I'm still over 300 points behind.
I prefer you being further behind.
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I'm still over 300 points behind.
I prefer you being further behind.
Some advice from a poster you might be familiar with:I don't think a week - or as in this case - half-a-week - is far in advantage.
Especially considering that Luxembourg started Wednesday, and then we had various 1-day races over the week as well.
Note to self; don't try to list your riders a week in advance... here's for the weekend.
Some advice from a poster you might be familiar with:
Rank | Team | Points this week |
1 | Salvarani | 521 |
2 | Gotland | 489 |
3 | vladimir | 474 |
4 | tobydawq | 469 |
5 | Hugo Koblet | 466 |
Rank | Team | Total |
1 | Googolplex | 294 |
2 | Jakob747 | 261 |
3 | Amethyst | 242 |
4 | JumboVismaFan | 231 |
5 | shalgo | 229 |
Rank | Up/down | Team | Points |
1 | (-) | shalgo | 15451 |
2 | (-) | EvansIsTheBest | 13998 |
3 | (-) | Earns1985 | 13703 |
4 | (+1) | Squire | 13637 |
5 | (+1) | MADRAZO | 13567 |
6 | (+4) | Salvarani | 13543 |
7 | (-) | HoudiniCycling | 13527 |
8 | (-) | adamski101 | 13497 |
9 | (+2) | Gotland | 13451 |
10 | (-6) | JumboVismaFan | 13415 |
Wasn´t completely wrong with my guess, that it´s all about damage limitation for me from now on.Update #36: Tour Deluxemboug for Salvarani
*side note: I noticed today that at some point in the recent past, CQ changed BERHE Welay Hagos to simply BERHE Welay (even though I've heard his teammates call him Hagos I think?)... anyway, if you're one of Fivezzzz, Hugo Koblet, trackstand or zigzag wanderer you may have been stiffed for some points a little while ago, it's corrected now*
This week we saw CQ points for a smattering of 1-day races in Europe, the Tour of Luxembourg, and the Worlds ITT. One team managed to break 500 points.
This Week's Top Scorers
Rank Team Points this week 1 Salvarani 521 2 Gotland 489 3 vladimir 474 4 tobydawq 469 5 Hugo Koblet 466
Salvarani takes the week with points in various places. Their team's greatest point scorer on the week was Antonio Tiberi (170 points, 15 teams), who finally hit the right target in a microstate by taking a surprising overall win in Luxembourg on the last day. Josh Tarling, despite being vocally disappointed for just missing a target yet again (Josh, shhh! Stefan Kung is right there), gets a solid 110 points for his 15 owners. Salvarani also had Ayuso (95, 39) and Girmay (58, 48) contributing.
Gotland finishes in a solid 2nd on the week, thanks to Tiberi and Girmay, as well as Mauri Vansevenant (111, 24) and Davide Piganzoli (44, 7), while vladimir nabs third thanks to Vansevenant, Girmay, Filippo Baroncini (130, 7) and Tobias Foss (70, 20).
This Week's High Movers
vladimir moves up a spot in the rankings on this one, sharing 1st with Fivezzz (who is coasting mostly on Baroncini/Vansevenant/Ayuso) while moving up a whopping 5 spots in the overall. The small moves this late in the season mean that Salvarani and tobydawq can end on the podium in the High Movers ranking despite being fairly high up in the overall and having fewer spots to move up by definition.
Green Jersey Competition
Rank Team Total 1 Googolplex 294 2 Jakob747 261 3 Amethyst 242 4 JumboVismaFan 231 5 shalgo 229
No scoring amongst the top 5, and not much change further down with tobydawq moving into 7th overall but still 42 points behind shalgo for the top 5. Not many weeks left to catch Googolplex!
Top 10 Overall
Rank Up/down Team Points 1 (-) shalgo 15451 2 (-) EvansIsTheBest 13998 3 (-) Earns1985 13703 4 (+1) Squire 13637 5 (+1) MADRAZO 13567 6 (+4) Salvarani 13543 7 (-) HoudiniCycling 13527 8 (-) adamski101 13497 9 (+2) Gotland 13451 10 (-6) JumboVismaFan 13415
EvansIsTheBest consolidates 2nd place, gaining 235 points on Earns1985 and cutting shalgo's lead to under 1500 points. Exciting! Further down, weekly winner Salvarani moves up 4 spots, and JumboVismaFan has a lackluster week to freefall down the top 10. Gotland enters the top 10 at the expense of ingsve.
This upcoming week, aside from the mid-week 1.1 Omloop van het Houtland and the first stage of the Tour of Langkawi, it's all about the Worlds, with some points during the week for the mixed relay TT and U23 RR, but the men's RR is by far the main event. If you're not one of the two teams each who have Pogacar and Evenepoel, the best you might hope for is 3rd place but that's still 210 points, so with some good placings there may be some pretty good weeks.
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Let´s cheer for Louis Meintjes reaching the finishline in the timelimit, which would bring him into profit!I have a grand total of three riders starting the road race on Sunday, yikes...
I actually forgot to count Meintjes for my team, not that he should help much.Let´s cheer for Louis Meintjes reaching the finishline in the timelimit, which would bring him into profit!
If Staune-Mittet is doing the same, I would at least in the "most riders into profit" competition overtake Shalgo! (Doesn´t mean, that I will win, I would say Squire has the best chances there right now!)
It's pretty much impossible to only have good picks, you'll find bad ones in every team so having a few yourself doesn't prevent you from dominating the field.Also, how can shalgo have spent almost 1000 points on Higuita and Hayter and then still be so far ahead of anybody else?
TTT points are often quite messed up when the results are first posted. It will (most likely) be corrected eventually. Last year each rider got 62 points, and it probably should be the same this year.CQ are giving the full 250 points to all three Australian male riders?! That's A) completely different from previous years, and B) by far the biggest disconnect between points and race importance I've ever seen, to an extent that I actually might have tried to plan for it with my team selection had I known this in advance.
It's cuz he's on my team.What is up with Morgado btw? He has been completely anonymous since, say, april or so, and has only gotten progressively worse.
Same thing happened last year iirc - indeed now it gives 62 points each.TTT points are often quite messed up when the results are first posted. It will (most likely) be corrected eventually. Last year each rider got 62 points, and it probably should be the same this year.
Not really that surprising for some of the riders at least. Once the GTs start a lot of riders are racing a lot of days without scoring much of anything. It's only really the GC favorites who score well in a GT. Even if you win a stage and get a few stages placings that's basically just 100-150 points in a month of racing. And most GT riders don't even get that. Many would be lucky to even score above the minimum 15-20 points.It's cuz he's on my team.
I just did a quick run through of my team, and here are a list of riders I noticed who scored at least 75-80% of their points for this year by the end of May and have basically not performed since:
Juan Ayuso
Dani Martinez
Cian Uijtdebroeks
Luke Plapp
Thymen Arensman
Axel Laurance
William Lecerf
Antonio Morgado
Isaac Del Toro
Nairo Quintana
Amaury Capiot
Emil Herzog
Suppose I could include Piccolo on there too lol. And I'm sure some of the riders who I didn't even look up because they fall into the 'year long disappointment' category probably only scored early year. But yeah, that's a lot of team members doing little since the Giro and before!
EITB has been tracking the point totals this year and I guess this reflects the historical point totals from earlier this year not keeping pace, as many 'good' picks earlier in the year (Ayuso, Martinez, Morgado, Del Toro) are on that list.
I guess I could include