The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Wvv]

Van Wilder going to sprint for the win today in France, and then the riders were send in the wrong direction ... again. Ridiculous.

 

[repre]

Had 9 riders at Ardeche. No one in top10. Debacle (c)

 

[RedheadDane]

Fairly good day, by my standards.
All my riders in Belgium omlooped to the end, with Søjberg making it into the bigger-ish points.
And Skjelmose got a top-10 in France.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to get any points from Spain today.

 

[Netserk]

Another 62 points lost for Van Aert.

 

[skidmark]

Thanks for the update @skidmark . It was a decent week. There is a discrepency between your speadsheet and the one on Shakes' page, which tallies with my own. We have me on 1394 in 16th, whereas I'm 1367 and 18th on the Dropbox sheet.

Edit: just found the anomaly. Clement Izquierdo 27 points. There's an accent on the first "e". Though I am pretty sure I copied and pasted all the names from the CQ site for my entry.

On the up side, he's a unique pick

Thanks, I'll change that - I noticed another rider (unique pick for armchairclimber) whose name was changed in CQ this week by simply removing an accent off an 'e'. I only noticed because I was going through that team for the update as they were in 2nd on the week, so I'm sure I might miss other perplexing changes like this one

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Looking at the Rwanda result I see that I should have kept Nahom Zeray. But it didn't look like he had a team for 2025 back when we had to make the selection. Well, that's how it goes in modern CQ-gaming. At least he gave me a 600% profit last year.
Apart from that, like repre above, the first day of the opening weekend was a bit of a fiasco for team DJ Sprtsch. Onwards, forwards...

 

[armchairclimber]

Well this weekend was as bad as last week was good. So many DNFs, including collarbone break for Christen. Kron was Kronic.

Only a couple of bright spots. Juan Martinez into profit in his first race (Rwanda). And minor points for Bittner.
Meh. At least I don't have WVA.

 

[Riverside]

Bagioli is in profit - gg for 56 teams.
not much to celebrate this week for me, cautiously optimistic about first racing days of rare (14 teams) Quinn Simmons...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Van Aert looks impressively terrible for being one of the most obvious quad-digit picks of all time, he had better have timed a huge form peak for classics season proper...

On the plus side, most of my other riders are giving me no reason to complain so far and entering the top-10 soon looks like a real possibility. With both Magnier and Morgado set to race again before next weekend, it might even happen in the next few days.

 

[Earns1985]

Aside from the two popular picks Tulett and Bagioli, Magnier had been the highlight of the weekend.

Van Aert really doesn't look good scoringwise right now.. the guys who didn't pick him, could have an advantage in the end. But let's first wait for the other cobble classics..

Other pick where I am a bit dissapointed right now is Riccitello. He was aweful this weekend in races with profiles, that should at least suit him a bit..

 

[hayneplane]

Tulett is looking like a big miss from me for guys who were low risk high reward options.

Good points in Rwanda from Pericas along with Magnier and Bagioli but I think I have likely slid a few spots in the rankings.

 

[repre]

Tulett is looking like a big miss from me for guys who were low risk high reward options.

Good points in Rwanda from Pericas along with Magnier and Bagioli but I think I have likely slid a few spots in the rankings.

not much of scoring this week, so Magnier might be enough for good placing

 

[RedheadDane]

A few riders for the early-week races:

Samyn
Blume
Breiner
Wallin

Laigueglia
Foldager
Hellemose
Honoré

 

[manafana]

Sören Waerenskjold is getting a tough week in march. According to PCS he's riding both Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico at the same time.

Seems be the Uno X hammer for any race after his late call up Saturday

 

[Netserk]

Van Aert looks impressively terrible for being one of the most obvious quad-digit picks of all time, he had better have timed a huge form peak for classics season proper...

I don't even think he'll break even by the Tour.

 

[repre]

I don't even think he'll break even by the Tour.

*by end of the season. 2026 season

 

[ingsve]

Van Aert looks impressively terrible for being one of the most obvious quad-digit picks of all time, he had better have timed a huge form peak for classics season proper...

Might turn out to be a good thing that he's skipping San Remo for training.

 

[hayneplane]

Very surprised to find that despite my thoughts that I had not had a great week I was actually 7th in the Green Jersey rankings for the week and up 14 places overall.

 

[Netserk]

Another important rider´s spring schedule for this game is out!

Paul Magnier:
01.03 Omloop Nieuwsblad
04.03 Ename Samyn Classic
10.03 Tirreno-Adriatico
22.03 Milano-Sanremo
30.03 Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields
02.04 Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre
09.05 Giro d'Italia

What do you think about his schedule? Would have wished, that he will start a bit earlier, last time his first points were already in Mallorca. On the other hand in february there are mostly only stage races, which means that scoring for a sprinter is limited anyway.
Aout his participaticion in the cobble classics. Well, if he is doing well there, could be a really good schedule. But if not, it´s not so good for us Magnier owners. So I am a bit uncertain, what I should think about this schedule..

He looks like a really good pick now.

 

[Earns1985]

He looks like a really good pick now.

Yes, out of the relatively expensive ones, I would say, that he looks together with Morgado as the best right now.

 

[ingsve]

The news on Nordhagen is that he got a fever at the morning of Muscat Classic which they believe in hindsight might have been mononucleosis. He at least tested positive for anti-bodies for that virus.

He was still not ready to race the Faun races in France but he has been training for a week already and by Strade it will be close to 2 weeks. He says he's not 100% fit yet but their roster for Strade is not the strongest so there was still a spot for him.

He will then train and get ready for Coppi e Bartali which will be his first race where he hopes to perform. He will then move on and do some one day races in France which sounds like the Tour de Doubs, Tour de Jura races before moving on to Tour de Romandia which will be his first big stage race where he hopes to do well.

His schedule is such that he's mostly have free reign to ride for his own results this season unless he happens to ride something with the top leaders of the team like Joergensen or Vingegaard.

There is no stress to ride any GT just yet.

 

[skidmark]

Update #6: For Make Benefit Glorious Team of Qazaqstan

Opening Weekend is in the books, and some riders are looking quite good to their owners, while others are starting to show signs that may be worrying. And some haven't really started their season even yet! But the game is definitely afoot. Let's see how it shook out.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Qazaqstan	520
2	Pantani4ever	461
3	Nyssinator	454
4	HoudiniCycling	451
5	slow_climber	428

One team gains over 500 points this week, and it's Qazaqstan. Their team had 4 big stars this week in Derek Gee (152 points, 6 teams), Roman Gregoire (130, 3), Paul Magnier (108, 37) and Ben Tulett (80, 56). The battle for 2nd on the week is close, with Pantani4ever coming out on top with 461 as one of 11 teams with Juan Ayuso (154), as well as Magnier/Tulett. Nyssinator is just behind with Gee/Magnier/Tulett (and 30 points from WvA, but we won't mention that).

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Qazaqstan	(+31)
2	Pantani4ever	(+21)
3	karaev	(+20)
4	adamski101	(+19)
5	HoudiniCycling	(+18)

The top 2 double up here this week, with Qazaqstan and Pantani4ever moving up 31 and 21 spots in the overall standings respectively. karaev ends up just behind as an Ayuso/Magnier/Tulett haver.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Salvarani	110
2	marksi	106
3	Jakob747	88
4	peixotini	57
5	Squire	56

Jakob747 is the only team in the top 5 scoring points this week, but 16 points doesn't swap any places around, and Salvarani is still in the lead.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Jakob747	2383
2	(-)	marksi	2183
3	(-)	Salvarani	2034
4	(+1)	triley36	1854
5	(-1)	Gotland	1819
6	(+1)	Squire	1818
7	(+4)	Fivezzz	1806
8	(-2)	DJ Sprtsch	1771
9	(-)	skidmark	1756
10	(+15)	Nyssinator	1752

No place movements on the podium, but Jakob747 turns a mere 8 point lead into a 200 point lead over marksi with a good week. Salvarani loses ground but stays in 3rd, while lower down Fivezz and Nyssinator vault into the top 10 at the expense of piexotini and Lortnoc.

This week the magnitude of races keeps ramping up, with some mid-week appetizers in Le Samyn and Laguieglia before Strade Bianche on Saturday, and the start of Paris-Nice!

spreadsheet link

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Update #6: For Make Benefit Glorious Team of Qazaqstan

Opening Weekend is in the books, and some riders are looking quite good to their owners, while others are starting to show signs that may be worrying. And some haven't really started their season even yet! But the game is definitely afoot. Let's see how it shook out.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Qazaqstan	520
2	Pantani4ever	461
3	Nyssinator	454
4	HoudiniCycling	451
5	slow_climber	428

One team gains over 500 points this week, and it's Qazaqstan. Their team had 4 big stars this week in Derek Gee (152 points, 6 teams), Roman Gregoire (130, 3), Paul Magnier (108, 37) and Ben Tulett (80, 56). The battle for 2nd on the week is close, with Pantani4ever coming out on top with 461 as one of 11 teams with Juan Ayuso (154), as well as Magnier/Tulett. Nyssinator is just behind with Gee/Magnier/Tulett (and 30 points from WvA, but we won't mention that).

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Qazaqstan	(+31)
2	Pantani4ever	(+21)
3	karaev	(+20)
4	adamski101	(+19)
5	HoudiniCycling	(+18)

The top 2 double up here this week, with Qazaqstan and Pantani4ever moving up 31 and 21 spots in the overall standings respectively. karaev ends up just behind as an Ayuso/Magnier/Tulett haver.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Salvarani	110
2	marksi	106
3	Jakob747	88
4	peixotini	57
5	Squire	56

Jakob747 is the only team in the top 5 scoring points this week, but 16 points doesn't swap any places around, and Salvarani is still in the lead.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Jakob747	2383
2	(-)	marksi	2183
3	(-)	Salvarani	2034
4	(+1)	triley36	1854
5	(-1)	Gotland	1819
6	(+1)	Squire	1818
7	(+4)	Fivezzz	1806
8	(-2)	DJ Sprtsch	1771
9	(-)	skidmark	1756
10	(+15)	Nyssinator	1752

No place movements on the podium, but Jakob747 turns a mere 8 point lead into a 200 point lead over marksi with a good week. Salvarani loses ground but stays in 3rd, while lower down Fivezz and Nyssinator vault into the top 10 at the expense of piexotini and Lortnoc.

This week the magnitude of races keeps ramping up, with some mid-week appetizers in Le Samyn and Laguieglia before Strade Bianche on Saturday, and the start of Paris-Nice!

spreadsheet link

A very good couple of CQ days for newcomer to the games @Qazaqstan : also top of the monthly update and current overall in the very early stages of the latest Emerging Riders game

 

[Earns1985]

Better start for Ayuso owners than for van Aert owners. Definitely..

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I was in the top 10 for a couple of days last week, but I'm not sure I'll ever make it back in there again.