire | 4453 |
| 2 | Total Package | 4437 |
| 3 | Northerner | 4403 |
| 4 | Crevaison | 4268 |
| 5 | Jon_Ezeitza | 4111 |
| 6 | postmanhat | 4073 |
| 7 | skidmark | 3831 |
| 8 | tobydawq | 3658 |
| 9 | Amis_Velo | 3634 |
| 10 | shalgo | 3588 |
Squire had a magnificent month, nabbing more than twice as many points as the highest scorers in August. By far, the best scorer on the team was Sonny Colbrelli, who got 949 points. Of course, 280 of those came from winning a monument, but that leaves another 650+ he got on the month from winning the Benelux Tour (in fact with stage points he totalled higher than P-R from this race), European championships, 10th at the Worlds, winning a 1.1 race and getting 2nd in a 1.PS race. A solid career in the span of a month. Somewhat further back for Squire was Michael Valgren coming alive with 425 points from his Worlds podium, as well as wins in a 1.PS and 1.1 race. Each of these riders was relatively rare (18 teams) and so this gave Squire a big leg up. Aside from them, the bright lights were many, including Laporte (317, 32 teams), Jordi Meeus (256, 8), Bernal (246, 83), Trentin (213, 36), Moscon (200, 39), Sagan (197, 55), and 8 more riders over 100. A huge month!
Total Package finishes a mere 16 points (or .3%) behind Squire for the month, good for second here but of course accompanied by the significant consolation of a rise up the overall standings. Total Package has the same bright lights at the top (Colbrelli and Valgren), but concentrates scoring with fewer riders, including Adam Yates (364, 13), then Laporte, Mader (250, 6), Bernal, Viviani (234, 32), Trentin, Sagan, and 4 more riders over 100. Northerner has a very decent third place showing, with of course Colbrelli leading the way, but Alaphilippe (523, 27) taking the place of Valgren, and a smattering of already named riders including Yates, Laporte, Bernal, Trentin, Moscon. Too much scoring this month to name them all!
Top 10 at the end of September
| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1 | Object | 18520 |
| 2 | Squire | 18307 |
| 3 | Total Package | 17929 |
| 4 | Northerner | 17446 |
| 5 | Jon_Ezeitza | 17084 |
| 6 | Otoxiep87 | 16972 |
| 7 | JPettersen | 16808 |
| 8 | skidmark | 16626 |
| 9 | tobydawq | 16607 |
| 10 | Galpedal | 16398 |
The die was pretty cast by this point - in the few remaining weeks, the top 8 would stay in the same order. But Object was lucky to have that 1200 point lead after August, because it had been reduced by 1000 at this point! Squire and Total Package parlayed their incredibly strong September showings into podium places in the overall.
spreadsheet link
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