The 2024 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[tobydawq]

Thibau Nys into profit 3 weeks after his season start!!

This man could become a big factor in this game!

Yeah, it seems like a terrible decision not to have picked him because he wouldn't ride before Romandie...

Then picking Hayter and Jakobsen instead... Good god.

At least Bennett finally won a race yesterday, and Riley Sheehan seems to have come into point-earning form.

 

[armchairclimber]

Some kudos to Milan Fretin!

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Neither can I. I have Uijtdebroeks and Tiberi (shalgo and myself both picked Arensman and Martinez) on my team so I might be able to cut into that lead a little after the Giro but it's hard to see how anyone will close the entire gap.

Well Uijtdebroeks is out of the Giro and Bennett is about to win the GC in Dunkirk for shalgo so that didn't age well. Too many guys on my team contributing nothing (Uijtdebroeks, Hagenes, Staune-Mittet, Gloag...) so I can't keep up.

 

[Anderis]

Too many guys on my team contributing nothing (Uijtdebroeks, Hagenes, Staune-Mittet, Gloag...)

Is your team Team Visma | Lease a Bike?

 

[Squire]

Well Uijtdebroeks is out of the Giro and Bennett is about to win the GC in Dunkirk for shalgo so that didn't age well.

OMG, shalgo has Bennett too! This is getting more and more insane.

As for me, there were three confirmed crashes among the more than 400 riders who took part in today's races (.1 or higher category). Two of them were on my team.

 

[RedheadDane]

My riders for the coming week.
Riders in green are doing the Big One down in Italy.

Amdi Pedersen
Andersen
Bendixen
Bévort
Blume Levy
Bjerg
Cort
Foldager
Gregaard
Honoré
Jørgensen
Kamp
Larsen
Lund
Nielsen
Norsgaard
Salby
Sander Hansen
Stokbro
Søjberg
Valgren
Wallin
Wandahl
Würtz

 

[shalgo]

Nairo and Sam Bennett into profit!

 

[Anderis]

Bennett making the best out of the French calendar like that is exactly what I was hoping for when I took him.

 

[Earns1985]

Bennett making the best out of the French calendar like that is exactly what I was hoping for when I took him.

Yes, but especially unexpected is, that half of his points are coming from GC this season. Would have thought if he scores big, these points would come most of all from one day races.. nice surprise!

 

[hayneplane]

Bennett making the best out of the French calendar like that is exactly what I was hoping for when I took him.

Over 300 points from his week bossing the peloton in Northern France was very good news after a useless season prior to that.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Update #18: All roads lead to the Milan(s)

In a nice nod to the fact that the Giro is well underway, we saw big weeks from two riders named after one of the largest Italian cities: Milan Fretin and Jonathan Milan.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank​	Team​	Points​
1​	JPettersen​	736​
2​	Total Package​	622​
3​	PandaClaws​	606​
4​	vladimir​	587​
5​	18-Valve. (pithy)​	582​

JPettersen scores a comfortable win this week. Sam Bennett was obviously the star of the show but their team also got a nice boost from the two Milans. Total package nabs second with Bennett/Milan (but not Fretin). Panda Claws rounds out the podium with a nice boost from rare pick Pernsteiner (2nd in the Tour of Hellas). Vladimir is fourth (Bennett, Milan) while 18-Valve.(pithy) can rejoice with Penhoët making up for lost time in a major way.


This Week's High Movers

Rank​	Team​	Up/down​
1​	JPettersen​	(+13)​
2​	Total Package​	(+12)​
3​	DJ Sprtsch​	(+10)​
3​	PandaClaws​	(+10)​
5​	vladimir​	(+9)​

Lots of repeat names here. JPettersen jumps 13 spots which is the more remarkable because that rockets their team all the way into the top 10. DJ Sprtsch, 10th on the week, climbss 10 spots.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank​	Team​	Points​
1​	Googolplex​	184​
2​	Jakob747​	180​
3​	shalgo​	178​
4​	skidmark​	120​
5​	Shakes​	119​

All quiet on this front as the biggest jump once again belongs to JPettersen who moves into the lower parts of the top10.

Top 10 Overall

Rank​	Team​	Points​
1​	shalgo​	8549​
2​	EvansIsTheBest​	7359​
3​	skidmark​	7272​
4​	adamski101​	7242​
5​	JPettersen​	7139​
6​	Anderis​	7121​
7​	MADRAZO​	6983​
8​	Squire​	6954​
9​	Earns1985​	6947​
10​	Salvarani​	6902​

Another week where Shalgo stretches their lead by 300 points and it's starting to become slightly embarassing for everyone else (if it wasn't already). Jpettersen and Earns1985 enter the top 10 which means that trackstand and Jakob747 have to make way. See you next week for the Giro GC. Can anyone make a dent in the unassailable lead of our leader ?

spreadsheet link

 

[will-10]

I'm now convinced that shalgo is Pogi's username, definitely parallels with how effortlessly he's winning both a fantasy game and an actual Giro.

 

[shalgo]

I'm now convinced that shalgo is Pogi's username, definitely parallels with how effortlessly he's winning both a fantasy game and an actual Giro.

Except that I have been playing this game without a victory every year since 2012. If I actually manage to hang on for the win, a better comparison might be old man Horner at the 2013 Vuelta.

 

[will-10]

Except that I have been playing this game without a victory every year since 2012. If I actually manage to hang on for the win, a better comparison might be old man Horner at the 2013 Vuelta.

At least Horner made it look close

 

[Anderis]

The entire team should turn into profit when the Giro is over (I have Martinez and Arensman). I think that's earlier than last year, when my team turned into profit during the National Championships period IIRC.

 

[Earns1985]

Update #18: All roads lead to the Milan(s)

In a nice nod to the fact that the Giro is well underway, we saw big weeks from two riders named after one of the largest Italian cities: Milan Fretin and Jonathan Milan.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank​	Team​	Points​
1​	JPettersen​	736​
2​	Total Package​	622​
3​	PandaClaws​	606​
4​	vladimir​	587​
5​	18-Valve. (pithy)​	582​

JPettersen scores a comfortable win this week. Sam Bennett was obviously the star of the show but their team also got a nice boost from the two Milans. Total package nabs second with Bennett/Milan (but not Fretin). Panda Claws rounds out the podium with a nice boost from rare pick Pernsteiner (2nd in the Tour of Hellas). Vladimir is fourth (Bennett, Milan) while 18-Valve.(pithy) can rejoice with Penhoët making up for lost time in a major way.


This Week's High Movers

Rank​	Team​	Up/down​
1​	JPettersen​	(+13)​
2​	Total Package​	(+12)​
3​	DJ Sprtsch​	(+10)​
3​	PandaClaws​	(+10)​
5​	vladimir​	(+9)​

Lots of repeat names here. JPettersen jumps 13 spots which is the more remarkable because that rockets their team all the way into the top 10. DJ Sprtsch, 10th on the week, climbss 10 spots.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank​	Team​	Points​
1​	Googolplex​	184​
2​	Jakob747​	180​
3​	shalgo​	178​
4​	skidmark​	120​
5​	Shakes​	119​

All quiet on this front as the biggest jump once again belongs to JPettersen who moves into the lower parts of the top10.

Top 10 Overall

Rank​	Team​	Points​
1​	shalgo​	8549​
2​	EvansIsTheBest​	7359​
3​	skidmark​	7272​
4​	adamski101​	7242​
5​	JPettersen​	7139​
6​	Anderis​	7121​
7​	MADRAZO​	6983​
8​	Squire​	6954​
9​	Earns1985​	6947​
10​	Salvarani​	6902​

Another week where Shalgo stretches their lead by 300 points and it's starting to become slightly embarassing for everyone else (if it wasn't already). Jpettersen and Earns1985 enter the top 10 which means that trackstand and Jakob747 have to make way. See you next week for the Giro GC. Can anyone make a dent in the unassailable lead of our leader ?

spreadsheet link

Yes, I think it's the first time for me in this game that I entered the Top10 Overall. Didn't expect this a few weeks ago, when I deeply regretted not to have picked Ayuso. But since then C.Rodriguez started to score and with Nys and Bennett the last couple weeks my team developed quite in a good way..
For the summer I expect C.Rodriguez and Ayuso to have a very similar schedule. Dauphine, Championships and Tour de France. Perhaps C.Rodriguez has at the tour a better opportunity to score, because Ayuso will perhaps has to sacrifise his GC for Pogacar, but let's see.

 

[hayneplane]

Yes, I think it's the first time for me in this game that I entered the Top10 Overall. Didn't expect this a few weeks ago, when I deeply regretted not to have picked Ayuso. But since then C.Rodriguez started to score and with Nys and Bennett the last couple weeks my team developed quite in a good way..
For the summer I expect C.Rodriguez and Ayuso to have a very similar schedule. Dauphine, Championships and Tour de France. Perhaps C.Rodriguez has at the tour a better opportunity to score, because Ayuso will perhaps has to sacrifise his GC for Pogacar, but let's see.

Nys and Bennett earned me my first top 10 weekly ranking since the glory days of the TDU and starting with 2nd.

 

[ingsve]

At least the Giro has now given wins to 2 of my differential picks. First Alaphilippe and now Steinhauser. Sadly both are still far from breaking even let along making a good profit.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

For some reason I enjoy Nys Hirschi-ing .1 races a lot more than Cosnefroy doing the same thing.

 

[Anderis]

For some reason I enjoy Nys Hirschi-ing .1 races a lot more than Cosnefroy doing the same thing.

I'm sure whatever that reason is, it has nothing to do with who you have in your own team.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

I was pretty sure Cosnefroy would improve this season, but the way he has steamrolled through spring is mind bending. Now even a prologue.
In the Giro today I am hoping that all stars align and that we get a 1-2-3 of Narvaez, Hermans and Vermaerke.
In Norway there's only Busatto, who hasn't really has a result since ... March? And Walls, who hasn't showed anything since a couple of years ago. Or was there one finish last year where he looked strong? Edit: Walls is in France, my bad. No points incoming either way.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Laurance! Desperately needed that after sliding from the mid-tens to the mid-thirties over the course of the Giro while Uijtdebroeks DNFd and with no Martinez or Tiberi.

 

[shalgo]

For some reason I enjoy Nys Hirschi-ing .1 races a lot more than Cosnefroy doing the same thing.

What are your thoughts on Axel Laurance Hirschi-ing?

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

What are your thoughts on Axel Laurance Hirschi-ing?

Should have done it last year when he was on my team.

 

[shalgo]

Should have done it last year when he was on my team.

That’s more or less how I feel about Nys.