The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Earns1985]

J. Christen and del Toro both in the line-up for GP Industria. Well at least there is a bit of competition with Carapaz, Hirschi, Storer...

 

[Squire]

Update #32: Squire is king for a week

The Vuelta was the main attraction this week, with GP Bretagne also offering World Tour points amidst a few other smaller races.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	Squire	513
2	oliveira	488
3	Wvv	485
4	18-Valve. (pithy)	477
5	Berflamand	467
5	letstalkcycling	467

Squire is the only team to top 500 points this week, thanks chiefly to the finally-paying-off Jonas Vingegaard (141 points, 33 teams), but also some solid returns from Paul Magnier (96, 37), Jay Vine (70, 11) and Paul Seixas (66, 66). oliveira ends up 25 points back with Vingegaard/Magnier/Seixas as well as Juan Ayuso (87, 11). Wvv ends up in third place with Vingegaard/Magnier, and 3 of the top 4 in the Tour d'Avenir in Seixas, Jarno Widar (54, 37) and Lorenzo Finn (24, 8).

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	oliveira	(+5)
1	Wvv	(+5)
3	Berflamand	(+4)
3	hfgon1	(+4)
3	Squire	(+4)

The table is flipped here, as Squire 'only' moves up 4 spots to the massive 5 moved up by the runners up in the other ranking, oliveira and Wvv.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	Pantani4ever	316
2	Salvarani	309
3	Rufs	239
4	Squire	230.7
5	Devils_Elbow	226

The undercard of this ranking roils around every week, but the two at the top still have quite a bit of a cushion. Squire's 45 points lead their team into the top 5, and Devil's Elbow picks up 6 points on the week to stay pretty close to that third spot, but 3rd-5th would still have to win two more weeks without the top 2 scoring to take over.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(-)	Salvarani	12617
2	(+1)	Devils_Elbow	11942
3	(+2)	SafeBet	11877
4	(-2)	Qazaqstan	11821
5	(-1)	postmanhat	11817
6	(-)	triley36	11504
7	(-)	Popchu	11492
8	(-)	Earns1985	11471
9	(+4)	Squire	11443
10	(+4)	Berflamand	11328

Some shuffling below Salvarani, who has a still substantial but shrinking 675 point lead, with Devil's Elbow and SafeBet overtaking Qazaqstan. Further below, weekly winner Squire re-enters the top 10 alongside Berflamand, while slow climber and Senderos fall out.

This week, the second week of the Vuelta continues, the Tour of Britain is underway, and there are a couple of 1.PS races in the USA and Italy.

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Good stuff!

Maybe another good week upcoming, with the Vingegaard show continuing and Vine having already bagged another one. Wouldn't mind a Dunbar stage win either.

For Britain I have some high potential but extremely unreliable riders, like Lafay, Vader and Gloag. But the most likely outcome is that the race will be a net benefit for my competitors, as Brennan keeps brennaning.

Hopefully De Schuyteneer has learnt some farming skills from De Lie. At least he is off to a good start in Istanbul.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Salvarani with five riders in the top eight of the virtual Vuelta GC after today. The fat lady isn't singing just yet, but she's clearing her throat.

 

[Squire]

For Britain I have some high potential but extremely unreliable riders, like Lafay, Vader and Gloag. But the most likely outcome is that the race will be a net benefit for my competitors, as Brennan keeps brennaning.

So 1/3 delivered. Luckily it was the most rare one out of the three. Lafay 10 minutes down. Starting to doubt whether he will ever find some form this season.

 

[Earns1985]

Salvarani with five riders in the top eight of the virtual Vuelta GC after today. The fat lady isn't singing just yet, but she's clearing her throat.

Ciccone out of the GC today.. so only four riders for Salvarani in the top ranks.
I have Vingegaard instead of Almeida and Hindley. @Squire has Vingegaard instead of Gall and Hindley. If Vingegeaard finish it and with mountain and point classification points in the end, we are the only teams, that will not lose at least that much with the vuelta GC..

 

[Qazaqstan]

I'm falling back in the ranking, but I still believe in a top 5. Gregoire still leading the classification in Brittain, while also on the starting list for Luxembourg

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

It would be nice if Piganzoli could sustain this form during the remaining Italian one day races.

 

[RedheadDane]

Maryland:
Blume 11th: 20 points.

Shanghai:
Salby 3rd in GC and a stage: 18 points.

Britain:
Stokbro 40th in GC: 5 points.

Naaah, I don' think there were any other races happening this week.

 

[Squire]

Maryland:
Blume 11th: 20 points.

Shanghai:
Salby 3rd in GC and a stage: 18 points.

Britain:
Stokbro 40th in GC: 5 points.

Naaah, I don' think there were any other races happening this week.

A shame there haven't been any other Danish riders scoring any significant points this week ...

 

[manafana]

So Dinham is back in Europe a very small chance he might race again this year now

 

[RedheadDane]

A shame there haven't been any other Danish riders scoring any significant points this week ...

For the purpose of this game, those guys don't exist.

 

[shalgo]

For the purpose of this game, those guys don't exist.

Even the guy who is part of 33 teams?

 

[RedheadDane]

Even the guy who is part of 33 teams?

Does not exist.

(I generally don't like having too much of my budget taken up by just a few riders.)

 

[Earns1985]

del Toro and J.Christen both scheduled for this weekend in Italy (Trofeo Matteotti)..

Should mean, that they will also race Toscana, Sabatini and Memorial Pantani..

 

[hayneplane]

del Toro and J.Christen both scheduled for this weekend in Italy (Trofeo Matteotti)..

Should mean, that they will also race Toscana, Sabatini and Memorial Pantani..

Del Toro is going on a Hirschi 2024 points farming feast.

 

[Squire]

Del Toro is going on a Hirschi 2024 points farming feast.

It was clear someone was going to take over that role, but it was hard to predict who. Kudos to those who picked Del Toro.

I had a good think about possible new Hirschis when picking my team. Christen was the most 'obvious' candidate, and the one I considered the most. But he was a bit expensive for his age, and his lack of explosivity made me think he wouldn't be as lethal as Hirschi even with a great schedule. I could see more of the 2024 Frankfurt scenario happening.

Other candidates were Narvaez (too expensive), Morgado (too unreliable) and Covi (not good enough). I didn't really expect Del Toro to be such a great one-day racer and especially not for him to have this incredibly juicy schedule. He was also very expensive and him going a bit missing for the second half of 2024 didn't fill me with confidence.

From UAE I only ended up picking Almeida and Vine (and Vermeersch and Torres, but those two were mandatory). None of those were with any hirschiing in mind though. Almeida because of his mid-2024 improvement and super juicy schedule and Vine because of cheap Aussie points and hopefully some easy stage races later on as well. The latter hasn't quite happened with Vine (or, it did happen but he didn't deliver), but he's doing just fine as a 'domestique' in the Vuelta anyway and is turning out to be an okay pick.

 

[repre]

Del Toro is going on a Hirschi 2024 points farming feast.

And he is actually great.