The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[EvansIsTheBest]

Starting to think this Seixas guy might have a decent future

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I do like how clean the ending to the season is this year. Six pro races on Sunday the 19th and then that's that (aside from three .2s and the Israeli TT NCs, which are irrelevant). Makes for a nice change compared to the many years of the season dwindling into nothingness but not actually ending for a good bit after Lombardia, and if the end of the calendar stays like this in years to come it could make for a really exciting final weekend for this game when we finally snap out of this streak of runaway winners.

 

[Earns1985]

I do like how clean the ending to the season is this year. Six pro races on Sunday the 19th and then that's that (aside from three .2s and the Israeli TT NCs, which are irrelevant). Makes for a nice change compared to the many years of the season dwindling into nothingness but not actually ending for a good bit after Lombardia, and if the end of the calendar stays like this in years to come it could make for a really exciting final weekend for this game when we finally snap out of this streak of runaway winners.

Last year, there were also significant shifts in the final week still. I remember, that I dropped from 4th to 8th overall in that week last year.
It seems, that I also have to be satisfied with a similar placing this year again. All my expensive riders are basically already in vacation and had been removed from the startlists for the upcoming races. So it seems, that 8th in maximum and I have to be satisfied with a Top10 in the end..

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Last year, there were also significant shifts in the final week still. I remember, that I dropped from 4th to 8th overall in that week last year.
It seems, that I also have to be satisfied with a similar placing this year again. All my expensive riders are basically already in vacation and had been removed from the startlists for the upcoming races. So it seems, that 8th in maximum and I have to be satisfied with a Top10 in the end..

Last year, there were 'only' three races on the final day (Chrono des Nations was a week earlier and the Tour of Holland didn't exist), so we could see even bigger last-gasp shifts this year.