The 2026 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

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Oct 21, 2012
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After Gee's disastrous Catalunya. Brennan's illness means the crucial classics look like being a wipeout. My two most expensive picks and main differentiators are currently dead weights.

Meanwhile, the Evenepoel, Ujitderberoeks, Tiberi, maybe even Landa teams look like having a good week. Hoping that Hagenes and Berckmoes can get a decent result tomorrow. Have almost given up on Mohoric.

RVV

Brennan
Laporte
Hagenes
Mohoric
Van Gestel
Berckmoes
Cosnefroy
Tratnik
 
Oct 14, 2024
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So the list of those on three or more teams that have yet to start scoring (as of last Sunday) looks like this:

POOLE Max 60
WILLIAMS Stephen 51
SANCHEZ MAYO Pelayo 46
NYS Thibau 46
BEHRENS Niklas 33
BLACKMORE Joseph 31
AGOSTINACCHIO Mattia 29
DE KLEIJN Arvid 22
PICKERING Finlay 12
HAYTER Leo 11
ANDERSEN Noah Lindholm Møller 11
RYAN Archie 9
RODRIGUEZ GARAICOECHEA Oscar 7
LAFAY Victor 6
BENNETT Sam 6
HUDSON Harry 6
STORM Theodor 6
RAMIREZ TORRES Mateo Pablo 5
VALJAVEC Erazem 5
AGOSTINACCHIO Filippo 3
SCHOONVELDE Gijs 3
GELDERS Gil 3
ORINS Robin 3
DE VYLDER Lindsay 3
KAMP Alexander 3
CHARRET Camille 3

12 of us have the top 5 on that list


The most expensive yet to break a duck are:
KOOIJ Olav1182 pt cost
2 teams​
BENOOT Tiesj605
2​
BARRE Louis553
2​
NYS Thibau423
46​
FREDHEIm Stian336
2​
BLACKMORE Joseph277
31​
MAIRE Adrien246
1​
POOLE Max215
60​
RYAN Archie215
9​
LAFAY Victor215
6​
HAJEK Alexander198
1​
FOSS Tobias Svendsen196
2​
BENNETT Sam183
6​
GUERNALEC Thibault161
1​
CONCA Filippo150
1​
WOODS Michael141
1​
DE KLEIJN Arvid134
22​
JUNGELS Bob121
1​
PICKERING Finlay112
12​
DALBY Simon107
1​
PRIDAL Tomas105
1​
HELLEMOSE Asbjørn103
1​
HANSEN Alexander Arnt100
1​


And those with most riders that have given us nothing yet are:

riders on 0overall position
latinos
15​
82​
vickyriso
14​
76​
Leadbelly
13​
78​
Berflamand
11​
40​
Armchair_cyclist
11​
44​
Jon_Ezeitza
11​
56​
search
11​
93​
kingcycling
10​
75​
Samu_Cuenca
10​
91​
18_Valve
9​
55​
AlTarf_ua
9​
83​

There is a whole bunch of teams still waiting on 8 riders, but one of them is Rufs, in 4th place.

And those that have spent >1000 points of their budget on which they have seen no return (yet):

number of non-scorposition in gamecost of non-scorers
Yellow_Knight
7​
60​
1732​
AlTarf_ua
9​
83​
1509​
Amis_Velo
7​
88​
1283​
DJ_Sprtsch
8​
81​
1279​
latinos
15​
82​
1249​
Josedin
6​
94​
1238​
Armchair_cyclist
11​
44​
1191​
Earns1985
6​
26​
1145​
DJW
7​
61​
1081​
SafeBet
8​
21​
1080​
Wvv
8​
57​
1080​
MADRAZO
7​
62​
1080​
Total_Package
6​
32​
1064​
Qazaqstan
4​
37​
1049​
@LouisBarré, hope you're reading this post right now.
 
Jul 16, 2011
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I know you are all moaning. But, you know, some perspective. We haven't had a Lambrecht moment, thankfully.
That almost killed this game for me.
 
Dec 31, 2017
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I know you are all moaning. But, you know, some perspective. We haven't had a Lambrecht moment, thankfully.
That almost killed this game for me.
I had Jose Fernandez in MLB fantasy. And it was worse than your case, cause it was dynasty fantasy and Fernandez was a superstar...

I was crushed that day.
 
Dec 28, 2010
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Williams was of the few riders I did some research on, and he said it wasn't likely he'd even be training again before spring. Thought it was worth the gamble that he'd be fit in time for the autumn races where he could go well.

Poole is the opposite, as didn't realise his problems were ongoing?
My Williams research led me to not pick him. But it sounded like Pelayo Sanchez was kinda back, so I'm a bit surprised by him being a no-show so far.

Was humming and hawing over Poole, and when an interview with him came out shortly after the deadline where he stated he had been illness-free for months, I thought I had made the mistake of the year by not picking him. And he even looked good for a bit in the Figueira Classic. So I'm surprised he's out again. Good for my team though, so far. I'm not sure if it's been confirmed that it's still the EB virus that's bothering him. The report just said he was out with a virus again, I think. He's really not the most visible rider in social media, and his team are also really quiet.

Speaking of quiet, same goes for De Kleijn and Lafay. Of course I should have known that Lafay was likely to have some issue, because he always has, but it's a bit strange that cycling media never make any inquiries about riders being gone except that one time when Wielerflits wrote that Lafay was ill a few weeks ago.
 

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