The 2026 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Salvarani]

Encouraging signs for (the many) Cosnefroy owners, however. After having looked less than impressive in his first races, he showed a lot of grit today by getting the fourth place after having looked like the weakest rider for a while in the 10 man chasing group.

Think he may just have needed some warm-up races after being out for most of last season.

 

[Squire]

Encouraging signs for (the many) Cosnefroy owners, however. After having looked less than impressive in his first races, he showed a lot of grit today by getting the fourth place after having looked like the weakest rider for a while in the 10 man chasing group.

I'm also encouraged. Even though he's very popular, it would have been annoying to have a somewhat costly pick not doing much, especially since I wasn't as convinced when picking him as his popularity should suggest.

I actually thought he looked like one of the strongest in the group. The UAE riders took turns covering attacks and being annoying by forcing other riders to close gaps, and I thought whenever Cosnefroy had to do something, he looked really comfortable.

 

[tobydawq]

I'm also encouraged. Even though he's very popular, it would have been annoying to have a somewhat costly pick not doing much, especially since I wasn't as convinced when picking him as his popularity should suggest.

I actually thought he looked like one of the strongest in the group. The UAE riders took turns covering attacks and being annoying by forcing other riders to close gaps, and I thought whenever Cosnefroy had to do something, he looked really comfortable.

Hmm, I just thought he looked like he was hanging on for dear life quite early.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We are 48 that have the combo of Van Gils and Cosnefroy, but there's a silver lining for 47 of us since Rufs is the only one who also has Christen.

 

[Squire]

Hmm, I just thought he looked like he was hanging on for dear life quite early.

After seeing how easily he covered some of the attacks and his positioning near the front around the time when Hermans, Vermeersch, Mohoric and Pellizzari pushed the pace, I was quite certain he'd finish among the best of the chase group. Didn't notice much hanging on, but maybe he went through a rough patch at some point. Anyway, he should be good for some points in the upcoming weeks to make us feel better for picking him even if he won't make much of a difference.

 

[repre]

Ok, van Gils's season is done with pelvic fracture. Minus one for me.

 

[Kazistuta]

What a crazy (and odd) way to fracture the pelvis. Crossed fingers for a speedy recovery, game related disregarded.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Depending on speed of recovery and how good he would have been otherwise, that could be anywhere between 500 and 1200 points knocked off the winning score given that basically every serious player has Van Gils. Can't remember many such moments in this game.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Depending on speed of recovery and how good he would have been otherwise, that could be anywhere between 500 and 1200 points knocked off the winning score given that basically every serious player has Van Gils. Can't remember many such moments in this game.

It's good to know that I'm apparently not a serious player. Maybe I can compete for the meme team classification jersey.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

If my attempt to assign an expected importance in the outcome of the game to each rider has any statistical validity, we have lost the 8th most influential rider in the game for at least a large part of the season.

Spoiler: Basis of the numbers if you want to be reminded

I have some recollection of a theory being espoused that the relevant metric maximised riders who are selected by half the entrants. A rider who is chosen once will only make a difference to one team: a rider on nearly every team has his relevance to the game effectively obliterated: he might change the size of the scores, but not much difference to the rankings. We shouldn't multiply by price such that free picks are irrelevant, no matter how often they were picked, so something needs to be added to get a non-zero rating: lets make that 100. (I tried it as 1, but that made cheap, very high frequency picks like Williams and Agostinacchio too far down the rankings: in the end, I thought if the minimum expectation of a rider is to return a 200 point profit, I'd post half of that)

So if we take (45-|frequency-45|) x (price+100), and then index that so that the top score is 100 and the free picks that are on only one team have 1, the importance metric is:

	picks	price	importance index
WITHEN PHILIPSEN Albert	44​	459​	100.0​
EVENEPOEL Remco	12​	1929​	99.0​
NYS Thibau	46​	423​	93.6​
O'CONNOR Ben	28​	563​	75.6​
MAS NICOLAU Enric	27​	560​	72.6​
TARLING Joshua	36​	328​	62.9​
GAUDU David	37​	315​	62.7​
VAN GILS Maxim	58​	362​	60.3​
PITHIE Laurence	46​	228​	58.9​
BRENNAN Matthew	11​	1115​	54.6​

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's good to know that I'm apparently not a serious player. Maybe I can compete for the meme team classification jersey.

I am certainly not a serious player. I couldn't even remember that I had decided to omit Van Gils from my team.

 

[Squire]

Depending on speed of recovery and how good he would have been otherwise, that could be anywhere between 500 and 1200 points knocked off the winning score given that basically every serious player has Van Gils. Can't remember many such moments in this game.

Yeah, talking strictly in game terms, it will be unsatisfying to have what will possibly be a not so great pick even if it's not that likely to make much difference against the competition.

What's the expected time out for such an injury? Surely there are variations in terms of severity? But a return to any serious form before late summer is perhaps unrealistic even in the best case scenario?