The 2025 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Sneekes]

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.

Spoiler: 2025 Optimal Team

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%​

I got 2 of the 8 unique best ROI picks (Kubis and Loland), and yet finished 73rd overall, which demonstrates how disasterous the rest of my picks must have been.
Thanks Skidmark for running this. See you next season.

 

[Panda Claws]

Congrats Salvarini! What a lead.

I'm glad to finish around 30th for once.

 

[ingsve]

So this UCI news eliminates one potential obvious pick from next years event.