The 2023 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[EvansIsTheBest]

With the LBL leader usually faltering later on in the season, what is most important to overperform the expected value is, I think, to have a bunch of team close to the top at this stage so that at least one will continue scoring well. That's the complete opposite of what we have this year. In fact if we ignore Blues' team for a second, and run the equation on will10's second place team we end up with a expected final score of 14622 for the winner. So I would take the under on the expected value for the winner (despite it not being all that high to begin with). To get back to the original point made by Devil's Elbow, anybody doubling their score should be very close to the win this year.

 

[Panda Claws]

My team is probably the best but it underperforms.

Now that that is made clear, does anyone have a way to calculate what the most impactful riders were so far?

 

[shalgo]

Thibau Nys lives! Now Ayuso is my only zero-pointer, and I hope that will change this week.

 

[bminchow]

Finally a good seek for me again. but Simon going Ill isnt going to help this week.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

@skidmark, I can't remember if it was discussed at the time, and I can't use the search function right now, but when I was checking how Óscar Cabedo had performed this year, I noticed that CQ's results from the South Aegean Tour and the Tour of Rhodes don't seem be correct. This affects the scores of LUNDER Eirik, who should be on 15 points instead of 16, and TUREK Daniel, who should have 4 instead of 6.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Thibau Nys lives! Now Ayuso is my only zero-pointer, and I hope that will change this week.

All you had to do is ask apparently.

 

[postmanhat]

Can't believe I passed on picking repeat riders from my 2022 team for a bunch of guys that don't even show up to race. Although Van Eetvelt adding a doping suspension was a nice touch to add a different flavor to the "whole team sucks" vibes.

Very much the same. Almost impressive how bad my team has been this year. Aside from Pidcock, only one of my top 27 riders is in profit, and that's Van Eetvelt. A few others have shown flashes of form but immediately crash, get ill, or even worse, diagnosed with mononucleosis (best wishes Hugo). Amazingly, there are 30 teams worse than mine, but that won't last now Ayuso is firing again and Pidcock's off to do MTB.

Have reset my goals to finishing last, and an easy selection process next year.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

First Izagirre has a stupid crash in O Gran Camiño, where he could have scored about a 100 points, and now both he and Higuita are out of Romandie. Well at least my riders in Asturias did alright today.

 

[Salvarani]

All you had to do is ask apparently.

Crazy how it has been so close between us in the spring game and now in the last update here we are tied! At least until the next update

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Riders I was closest to picking - Lampaert, Poole, Thompson, Quick.

Ouch.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

4 guys in the top 10 of today's stage which softens the blow from Ayuso being off the pace.

I haven't been right about much this year beyond taking Van der Poel and Pidcock in the classics game so it's nice to see that rating Poole higher than Onley might actually be the correct call.

 

[tobydawq]

Very nice result today with Kragh and Steinhauser!

 

[the asian]

Does this weeks update include the Frankfurt Results?

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

No, the current update runs until 30 April.

 

[search]

@skidmark, I can't remember if it was discussed at the time, and I can't use the search function right now, but when I was checking how Óscar Cabedo had performed this year, I noticed that CQ's results from the South Aegean Tour and the Tour of Rhodes don't seem be correct. This affects the scores of LUNDER Eirik, who should be on 15 points instead of 16, and TUREK Daniel, who should have 4 instead of 6.

quickest way to get these things fixed is normally a post on the CQ forum:

CQ Men

CQ Men - CQranking Info Center

cqranking.actieforum.com

(as I had to look for the link anyway, I just brought it up there myself, btw)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

quickest way to get these things fixed is normally a post on the CQ forum:

CQ Men

CQ Men - CQranking Info Center

cqranking.actieforum.com

(as I had to look for the link anyway, I just brought it up there myself, btw)

Thanks. It wasn't because I couldn't have contacted them myself, but I didn't want to disturb them in case they had already been made aware of it.

 

[skidmark]

Update #17: Blues continues to crush

Romandie is in the books, and there was a wide range of points scored in the top 10 overall. Unfortunately for the rest of the field, it was the rich getting richer, as Blues in the bottle continued a wonderful spring run.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Blues in the bottle	665
2	Fivezzz	637
3	LosBrolin	621
4	EvansIsTheBest	602
5	Nyssinator	551

Bitb grabs another trophy, getting 665 points on the week thanks to continued great pick Matteo Jorgenson (230 points, 5 teams), as well as a WT-best showing by young Uijtdebroeks (113 points, 67 teams), and good showings from the ubiquitous Bernal (91 points, 90 teams) and the less common Dunbar (80, 11) and Vernon (79, 12). Fivezzz lands in second without Jorgenson but with two 146-point scorers of wildly different pedigree: Juan Ayuso (25 teams) finally gets his season started, while the hitherto-unheralded Max Poole (6 teams) gives a career-best performance. LosBrolin lands in third with the same combo as Fivezzz.

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	LosBrolin	(+21)
2	EvansIsTheBest	(+19)
3	slow_climber	(+17)
4	skidmark	(+14)
5	Nakazar	(+11)

LosBrolin moves up in this standing, benefitting from the fact that weekly top scorer Bitb literally had no spots to move up the overall. A familiar name makes a first appearance this year on the charts, as defending champ EvansIsTheBest (Ayuso, Uijtdebroeks, Poole) gets it going by moving up 19 spots, while slow climber (Ayuso, Jorgenson, Uijtdebroeks) moves up 17.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Blues in the bottle	204.5
2	rote_laterne	184.5
3	bminchow	151.3
4	zaka_fan	149.3
5	escartin	146

Unsurprisingly, Bitb moves into first in this competition as well, leapfrogging rote laterne with the 45 points that comes with a weekly win. No other teams in the top 5 scored points this week.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Blues in the bottle	6472
2	(-)	will10	5734
3	(-)	Whoops	5651
4	(-)	repre	5601
5	(+1)	Kazistuta	5563
6	(-1)	Riverside	5515
7	(+3)	jsem94	5435
8	(-)	Sneekes	5384
9	(+2)	Object	5360
10	(-1)	Crevaison	5352

Not a lot of movement in the standings, but that masks the fact that Blues in the bottle basically gained 400 points on their team's closest competitors, making a 700+ point gap to second place. Further down, 2021 winner Object moves into the top 10 at the expense of tobydawq.

This week sees a few races happening, but the crown jewel is not going to pay off in CQ points fully for a few weeks later... it's Grand Tour season! The Giro is coming...

spreadsheet at dropbox

 

[Devil's Elbow]

To put into context how good @Blues in the bottle ’s team has been so far: you could take one of Healy (651 points) and Jorgenson (725 points) out of their team and they would still be in the lead. In fact, you could take out both and they would be a respectable 16th. Absolutely insane gap to everyone else for being this early in the season.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

I'll be taking over the updates for skidmark for a little while starting next week. I want to preemptively reassure people that it's absolutely normal if in the next update Piccolo and Johannessen have been replaced by Healy and Jorgenson on my team.

 

[Blues in the bottle]

EitB take them as you will , just please don't take them from my team.

DE please note that in my case I am proving that it is better to be lucky than smart.

 

[repre]

To put into context how good @Blues in the bottle ’s team has been so far: you could take one of Healy (651 points) and Jorgenson (725 points) out of their team and they would still be in the lead. In fact, you could take out both and they would be a respectable 16th. Absolutely insane gap to everyone else for being this early in the season.

This Blues guy is good

 

[Eyeballs Out]

My Giro lineup

Moscon
Milan

err

that's it

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Giro
Van Wilder
Baudin
Moscon
Haig
Milan
Roglic

I’ve seen bigger teams in a GT… this team should hold up fairly well though, there just aren’t many popular picks starting.

Nothing in Hellas, nothing in Morbihan and currently only Rudy Barbier in TBL, this will probably be my lowest-scoring week of the season so far.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

This week sees a few races happening, but the crown jewel is not going to pay off in CQ points fully for a few weeks later... it's Grand Tour season! The Giro is coming...

And so is the Giro CQ game so that you can either confirm your skills or simply try again. There are just under 20 hours to go from the timestamp of this post until the first rider starts and the deadline for the game.

 

[RedheadDane]

My lineup for the Giro:

Marit
Mulubrhan
Pinot
Stewart
Van Wilder