The 2023 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Devil's Elbow]

20 spots down in less than a month and looks like Wright and Schelling have crashed out of the Renewi Tour today on top of that. Couldn't have had a worse August within this game.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Piccolo 1st, Romo 2nd and Poole 5th in the GC in Spain. Let's just cancel the last 3 weeks and freeze the GC as it is.

 

[escartin]

5 out of the top 6 in the Benelux Tour today. now they need to hold onto their positions until the final stage.

well, that ended up with 2, 3 and 4 on the final standings . can't complain.
it would have been an even better week if I had picked van Wilder, like I did last year and someone I obviously should have picked this time as well.

 

[skidmark]

Hmm CQ frontpage says august 27th download is there but it gives an error message when I click on it and it's not in the drop-down. I'll keep checking and update when possible.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Hmm CQ frontpage says august 27th download is there but it gives an error message when I click on it and it's not in the drop-down. I'll keep checking and update when possible.

It looks like something went wrong with the upload of the file from the update. It might be worth sending CQ a mail to make them aware of the issue.

 

[bminchow]

And down goes Vine. And down goes bminchow (even farther)

 

[shalgo]

I will probably jinx it now, but so far it is looking like a pretty good Vuelta for my Roglic/Ayuso/Kuss/Martinez/Uijtdebroeks team.

Maybe Cattaneo can do something in the TT as well.

 

[Netserk]

With 14 teams in the top-15 having Rogla, I think the additional points he will score from here on won't matter much.

 

[Squire]

So of the three major expensive picks widely discussed in the beginning, it seems like Roglic+VDP was the way to go. And a lot of cheap picks like Bol and Schelling have done well enough that going top-heavy would have been good.

With me having such a bad season due to going against my own better judgement and omitting Roglic, I have had a brief look with a view to next season. And it can turn out to be really interesting and fun to make a team, because almost all of the big names are having decent seasons. There aren't really any clear game-defining super obvious picks that everyone needs to have, á la Roglic this year. Unless Ayuso breaks his collarbone tomorrow.

 

[Netserk]

Depends on whether you expect the swift rider to crash in every race next year too. And I guess Van Aert will get enough points to put him off.

 

[skidmark]

Update #34: Dane of Terror: Redhead steps up to win the week

Okay, looks like CQ either got my email or coincidentally fixed their August 27th update, one week later. So let's catch up on this one and get update 35 out in a few days!

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	RedheadDane	688
2	Sneekes	641
3	Blues in the bottle	621
4	Object	602
5	escartin	563
5	Anderis	563

This week saw the points pile on from the Renewi Tour, Poitou Charentes, and Deutschland Tour. Redhead Dane leads the week by almost sweeping all three winners - their team's biggest riders were Ilan Van Wilder (202 points, 34 teams, won Deutschland), Florian Vermeersch (171, 7, 2nd in Renewi), and Soren Waerenskjold (152, 11, won Poitou). Second on the week is Sneekes with Van Wilder, Mike Teunissen (141, 18) and Jasper Stuyven (127, 23). Third is a familiar name, as Blues in the bottle comes back with a vengeance after a quiet month or so, thanks to IVW, Stuyven and Kevin Vermaerke (77, 4).

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	MADRAZO	(+14)
2	Bonimenier	(+11)
3	BlueRoads	(+10)
3	vladimir	(+10)
5	RedheadDane	(+9)
5	Squire	(+9)
5	Berflamand	(+9)

A very different list here, headlined by MADRAZO moving up 14 points thanks to Van Wilder/Teunissen, Bonimenier moving up 11 thanks to Van Wilder/Lampaert/Stuyven, and both BlueRoads and vladimir moving up 10 spots.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Blues in the bottle	272.5
2	Senderos	223
3	rote_laterne	210.5
4	zaka_fan	210.3
5	Jon_Ezeitza	202

Just as several teams were within striking distance, Blues in the bottle scores 30 more points to go into a lead of more than a weekly win (45 points). Senderos moves more clearly into 2nd with 10 points on the week, with no one else scoring in the top 5.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Blues in the bottle	12829
2	(-)	repre	12165
3	(-)	Riverside	12009
4	(+3)	tobydawq	11917
5	(-1)	will10	11901
6	(+4)	Sneekes	11815
7	(-1)	Whoops	11719
8	(-3)	Kazistuta	11708
9	(-1)	Senderos	11697
10	(-1)	AlfaLum	11627

Same story as the green jersey competition here - after letting competitors inch closer in recent weeks, Blues in the bottle gains about 200 points on their team's closest competitors to move back into a lead of over 650 points. repre and Riverside hold steady on the podium, although teams are getting close behind. No teams moving in or out of the top 10 this week.

Of course, this most recent week saw the first week of the Vuelta, Bretagne classic, and a few smaller races. We'll see how that shook out in a couple of days - I'm just in transit for the next day or so, so expect the next update Wednesday most likely .

spreadsheet at dropbox

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm back in last place. Oh how the tiny have fallen!

 

[RedheadDane]

Not that being top-scorer this week made much of a difference, I'm still way down in the bottom-half...

 

[laarsland]

Are you certain there aren't a few gremlins on behalf of CQ here @skidmark? Felix Gall is listed as having scored 15 points for me in this update, but he hasn't raced since the Klasikao

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Are you certain there aren't a few gremlins on behalf of CQ here @skidmark? Felix Gall is listed as having scored 15 points for me in this update, but he hasn't raced since the Klasikao

CQ throws up little gremlins quite frequently: I see a few negative scores every month when I do the emerging riders.

But they are quite good at correcting it (which is how the negative scores arise) so I think the scores long term are reliable enough. This might be that Gall had 15 points that he earned some time ago and have only now been credited to him.

The results that give him CQ points tally with his results shown at PCS.

 

[jsem94]

11th, yet quite some distance up to the top 10. Nearly 400 points. Not impossible though, AlfaLum is the only one within the top 10 without Rogla in the team, but does have Almeida - which I don't. Insane how well build Blues' team was.

 

[Netserk]

9 teams with Kuss. Only Blues in the Bottle in the top-10.

 

[repre]

9 teams with Kuss. Only Blues in the Bottle in the top-10.

this s*cks, i guess the game is over

 

[Devil's Elbow]

this s*cks, i guess the game is over

BitB does not have Martinez or Almeida (the latter is also on multiple teams in the top-10), but yes, Kuss is going to need to fall back significantly to keep the game competitive after the end of the Vuelta.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

BitB does not have Martinez or Almeida (the latter is also on multiple teams in the top-10), but yes, Kuss is going to need to fall back significantly to keep the game competitive after the end of the Vuelta.

I used to think a late Ayuso charge might have injected a bit more suspense but it doesn't look like he'll get a huge haul out of the Vuelta. In any case the best Ayuso team is waku waku in 13th but even with Roglic + Almeida + Uijtedebroeks + Martinez as well, the 1600 points gap is probably too big to overcome even if Kuss falters.

If BitB goes the distance, there's a decent argument that it's the most dominant team in the history of the game. Obviously they aren't going to get the eye popping totals that skidmark's 2012 or Object's 2021 achieved considering how low scoring this year is. They might not even get the scoring margin than skidmark in 2012 or myself in 2022 managed but they are going to be the closest thing to a wire-to-wire victory that this game has ever seen (with a huge buffer throughout to boot).

 

[Devil's Elbow]

How ironic that the decisive blow in the Vuelta is likely also the decisive blow in this game. Going to take a miracle to overturn that lead now.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

How ironic that the decisive blow in the Vuelta is likely also the decisive blow in this game. Going to take a miracle to overturn that lead now.

Hopefully you believe in miracles then?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Hopefully you believe in miracles then?

No, and I don't dream big either.

 

[Earns1985]

With his win in Montreal Adam Yates is currently the rider with the biggest profit this year!!
And nobody of us picked him!! Really didn´t expected such a good performance of him this year...

 

[del1962]

With his win in Montreal Adam Yates is currently the rider with the biggest profit this year!!
And nobody of us picked him!! Really didn´t expected such a good performance of him this year...

Skjelmose isn’t far behind, was surprise he only had 3 other picks that me, he just looked like he would progress from last season