The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Earns1985]

So van Aert only with a 3,5 weeks break now. At the Deutschland Tour he is scheduled to be back in action already. The Canadian classics, which suit him are also scheduled. The World Championships not.. no decicion on the European Championships yet..

 

[skidmark]

No update on the CQ site yet - I will certainly provide the next written update here when it shows up!

 

[ingsve]

A delightful gift to any Vingegard owners that Pogacar is not riding the Vuelta this year.

 

[search]

any idea if Blake Quick ever plans to race again?

 

[manafana]

any idea if Blake Quick ever plans to race again?

I'd guess at hes done

 

[Kazistuta]

No update on the CQ site yet - I will certainly provide the next written update here when it shows up!

It's there now, Skidmark - said with absolutely no personal agenda

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Grande Giulio!

Also good to see signs of life from Uijtdebroeks and Bisiaux. (edit: and Kron too)

 

[Salvarani]

Ciccone, Plapp, Kron, Bisiaux and Nordhagen scores some points in San Sebastián!

Good haul.

 

[RedheadDane]

Not to brag, but all my riders present in San Sebastian scored some points (of course the rider scoring most is the guy I share with the 2nd highest number of other players.

San Sebastian haul:

Kron 12th (35 points)
Charmig 18th (18 points)
Hellemose 29th (7 points)
And Dalby just about got his butt to the finish, for the 5 points available for finishing a WT race.

Over in Wallonie, Foldager got 3rd on a stage and 5th in the GC for a total of 80 points.

 

[Earns1985]

Del Toro quietly overtook Almeida today as the rider who mostly outperformed his last year seasons score.

Hats off to all the players, who decided for him.
I decided against him, because he was already quiet expensive and he didn´t have a good second half last season. Also the risk, that he could not ride for his own results all the time had been reason enough not to include him. Well, I was wrong...

 

[skidmark]

It's there now, Skidmark - said with absolutely no personal agenda

Sorry, it finally went up when I was going to the cabin for a couple of days. Update will be up today, then I'll catch up whenever they get this new one out!

 

[skidmark]

Update #27: TDF GC Shakes up Standings as Kazistuta is on a Roll

The week ending July 27th awarded the biggest points of the season, the GC of the Tour de France. Especially this year, with the top riders relatively rare (although with a third of teams in the game having Jonas Vingegaard), this week was going to be a tale of haves and have nots. And indeed, we see a whopping 1500+ points between first and last on the week.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Kazistuta	1676
2	Earns1985	1464
3	Jakob747	1329
4	PandaClaws	1324
5	Popchu	1237

Kazistuta won last week with some good stage placings in the Tour, and that fleshed out with GC points for mostly the same riders, bringing their team a huge 1676 points on the week. This is thanks to the prescience to pick Jonas Vingegaard (620 points, 33 teams), Florian Lipowitz (406, 11), Tobias Johannessen (267, 10), Ben Healy (233, 15) and Sergio Higuita (110 points, 6 teams, who was apparently in the Tour de France 2025 as well). That is quite the combo!

Earns1985 comes in with a very fine 1464 points for the runner up spot, highlighted by Vingegaard and Lipowitz, with some help from Felix Gall (315, 22) and Wout van Aert (103, 60). Jakob747 gets the last spot on the podium by a mere 5 points over PandaClaws, with Lipowitz/Healy/Johannessen as well as another rider with a career best performance in Oscar Onley (362, 2).

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Kazistuta	(+28)
2	PandaClaws	(+18)
3	Amethyst	(+15)
3	Leadbelly	(+15)
5	Earns1985	(+14)

Kazistuta's points haul on the week has a big effect on the standings too, as their team moves up 28 spots to double up on the weekly ranking tables. PandaClaws does make the podium here, moving up 18 with a team that includes Vingegaard/Gall/Healy, while Amethyst and Leadbelly each move up 15 to tie for third.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Pantani4ever	316
2	Salvarani	297
3	Rufs	219
4	Squire	183.7
5	peixotini	170

The top teams in this competition weren't the most stacked TdF teams, with nobody in the top 9 overall scoring any points this week, so Pantani4ever maintains the lead over Salvarani.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Salvarani	11114
2	(-)	Qazaqstan	10258
3	(+12)	Jakob747	9850
4	(+1)	SafeBet	9743
5	(+14)	Earns1985	9703
6	(+10)	Popchu	9686
7	(-4)	postmanhat	9675
8	(-2)	slow_climber	9504
9	(-2)	abbulf	9464
10	(+1)	Devils_Elbow	9458

The TdF points didn't cause too many waves with our top 2 teams, with Salvarani and Qazaqstan finishing middle of the pack on the week with 742 and 789 points respectively. A bit further down, there are some big leaps, with Jakob747 jumping not only into the top 10 but onto the podium, as well as Earns1985 and Popchu with double digit leaps. Those three and Devil's Elbow are new entrants into the top 10 this week, at the expense of Squire, Senderos, triley36 and MADRAZO, who don't fall too far, making up the 11-14 spots.

The week after the men's TdF sees the focus mostly on the women's TdF, so the points in this game are rather limited. But we do have the GC points at Wallonie, the Clasica San Sebastian, and a few other lower rated races. With the Tour down, we turn to the final third of the season, with the Vuelta and Worlds on the horizon.

spreadsheet link

 

[Squire]

47th on the week while having the TdF runner-up who is on only 33 teams was not what I was hoping for. And the top 2 pulls away despite not having Vingegaard. Bring on the Vuelta.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

But we do have the GC points at Wallonie

It looks like those were actually included in this update. So assuming the next download is on time, it will be entirely San Sebastian + Getxo as far as pro races are concerned.

 

[Squire]

It looks like those were actually included in this update. So assuming the next download is on time, it will be entirely San Sebastian + Getxo as far as pro races are concerned.

Ouch, that makes my end-of-Tour result look even worse. Hardly anyone game-relevant scored in Wallonie, so my 32 Del Grosso points would make me one of the better-scoring teams from that race. This might potentially also hamper my score from San Seb week, as I had some decent points from that race. But I think there might be enough Ciccone, Christen and Del Toro teams so that I wouldn't have scored green points anyway.

 

[slow_climber]

Surprised I stayed in the top 10 - but if Wallonie included then I can thank Vacek for a small boost. Glad he looks like he is coming good after not quite achieving the points I had hoped in the spring.

 

[hayneplane]

Del Toro quietly overtook Almeida today as the rider who mostly outperformed his last year seasons score.

Hats off to all the players, who decided for him.
I decided against him, because he was already quiet expensive and he didn´t have a good second half last season. Also the risk, that he could not ride for his own results all the time had been reason enough not to include him. Well, I was wrong...

To be fair it was a risk/reward pick of high upside but potential to end up in a lot of super domestique roles limiting his scoring.

I picked him in part because I would be cheering him on anyway.

 

[Nevs]

Update #27: TDF GC Shakes up Standings as Kazistuta is on a Roll

The week ending July 27th awarded the biggest points of the season, the GC of the Tour de France. Especially this year, with the top riders relatively rare (although with a third of teams in the game having Jonas Vingegaard), this week was going to be a tale of haves and have nots. And indeed, we see a whopping 1500+ points between first and last on the week.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Kazistuta	1676
2	Earns1985	1464
3	Jakob747	1329
4	PandaClaws	1324
5	Popchu	1237

Kazistuta won last week with some good stage placings in the Tour, and that fleshed out with GC points for mostly the same riders, bringing their team a huge 1676 points on the week. This is thanks to the prescience to pick Jonas Vingegaard (620 points, 33 teams), Florian Lipowitz (406, 11), Tobias Johannessen (267, 10), Ben Healy (233, 15) and Sergio Higuita (110 points, 6 teams, who was apparently in the Tour de France 2025 as well). That is quite the combo!

Earns1985 comes in with a very fine 1464 points for the runner up spot, highlighted by Vingegaard and Lipowitz, with some help from Felix Gall (315, 22) and Wout van Aert (103, 60). Jakob747 gets the last spot on the podium by a mere 5 points over PandaClaws, with Lipowitz/Healy/Johannessen as well as another rider with a career best performance in Oscar Onley (362, 2).

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Kazistuta	(+28)
2	PandaClaws	(+18)
3	Amethyst	(+15)
3	Leadbelly	(+15)
5	Earns1985	(+14)

Kazistuta's points haul on the week has a big effect on the standings too, as their team moves up 28 spots to double up on the weekly ranking tables. PandaClaws does make the podium here, moving up 18 with a team that includes Vingegaard/Gall/Healy, while Amethyst and Leadbelly each move up 15 to tie for third.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Pantani4ever	316
2	Salvarani	297
3	Rufs	219
4	Squire	183.7
5	peixotini	170

The top teams in this competition weren't the most stacked TdF teams, with nobody in the top 9 overall scoring any points this week, so Pantani4ever maintains the lead over Salvarani.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Salvarani	11114
2	(-)	Qazaqstan	10258
3	(+12)	Jakob747	9850
4	(+1)	SafeBet	9743
5	(+14)	Earns1985	9703
6	(+10)	Popchu	9686
7	(-4)	postmanhat	9675
8	(-2)	slow_climber	9504
9	(-2)	abbulf	9464
10	(+1)	Devils_Elbow	9458

The TdF points didn't cause too many waves with our top 2 teams, with Salvarani and Qazaqstan finishing middle of the pack on the week with 742 and 789 points respectively. A bit further down, there are some big leaps, with Jakob747 jumping not only into the top 10 but onto the podium, as well as Earns1985 and Popchu with double digit leaps. Those three and Devil's Elbow are new entrants into the top 10 this week, at the expense of Squire, Senderos, triley36 and MADRAZO, who don't fall too far, making up the 11-14 spots.

The week after the men's TdF sees the focus mostly on the women's TdF, so the points in this game are rather limited. But we do have the GC points at Wallonie, the Clasica San Sebastian, and a few other lower rated races. With the Tour down, we turn to the final third of the season, with the Vuelta and Worlds on the horizon.

spreadsheet link

Is my tab not updating possibly - because I compared a number of my rider's scores to their score here: https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/cqRankingRider.asp?current=1

And a number of them seem low -

Lipowitz for example shows up as 1060 on the spreadsheet but 1306 on CQ
I also compared Magnier, Lund and Simmons - and they are all low.

Am I not looking at the right data?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Is my tab not updating possibly - because I compared a number of my rider's scores to their score here: https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/cqRankingRider.asp?current=1

And a number of them seem low -

Lipowitz for example shows up as 1060 on the spreadsheet but 1306 on CQ
I also compared Magnier, Lund and Simmons - and they are all low.

Am I not looking at the right data?

You are looking at the data for the last 365 days, not 2025 only. You need to set Year to 2025 rather than Current.

 

[Popchu]

This is the first time in a long list of participations that I've had a relatively good ranking this far into the season. With the Vuelta just around the corner and no Vingegaard, I should enjoy my current ranking while it lasts.

Still, there are a few riders to look forward to, and I’m holding out hope for a magical comeback from some of the underperformers on my team.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Ciccone, Plapp, Kron, Bisiaux and Nordhagen scores some points in San Sebastián!

Good haul.

@Devil's Elbow prediction that you would slow down post TDF isn't off to a great start. (I'd rather talk about other teams than my own which managed to drop a spot despite having Vingegaard in the Tour update).

 

[Nevs]

You are looking at the data for the last 365 days, not 2025 only. You need to set Year to 2025 rather than Current.

Ah... so current year doesn't mean current year. Thank you for that explanation - it makes sense

 

[RedheadDane]

Gawddammit! You'd think Ag2R (specifically the devo team) would at least send Køster to PNDKR... instead, they have seemingly completely forgotten he even exists...

Hopefully, he didn't get Guillain-Barré syndrom too...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Stage win in Pologne, stage win, second and leader jersey points in Burgos, second and fourth in Ain. I've had worse days in this game, just a shame Ciccone got taken out of GC contention (and that Nordhagen continues to have an abysmal maiden pro season).