The 2026 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Avoriaz]

Yay, I think I might get some points with August in February

 

[Salvarani]

Do you mean riders that two managers have in common?
On the Overview of Similarities, hover over the number in the # Overlap column, and there it is.

No, thats not what I mean.

On the site last year you had at least four search bars where you could name one, two, three or four riders names and get a list of managers that had the combination of those selected or not.

So if x + y finished 1st and 2nd. You could go to combo search section and see if anyone or how many had that combination of riders in their team.

 

[hayneplane]

While I'm starting to be concerned about not picking him. Especially if he continues to win everything. I don't need many more of those 'I just raced because I was here anyway' and boom 160 points. With Vingegaard out of UAE, Remco might get an insane amount of points from there as well on top of the big haul for likely winning Valenciana.

My most expensive pick Buitrago hasn't exactly had a stellar points-per-raceday so far. And Morgado might miss out on a bunch of easy points with the likely cancellation of the Figueira Classic.

What’s the story here?

 

[RedheadDane]

What’s the story here?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019447859242803355

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

While I'm starting to be concerned about not picking him. Especially if he continues to win everything. I don't need many more of those 'I just raced because I was here anyway' and boom 160 points. With Vingegaard out of UAE, Remco might get an insane amount of points from there as well on top of the big haul for likely winning Valenciana.

Remco would need to destroy the whole field today for me to feel confident picking him.

The UAE Tour could indeed be good for him, given that there's a flat ITT (especially vs. Yates) and that it's Del Toro's first race of the season.

But these races are basically must-wins for any CQ manager who has Evenepoel spearheading their team.

After that, **** gets real.

 

[will-10]

What’s the story here?

a lot of local flooding

 

[skidmark]

Your points are a little off. You have Gerben Thijssen with 20 points too much and Lukas Kubis with 5 points too much. They both got relegated at GP Marseillaise but it seems like CQrankings published their weekly ranking before updating the score with those relegations. This likely means a few others who moved up a place or two have wrong score too. It should fix itself with the next update but I suppose it might matter for the green jersey perhaps.

I missed this earlier this week - just to clarify, the official weekly rankings are based on CQ spreadsheet updates, so that is the basis for the weekly scores. Indeed it will fix itself for the overall scores but we've never countered the official CQ sheet in the game, so their mistake becomes the game's.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Curious to see what Grisel and Decomble can do tomorrow in the ITT. Remco doing his thing in Spain. Sentjens, well let's not talk about him. That's all I have racing at the moment. Guess the team is waiting for UAE/Andalusia/Algarve to really get going.

 

[RedheadDane]

At least Larsen - and Honoré - ensured this week wasn't a complete disaster...

As for next week:
Well, if I'm lucky, Honoré can hold onto his top-10 in Oman on the climb tomorrow, and then it's gonna be all about Provence in the weekend.

 

[Salvarani]

Decent week with Tiberi, Sheffield and Decomble doing well.

August with a stage-win.

Pericas looking lively and scoring some minor points.

 

[Squire]

Almost all GC riders in Oman are conspiring to give my rivals as many Vansevenant points as possible. Rubio, Rolland, Kuss, Pickering, Lopez, Lecerf, Plapp and Bouchard all out of GC already. Personally I only have Torres, Foldager and Krijnsen in that race, and the latter two are not looking likely to score anything. Foldager was even sick ahead of the race. So much for him starting the year strongly.

Decomble delivering on my expectations in Bessèges though, and Kockelmann exceeding them massively and is already in profit! Vlasov kept his 7th in Valencia. Maybe Red Bull's tactics would have been different if the TT results were kept, but Vlasov was quite clearly the 7th best yesterday, so I guess I can't complain too much.

Now, if Buitrago gets that Colombian NC jersey tonight, it will have been quite an amazing week for me.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

A week to forget for me, but that was to be expected given that I had barely anyone in action - can't complain about what Vlasov and Crabbe did and I had literally nobody else racing in Europe this week. Oman is also going about as well as I could have hoped for once Zingle and Foldager fell sick, with Thijssen doing a solid sprint and Vansevenant and Torres well positioned to take advantage of that slew of failing GC riders. All in all, not that worried yet about this bout of damage control, so long as it doesn't last.

 

[armchairclimber]

A week rescued to some extent by Pellizzari, who has scored 15% (ish) of his cost in his first outing. Uijtdebroeks dropped out, which was very disappointing. Zingle ill.. Pericas getting on the scoreboard at least and some hopes that Nerurkar, Torres/Double can bag a few GC points in Oman.
Hey ho.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I have high hopes that August will turn things around for me. And by that I mean the month, not the rider.

Ok, Sosa had me dreaming of a championship title, but in the end he decided to hand it to Bernal without a proper fight. Still it means he has now scored more points that he had at this point last year and is at over half of his 2025 total.

 

[vladimir]

With only one rider in Valenciana (Herzog 15 points) and two in Besseges (Decomble 79 points) I'm happy with the weekend! For next week I have all my seven riders at 31 seconds behind Veistroffer in Oman, so should expect quite a decent chunk of points from that race as well.

 

[hayneplane]

Some good some bad this week with most of my team absent either recovering from early racing or mostly yet to pin on a race number in 2026.

Mixed fortunes in Etoile de Besseges where Kockelmann went into profit almost instantly but Jordan Labrosse managed to score zero points for the week among a very weakened field in the kind of event he needed to be prominent in order to tunes out to be a good pick.

Tiberi did ok, looked second strongest on the hardest phases of the race but would have hoped he could grab 2nd on GC rather than 4th.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Tiberi did ok, looked second strongest on the hardest phases of the race but would have hoped he could grab 2nd on GC rather than 4th.

As a fellow Tiberi disciple, I gotta say that I'm happy with how Valenciana went. 4th was just about the best he could have hoped for in a field like this and with this parcours. I'm very optimistic for his season - he looks great.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Can't wait for the update: unless the corrections for Thijssen and Kubis scupper me, I think I am due to be top of the Week's High Mover table, having been 5th last week. That very sleepy start to the season was obviously a masterful tactic.

 

[Shakes]

www.cqmanager.com

Please don't forget the address!

Anyway, made a few improvements. In random order:
1) Combo Search is back! Shows a list of teams that have a certain combination of riders (up to five). Number behind rider shows how many teams have that rider, filtered down further (so after having selected a rider, next dropdown shows how many of subset of teams have the rider in dropdown) => https://www.cqmanager.com/#combo_search
2) Team page now shows plots before upcoming races
3) Rider page shows team points rather than rider points in table e.g. https://www.cqmanager.com/rider?RiderId=28521
4) Races menu tab works again (shows historical race results)

 

[Netserk]

www.cqmanager.com

Please don't forget the address!

Anyway, made a few improvements. In random order:
1) Combo Search is back! Shows a list of teams that have a certain combination of riders (up to five). Number behind rider shows how many teams have that rider, filtered down further (so after having selected a rider, next dropdown shows how many of subset of teams have the rider in dropdown) => https://www.cqmanager.com/#combo_search
2) Team page now shows plots before upcoming races
3) Rider page shows team points rather than rider points in table e.g. https://www.cqmanager.com/rider?RiderId=28521
4) Races menu tab works again (shows historical race results)

nice and convenient, well done

re 3) i do miss a column for team rank when shown the list of teams

while the dashboard shows rank movement over the past 7 days, maybe the same 7 day change as shown in the rider page should also be shown on the dashboard

and the very last thing i miss is a popularity table of riders (with price, score and last 7 days)

 

[Wvv]

Moved up to third! Hope I can battle along throughout the whole season.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

nice and convenient, well done

re 3) i do miss a column for team rank when shown the list of teams

while the dashboard shows rank movement over the past 7 days, maybe the same 7 day change as shown in the rider page should also be shown on the dashboard

and the very last thing i miss is a popularity table of riders (with price, score and last 7 days)

And at risk of being demanding, the tables for how many riders off the mark/how many riders in profit is a minor detail I enjoy.

But the site is great, and anything more on it is a bonus.

 

[Earns1985]

So as expected a week, where I dropped a few spots, as I only had Kockelmann riding, while the GC in Oman (Vansevenant and Torres) will be relevant for this week.

With Mas out of UAE tour with a training crash, I am getting more and more worried about him as a pick and also in general for the expensive rider combo O'Connor and Mas (15 riders). Tiberi for example looks much better as a pick in that price range right now.

I am still a bit worried about not having Decomble and Vlasov, but not that much anymore as in the beginning of the week. Vlasov looked way better than last year yes, but he still clearly has 6 GC riders in his team, who are higher in the pecking order than him, so I hope, that he will surely be used a lot as a domestique this year, which would limit his points even if he is again in top shape.
About Decomble, I would say he looks like a guy, who will gain like 400 points this season, which makes him a good pick, but also not an absolutely crucial one. It has to be seen, in how many races with weak start lists like Besseges he will start, so that he can score. Right now he is scheduled for Itzulia and Catalunya, where I don´t see big point potential for him for example..

 

[Shakes]

@Netserk

while the dashboard shows rank movement over the past 7 days, maybe the same 7 day change as shown in the rider page should also be shown on the dashboard

and the very last thing i miss is a popularity table of riders (with price, score and last 7 days)

Done.

@Armchair Cyclist

And at risk of being demanding, the tables for how many riders off the mark/how many riders in profit is a minor detail I enjoy.

Done.

Team Ranking — CQ Game

www.cqmanager.com

I am now not touching it anymore for a while.

 

[YellowSocks]

Now I can see some riders further up the road (I can’t tell if it’s the back of the peloton as my radio is not working).

Hey guys, wait for me!