The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[RedheadDane]

Hmm... Mushroom has Romeo (who's not actually abad rider)... my time avoiding last place was nice while it lasted...

(Even though I got more points from Antwerp, than I got all last week.)

 

[postmanhat]

Powless may, or may not, turn out be a profitable pick, but so glad I took a punt on him for enjoyable days like these.

Very weak Dauphine team, so hoping for something similar from my other one-day riders at Hageland tomorrow to compensate

Brennan
Del Grosso
Tiller
Van Der hoorn
Van Gestel

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Pretty exciting week so far. Vingegaard has already two second places (three if you count Sunday) in Dauphiné and another two await, which should see him in the same spot on GC with some minor classification points as a bonus. Gippingen was also fairly good for me with Nys, Engelhardt and Bagioli. And then in Hageland I have Del Grosso, Van der Hoorn, Magnier, Brennan, Senechal and Vader with both Frenchmen also starting in Elfstedenronde the day after. So I should be up there in the weekly rankings and very close to (or maybe already into if I get lucky) the top-ten come Sunday.

 

[Squire]

Pretty exciting week so far. Vingegaard has already two second places (three if you count Sunday) in Dauphiné and another two await, which should see him in the same spot on GC with some minor classification points as a bonus. Gippingen was also fairly good for me with Nys, Engelhardt and Bagioli. And then in Hageland I have Del Grosso, Van der Hoorn, Magnier, Brennan, Senechal and Vader with both Frenchmen also starting in Elfstedenronde the day after. So I should be up there in the weekly rankings and very close to (or maybe already into if I get lucky) the top-ten come Sunday.

I don't have Nys or Engelhardt (only Bagioli in Gippingen for me), but I do have Dunbar who is well-placed on GC. But with how he imploded on the final climb today, I don't expect him to hang on to 6th place. I also have 3 mighty points from Penhoet. Why can't he do his decent sprint performances in one-day races instead of very un-profitable stage races.

We share Seixas and Tulett, but they are really popular, which is why you didn't mention them I guess.

 

[Netserk]

Pretty exciting week so far. Vingegaard has already two second places (three if you count Sunday) in Dauphiné and another two await, which should see him in the same spot on GC with some minor classification points as a bonus.

After today, he probably won't score as many points in the Tour as he did last year. Pogi better skip the Vuelta.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

We share Seixas and Tulett, but they are really popular, which is why you didn't mention them I guess.

I kind of assumed almost everyone who’s ahead of me has both.

Penhoët is definitely one of the riders on my shortlist for next year (in fact I almost picked him this year), never seen any sprinter on a French team be riding this inefficiently in terms of CQ points.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

After today, he probably won't score as many points in the Tour as he did last year. Pogi better skip the Vuelta.

Should still finish second on GC pretty comfortably (still likelier to win than finish third, even), should still be top-3 in every single one of the six GC days that don’t go to the break, should still be decently high up in the mountains classification because of the MTF overload, should still get some points out of the TT and HTFs. That looks like a pretty similar score to last year to me.

I will sadly be shocked if Pogacar skips the Vuelta. Better chance of Vingegaard both racing and scoring anything meaningful after the Vuelta, and I don’t like those odds either.