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There are countless solutions but to me this is the one ensuring the highest participation rate.
Armchair Cyclist
Moderator
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We did propose this: I'm sure I speak for Cookster when I say we would have confidence in Skidmark to not abuse the status, but the 'higher-ups' were not keen. I'd be happy to ask again, and try to argue the advantages of it, but I'm not confident of a different answer.
It wouldn't be very onerous to copy and paste team listings from one message to another (we moderators have also lost the capacity to copy others into a PM conversation), so that is a live option. (but don't be surprised if, in acknowledging your entries to Skidmarks game, I nag you to join my Women's and Emerging Riders' games that will be starting at about the same time.)
- May 5, 2010
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Well, the Women's Emerging Riders' game is Samu's game...
Why not?
Game is kind of over so haven't prioritized fixing the site. Will do it before next season! As it happened at end of season I think it's due to I efficiencies in calculations as database probably got large and was made quickly and not super efficiënt.
Regarding team creation, I made something last year and can simplify it (to not require a login). Let me know if needed @skidmark
Regarding team creation, I made something last year and can simplify it (to not require a login). Let me know if needed @skidmark
- Sep 20, 2017
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I would consider making two options out of the three listed available, anything that goes against making it harder to submit should help with regards to participation levels.
- Mar 12, 2009
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That sort of sounds like a no out of convenience. The easiest thing to do is to say no to things, even without compelling reasons for it, since you don't really risk anything by saying no. Perhaps if pressed to give a coherent reason for saying no it would make it harder to simply reject the proposal out of laziness and convenience.
Update #39: SafeBet goes out swinging but Salvarani is the 2025 CQ Game champion
The cycling season came to a well-calibrated end this week, with two stage races (Tours of Holland and Guangxi) and 3 one-day races (Japan Cup, Chrono des Nations, Veneto Classic) finishing on Sunday. There was some typical end-of-season surprises (like Paul Double and Sakarias Loland beating more established riders), redemption stories (Laporte finally getting right after a horror season, Victor Lafay without a win but similar), and some deja vu (Magnier and Del Toro winning again and again). In the end, quite an eventful week!
This Week's Top Scorers
SafeBet ends in style, winning the final two weeks of the season and almost cracking 1000 points on the last week. This was headed by the two season-long superstars driving their team, with Paul Magnier (221 points, 37 teams) dominating Guangxi stages to crack 1500 points for the year, and Isaac Del Toro (130, 8) winning one more race to crack 3000 (!) for the season. As well, Victor Lafay (165, 36) and Jorgen Nordhagen (97, 52) got season-best results, and Cian Uijtdebroeks (84, 80), Josh Tarling (80, 14) and Florian Vermeersch (78, 74) pitching in too.
In second, triley36 is not far behind at 951 points, with a similar top group of Magnier/Del Toro/Lafay/Uijtebroeks/Tarling but the slightly lower scoring Hayter (52, 82) and Nerukar (52, 52) in place of Nordhagen and Vermeersch. Game founder Hugo Koblet rounds out the last podium of the season, cracking 900 with all of the above sans Del Toro.
This Week's High Movers
It's hard to move up the standings very much by week 39, but Crevaison manages an end-of-season push that brings their team up double digit places at the end, moving up 10 spots on 817 points from Magnier/Del Toro/Lafay as well as Lenny Martinez (130, 4) closing out the season with a win in Japan. Longtime game player karaev lands in 2nd moving up 7 spots, while DJW has sole possession of 3rd, moving up 6.
Green Jersey Competition
SafeBet's end-of-season surge (the maximum 90 points in the last 2 weeks for two wins, 110 points in the last 3 weeks) isn't quite enough to move higher than 3rd, as Salvarani ends up winning this ranking by almost 50 points, and Squire holds firm in 2nd by scoring 22 more this week. I believe this is the first year that the 3 teams on the Green Jersey podium are the same as the overall podium, speaking to the value of consistently high-scoring rare picks (eg Del Toro, Almeida) as team engines in this year's game. Speaking of the overall...
Top 10 Overall
In the end, it was closer than it looked like it would be for the last few months, but Salvarani is officially the winner of the 2025 CQ Game! SafeBet made it tight though, gaining a huge 572 points this week on Salvarani, but it wasn't enough. Salvarani had a big enough buffer to end up holding on by 253 points, but given that their team's lead was over 1300 on SafeBet three weeks ago, it was surprisingly close. Squire finishes yet another solid season in third - as was mentioned on this thread, their team is essentially a pre-2018 Valverde at the Worlds, nailing down every placing position but first in this game. So it's worthwhile remembering that Valverde eventually got his!
Further down, triley36 finishes strong to leap into 5th behind Devil's Elbow, former winner and perennial high-placer EvansIsTheBest lands in 6th, and Earns1985, Berflamand, 18-Valve and postmanhat make up the rest of the top 10. Nobody falls out of the top 10 on the last week, although HoudiniCycling made a mad dash towards the top 10, gaining over 500 on postmanhat but landing a mere 16 points back in the end.
Congratulations to Salvarani, and thanks to all who participated in the game and in discussion here, for making another edition of the CQ Game a fun time! Time to start working on next year's team...
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The cycling season came to a well-calibrated end this week, with two stage races (Tours of Holland and Guangxi) and 3 one-day races (Japan Cup, Chrono des Nations, Veneto Classic) finishing on Sunday. There was some typical end-of-season surprises (like Paul Double and Sakarias Loland beating more established riders), redemption stories (Laporte finally getting right after a horror season, Victor Lafay without a win but similar), and some deja vu (Magnier and Del Toro winning again and again). In the end, quite an eventful week!
This Week's Top Scorers
| Rank | Team | Points this week |
| 1 | SafeBet | 983 |
| 2 | triley36 | 951 |
| 3 | Hugo Koblet | 907 |
| 4 | JPettersen | 863 |
| 5 | Squire | 837 |
SafeBet ends in style, winning the final two weeks of the season and almost cracking 1000 points on the last week. This was headed by the two season-long superstars driving their team, with Paul Magnier (221 points, 37 teams) dominating Guangxi stages to crack 1500 points for the year, and Isaac Del Toro (130, 8) winning one more race to crack 3000 (!) for the season. As well, Victor Lafay (165, 36) and Jorgen Nordhagen (97, 52) got season-best results, and Cian Uijtdebroeks (84, 80), Josh Tarling (80, 14) and Florian Vermeersch (78, 74) pitching in too.
In second, triley36 is not far behind at 951 points, with a similar top group of Magnier/Del Toro/Lafay/Uijtebroeks/Tarling but the slightly lower scoring Hayter (52, 82) and Nerukar (52, 52) in place of Nordhagen and Vermeersch. Game founder Hugo Koblet rounds out the last podium of the season, cracking 900 with all of the above sans Del Toro.
This Week's High Movers
| Rank | Team | Up/down |
| 1 | Crevaison | (+10) |
| 2 | karaev | (+7) |
| 3 | DJW | (+6) |
| 4 | Kazistuta | (+5) |
| 4 | Samu Cuenca | (+5) |
It's hard to move up the standings very much by week 39, but Crevaison manages an end-of-season push that brings their team up double digit places at the end, moving up 10 spots on 817 points from Magnier/Del Toro/Lafay as well as Lenny Martinez (130, 4) closing out the season with a win in Japan. Longtime game player karaev lands in 2nd moving up 7 spots, while DJW has sole possession of 3rd, moving up 6.
Green Jersey Competition
| Rank | Team | Total |
| 1 | Salvarani | 420 |
| 2 | Squire | 370.7 |
| 3 | SafeBet | 363 |
| 4 | Pantani4ever | 316 |
| 5 | Devils_Elbow | 242 |
SafeBet's end-of-season surge (the maximum 90 points in the last 2 weeks for two wins, 110 points in the last 3 weeks) isn't quite enough to move higher than 3rd, as Salvarani ends up winning this ranking by almost 50 points, and Squire holds firm in 2nd by scoring 22 more this week. I believe this is the first year that the 3 teams on the Green Jersey podium are the same as the overall podium, speaking to the value of consistently high-scoring rare picks (eg Del Toro, Almeida) as team engines in this year's game. Speaking of the overall...
Top 10 Overall
| Rank | Up/down | Team | Points |
| 1 | (-) | Salvarani | 17113 |
| 2 | (-) | SafeBet | 16860 |
| 3 | (-) | Squire | 16647 |
| 4 | (-) | Devils_Elbow | 15900 |
| 5 | (+2) | triley36 | 15790 |
| 6 | (-1) | EvansIsTheBest | 15686 |
| 7 | (+2) | Earns1985 | 15379 |
| 8 | (-) | Berflamand | 15338 |
| 9 | (+1) | 18-Valve. (pithy) | 15169 |
| 10 | (-4) | postmanhat | 15109 |
In the end, it was closer than it looked like it would be for the last few months, but Salvarani is officially the winner of the 2025 CQ Game! SafeBet made it tight though, gaining a huge 572 points this week on Salvarani, but it wasn't enough. Salvarani had a big enough buffer to end up holding on by 253 points, but given that their team's lead was over 1300 on SafeBet three weeks ago, it was surprisingly close. Squire finishes yet another solid season in third - as was mentioned on this thread, their team is essentially a pre-2018 Valverde at the Worlds, nailing down every placing position but first in this game. So it's worthwhile remembering that Valverde eventually got his!
Further down, triley36 finishes strong to leap into 5th behind Devil's Elbow, former winner and perennial high-placer EvansIsTheBest lands in 6th, and Earns1985, Berflamand, 18-Valve and postmanhat make up the rest of the top 10. Nobody falls out of the top 10 on the last week, although HoudiniCycling made a mad dash towards the top 10, gaining over 500 on postmanhat but landing a mere 16 points back in the end.
Congratulations to Salvarani, and thanks to all who participated in the game and in discussion here, for making another edition of the CQ Game a fun time! Time to start working on next year's team...
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Yeah that's a good idea. Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'm talking to Armchair Cyclist about the temporary mod idea, as that's the most like how it's always been. If that doesn't pan out, I'll set up an email address and @Shakes I'll get at you (in this thread I guess if we don't have DM capabilities) to see how we might be able to set something up through the site.
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Congrats Salvarani on the dominant win, SafeBet on the late push and squire for the annual podium placement.
Thanks to skidmark for hosting the game.
Hope to see all of you for next season. I'm off to work on my 2026 team.
Thanks to skidmark for hosting the game.
Hope to see all of you for next season. I'm off to work on my 2026 team.
congrats to Salvarani and thanks to Skidmark for running the game
Thanks to Skidmark for running the game. Keeps the season interesting.
Congrats to Salvarani on the win and SafeBet and Squire for being on the podium.
Lastly, thanks and congrats to Isaac Del Toro for landing me in the top 5 despite my second and third most expensive picks not breaking even!
See you all in the new year!
Congrats to Salvarani on the win and SafeBet and Squire for being on the podium.
Lastly, thanks and congrats to Isaac Del Toro for landing me in the top 5 despite my second and third most expensive picks not breaking even!
See you all in the new year!
- Apr 30, 2011
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Thank you for another well-run season, @skidmark. Thanks to @EvansIsTheBest for pitching in and sharing the load, and to @Shakes for the site.
Congratulations to our winner @Salvarani, this year's ultimate cycling bezzerwizzer.
And a final thanks to all participants, your contributions are what makes this game so good to follow even for a non-participant.
Congratulations to our winner @Salvarani, this year's ultimate cycling bezzerwizzer.
And a final thanks to all participants, your contributions are what makes this game so good to follow even for a non-participant.
Yes, thank you to everyone that has congratulated so far. 
Im happy that the strategy I opted for, to give me an edge in this game this year, worked over the popular Vinge/Van Aert combo.
Going your own way might not work to win every year over the pack or a team that has just managed to get every single popular pick that becomes important to have, but if one manages to find value where few are looking... it could yield a greater return in a single year. Like this time. That and picking good riders. + a little bit of luck along the way.
Huge thanks to @skidmark for arranging the game + providing the weekly updates that is always a good read and to @EvansIsTheBest for filling in during the year as well. Also thanks to @Shakes for the website. It is good to be able to get a quick scope after races and for the combo search, that is a really nice feature.
Special mention to my fellow podium finishers in @SafeBet and @Squire. Well played.
See you next year again!
Im happy that the strategy I opted for, to give me an edge in this game this year, worked over the popular Vinge/Van Aert combo.
Going your own way might not work to win every year over the pack or a team that has just managed to get every single popular pick that becomes important to have, but if one manages to find value where few are looking... it could yield a greater return in a single year. Like this time. That and picking good riders. + a little bit of luck along the way.
Huge thanks to @skidmark for arranging the game + providing the weekly updates that is always a good read and to @EvansIsTheBest for filling in during the year as well. Also thanks to @Shakes for the website. It is good to be able to get a quick scope after races and for the combo search, that is a really nice feature.
Special mention to my fellow podium finishers in @SafeBet and @Squire. Well played.
See you next year again!
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I guess once your team has fallen back by enough spots the only way is up.
Congratulations to Salvarani for the deserved win, and a huge thank you to Skidmark(/(EvansIsTheBest) for running the game once again.
I'd also like to give special thanks to Niklas Larsen for helping me break into the top 80 for the first time. We did it, buddy! I would still have been better off picking the whole Astana team, apart from Bettiol, but the difference was less than 140 points in the end.
Congratulations to Salvarani for the deserved win, and a huge thank you to Skidmark(/(EvansIsTheBest) for running the game once again.
I'd also like to give special thanks to Niklas Larsen for helping me break into the top 80 for the first time. We did it, buddy! I would still have been better off picking the whole Astana team, apart from Bettiol, but the difference was less than 140 points in the end.
Website is still terribly slow. On mobile today but tried to clean up a bit (it's a *** on a small screen) but it very well could be the host, rather than the website. Anyway, December hopefully time to fix it!
I made a team selection functionality on the website. It now requires users to login (through Google) but if not desired could also opt for simple CN forum name plus password. As the benefit of a username password, at least temporary, is that users can then also edit their team. Password won't have any restrictions, just to prevent that someone else can see your team.
Congratulations to Salvarani on thw win. Well played. Thanls to Skidmark for running the game as always.
On a personal note happy enought to scrape into the top 20 thanks to a strong finsih to the season. On to next year.
On a personal note happy enought to scrape into the top 20 thanks to a strong finsih to the season. On to next year.
Congratulations to @Salvarani for the overall win. Your strategy of GC guys and not including Vingegaard and van Aert worked out in the end and that's without guys like Magnier and Uijtdebroeks.. Hats off!!
For me second time in a row in the top10 overall in the end. Two big regrets:
First one was picking van Aert, second mistake was not including del Grosso. Have to say, that I was not really close of picking one of the in the end decicive picks Almeida and del Toro.
So see you all again next year! Let's see, if I will again have the most popular team next year, although time in the upcoming months could be a bit limited for research as I became father for the first time a couple of days ago..
For me second time in a row in the top10 overall in the end. Two big regrets:
First one was picking van Aert, second mistake was not including del Grosso. Have to say, that I was not really close of picking one of the in the end decicive picks Almeida and del Toro.
So see you all again next year! Let's see, if I will again have the most popular team next year, although time in the upcoming months could be a bit limited for research as I became father for the first time a couple of days ago..
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Thanks to skidmark for running another exciting season. Congratulations to Salvarani for the win! And to SafeBet and seven others for making one of the best picks in the history of this game in Del Toro.
And although the top 3 scores are pretty good, it's almost a bit surprising that it's not a more high-scoring season with many big hitter picks hitting big and a lot of 'free' points from the likes of Vermeersch, Seixas, Withen Philipsen, Tulett, Blobloblo etc. But I guess it's tempered by so many people deciding that WVA was going to be the best 1000+ pick of all time or something, and some other really popular picks also being a bit meh.
Not picking Brennan turned out to be my fatal mistake. One somewhat likely pick away from finally winning ... But I guess that can be said about many teams every season. For example SafeBet missing Tulett.
A small note to @skidmark and @EvansIsTheBest for record-keeping purposes: Guillaume Martin is listed with 0 points for Rakim due to his added surname on the CQ website. Will cause some tiny shuffling in the lower positions.
And although the top 3 scores are pretty good, it's almost a bit surprising that it's not a more high-scoring season with many big hitter picks hitting big and a lot of 'free' points from the likes of Vermeersch, Seixas, Withen Philipsen, Tulett, Blobloblo etc. But I guess it's tempered by so many people deciding that WVA was going to be the best 1000+ pick of all time or something, and some other really popular picks also being a bit meh.
Not picking Brennan turned out to be my fatal mistake. One somewhat likely pick away from finally winning ... But I guess that can be said about many teams every season. For example SafeBet missing Tulett.
A small note to @skidmark and @EvansIsTheBest for record-keeping purposes: Guillaume Martin is listed with 0 points for Rakim due to his added surname on the CQ website. Will cause some tiny shuffling in the lower positions.
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And that was a decision based solely on emotions since I was a huge believer in Tulett's talent but he had burned me before in this game.
I don't even know who I picked in that price range, probably someone like Pollefliet...
Happy with my second place though and congrats to Salvarani!
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Aside from the fairly rare Del Toro and Almeida (the latter was underpicked for sure, the former would also have been a very good pick regardless but I don't think you could have seen the combination of Giro second and full Hirschi schedule after that coming), this was not a good year for the more expensive picks, which balances things out. The best example of this is probably my team - no Del Toro or Almeida, two of my three most expensive picks failed to turn a profit, yet somehow I still managed fourth. That's not a sign of a high-scoring season.
I want to join everybody else in congratulating Salvarani for the convincing win and thanking skidmark (and EvansIsTheBest) for hosting the game!
Personally I'm very happy with my top 10 place this year. I never expected such a high spot as I always have quite a lot of 'heart' picks over 'head' picks and my heart picks like Warre Vangheluwe or Gil Gelders really did not deliver. I guess my head picks combined with a whole lot of luck were enough this year for a high placing. I fully expect to be back to my usual mid-tier spots next year though.
Personally I'm very happy with my top 10 place this year. I never expected such a high spot as I always have quite a lot of 'heart' picks over 'head' picks and my heart picks like Warre Vangheluwe or Gil Gelders really did not deliver. I guess my head picks combined with a whole lot of luck were enough this year for a high placing. I fully expect to be back to my usual mid-tier spots next year though.
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For those that are curious, the optimal team in 2025 would have scored 27,573 points, beating Salvarani by a mere 10,000 points. Among those guys, Pidcock, Kubis, Malucelli, Covi, Larsen, Salby, Exteberria and Loland are all unique picks. Nobody saw Scaroni, Prodhomme, Lopez, Johannessen, Blikra, Gilmore and Omrzel having that kind of year.
Rider | Price | Score | Profit | Return |
DEL TORO ROMERO Isaac | 890 | 3013 | 2123 | 338.54% |
ALMEIDA Joao Pedro Gonçalves | 988 | 2340 | 1352 | 236.84% |
PIDCOCK Thomas | 996 | 1881 | 885 | 188.86% |
MAGNIER Paul | 405 | 1512 | 1107 | 373.33% |
SCARONI Christian | 315 | 1374 | 1059 | 436.19% |
CICCONE Giulio | 555 | 1218 | 663 | 219.46% |
VINE Jay | 464 | 1190 | 726 | 256.47% |
BRENNAN Matthew | 146 | 1115 | 969 | 763.70% |
GALL Felix | 459 | 954 | 495 | 207.84% |
KUBIS Lukas | 185 | 854 | 669 | 461.62% |
PRODHOMME Nicolas | 184 | 814 | 630 | 442.39% |
WATSON Samuel | 279 | 719 | 440 | 257.71% |
LOPEZ GRANIZO Harold Martin | 208 | 714 | 506 | 343.27% |
TULETT Ben | 27 | 712 | 685 | 2637.04% |
SEIXAS Paul | 0 | 661 | 661 | #DIV/0! |
VERMEERSCH Florian | 51 | 632 | 581 | 1239.22% |
MALUCELLI Matteo | 210 | 631 | 421 | 300.48% |
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian | 176 | 614 | 438 | 348.86% |
DEL GROSSO Tibor | 95 | 598 | 503 | 629.47% |
KULSET Johannes | 123 | 575 | 452 | 467.48% |
JOHANNESSEN Anders Halland | 40 | 516 | 476 | 1290.00% |
BAGIOLI Andrea | 106 | 503 | 397 | 474.53% |
COVI Alessandro | 140 | 494 | 354 | 352.86% |
PHILIPSEN Albert Withen | 0 | 459 | 459 | #DIV/0! |
FRIGO Marco | 125 | 454 | 329 | 363.20% |
TSARENKO Kyrylo | 91 | 448 | 357 | 492.31% |
LARSEN Niklas | 15 | 443 | 428 | 2953.33% |
SALBY Alexander | 83 | 437 | 354 | 526.51% |
BLIKRA Erlend Jordbrekk | 81 | 398 | 317 | 491.36% |
GILMORE Brady | 22 | 365 | 343 | 1659.09% |
OMRZEL Jakob | 0 | 345 | 345 | #DIV/0! |
ETXEBERRIA ANSALAS Haimar | 16 | 300 | 284 | 1875.00% |
LØLAND Sakarias Koller | 13 | 290 | 277 | 2230.77% |
Total | 7488 | 27573 | 20085 | 368.23% |
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Here is where the cumulative all time rankings stands after 15 editions of the game :
Some fun facts
- Skidmark became the first manager to accumulate over 200,000 points across the different editions of the game. EITB and Madrazo joined later in the year.
- Madrazo finished the season on a very satisfying round number: 201,000.
- In 2025, EITB cut over 3,000 points from skidmark's lead, which is now under 5,000 points for the first time in many years.
- Skidmark is still the only manager to manage two seasons surpassing 17,000 points (2012, 2021).
- Squire became the first manager to have four seasons surpassing 16,000 points (2018, 2021, 2022, 2025).
- Skidmark is still the only manager to manage five seasons surpassing 15,000 points (2012, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022).
- Squire and Hugo Koblet became the first managers to have seven seasons surpassing 14,000 points.
- Hugo Koblet still has the most seasons above 13,000 points (11). Skidmark still has the most seasons above 12,000 points (12).
- Excluding the 2020 covid ravaged season, Kazistuta has extended their record of scoring at least 11,000 points in every edition of the game to a 14th season. Skidmark, Madrazo and EITB are the only other people to score at least 10,000 points in every season. Coincidentally, those are the four managers with the highest all time cumulative scores.
- Squire has dominated the last five seasons, scoring 80,043 points over that span. EITB (77,458 points) and shalgo (75,574 points) are distant second and third over that time frame.
Rank | Team | Total |
1 | 206,398 | |
2 | 201,553 | |
3 | 201,000 | |
4 | 198,185 | |
5 | 190,844 | |
6 | 189,262 | |
7 | 187,060 | |
8 | 186,459 | |
9 | 186,269 | |
10 | 186,240 |
Some fun facts
- Skidmark became the first manager to accumulate over 200,000 points across the different editions of the game. EITB and Madrazo joined later in the year.
- Madrazo finished the season on a very satisfying round number: 201,000.
- In 2025, EITB cut over 3,000 points from skidmark's lead, which is now under 5,000 points for the first time in many years.
- Skidmark is still the only manager to manage two seasons surpassing 17,000 points (2012, 2021).
- Squire became the first manager to have four seasons surpassing 16,000 points (2018, 2021, 2022, 2025).
- Skidmark is still the only manager to manage five seasons surpassing 15,000 points (2012, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022).
- Squire and Hugo Koblet became the first managers to have seven seasons surpassing 14,000 points.
- Hugo Koblet still has the most seasons above 13,000 points (11). Skidmark still has the most seasons above 12,000 points (12).
- Excluding the 2020 covid ravaged season, Kazistuta has extended their record of scoring at least 11,000 points in every edition of the game to a 14th season. Skidmark, Madrazo and EITB are the only other people to score at least 10,000 points in every season. Coincidentally, those are the four managers with the highest all time cumulative scores.
- Squire has dominated the last five seasons, scoring 80,043 points over that span. EITB (77,458 points) and shalgo (75,574 points) are distant second and third over that time frame.
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A few stats about Salvarani's dominant season
- 16th best single season score (behind four 2012 teams, eight 2021 teams and three 2022 teams). Literally the best team in the fifteen years of the game outside of the post Covid boosted years and the crazy 2012 season.
- First team ever to score 400+ green jersey points.
- Third team to do the GC/green jersey double (EITB 2022, BITB 2023).
- 253 points winning margin (11th largest out of 15 editions). However this is due to SafeBet exceptionally strong runner up showing and undersells Salvarani's dominance over the rest fo the field.
- Second largest margin over the mean score (+4688 points compared to the 2025 mean score). Skidmark 2012 leads here with +6161 points compared to the 2012 mean score.
Other tidbits
- Some of our teams from the very first edition of the game way back in 2011 are still scoring some points. In fact Jakob747's 2011 team would have scored over 2,000 points in 2025 with Matthews, Ulissi, Caruso, Taaramäe, Brambilla, Degenkolb and Kruijswijk still scoring a decade and a half later.
- Top score all time is 19,372 points (skidmark 2012). 5th best score is 18,662 points (EITB 2022). 10th best score is 17,643 points (Otoxiep87 2021). 50th best score is 16,302 points (Madrazo 2012). 100th best score is 15,474 points (BlueRoads 2021). Some targets to aim for next season.
Alright that's all from me on various stats on the history of the game. Time to work on the 2026 team for real.
- 16th best single season score (behind four 2012 teams, eight 2021 teams and three 2022 teams). Literally the best team in the fifteen years of the game outside of the post Covid boosted years and the crazy 2012 season.
- First team ever to score 400+ green jersey points.
- Third team to do the GC/green jersey double (EITB 2022, BITB 2023).
- 253 points winning margin (11th largest out of 15 editions). However this is due to SafeBet exceptionally strong runner up showing and undersells Salvarani's dominance over the rest fo the field.
- Second largest margin over the mean score (+4688 points compared to the 2025 mean score). Skidmark 2012 leads here with +6161 points compared to the 2012 mean score.
Other tidbits
- Some of our teams from the very first edition of the game way back in 2011 are still scoring some points. In fact Jakob747's 2011 team would have scored over 2,000 points in 2025 with Matthews, Ulissi, Caruso, Taaramäe, Brambilla, Degenkolb and Kruijswijk still scoring a decade and a half later.
- Top score all time is 19,372 points (skidmark 2012). 5th best score is 18,662 points (EITB 2022). 10th best score is 17,643 points (Otoxiep87 2021). 50th best score is 16,302 points (Madrazo 2012). 100th best score is 15,474 points (BlueRoads 2021). Some targets to aim for next season.
Alright that's all from me on various stats on the history of the game. Time to work on the 2026 team for real.
- May 5, 2010
- 51,679
- 30,227
- 28,180
So, apart from Withen, who basically everyone and their cat had, my best ROI was Salby.
On the other end of the scale is Pelle Køster, who ended up not racing at all because of a cancer scare...
On the other end of the scale is Pelle Køster, who ended up not racing at all because of a cancer scare...
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