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The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

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I knew from Luxembourg that I wasn't going to be able to keep my spot in the top 10 since I don't have Ayuso or Tiberi. And then there was the inevitable Tarling at Worlds that I also don't have.

Turns out I was extra screwed since the two places directly behind me last week ended up first and second on this weeks rank.

Here's hoping for a favorable Worlds week.
 
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

RankTeamPoints this week
1Salvarani521
2Gotland489
3vladimir474
4tobydawq469
5Hugo Koblet466

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

RankTeamUp/down
1vladimir(+5)
1Fivezzz(+5)
3Salvarani(+4)
3tobydawq(+4)
5bminchow(+3)
5Devils_Elbow(+3)

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


RankTeamTotal
1Googolplex294
2Jakob747261
3Amethyst242
4JumboVismaFan231
5shalgo229

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

RankUp/downTeamPoints
1(-)shalgo15451
2(-)EvansIsTheBest13998
3(-)Earns198513703
4(+1)Squire13637
5(+1)MADRAZO13567
6(+4)Salvarani13543
7(-)HoudiniCycling13527
8(-)adamski10113497
9(+2)Gotland13451
10(-6)JumboVismaFan13415

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.

spreadsheet link
 
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

RankTeamPoints this week
1Salvarani521
2Gotland489
3vladimir474
4tobydawq469
5Hugo Koblet466

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

RankTeamUp/down
1vladimir(+5)
1Fivezzz(+5)
3Salvarani(+4)
3tobydawq(+4)
5bminchow(+3)
5Devils_Elbow(+3)

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

RankTeamTotal
1Googolplex294
2Jakob747261
3Amethyst242
4JumboVismaFan231
5shalgo229

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

RankUp/downTeamPoints
1(-)shalgo15451
2(-)EvansIsTheBest13998
3(-)Earns198513703
4(+1)Squire13637
5(+1)MADRAZO13567
6(+4)Salvarani13543
7(-)HoudiniCycling13527
8(-)adamski10113497
9(+2)Gotland13451
10(-6)JumboVismaFan13415

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.

spreadsheet link
Wasn´t completely wrong with my guess, that it´s all about damage limitation for me from now on.
Foss the only one who didn´t dissapoint for me this week..

Let´s see, what this week will bring. For the mixed TT I have with B. Thomas and Schachmann two riders participating. 62 points (first), 37 points (second), 32 points (third) for being part of the team is not that bad..
 
It's been awhile since I had time to even take a look at my teams for upcoming races, but I'm getting in just in time to be disappointed by how lackluster my late season has been and appears to be set to continue...

Mixed Relay TT

NOBODY

Oh well, that's not that many points anyway.

Omloop van het Houtland

Biniam Girmay

Okay great, he can pick up some more points. Not much of an advantage in the standings around me though.

U23 Worlds

William Lecerf
Emil Herzog
Darren Rafferty
Francesco Busatto
Isaac Del Toro
Antonio Morgado
Andrew August

This is an interesting lineup. Theoretically some of these guys could make some noise, although I dunno if the climbing is too hard for which riders. Plus this whole lineup (Del Toro aside, who's been lights out for most of the year) is representative of the less expensive riders on my team. That is, many of them started the season with promising results (aside from August, Rafferty and Busatto who have been decidedly mid all year), but have done little since April. Last chance saloon here fellas!

Who am I kidding. Jan Christen, who I decided hadn't shown enough impressive results last year for me to take him despite his talent, is gonna run away with it.

Elite Men's RR

Dani Martinez
Michael Valgren
Biniam Girmay
Carlos Rodriguez
Juan Ayuso
Archie Ryan
Tobias Foss
Johannes Staune-Mittet

That's an uneven and mostly underwhelming lineup. Too hard for Girmay, too long for the neo-pros, and I'd say Foss is a writeoff. Valgren shouldn't be expected to do much but he often comes out of nowhere to pull a surprise and this course would suit him if he was in good shape. Really it's Ayuso and Rodriguez I might hope for a top 10 from, and I suppose Martinez has occasionally had a non-stage race result. All in all not expecting a ton.

Returning to the top 10 overall isn't likely in the cards...
 
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After last's weeks disaster, I decided to wait a little with listing my riders, ignoring the U23 ITT. Good thing too, as both Holm and Søjberg were bloody useless in that one. Also good as it made me able to include the last-minute swap in the ME RR Sunday.

Amdi*
Andersen
Asgreen
(Bjerg - Mixed relay only. Not sure how that works towards individual points)
Cort
Honoré
Nielsen*
Sander Hansen
Skjelmose
Søjberg
Valgren
Wallin
Wandahl

*At least I think so, been unable to find a verified startlist for TDT for Houtland.
 
I have a grand total of three riders starting the road race on Sunday, yikes...
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! :D (Doesn´t mean, that I will win, I would say Squire has the best chances there right now!)
 
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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! :D (Doesn´t mean, that I will win, I would say Squire has the best chances there right now!)
I actually forgot to count Meintjes for my team, not that he should help much.
 
I had almost forgotten about this game and was pleasantly surprised to see my team in 25th.

Too bad the Bettiol magic ended but he has still been a really, really good pick. Jakobsen less so... And Vauquelin has apparently stopped riding for the season, I'm afraid.

Also, how can shalgo have spent almost 1000 points on Higuita and Hayter and then still be so far ahead of anybody else?
 
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.
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.
 
What is up with Morgado btw? He has been completely anonymous since, say, april or so, and has only gotten progressively worse.
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
 
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
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.