Update #8: Ayuso makes you so good this week
(ugh that's a real strained pun this week. sorrynotsorry, really trying to compete for a distinct flair with this new website tracking the game now, I guess)
The season is fully underway with the overlapping marquee races (cycling is so wonderful and dumb) of Paris-Nice and Tirenno-Adriatico. And while things went mostly as expected with Jonas Vingegaard dominating in Italy and, uhhh, Matteo Jorgenson beating Evenepoel, Roglic and the rest in France, lots of high placings for well-picked riders in this game meant a dozen teams broke the thousand point mark this week. But one rider in particular split things in to haves and have nots this week.
This Week's Top Scorers
It was quite close at the top this week, but MADRAZO came out on top with an impressive crew of point scorers. Chief among them, of course, was Juan Ayuso, who somehow got 385 points out of Tirenno-Adriatico despite not winning. But 2nd in the overall, as well as 2nd in two stages, both classfications, plus a stage win and 3 days in the leader's jersey, all goes a long way. It's no surprise that all the teams that scored over 1000 this week were among the 39 that had him. Beyond that, MADRAZO had very impressive weeks from Luke Plapp (167, 40), Isaac Del Toro (166, 47), Thymen Arensman (116, 64), Egan Bernal (106, 43), Cian Uijtdebroeks (103, 40) and - importantly for the win this week - Enric Mas (54, 14).
repre ended up 2nd in the ranking, scoring 1148 from the exact same group of 6 100+ scorers, the difference being in the minor points - their team's next highest scorer was Sheffield (34, 22) rather than Mas. Team skidmark was in a similar boat and ended up in 3rd, with the big 6 but just a bit less in the minor points.
This Week's High Movers
It's a very different list at the top here, with Crevaison taking the top spot for a 24 spot jump in the overall standings. Their team had 4 of the 'big 6' owned by the top 3 scorers in the week, missing Bernal and Plapp, but was one of the 9 to have Jonathan Milan, who brought in an impressive-for-non-GC 197 points. Anderis is the only team in the top 5 of both rankings this week with the big 6, and triley36 converts 1016 points on the week to an 18 spot jump.
Green Jersey Competition
Some moves in this ranking - the top 2 are the same, but shalgo increases the lead by 14 points over Jakob747. repre and skidmark's teams transfer their 35 and 30 points this week into top 5 overall positions in this competition.
Top 10 Overall
Some shakeup here, of course, as this was the biggest week of the season - 8 of the top 10 teams were in the top 15 on the week as well. (shoutout to Squire and Jakob747, holding in there in the top 10 without Ayuso)
shalgo continues to consolidate the lead, which grows to over 600 points, while repre and skidmark are separated by a much smaller margin - a single point- in 2nd and 3rd. MADRAZO, JPettersen and oliveira move into the top 10 at the expense of DJ Sprtsch, Gotland and JumboVismaFan, who fall out.
Following up this stage race heavy week is a one-day race heavy week. The 1.Pro races are lined up for the week, including Nokere Koerse, Milano-Torino, Denain and Koksijde, leading up to the main course of the first monument of the season in Milan San Remo.
spreadsheet link
(ugh that's a real strained pun this week. sorrynotsorry, really trying to compete for a distinct flair with this new website tracking the game now, I guess)
The season is fully underway with the overlapping marquee races (cycling is so wonderful and dumb) of Paris-Nice and Tirenno-Adriatico. And while things went mostly as expected with Jonas Vingegaard dominating in Italy and, uhhh, Matteo Jorgenson beating Evenepoel, Roglic and the rest in France, lots of high placings for well-picked riders in this game meant a dozen teams broke the thousand point mark this week. But one rider in particular split things in to haves and have nots this week.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank | Team | Points this week |
1 | MADRAZO | 1164 |
2 | repre | 1148 |
3 | skidmark | 1125 |
4 | Anderis | 1082 |
5 | Total Package | 1053 |
It was quite close at the top this week, but MADRAZO came out on top with an impressive crew of point scorers. Chief among them, of course, was Juan Ayuso, who somehow got 385 points out of Tirenno-Adriatico despite not winning. But 2nd in the overall, as well as 2nd in two stages, both classfications, plus a stage win and 3 days in the leader's jersey, all goes a long way. It's no surprise that all the teams that scored over 1000 this week were among the 39 that had him. Beyond that, MADRAZO had very impressive weeks from Luke Plapp (167, 40), Isaac Del Toro (166, 47), Thymen Arensman (116, 64), Egan Bernal (106, 43), Cian Uijtdebroeks (103, 40) and - importantly for the win this week - Enric Mas (54, 14).
repre ended up 2nd in the ranking, scoring 1148 from the exact same group of 6 100+ scorers, the difference being in the minor points - their team's next highest scorer was Sheffield (34, 22) rather than Mas. Team skidmark was in a similar boat and ended up in 3rd, with the big 6 but just a bit less in the minor points.
This Week's High Movers
It's a very different list at the top here, with Crevaison taking the top spot for a 24 spot jump in the overall standings. Their team had 4 of the 'big 6' owned by the top 3 scorers in the week, missing Bernal and Plapp, but was one of the 9 to have Jonathan Milan, who brought in an impressive-for-non-GC 197 points. Anderis is the only team in the top 5 of both rankings this week with the big 6, and triley36 converts 1016 points on the week to an 18 spot jump.
Green Jersey Competition
Some moves in this ranking - the top 2 are the same, but shalgo increases the lead by 14 points over Jakob747. repre and skidmark's teams transfer their 35 and 30 points this week into top 5 overall positions in this competition.
Top 10 Overall
Rank | Up/down | Team | Points |
1 | (-) | shalgo | 4561 |
2 | (+4) | repre | 3957 |
3 | (+2) | skidmark | 3956 |
4 | (-2) | Squire | 3756 |
5 | (+3) | Salvarani | 3627 |
5 | (+11) | MADRAZO | 3627 |
7 | (+2) | Lortnoc | 3582 |
8 | (-4) | Jakob747 | 3537 |
9 | (+9) | JPettersen | 3498 |
10 | (+2) | oliveira | 3473 |
Some shakeup here, of course, as this was the biggest week of the season - 8 of the top 10 teams were in the top 15 on the week as well. (shoutout to Squire and Jakob747, holding in there in the top 10 without Ayuso)
shalgo continues to consolidate the lead, which grows to over 600 points, while repre and skidmark are separated by a much smaller margin - a single point- in 2nd and 3rd. MADRAZO, JPettersen and oliveira move into the top 10 at the expense of DJ Sprtsch, Gotland and JumboVismaFan, who fall out.
Following up this stage race heavy week is a one-day race heavy week. The 1.Pro races are lined up for the week, including Nokere Koerse, Milano-Torino, Denain and Koksijde, leading up to the main course of the first monument of the season in Milan San Remo.
spreadsheet link