The 2023 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[SafeBet]

Johannessen said on IG that he abandoned due to illness, didn't mention the knee issue but who knows?

 

[Panda Claws]

Unbelieveable. Just noticed that the ace up my sleeve - ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo - was provisionally suspended this month...

This guy was supposed to crush Volta a Portugal once again and and turn 5 points into 100-200.

 

[repre]

Unbelieveable. Just noticed that the ace up my sleeve - ANTUNES Amaro Manuel Reposo - was provisionally suspended this month...

This guy was supposed to crush Volta a Portugal once again and and turn 5 points into 100-200.

He retired

 

[Panda Claws]

He retired

You are right.
He retired on 16/01/2023 lol. And then got suspended in february for good measure.

I could have sworn CQRanking showed a 2023 tab for him or at least with a team name underneath his name. I have had retirees in my team before so I was extra attentive to that this year.

 

[Salvarani]

Eh, no home-run in these races. Only some decent placings and minor points in the end. Tulett finishing 6th in Jaen was good to see, hope he develops further during the year. Uijtdebroeks is 9th on the GC atm in Tour of Oman, so maybe some more points will come in there.

More races coming up, which is always good after a quite mediocre week.

Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta
PIDCOCK Thomas
MIHKELS Madis
ASGREEN Kasper
VAN WILDER Ilan
VAN UDEN Casper
FISHER-BLACK Finn

Looks okay. Should score some points from this line-up.

Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol
GARCÍA CORTINA Iván
DE GENDT Aimé
BERNAL Egan
SIVAKOV Pavel

Ouch... expectations are low for this race, when it comes to scoring points. I think it could be a fun race to watch though.

Edit: Shame with Bernal, but Sivakov in the line-up makes it more interesting for my team here.

Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var starts later this week, but missing a lot of names in the provisional startlist.

Dont think I will have anyone in Rwanda.

An okay week with Van Wilder and Pidcock in Algarve, even though it would have been better if the race ended after stage four. Fisher-Black also scored minor points finishing in 20th place overall. Decent performance from him.

Sivakov scored points in Andalucia finishing 10th.

On we go!

UAE Tour
HERMANS Ben
PLAPP Luke
TULETT Ben
GLOAG Thomas

Not too bad. Hopefully someone could have a good race and score some points.

O Gran Camiño
MOSCON Gianni

Does not look like a race that suits him. Coming back from injury and might just be looking to get some racing miles before the classics season.

 

[Anderis]

How is Andrea Piccolo doing these days? Has he scored some points, yet?

 

[postmanhat]

Pretty dispiriting week. Half my team riding with only the fairly popular Pidcock and Haig gaining much at all. Piccolo (again) and Van Eetvelt disappeared on the last day of Haut Var, as did Lutsenko in Oman. He's in UAE which initially seemed like a great opportunity till I saw it had TTT?!
Also:

Ewan
Kolze
Storer
Quick
Hermans

 

[adamski101]

Good week for my team. Ganna, Van Wilder, Foss, Pidcock & Onley in Algarve; Haig in Andalucia; Gaudu in Haut Var and Uijtdebroeks in Oman.

UAE Tour line up
Tarling
Tulett
Lutsenko
Gloag

 

[escartin]

unique pick Geniets picking up some nice points in France!

I am starting to wonder why I did not pick Van Wilder, I had him last year and maybe 2021 as well (I can't remember...) but not sure why I suddenly decided not to take him this year and I think it was a mistake.

 

[tobydawq]

You are right.
He retired on 16/01/2023 lol. And then got suspended in february for good measure.

I could have sworn CQRanking showed a 2023 tab for him or at least with a team name underneath his name. I have had retirees in my team before so I was extra attentive to that this year.

At least you didn't pick Valverde, Nibali or Gilbert.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

I am starting to wonder why I did not pick Van Wilder, I had him last year and maybe 2021 as well (I can't remember...) but not sure why I suddenly decided not to take him this year and I think it was a mistake.

Was about to post the same about Van Wilder. Think I've had him the past two years as well.
Wonder if I should also have kept Marijn Van Den Berg in my team.
Am quite concerned about my biggest gamble this year, Arensman. Guess his duty is to peak for the Giro, but still.
Anothe gamble is Mattias Skjelmose, but here I am more confident. Just chekced his progress this year compared to last year's and see that he now has roughly the same amount of points as he had coming out of the 2022 Giro.
But wonder why I didn't keep Vauquelin in my team?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Decent haul this week, four riders in the top-20 in Algarve headlined by Van Wilder, and Uijtdebroeks, Haig, Schelling and Grégoire chipped in as well. My UAE Tour team is really thin with only Baudin, Plapp, Gloag and Tiberi - fortunately Plapp and Gloag are both in the first echelon by the looks, hopefully it doesn't come back together.

 

[firefly3323]

Not too bad of a week for me, Van Wilder, Powless, Rodriguez and Jorgenson all with good points, plus a few small point guys like Vermaerke. Its nice to be doing OK early on since I wont be within sniffing distance of the top 50 as we get into the season.

 

[bminchow]

Okay. Not the best week for me either. Although I guess i get points for Turner in Jaén Paraiso Interior and UIJTDEBROEKS for Oman GC. We'll take points from Pidcok and Van Wilder, and complain about Tobias. And also not looking good for this coming week since i have almost no sprinters.

UAE
BOL Cees - support rider this week
BRENNER Marco - useless
CARR Simon - Worse then useless
GLOAG Thomas - for TTT and mountain
PLAPP Lucas - Got in that first group so maybe he is the Ineos guy this week.
RICCITELLO Matthew - just practicing
STEINHAUSER Georg - eh
VINE Jay - Still in the GC hunt for top 5.

O Gran Camiño
MOSCON Gianni - Hopefully i get something out of him this year.

 

[tobydawq]

Ewan, win something!

 

[Whoops]

Pretty good week thanks to Paret-Peintre in Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var. He's off to a good start of the season.
Not many points in Ruta del Sol and Algarve, but several riders showed some good form. Laurens De Plus is looking good, doing domestic duties and still finishing strong. I hope he get's some chances later in the season (maybe Belgiun and Benelux tour)

UAE Tour: 2nd place for Ewan, hope he get's his win and a nice confidence boost. Vine already lost time, but it's not over yet
EWAN Caleb
VINE Jay
TARLING Joshua
HERMANS Ben

Gran Camino:
MOSCON Gianni

 

[tobydawq]

Pretty good week thanks to Paret-Peintre in Tour of the Alps. He's off to a good start of the season.
Not many points in Ruta del Sol and Algarve, but several riders showed some good form. Laurens De Plus is looking good, doing domestic duties and still finishing strong. I hope he get's some chances later in the season (maybe Belgiun and Benelux tour)

UAE Tour: 2nd place for Ewan, hope he get's his win and a nice confidence boost. Vine already lost time, but it's not over yet
EWAN Caleb
VINE Jay
TARLING Joshua
HERMANS Ben

Gran Camino:
MOSCON Gianni

Tour of the Alps?

Well, I guess it is in some sense.

 

[Whoops]

Tour of the Alps?

Well, I guess it is in some sense.

Fixed it

 

[skidmark]

Update #7: Ganna From Heaven

The week ramped up in the frequency of races from the last couple of weeks, and it showed in the scores. We had stage races in France, Oman, Spain and Portugal, and the majority of riders have their seasons underway.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	adamski101	631
2	LaFlorecita	594
3	slow_climber	574
4	repre	558
5	firefly3323	544

Some pretty good scores this week, with adamski101 the only team to top 600 points. This is thanks to a couple of 100+ scorers: Filippo Ganna (135 points, 7 teams) and Ilan Van Wilder (117, 34). On top of that, Tom Pidcock (89 points, 76 teams) and Tobias Foss (81 points, 3 teams) were strong contributors. LaFlorecita was led by a 135-point scorer as well, but it was Mauri Vansevenant (2 teams), as well as Van Wilder, Pidcock, and Joao Almeida (77, 15). slow climber rounds out the podium with 574 points thanks largely to some rare picks in Matteo Jorgenson (173, 5), Buitrago (110, 3), and Carlos Rodriguez (91, 8) as well as Pidcock.

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	LaFlorecita	(+50)
2	repre	(+40)
3	comodoro	(+33)
4	adamski101	(+30)
5	Mellow Velo	(+28)

Some HUGE moves this week. LaFlo does one better on this ranking, moving up a whopping 50 spots on the overall, almost halfway up. repre has a week that's no slouch itself, thanks too Ganna/IVW/Aurelien Paret-Peintre (103 points, 12 teams). comodoro leaps 33 points to take third, thanks largely to being one of the 4 teams who decided to re-up on Kevin Vauquelin (152 points).

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	bminchow	137.3
2	Jakob747	100.3
3	DJW	75
4	Blues in the bottle	74.5
5	firefly3323	71

No changes or points at the top here this week, but Blues in the bottle (20 points on the week) and firefly3323 (22 points) move into the top 5.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	bminchow	1999
2	(-)	Jakob747	1594
3	(+7)	firefly3323	1562
4	(-1)	zaka_fan	1480
5	(+1)	Poles & Co	1442
6	(-2)	DJW	1437
7	(-2)	tobydawq	1436
8	(+9)	slow_climber	1430
9	(+10)	Blues in the bottle	1339
10	(+5)	zigzag_wanderer	1338

bminchow comes oh so close to cracking 2000 points, but will have to be content with extending the lead over second place to over 400 points. However, a number of teams are charging behind, and the top 10 is getting more crowded. slow climber, Blues in the bottle and zigzag wanderer move into the top 10 (and weekly winner adamski101 moves up 30 spots to #11, 20 points out), while Basque Street Boys, ray10 and greenedge fall out.

This week, there's the UAE Tour, Gran Camino, and... omigod it's Opening Weekend already???

spreadsheet at dropbox

 

[skidmark]

Hey does anyone know what's up with VeloRooms? I tried to post the last update 5 days ago and then the new one just now and I keep getting an error message. Just thought I'd ask in case anyone knew what was up.

 

[jsem94]

I was THIS close to picking Ganna. Not sure he can get the 800-1000+ points necessary though to be a worthwhile pick. Not sure Ewan can get there either tbf, but whatever. I made my bed, now I have to lie in it.

 

[Earns1985]

Hmmm, any idea when Ayuso will start to ride and score? Really Catalunya?

0 points in February for him as well as for Johannessen haven´t been the plan...

 

[slow_climber]

Very pleased with my best ever position in the rankings and feeling smug (so far) with Jorgenson and Buitrago.

However, regretting not picking Gloag. How is it that when you don't pick someone he appears to be near the front of every race - it's spoiling my enjoyment!

 

[Anderis]

I wonder if my name is ever going to appear in any of the tables posted by skidmark. My team seems to be the definition of average.

 

[BR2]

I wonder if my name is ever going to appear in any of the tables posted by skidmark. My team seems to be the definition of average.

Like last year I think I have picked some good ones, but left out some that I needed to have.