The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[hfgon1]

Black Quick into profit with a stage win in Taiwan. May even be able to fight for GC, given the rather easy route this year.

Still a shame that Quick isnt riding for the Quick Pro Team.

I hope that Bregnhoj is able to show in this race why I picked him. Was pretty surprised he didnt end up being a unique pick. Hope he can do well in these smaller asian races.

 

[tobydawq]

Black Quick into profit with a stage win in Taiwan. May even be able to fight for GC, given the rather easy route this year.

Also my "wtf was I thinking" pick Lucas Hamilton is about to finish his 3rd WT race. Not sure I can still hope for different kind of points.

Weird what happened to Hamilton. Just a completely irrelevant pack fodder rider nowadays.

 

[del1962]

After a really poor start I am hoping today things start getting better, hopefully Ganna moves up a place and Lipowitz maintains or even moves up in Paris Nice, plus something from Simon Yates

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Magnier crashing hard in Tirreno is an ending in style for my week, absolute disaster from start to finish.

 

[Salvarani]

A quite good week in the end.

Hindley, Ciccone and S. Yates brought in some points in T-A.

Arensman, Almeida and Gall did so at P-N as well.

My team was not spared from crashes as Buitrago unfortunately crashed out, but the others scoring points somewhat makes up for it. Bittersweet.

 

[shalgo]

I finally had a halfway-decent week, thanks to Ganna and Tiberi. But it could have been so much better if Vingegaard hadn’t crashed out.

 

[RedheadDane]

And I'm right back at the buttom...

Pedersen has just found the most boring way ever to score points:
Just... finishing WT races:

CQ Ranking - PEDERSEN Casper

CQ Ranking is the world's leading cycling ranking and extensive results database. Also known as Cycling Quotient.

cqranking.com

 

[skidmark]

Update #8: Nice Week for Some, not Nice for Others as Standings are Upended

Well, the big two simultaneous early-season stage races happened this week, and with fairly rare riders at the top of each of the standings (as well as a relatively popular favourite crashing out of one of the races) there was a whole lot of upheaval in the standings this week. Let's see how it shook out.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	adamski101	895
2	search	763
3	postmanhat	745
4	karaev	693
5	manafana	686

adamski101 wins an impressive 2nd week in a row, thanks to being one of the 11 teams that picked Juan Ayuso (354 points, 512 in the last two weeks), and having the best supporting cast of those 11 teams. This week, adamski101 got to almost 900 points on the week thanks also to Filippo Ganna (246 points, 25 teams), Jai Hindley (139, 16), Ilan Van Wilder (71, 7) and Felix Gall (47, 22). search ends up with 2nd place on the week, behind adamski but with a very respectable 763 points from Ayuso/Ganna as well as a strong performance from unique pick Harold Tejada (101 points). potsmanhat gets the final podium spot with 745 from the same big two, and some help from Ciccone (58, 9) and Gall.

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	adamski101	(+32)
2	manafana	(+27)
3	Yellow Knight	(+26)
3	Blues in the bottle	(+26)
5	karaev	(+25)

adamski doubles up once again, up an astonishing 32 spots after leaping 18 last week. manafana moves up 27 spots as another Ayuso/Ganna holder, as well as one of 4 teams with Lenny Martinez (76 points). Yellow Knight (with Ganna/Hindley and 167 from Tiberi) and Blues in the bottle (216 from Lipowitz, 141 from Gee and the 167 from Tiberi) end in third in this ranking, moving up 26 each.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Salvarani	124
2	marksi	106
3	adamski101	98
4	Pantani4ever	96
5	Jakob747	88

At the top of this ranking, Salvarani gets 14 points on the week to get some breathing room from marksi in 2nd place. Further down, adamski101's 90 points for back-to-back weekly wins, plus 8 points the week before, puts their team in 3rd in this competition. Not to be outdone, Pantani4ever ended in 2nd the last two weeks and in 6th this week to scoop up enough points to move into the top 5 as well.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Jakob747	2928
2	(+1)	Salvarani	2735
3	(+15)	postmanhat	2548
4	(+21)	search	2535
5	(-3)	marksi	2512
6	(+10)	Pantani4ever	2499
7	(+8)	peixotini	2496
8	(+32)	adamski101	2465
9	(-3)	slow_climber	2455
10	(-2)	DJW	2354

If you take a look at the 'up/down' column, you will see how crazy of a week this was! Jakob747 sits serenely at the top, thanks to a big buffer of a lead built up in prior weeks. Salvarani gains about 300 points on Jakob but still sits 200 back in 2nd, while postmanhat leaps a huge 15 places to land in third. This just edges out search, who is 13 points behind after moving up 21 places!

Joining them entering the top 10 are Pantani4ever (up 8), peixotini (up 8), and weekly winner adamski101 (up 32). That's fully half the top 10 that gets booted out at their expense, so for now we bid adieu to triley36, Squire, Amethyst, Lortnoc (down 15!) and Fivezzz (down 27!!)

Yowza, what a week.

This week the pendulum swings back to one-day races, in the classic sense of Classics - a couple of French Cup races (GP Denain and Cholet Tour), a couple of cobbled Belgian races (Nokere Koerse and Koksijde Classic), a mountainous Italian classic (Milano-Torino), and of course the first monument of the season, Milan-San Remo.

spreadsheet link

 

[RedheadDane]

Hey, @skidmark.

I think there is a problem with the "2025 results" and "2024 results" columns when you click each player's profile.
They appear to be switched.
For example; Kragh is listed as having already 205 points this year, impressive considering he hasn't raced yet.

 

[adamski101]

well, wow, was not expecting that. back to back weeks. That may be as good as it gets for a while as my classics squad is a bit thin on the ground. I shall make the most of this while I can.

 

[skidmark]

Hey, @skidmark.

I think there is a problem with the "2025 results" and "2024 results" columns when you click each player's profile.
They appear to be switched.
For example; Kragh is listed as having already 205 points this year, impressive considering he hasn't raced yet.

Whoops, looks like I mislabelled the columns at the start of the year and no one has noticed until now! I made the correction, should be good now.

 

[skidmark]

Well the last two weeks haven't been too delightful, moving out of the top 10 to 26th. But I didn't have too many riders going, so let's see what's coming up.

Milano Torino

Jorgen Nordhagen
Ben Tulett

Hmm, Tulett has been going well but I'd like a few more riders really.

Nokere Koerse

literally no one, what??

GP Denain

Tibor Del Grosso

Yikes, where is everybody? At least I'm excited for Del Grosso to do some classics.

Koksijde

Fabio Jakobsen

Well.... that's better than no one... I see his team is sending Van Uden and Lund too, the ultimate vote of confidence in Jakobsen.

Milan San Remo

Romain Gregoire
Ben Tulett

Well at least my expensive rare pick will have a chance to pick up some points. I'm quite curious how Gregoire might be able to do in MSR, seems like exactly his type of race but we'll see if he can hang with the high speeds after such distance.

Cholet Tour

Paul Seixas

Okay so 7 riders are racing in the 6 races this week, Tulett the only one racing more than once. Bring on Catalunya!

 

[RedheadDane]

Let's see what I've got (maybe... several of those startlists aren't finalised):

Milano - Torino
Johansen

Nokere Koerse
Bjerg
Breiner
Changizi
Stokbro
Wallin

Deinan
Bjerg
Price
Søjberg

Bredene
Breiner
Changizi
Lund
Wallin

Milano-Sanremo
Cort
Honoré
Pedersen
(Kron is also on the preliminary startlist, but according to Feltet.dk, he'll miss the race due to a back injury)

Cholet
Nielsen
Stokbro
Søjberg

Lots of riders - several doing two races - little chance to actually score points...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

No Magnier in Sanremo and Vingegaard also out of Catalunya. Does feel like last week was where my team got buried (also lost about 20 places right then and there)...

 

[Earns1985]

No Magnier in Sanremo and Vingegaard also out of Catalunya. Does feel like last week was where my team got buried (also lost about 20 places right then and there)...

Same here.. two bad news today in short time for 13 players, who have these two riders combined..

A few weeks ago, I was really looking forward to see Magnier in San-Remo, although I have to say, that I wasn´t really impresssed by him even before his crash in Tirreno last week.

Vingegaard of course is a bummer, but hopefully he will add at least another race to his schedule before Dauphine as a replacement for Catalunya.

 

[ingsve]

For Vingegaard to be a good pick now he basically needs to win at least one of the Tour or Vuelta and also do well in the other as well as riding a couple more stage races like Tour de Suisse, Romandie and/or Poland that are not in his current schedule and preferably Worlds and Lombardia as well.

 

[repre]

For Vingegaard to be a good pick now he basically needs to win at least one of the Tour or Vuelta and also do well in the other as well as riding a couple more stage races like Tour de Suisse, Romandie and/or Poland that are not in his current schedule and preferably Worlds and Lombardia as well.

Forget it. It didn't work out, so be it.

 

[postmanhat]

Wasn't difficult to gamble on Tullet at 27 points, but must admit I might not have if he cost 100 more. Wasn't expecting anything like this level of recovery/improvement?

 

[postmanhat]

For Vingegaard to be a good pick now he basically needs to win at least one of the Tour or Vuelta and also do well in the other as well as riding a couple more stage races like Tour de Suisse, Romandie and/or Poland that are not in his current schedule and preferably Worlds and Lombardia as well.

Do feel for the Vingo pickers. Am generally too risk-averse to lump that much on a rider, but especially one who usually only contests 6/7 races a year, and no one-dayers that can compensate. Maybe he will change his normal schedule and part of me hopes he does. It's always more interesting for the game when you see the different strategies play out, with mishaps not totally dictating the result.

 

[vladimir]

So my team for Milano San Remo has taken quite a hit over the last few days (according to start list on PCS):
Michal Kwiatkowski - removed
Kim Heiduk - removed
Kasper Asgreen - removed
Quinn Simmons - removed
Needless to say none have been added, and rumours says that Andreas Kron will be removed as well.
Let's see what happens with Cavagna, Ballerini and Fedorov...

 

[escartin]

up until yesterday, this season had been an unmitigated disaster. never before have I spent any more than the first week or two towards the bottom and here I am 2nd last and only 31 points above actual last! I had essentially the worst "standard" team so far.
I don't even think anyone on my team has injuries, just average performances and poor choices...

thankfully in the last couple of days, Tullett, Lamperti, Brennan and Vermeesch (F) have picked up some good points so hopefully I shall start to move away from the basement.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

I appreciate Tulett and Brennan trying to pick up the slack for Van Aert and Vingegaard but I don't think that'll be enough to salvage the Visma contingent this year.

On the flip side with Del Toro, Ayuso, Tiberi, Arensman and Sheffield my 2024 team is having a good last few days.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

I like to track the leading score at different points of the year to see if the season is shaping up to be a low or high-scoring one and my first reference point is the update after MSR. Here are the leading score after Milano-San Remo in previous years:

Year​	Leader​	Score​
2011​	microdose​	3377​
2012​	Mellow Velo​	3691​
2013​	Skibby the bush kangaroo​	2734​
2014​	Geraint Too Fast​	3104​
2015​	Geraint Too Fast​	3472​
2016​	Pentacycle​	3601​
2017​	Nicosix​	3451​
2018​	Nathanptz​	3290​
2019​	Nicosix​	2726​
2020​	EITB​	3939​
2021​	Otoxiep87​	3922​
2022​	Eyeballs Out​	3445​
2023​	tobydawq​	3475​
2024​	shalgo​	4779​

Even after a year, I still lol'd at shalgo's score. Barring some massively surprising results before sunday, we are going to be on the lower end which I think won't surprise anybody.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It could have been even better had Del Grosso not punctured, but the lack of Brennan in the teams ahead of me means that he, Vermeersch and De Schuyteneer basically reversed half of last week’s 19-place drop today. It’s not going to make up for the Vingegaard crash but these are still good points.

 

[hayneplane]

It could have been even better had Del Grosso not punctured, but the lack of Brennan in the teams ahead of me means that he, Vermeersch and De Schuyteneer basically reversed half of last week’s 19-place drop today. It’s not going to make up for the Vingegaard crash but these are still good points.

That puncture was frustrating but the brighter side is that he was looking strong and this could trend to some nice results later in the Spring campaign.

Not the worst week with Del Toro winning a 130 point haul and 4th for Florian Vermeersch.

MSR will likely be all about hoping that my riders bother to finish and pick up the 5 point finisher prize.