6 points from my unique pick Shmid Artem. 
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It can be over 500 points only from tirreno
I was so pissed off when UAE send yesterday Almeida to chaise Caruso for other UAE GC riders, but will not complain about outcome...
btw should we worry about Asgreen already?
btw should we worry about Asgreen already?
Schachmann not very good either.
Ben Hermans is another one who has suffered from fatigue and long-post covid.
Kwiatkowski has never really been the same either after he had similar problems with fatigue a few years ago now. He has been able to make some results afterwards, but not close to his level prior to 2019 though.
Tour of Taiwan starts tomorrow, and the competition looks about as "good" as I hoped for!
Prades has won this before, so some decent points would be nice.
Prades has won this before, so some decent points would be nice.
But will he survive stage 3? He (and the others) need wings to get over those ramps.Tour of Taiwan starts tomorrow, and the competition looks about as "good" as I hoped for!
Prades has won this before, so some decent points would be nice.
Have pretty much lost faith in my non-popular expensive riders this year, and my own selection process. Had Gregoire and Strand last season, but dropped them as I 'fancied a change'. As with Ciccone who looks like having his first issue-free season for a while, after I've had him for the last two.
The game is effectively over for me as a competition after Roglic's debut, but will carry on contributing. Good luck to those who have him and commiserations to those with Ayuso, who seems to have continuing issues?
The game is effectively over for me as a competition after Roglic's debut, but will carry on contributing. Good luck to those who have him and commiserations to those with Ayuso, who seems to have continuing issues?
My team being in the 50's shouldn't brag. But quite a nice result for Tobias Lund Andresen in the marquis event of the weekend, up in Drenthe.
Can't help but notice that popularity of 1.
Can't help but notice that popularity of 1.
Amazing week for my team, Roglic cleaning up in TA and my GC guys in PN collectively outscoring Roglic.
Couldn't have hoped for a better result.
Couldn't have hoped for a better result.
Only one of the 8 guys above me have Roglic, and that team does not have Simon Yates. Things will be closer after the next update.
Update #10: Huge shakeup in the standings as YellowKnight wins the week
Well, the Roglic bomb has exploded across the CQ game. Picked by 57 teams at a cost of 1240 points, the man who looked like potentially the most consequential pick of the game in the pre-season made a decisive case in favour of that idea this week, dominating Tirenno-Adriatico and recouping 507 points towards his cost in one fell swoop. Oh, and there was a whole other set of placings in that high level WorldTour race. Oh and also Paris-Nice.
This Week's Top Scorers
1000 point weeks aren't the most common thing in this game, but 6 teams cleared the bar in this early March week. YellowKnight tops them all with 1234 points, thanks largely to 3 huge hauls from expensive riders - the aforementioned Roglic of course, but also another performance that was quite impressive despite being overshadowed by the Slovenian dominance of the week was David Gaudu (317 points, 12 teams) with a career best performance, dropping the reigning TdF champ a few times. Joao Almeida (222 points, 15 teams) was typically solid as well, helping YellowKnight to the win along with Filippo Ganna (83 points, 7 teams).
NorthAmericanScum ended up just over 50 points back with the same big trio but no Ganna, while Whoops got third place with Roglic/Gaudu and notable performances by Gino Mader (144, 11), Jack Haig (70, 44) and Aurelien Paret-Peintre (70, 12).
This Week's High Movers
I think I made a comment in a recent update to the effect of "now that the season is underway we won't see any really crazy moves in this ranking". Oops. The top 2 are flipped in this ranking from the Top Scorers, with NorthAmericanScum moving up an enormous 60 places! Senderos rounds out the podium of this ranking.
Green Jersey Competition
None of the top 5 teams scored this week, which means that some teams who haven't been high in the weekly rankings were high this week. Which suggests that the overall table could see some significant shakeup...
Top 10 Overall
bminchow remains a calm sea of non-movement atop the volatile standings, but the several-hundred point lead has all but evaporated for the non-Roglic-haver. tobydawq jumps up to #2 a mere 43 points back, and Whoops flies up the standings to get within 100 as well. Some enormous leaps here, with Whoops, Crevaison, will10, AlfaLum and HoudiniCycling all moving into the top 10 at the expense of zaka fan, Squire, Jakob747, Poles & Co, and ray10, who tumble out.
This week the focus shifts to one-day races, with no fewer than 8 1-day races ranked .1 and above, culminating in the opening of Monument season with Milan-San Remo on Saturday.
spreadsheet at dropbox
Well, the Roglic bomb has exploded across the CQ game. Picked by 57 teams at a cost of 1240 points, the man who looked like potentially the most consequential pick of the game in the pre-season made a decisive case in favour of that idea this week, dominating Tirenno-Adriatico and recouping 507 points towards his cost in one fell swoop. Oh, and there was a whole other set of placings in that high level WorldTour race. Oh and also Paris-Nice.
This Week's Top Scorers
| Rank | Team | Points this week |
| 1 | Yellow Knight | 1234 |
| 2 | NorthAmericanScum | 1177 |
| 3 | Whoops | 1175 |
| 4 | HoudiniCycling | 1149 |
| 5 | will10 | 1128 |
1000 point weeks aren't the most common thing in this game, but 6 teams cleared the bar in this early March week. YellowKnight tops them all with 1234 points, thanks largely to 3 huge hauls from expensive riders - the aforementioned Roglic of course, but also another performance that was quite impressive despite being overshadowed by the Slovenian dominance of the week was David Gaudu (317 points, 12 teams) with a career best performance, dropping the reigning TdF champ a few times. Joao Almeida (222 points, 15 teams) was typically solid as well, helping YellowKnight to the win along with Filippo Ganna (83 points, 7 teams).
NorthAmericanScum ended up just over 50 points back with the same big trio but no Ganna, while Whoops got third place with Roglic/Gaudu and notable performances by Gino Mader (144, 11), Jack Haig (70, 44) and Aurelien Paret-Peintre (70, 12).
This Week's High Movers
| Rank | Team | Up/down |
| 1 | NorthAmericanScum | (+60) |
| 2 | Yellow Knight | (+49) |
| 3 | Senderos | (+46) |
| 4 | HoudiniCycling | (+37) |
| 5 | Amis_Velo | (+35) |
I think I made a comment in a recent update to the effect of "now that the season is underway we won't see any really crazy moves in this ranking". Oops. The top 2 are flipped in this ranking from the Top Scorers, with NorthAmericanScum moving up an enormous 60 places! Senderos rounds out the podium of this ranking.
Green Jersey Competition
| Rank | Team | Total |
| 1 | bminchow | 137.3 |
| 2 | Jakob747 | 122.3 |
| 3 | Blues in the bottle | 109.5 |
| 4 | rote_laterne | 95.5 |
| 5 | zaka_fan | 88.3 |
None of the top 5 teams scored this week, which means that some teams who haven't been high in the weekly rankings were high this week. Which suggests that the overall table could see some significant shakeup...
Top 10 Overall
| Rank | Up/down | Team | Points |
| 1 | (-) | bminchow | 3184 |
| 2 | (+7) | tobydawq | 3141 |
| 3 | (+26) | Whoops | 3105 |
| 4 | (+11) | Crevaison | 3074 |
| 5 | (+2) | Blues in the bottle | 3066 |
| 6 | (+2) | adamski101 | 3063 |
| 7 | (+3) | DJW | 3020 |
| 8 | (+32) | will10 | 2946 |
| 9 | (+5) | AlfaLum | 2929 |
| 10 | (+37) | HoudiniCycling | 2911 |
bminchow remains a calm sea of non-movement atop the volatile standings, but the several-hundred point lead has all but evaporated for the non-Roglic-haver. tobydawq jumps up to #2 a mere 43 points back, and Whoops flies up the standings to get within 100 as well. Some enormous leaps here, with Whoops, Crevaison, will10, AlfaLum and HoudiniCycling all moving into the top 10 at the expense of zaka fan, Squire, Jakob747, Poles & Co, and ray10, who tumble out.
This week the focus shifts to one-day races, with no fewer than 8 1-day races ranked .1 and above, culminating in the opening of Monument season with Milan-San Remo on Saturday.
spreadsheet at dropbox
Ooff. Not a good turn out at all for my team, especially in P-N and T-A. Lost some ground in the rankings. Oh well, thats part of the game sometimes.
One positive thing is that Sivakov looks like a solid pick. Shame with Kelderman who was in such a good position to score many points in his first race for JV, but the inevitable happened and he crashed.
Some upcoming races to look forward to:
Milano - Torino
ALEOTTI Giovanni
HERMANS Ben
VAN UDEN Casper
DE GENDT Aimé
Maybe Van Uden could get something here. He is the one that could be able to score some points in this race, when it will most likely be a sprint in the end (which still feels weird for this race).
Danilith Nokere Koerse
NYS Thibau
MIHKELS Madis
First race for Nys this season and hopefully he will be off to a good start. Mihkels could be there as well, but he is still getting the hang of it seems like.
Grand Prix de Denain - Porte du Hainaut
MARIT Arne
DEKKER David
NYS Thibau
Hopefully someone could have a good race.
Bredene Koksijde Classic
MIHKELS Madis
DEKKER David
NYS Thibau
Nys will have a busy three days it seems like. Wonder if he will really race three days in a row, but if he hits the ground running could be into profit immediately.
Milano-Sanremo
MILAN Jonathan
HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich
GARCÍA CORTINA Iván
ASGREEN Kasper
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
There will probably be some more riders added to this list leading up to the weekend. IGC winning a reduced bunch sprint, would be nice. Should I buy my lottery ticket now?
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Lol, even worse than expected with 94th on the week and a drop of 41 places. Couldn't even win most dramatic collapse as someone pipped me with 42.
Primoz, my saviour. You won't make my team jump to the top, but you might keep it from falling to the bottom.
I have quite a lot of riders for the smaller races this week
Milano-Torino: Fabbro, De Bod, Hermans
Nokere Koerse: Svrcek, Ackermann, Vacek, Askey, Flynn, Mihkels
Denain: Askey, Rex, Vacek
Koksijde: Ackermann, Svrcek, Mihkels, Rex, Vacek
Loire Atl: Askey, Froidevaux
who might score me a few minor points.
MSR looks terrible so far for me. How's the forecast? I'm okay with some rain and wind and the riders refusing to race...
I have quite a lot of riders for the smaller races this week
Milano-Torino: Fabbro, De Bod, Hermans
Nokere Koerse: Svrcek, Ackermann, Vacek, Askey, Flynn, Mihkels
Denain: Askey, Rex, Vacek
Koksijde: Ackermann, Svrcek, Mihkels, Rex, Vacek
Loire Atl: Askey, Froidevaux
who might score me a few minor points.
MSR looks terrible so far for me. How's the forecast? I'm okay with some rain and wind and the riders refusing to race...
There are way too many non-Spanish races. The UCI should look into that.
Phew. Survived the Roglic onslaught to last another week. I'd like to say I'll expand my lead this week, but there is nothing to indicate that. Unless I get lucky with Honore in San Remo.
Milano - Torino
Cees Bol
VAN UDEN Casper
Maybe Van Uden could get something here. He is the one that could be able to score some points in this race, when it will most likely be a sprint in the end (which still feels weird for this race). Bol is probably their number three sprinter so... No.
Danilith Nokere Koerse
MIHKELS Madis
Mihkels could be there as well, but he is still getting the hang of it seems like.
Grand Prix de Denain - Porte du Hainaut
DEKKER David
That's it brother
Bredene Koksijde Classic
MIHKELS Madis
DEKKER David
Mihkels could really help me here. This is where we find out if he and Dekker have anything to offer this year.
Milano-Sanremo
HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich
PIDCOCK Thomas
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
Can they go 1-2-3 for me (and many others)? I doubt it.
Milano - Torino
Cees Bol
VAN UDEN Casper
Maybe Van Uden could get something here. He is the one that could be able to score some points in this race, when it will most likely be a sprint in the end (which still feels weird for this race). Bol is probably their number three sprinter so... No.
Danilith Nokere Koerse
MIHKELS Madis
Mihkels could be there as well, but he is still getting the hang of it seems like.
Grand Prix de Denain - Porte du Hainaut
DEKKER David
That's it brother
Bredene Koksijde Classic
MIHKELS Madis
DEKKER David
Mihkels could really help me here. This is where we find out if he and Dekker have anything to offer this year.
Milano-Sanremo
HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich
PIDCOCK Thomas
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
Can they go 1-2-3 for me (and many others)? I doubt it.
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