The 2026 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[DJ Sprtsch]

We might have chosen him a year early?

Or a year too late?

 

[repre]

Hagenes and Mohoric looking lively, but has no point to show for it

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

Heartbreak for Hagenes (and by extension my team) in Samyn. At least M. Grisel is now the fourth guy into profit (M. Dinham, C. Perez Lopez, M. Brenner) from my roster.

 

[skidmark]

Update #7: SafeBet Wins Opening Weekend

The end of February is upon us and the points continue to build as the game takes shape. This week was not quite as high as last week with its multiple stage races, but with the big opening races we also see most riders with their seasons underway, and CQ teams will start to get a sense of how their season is going to shape out.

This Week's Top Scorers

Rank	Team	Points this week
1	SafeBet	600
2	LosBrolin	585
3	AlTarf_ua	529
4	Eyeballs Out	528
5	the asian	501

Five teams this week top 500 points, but only one team reaches 600, and does so exactly. SafeBet has a few winners on their team this week, namely Filippo Zana (146 ponts, 13 teams) winning in Sardinia, Paul Seixas (130, 73) in France, and Matthew Brennan (130, 11) in KBK with a handy contribution from Christophe Laporte (88, 59) for good measure. LosBrolin is 15 points back with the alliterative duo Gianmarco Garofoli (96, 7) and Luke Lamperti (68, 25) instead of Zana in the combo above. AlTarf_ua ends up in third by a single point with Zana/Seixas/Brennan as wel as Davide Piganzoli (54, 3) and unique pick Ludovico Mellano (54 points).

This Week's High Movers

Rank	Team	Up/down
1	SafeBet	(+26)
2	AlTarf_ua	(+21)
3	LosBrolin	(+19)
4	manafana	(+17)
5	Eyeballs Out	(+15)

There's a repeat winner at the top here as SafeBet doubles up, moving up 26 spots on the overall! And, in fact, a fairly rare repeat of the podium, with AlTarf_ua and LosBrolin swapping spots in 2nd and third here.

Green Jersey Competition

Rank	Team	Total
1	SafeBet	97
1	slow_climber	97
3	karaev	92
4	Pantani4ever	79
5	Rufs	75

Coming into this week, SafeBet had scored 22 and 30 points in weeks 2 and 3 respectively, but was 45 points back from slow climber in the lead. But of course a weekly win is 45 points, so with this week's win and slow climber out of the top 15, we have a tie at the top of the Green Jersey standings. Places 2-4 don't score this week, but Rufs gets 8 points on the week to sneak into the top 5.

Top 10 Overall

Rank	Up/down	Team	Points
1	(+1)	Rufs	2549
2	(-1)	slow_climber	2496
3	(+6)	repre	2374
4	(+4)	postmanhat	2351
5	(+1)	karaev	2303
6	(-3)	Pantani4ever	2297
6	(-2)	ingsve	2297
8	(-1)	jsem94	2284
9	(+1)	Shakes	2249
10	(+1)	Nyssinator	2230

With a solid week in 12th place, and with only a mediocre week from slow climber, Rufs gets into the top spot by a mere 53 points. The top 10 are separated by just over 300 points total, so it's still quite close at this point. There is movement everywhere with no team in the top 10 holding the same spot, but the movement is mostly minor. Nyssinator is the only team to enter the top 10 this week, and it's at the expense of peixotini, who falls out.

This week is one of the less busy weeks on the calendar, with only 3 1-day races and one stage of a stage race. But the magnitude of the races is anything but small - after Le Samyn and Trofeo Laigueglia mid-week, the weekend holds no less than Strade Bianche and the opening stage of the Race to the Sun.

spreadsheet link

 

[armchairclimber]

Interesting week or so ahead.

Trofeo -
Cosnefroy, Pericas, Porter, Nerurkar

Strade Bianche -
Seixas, Pellizzari, Del Grosso, Kron?

Paris-Nice
Uijtdebroeks, Lamperti, Krijnsen, Poole, Zingle


T-A
Pellizzari, Del Grosso, Kron?

Not a huge team, yet. But plenty of potential for scoring. Really looking forward to seeing Del Grosso.