The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[del1962]

What if you don’t have Vingegard but have Lipowitz?

 

[Earns1985]

What if you don’t have Vingegard but have Lipowitz?

Having both is the real deal!

 

[Earns1985]

So after the first big mountain stage here is the popularity of the current overall classification in this game:

		Popularity Top 20	Popularity overall
1​	Pogačar Tadej	0​	0​
2​	Vingegaard Jonas	3​	33​
3​	Evenepoel Remco	0​	1​
4​	Lipowitz Florian	4​	11​
5​	Vauquelin Kévin	0​	0​
6​	Onley Oscar	1​	2​
7​	Roglič Primož	0​	2​
8​	Johannessen Tobias Halland	3​	10​
9​	Gall Felix	7​	22​
10​	Jorgenson Matteo	0​	0​
11​	Healy Ben	3​	15​
12​	Rodríguez Carlos	0​	0​
13​	Jegat Jordan	0​	2​
14​	Martin Guillaume	0​	1​
15​	Mas Enric	0​	0​

Looking really good for me with Vingegaard, Lipowitz and Gall. Hopefully all three will stay on their bike until the end! Would even see me as the favourite for the Weekly win for the TDF overall update right now, but the low-field spanish one-day races next week could still have an impact..

 

[Kazistuta]

I have Vingegaard, Lipo, THJ and Healy😉

 

[Earns1985]

I have Vingegaard, Lipo, THJ and Healy😉

Ohh, so I am not favourite anymore..

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Looking really good for me with Vingegaard, Lipowitz and Gall. Hopefully all three will stay on their bike until the end! Would even see me as the favourite for the Weekly win for the TDF overall update right now, but the low-field spanish one-day races next week could still have an impact..

It also puts you on course to enter the top-10 overall with the Tour GC points. With SafeBet and Squire already there and me lurking in 11th, that would mean we head into the final part of the season with four Vingegaard teams in the top-10, which would definitely add some flavour.

 

[Squire]

Oof, that 3rd place on the podium for Almeida is looking more and more like it would have been a lock. What a shame. Could have needed those points to get the edge against all the other Vingegaard teams on the up.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah! I don't care:
This week didn't happen.

Edit: Okay, it happened a little bit... Valgren getting 2 points (yay) for 9th on a TdF stage.

(Or, since Emil Mielke Vinjebo went full-name basis in the little guessing-the-winner competition they have on TV2, I'm gonna do the same; Michael Valgren Hundahl.)

 

[postmanhat]

Apart from Gall, the Tour is going even worse than expected. Ayuso is back tomorrow though, and his schedule is fairly promising.

L'Ebre
Villafranca
San Sebastian
Pologne
Canada
Worlds
Europeans
Lombardia

Less enamoured with Ciccone's

San Sebastian
Burgos
Vuelta
Lombardia

Lidl seem obsessed with sending to two GTs every season, where he invariably fails on GC.

 

[Earns1985]

Apart from Gall, the Tour is going even worse than expected. Ayuso is back tomorrow though, and his schedule is fairly promising.

L'Ebre
Villafranca
San Sebastian
Pologne
Canada
Worlds
Europeans
Lombardia

Ayuso not in the startlist of L'Ebre anymore.. replacement is Morgado.

The startlists of these 1.1 CQ farming races, where the strongest competitor for UAE is a 36 year old Diego Ulissi, are not that unimportant, as popular guys like del Toro, Morgado, J.Christen and Ayuso will most likely win them, when they start.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ayuso not in the startlist of L'Ebre anymore.. replacement is Morgado.

The startlists of these 1.1 CQ farming races, where the strongest competitor for UAE is a 36 year old Diego Ulissi, are not that unimportant, as popular guys like del Toro, Morgado, J.Christen and Ayuso will most likely win them, when they start.

Morgado has been poor for ages, though. On paper he should always manage a top-5 today but I'm not exactly confident.

 

[Earns1985]

Jarno Widar into profit. Even if he continues to only compete in U23 races, he will be in the end a good pick.
Still, he could be an exceptional one, when Lotto would let him ride a few Pro races..

 

[Earns1985]

It also puts you on course to enter the top-10 overall with the Tour GC points. With SafeBet and Squire already there and me lurking in 11th, that would mean we head into the final part of the season with four Vingegaard teams in the top-10, which would definitely add some flavour.

Yeah, really looking forward to the last couple of month in this game. Like last year it seems, that in the middle of the year my team seems to have woken up. Before the Dauphine I was in 50th place. A nice comeback. Even before the Tour overall Update I have entered the Top20 now.

 

[Earns1985]

I have Vingegaard, Lipo, THJ and Healy😉

One other really good looking team at the Tour right now and probably the best one without VIngegaard is
@Jakob747, who has Onley, Lipowitz, THJ and Healy

 

[skidmark]

Update #26: Kazistuta ekes out the week's win

Week 2 of the Tour, which means more stage and jersey points, but very few other races aside from Aosta (giving 25 points for the winner). That makes it a relatively low scoring and close week!

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Kazistuta	333
2	PandaClaws	326
3	Earns1985	321
4	Blues in the bottle	316
5	Amethyst	301

The top 5 are separated by a mere 32 points this week. Kazistuta has a good-looking Tour team, with Vingegaard (136 points, 33 teams) the standout with solid stage placings in the hard stages. Ben Healy (80, 15), Florian Lipowitz (75, 11), Tobias Johannessen (27, 10) and Luke Plapp (15, 20) make up all of Kaz's scoring. PandaClaws ends up 7 points back with Ving, Healy, Jarno Widar (41, 37), Wout (40, 60) and Felix Gall (29, 22), while Earns1985 is 5 points further down thanks to Ving/Lipowitz/Widar/Van Aert/Gall.

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	Earns1985	(+8)
2	ingsve	(+6)
3	Amethyst	(+4)
3	NorthAmericanScum	(+4)
3	Blues in the bottle	(+4)
3	del1962	(+4)

Earns1985 moves up the charts for this ranking, moving up 8 spots in the overall. 2011 game champ ingsve has 2nd place alone, moving up 6 with Ving/Van Aert/Plapp plus Mauro Schmid (50, 10), and there's a big ol' 4-way tie for 3rd.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Pantani4ever	316
2	Salvarani	297
3	Rufs	219
4	Squire	183.7
5	peixotini	170

Not a ton of scoring at the top this week, although Salvarani gets 8 points closer to Pantani4ever's lead, and peixotini's 2 points for 15th place is enough to leapfrog Qazaqstan into 5th.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Salvarani	10372
2	(-)	Qazaqstan	9469
3	(-)	postmanhat	9174
4	(-)	Senderos	9028
5	(+3)	SafeBet	8840
6	(-1)	slow_climber	8830
7	(+3)	abbulf	8814
8	(-2)	triley36	8771
9	(-2)	MADRAZO	8739
10	(-1)	Squire	8730

No movement in terms of places in the top 4, but things spread out regardless as Salvarani gains 105 points on Qazaqstan in 2nd and 208 on postmanhat in 3rd, even further cementing their team's lead. No in and outs in the top 10.

This upcoming week will of course be a big one, with GC points from the biggest-point race of the year, along with a smattering of 1.1s in Spain and the start of the Tour of Wallonie.

spreadsheet link

 

[Earns1985]

So Vingegaard will have most likely like 1450 points after the Tour overall update with the vuelta still to come...

I am pretty happpy with 2nd, 3rd and 5th overall now. I am really looking forward to the next update. Please no crashes in the next two days..

Don´t know where I will be exactly after the update, but I will not be that faraway from 2nd overall pointwise anymore.

So after the tour important decicions will be taken, that will have bigger impacts to the game.
Will Vingegaard ride the vuelta and if yes, will Pogacar ride?
What will van Aert's schedule be for the remaining season? Let´s all hope (well especially his owners), that he will not call it a season after he rode the giro and the tour..
For me important: Will Lipowitz just celebrate his tour performance for the rest of the season or will he also be serious in the autumn. Same applies to Gall.
How will UAE distribute all their riders to the remaining races. Looking at popular riders like del Toro, J.Christen, Morgado, Almeida and Ayuso, who all have potential to score still big this season...

 

[RedheadDane]

This week definitely happened more than the last!
Lund gets 3rd on a TdF stage, and the TdF finishing points = 55 total.
Honoré gets 6th in l'Ebre = 28 points.
Asgreen, Cort, and Valgren all makes it to Paris = 20 points each.
Foldager gets 3rd on the first stage in Wallonie = 10 points.

 

[tobydawq]

With Wout's win today, my magnificant expensive rider quartet of Wout, Ganna, Van Eetvelt and Pithie have been a thundering success in the Tour.

 

[Kazistuta]

With number 2,3,6,9 and 14 in the Tour GC it doesn't really matter that I have some bad picks (Schelling and Calzoni) driving aimlessly round at the same time. Not gonna catapult into something great overall, but at least hopefully it's another week with a top3 placing.

 

[Earns1985]

With number 2,3,6,9 and 14 in the Tour GC it doesn't really matter that I have some bad picks (Schelling and Calzoni) driving aimlessly round at the same time. Not gonna catapult into something great overall, but at least hopefully it's another week with a top3 placing.

I would assume it's the weekly win for you! But let's see tomorrow!

 

[tobydawq]

With number 2,3,6,9 and 14 in the Tour GC it doesn't really matter that I have some bad picks (Schelling and Calzoni) driving aimlessly round at the same time. Not gonna catapult into something great overall, but at least hopefully it's another week with a top3 placing.

I'd be expecting a bit of catapulting if I had that set of results.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Even with me having Vingegaard, I actually would have dropped one spot this week had Van Aert not won the stage yesterday - yikes. On the plus side, I'm into the top-10 and Pogacar seemingly not going to the Vuelta could easily boost Vingegaard's score by hundreds of points.

 

[Earns1985]

So as expected, I am entering the top5 overall!
What a comeback! After the giro I had been 50th in the overall. That´s what I like about this game. When you would have to make actions during the whole year in this game, I would have thought perhaps: "Ahh, I am too far back, doesn´t matter anymore." But with this game setting a comeback is always possible..

When looking at the Top10 overall right now, what I like most is the big variety of expensive picks. There is really no pick higher than 300 points, which everyone has and there is only one pick (Magnier, 8 teams), which more than half of the teams have.

Magnier	8​
Gall	5​
van Aert	5​
Plapp	4​
Vingegaard	4​
Vine	4​
Ciccone	3​
J. Christen	3​
Johannessen	3​
Lipowitz	3​
Almeida	2​
Riccitello	2​
Ganna	2​
Healy	2​
Tarling	2​
Arensman	2​
Nys	2​
Gregoire	1​
Buitrago	1​
Dunbar	1​
Gee	1​
S.Yates	1​
Demare	1​
del Toro	1​
Morgado	1​
Powless	1​
Ayuso	1​
S. Yates	1​
Hindley	1​
Schmid	1​
Pellizzari	1​
Fisher-Black	1​
Penhoet	1​
Pithie	1​
Onley	1​
Lutsenko	1​

 

[Kazistuta]

I'd be expecting a bit of catapulting if I had that set of results.

I meant around the top10, which I'm still a long way from But at least it seems like I might take the second weekly win, so I guess that's something.

 

[Earns1985]

Even with me having Vingegaard, I actually would have dropped one spot this week had Van Aert not won the stage yesterday - yikes. On the plus side, I'm into the top-10 and Pogacar seemingly not going to the Vuelta could easily boost Vingegaard's score by hundreds of points.

Pogacar not going to the vuelta is good news for all players with GC riders, which are scheduled for the vuelta.
Especially the ones, that would have to work for him and potentially would have to sacrifise their own chances (Almeida) and the ones, who will potentially win the whole thing. (Vingegaard)