Jegat is a curious pick. Do you really think he has much upside in him after 2024? To me, he doesn't really look like a rider I would ever expect to break into 700-800's (minimum to be a viable pick from a price of 453), let alone higher, but I may be wrong.
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I know very little about him. It's the way he rode in the few races I saw that made me pick him. It's one of those riders where I don't expect much, a bit of a gamble. But from his results I think he's not at his peak yet. First tour, finished 28th. 2nd in Tour of Jura. Five top tens in September. A late bloomer.
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He expressed disappointment himself that when it came to the key climb on stage 3, he didn't feel great and couldn't do as well as he'd hoped.
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I assume some of us are now starting to regret inviting Jakobsen to our picnics.
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The way he talked about changing his training to train more as a cyclist than a pure sprinter is not likely to make him a speed demon in this type of finish. The payback will more likely come in slightly harder races if he can be there at the end where he last year got dropped. Hopefully his calendar accommodates that.
Update #1: DJ Sprtsch gets off the blocks on top
Well, it's a new game, new year, and a new set of written updates that start now! Since CQ has not released a download after the Aussie Nationals either last or this year, the first update waits until after the TDU, which is now late enough in January that there are a couple of Spanish races that sneak in there as well. Anyway, a lot of the highest scorers in TDU were rare or non-picks, so there's a wide variety of scores at this point.
This Week's Top Scorers / Top 10 Overall
DJ Sprtsch gets off to a fantastic start, already within sniffing distance of 1000 points. A big part of this is thanks to unique pick Jhonathan Narvaez, who wastes no time on his new team and wins the TDU, scoring 390 points along the way. Luke Plapp (230 points, 20 teams) continues his hot streak in Australia these last few years, winning the nats TT, getting second in the RR, and 6th overall at TDU. Jay Vine (120, 11), Thomas Gloag (97, 62), and Albert Philipsen (40, 72) also are notable for DJ Sprtsch's team.
Some game mainstays make up the rest of the podium and top 10; Jakob747 ends up in 2nd with 776 points thanks largely to Plapp, Finn Fischer-Black (199, 2) and Oscar Onley (164. 2), and the asian is the only other team to clear 700 and nets third with Plapp, Vine and Sam Welsford (207, 11).
This week's High Movers are all moving down from a tie for first, so that chart is unnecessary to display, and the Green Jersey points order is the same as the top overall. I noticed a few glitches in the spreadsheet (on the weekly tab especially) that I'll try to fix by next week, but we are off the blocks!
Next week sees the AlUla Tour, the Mallorca Challenge races, GP Marseillaise, and the Surf Coast/Cadel Race duo.
Spreadsheet at dropbox
Well, it's a new game, new year, and a new set of written updates that start now! Since CQ has not released a download after the Aussie Nationals either last or this year, the first update waits until after the TDU, which is now late enough in January that there are a couple of Spanish races that sneak in there as well. Anyway, a lot of the highest scorers in TDU were rare or non-picks, so there's a wide variety of scores at this point.
This Week's Top Scorers / Top 10 Overall
| Rank | Up/down | Team | Points |
| 1 | (-) | DJ Sprtsch | 929 |
| 2 | (-1) | Jakob747 | 776 |
| 3 | (-2) | the asian | 731 |
| 4 | (-3) | Object | 694 |
| 5 | (-4) | Gotland | 650 |
| 6 | (-5) | Salvarani | 612 |
| 7 | (-6) | skidmark | 590 |
| 8 | (-7) | marksi | 570 |
| 9 | (-8) | Lortnoc | 548 |
DJ Sprtsch gets off to a fantastic start, already within sniffing distance of 1000 points. A big part of this is thanks to unique pick Jhonathan Narvaez, who wastes no time on his new team and wins the TDU, scoring 390 points along the way. Luke Plapp (230 points, 20 teams) continues his hot streak in Australia these last few years, winning the nats TT, getting second in the RR, and 6th overall at TDU. Jay Vine (120, 11), Thomas Gloag (97, 62), and Albert Philipsen (40, 72) also are notable for DJ Sprtsch's team.
Some game mainstays make up the rest of the podium and top 10; Jakob747 ends up in 2nd with 776 points thanks largely to Plapp, Finn Fischer-Black (199, 2) and Oscar Onley (164. 2), and the asian is the only other team to clear 700 and nets third with Plapp, Vine and Sam Welsford (207, 11).
This week's High Movers are all moving down from a tie for first, so that chart is unnecessary to display, and the Green Jersey points order is the same as the top overall. I noticed a few glitches in the spreadsheet (on the weekly tab especially) that I'll try to fix by next week, but we are off the blocks!
Next week sees the AlUla Tour, the Mallorca Challenge races, GP Marseillaise, and the Surf Coast/Cadel Race duo.
Spreadsheet at dropbox
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Even if he has raised level in harder terrain, which remains to be seen, 11th place was definitely not what he and his team were riding for today. He would of course have had to finish in the top 4 to get any points, and Groenewegen didn't achieve that either, so all hope is not lost yet, but it isn't exactly a great sign.
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So, errr... @skidmark... I'm guessing we're not gonna do anything when it comes to budget regarding... this:
cqranking.com
Not gonna make a difference for me - I think - but would be a bit harsh to say that Rakim is above budget for... not being able to predict the future.
CQ Ranking - National Championships Denmark (Herning) I.T.T.
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Not gonna make a difference for me - I think - but would be a bit harsh to say that Rakim is above budget for... not being able to predict the future.
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So, errr... @skidmark... I'm guessing we're not gonna do anything when it comes to budget regarding... this:
CQ Ranking - National Championships Denmark (Herning) I.T.T.
CQ Ranking is the world's leading cycling ranking and extensive results database. Also known as Cycling Quotient.
Not gonna make a difference for me - I think - but would be a bit harsh to say that Rakim is above budget for... not being able to predict the future.
Don't you have him in one of the ERG games as well?
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Not the one starting this year, which is the only game it would have been relevant for.
Nor the one starting last year...
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I searched for him, but it turns out it isn't you who have him in the 23-25 game.
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The only other guy - beside me - who have the new (as of today) Danish ITT Champion from last year; Johan Price-Pejtersen.
Not that it would have made a difference...
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I didn't know you were a guy...
@skidmark, I see that my team is listed as BSB here. The fact that it's in the top 25 at this point should be enough info to tell there aren't any Basque riders in it
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OK,
I thought it was a rider being referred to by one of those strange Danish names that only their next door neighbour knows.
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Surely Price Pejtersen shouldn't have been listed at 64 points though. If he now has 70 points for winning the Danish TT title, then presumably he should have had 42 before that for being second in that event, so his 2024 points would have been 106.
But Rakim (or anyone else) shouldn't have to verify the cost of every rider, and the CQ download should be definitive, even if wrong.
So how would it have come about that CQ had him as zero for that event? Was he disqualified as well and reinstated today? Or did CQ withhold all points from that event knowing that the result was in question? Or what?
But Rakim (or anyone else) shouldn't have to verify the cost of every rider, and the CQ download should be definitive, even if wrong.
So how would it have come about that CQ had him as zero for that event? Was he disqualified as well and reinstated today? Or did CQ withhold all points from that event knowing that the result was in question? Or what?
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Are there rules about what happens if a guy who'd originally been disqualified from a win, but then got that win re-instated after a new game has started, thus making his cost technically higher than it was when everyone build their teams?
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That situation is completely irrelevant, because the rules say that the CQ scores on the 31st of December are the basis for the cost of the riders.
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