The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Devil's Elbow]

Ciccone suddenly being competent in the TT was a nice surprise today. Could this finally be the year where my expensive picks work out? (knocks on wood)

 

[Earns1985]

Ciccone suddenly being competent in the TT was a nice surprise today. Could this finally be the year where my expensive picks work out? (knocks on wood)

Yes, with Morgado, Magnier, Vingegaard, van Aert, Ciccone and Thibau Nys your team looks quite promising at the moment.

While I also have Vingegaard, van Aert and Magnier, I have Riccitello, Gall and Lipowitz. The only one out of these, who had a really good start was Magnier. But let´s see, what will happen the next couple of days..

 

[RedheadDane]

And the three teams that could potentially bring any of my riders for Andalucia have seemingly decided not to publish start lists

All three teams decided to bring at least one of my riders.

 

[manafana]

Visma strong for Algarve

 

[skidmark]

Update #4: marksi says 'see ya!' to the rest of the competition

Another buildup week this week as more and more riders kick off their seasons, with stage races in Oman and Provence, and 1.PS races in Spain and Portugal. And we have our first team of the season that gets two weekly wins!

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	marksi	457
2	DJW	372
3	Crevaison	365
4	Sneekes	346
5	Gotland	339

It was a close week among many teams (and a bad week for many others), but marksi stands head and shoulders above the rest, taking their second win - after winning week 2 - as the only team to nab over 400 points. This is due largely to a few specific picks, and most importantly unique pick David Gaudu (143 points) or his strong showing in Oman. Also contributing to the win are Antonio Morgado (130, 16) and Paul Magnier (78, 37) for their 1-2 in Portugal, as well as most popular pick in Cian Uijtdebroeks (73, 80).

DJW edges out the competition to take 2nd thanks to Morgado/Uijtebroeks and unique pick Valentin Paret-Peintre (140), while Crevaison comes in just behind in third with a Morgado/Magnier/Cian combo.

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Crevaison	(+31)
2	JumboVismaFan	(+19)
3	Nyssinator	(+18)
4	Devils_Elbow	(+15)
5	DJW	(+14)

Third in the last ranking, Crevaison runs away with this one, moving up almost a full third of the table with 31 spots. JumboVismaFan (Magnier/Cian as well as 58 from unique pick De Lie and 3-team-picked Sam Watson) and Nyssinator (Morgado/Magnier/Cian) round it out on the podium.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	marksi	106
2	Salvarani	65
3	Jakob747	57
3	peixotini	57
5	Lortnoc	49

Unsurprisingly, with 2 weekly wins marksi - who was already 4 points out of first in this ranking - moves into a solid lead, with no other teams in the top 5 scoring points this week.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(+3)	marksi	1618
2	(-1)	Jakob747	1457
3	(+3)	Gotland	1387
4	(-2)	DJ Sprtsch	1353
5	(-2)	Salvarani	1274
6	(-1)	Lortnoc	1174
7	(+10)	triley36	1136
8	(-1)	peixotini	1132
9	(+10)	Sneekes	1102
10	(+14)	DJW	1089

Also unsurprisingly, marksi moves into top spot, having been in 4th last week, and dethroning Jakob747 after one week on top. Gotland moves onto the podium, displacing early leader DJ Sprtsch as well. Further down, we see triley36, Sneekes, and DJW jump into the top 10, at the expense of three former game winners in skidmark, Object and ingsve.

This week sees CQ-picked riders fighting for 2nd in the UAE Tour, while the Algarve and Andalucia races give us a rich vein of possible points/riders to cheer for. One more week until Opening Weekend!

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[Squire]

Update #4: marksi says 'see ya!' to the rest of the competition

Another buildup week this week as more and more riders kick off their seasons, with stage races in Oman and Provence, and 1.PS races in Spain and Portugal. And we have our first team of the season that gets two weekly wins!

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	marksi	457
2	DJW	372
3	Crevaison	365
4	Sneekes	346
5	Gotland	339

It was a close week among many teams (and a bad week for many others), but marksi stands head and shoulders above the rest, taking their second win - after winning week 2 - as the only team to nab over 400 points. This is due largely to a few specific picks, and most importantly unique pick David Gaudu (143 points) or his strong showing in Oman. Also contributing to the win are Antonio Morgado (130, 16) and Paul Magnier (78, 37) for their 1-2 in Portugal, as well as most popular pick in Cian Uijtdebroeks (73, 80).

DJW edges out the competition to take 2nd thanks to Morgado/Uijtebroeks and unique pick Valentin Paret-Peintre (140), while Crevaison comes in just behind in third with a Morgado/Magnier/Cian combo.

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Crevaison	(+31)
2	JumboVismaFan	(+19)
3	Nyssinator	(+18)
4	Devils_Elbow	(+15)
5	DJW	(+14)

Third in the last ranking, Crevaison runs away with this one, moving up almost a full third of the table with 31 spots. JumboVismaFan (Magnier/Cian as well as 58 from unique pick De Lie and 3-team-picked Sam Watson) and Nyssinator (Morgado/Magnier/Cian) round it out on the podium.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	marksi	106
2	Salvarani	65
3	Jakob747	57
3	peixotini	57
5	Lortnoc	49

Unsurprisingly, with 2 weekly wins marksi - who was already 4 points out of first in this ranking - moves into a solid lead, with no other teams in the top 5 scoring points this week.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(+3)	marksi	1618
2	(-1)	Jakob747	1457
3	(+3)	Gotland	1387
4	(-2)	DJ Sprtsch	1353
5	(-2)	Salvarani	1274
6	(-1)	Lortnoc	1174
7	(+10)	triley36	1136
8	(-1)	peixotini	1132
9	(+10)	Sneekes	1102
10	(+14)	DJW	1089

Also unsurprisingly, marksi moves into top spot, having been in 4th last week, and dethroning Jakob747 after one week on top. Gotland moves onto the podium, displacing early leader DJ Sprtsch as well. Further down, we see triley36, Sneekes, and DJW jump into the top 10, at the expense of three former game winners in skidmark, Object and ingsve.

This week sees CQ-picked riders fighting for 2nd in the UAE Tour, while the Algarve and Andalucia races give us a rich vein of possible points/riders to cheer for. One more week until Opening Weekend!

spreadsheet link
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I get an error when trying to view the spreadsheet.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I get an error when trying to view the spreadsheet.

I can download, but not view it online.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

I can download, but not view it online.

Same here.

 

[repre]

Gloag is dead again

 

[Earns1985]

Gall and Riccitello strong today. Promising for the season!

 

[ingsve]

Gloag is dead again

They've had illness in the team with Kooij etc having to abandon so he might be coming down with something himself.

 

[ingsve]

Gall and Riccitello strong today. Promising for the season!

Ya, I think it was the 2nd time this year and possibly the 2nd time in his career that Gall has attacked.

 

[armchairclimber]

Onley and Romero both looking decent.
Seixas too, but he's fairly popular.

 

[ingsve]

Lecerf was good for me as well. He's still a fair bit down from the ITT though so it will depend on how spread out the field gets in the next MTF.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van Aert stopped riding 30 km from the line In his last race, but today it didn't happen until the last 500 m. With that kind of rapid improvement, he's bound to be scoring big points in no time.

 

[Netserk]

25 teams with Ganna were robbed by the UCI.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

25 teams with Ganna were robbed by the UCI.

At least there aren't as many points involved as with the Ruta del Sol farce last year.

 

[will-10]

25 teams with Ganna were robbed by the UCI.

and we're already owed our Besseges points. Ganna is gonna finish the year on 0pts with 49 race days cancelled for various mario kart reasons

 

[Shakes]

Definitely robbed with regards to Ganna! I am happy he went for it to get CQ Points but UCI robs us all.

 

[Earns1985]

Gloag is dead again

He is out of the UAE now, so just sick I think. Sad for the UAE points from him, but perspective is still good..

 

[repre]

2 points from Jakobsen and really good stage from him. Maybe not everything is lost

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Early days, but not too excited about the double expensive Visma approach so far...

On the plus side, Morgado will enter quad digits somewhere around Ronde if he keeps this up.

 

[Earns1985]

Early days, but not too excited about the double expensive Visma approach so far...

On the plus side, Morgado will enter quad digits somewhere around Ronde if he keeps this up.

Yes, Vingegaard not really good today, altough he will probably still end up really high in the final GC of Algarve, I think. But for his price I agree, everything but a win, is disappointing.

 

[Squire]

On the plus side, Morgado will enter quad digits somewhere around Ronde if he keeps this up.

On De Plus' side? Yes, Morgado is looking very scary. But luckily for me, Almeida also looks good. Vingegaard a bit disappointing, along with his team, but him and Almeida might still end up 1-2 in this race. It's been complicated a bit by so many others being in the mix though. A lot of people all the way down to Schachmann can potentially do a good TT and be in the mix for the podium.

Also a bit unfortunate for me that JSM somehow didn't make the front group in Andalucia. But he still looks better than last year.

 

[armchairclimber]

Two of my more expensive picks, Onley and Christen, are picking up points nicely and, more importantly, looking good. Both relatively rare picks too. Tomorrow two real big ones, Joe Blackmore and Lenny Martinez , get to it in Var. Hope they start to show something.