The 2026 CQ Ranking Manager Thread

[Earns1985]

Out of the really popular picks, which more than 40 players have (16 riders: Seixas, C.Rodriguez, Widar, van Eetvelt, Zingle, Cosnefroy, Poole, Laporte, van Gils, S.WIlliams, P. Sanchez, Pithie, Nys, Jakobsen, AWP, D. Martinez), basically only

Laporte
Seixas
D. Martinez

are looking right now as picks, which you really regret if you don´t have them in your team. Pithie is the next close one, who one could add to this list.

Do we know, where the collective wisdom team would stand right now?
The most popular team @MADRAZO is pretty low in the standings. (place 55)

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Do we know, where the collective wisdom team would stand right now?

It was in 43rd as of the most recent update, although the points scored yesterday by Pithie and Laporte might have moved it up a tad. One of our forum statisticians will probably have a better idea of this than me, but that seems unusually low.

 

[Panda Claws]

How are you all looking at Blackmore now? Is he really not riding anything before the Ardennes?

 

[Squire]

Widar knee injury after training crash, so won't do Big Mig or Itzulia.

We were in danger of having too many days without new issues for game-relevant riders, so the CQ gods had to do something.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I struggle to understand how I have 33 riders, and only 10 of them are doing wither iztulia or Flanders, where are they all??? I am supposed to be making ground not falling further behind

 

[laarsland]

Big Stan in the black already, now wait for him to injure himself horribly in RvV

 

[tobydawq]

Widar knee injury after training crash, so won't do Big Mig or Itzulia.

We were in danger of having too many days without new issues for game-relevant riders, so the CQ gods had to do something.

Unbelievable.

 

[EvansIsTheBest]

It was in 43rd as of the most recent update, although the points scored yesterday by Pithie and Laporte might have moved it up a tad. One of our forum statisticians will probably have a better idea of this than me, but that seems unusually low.

The collective wisdom team has been a fringe top 10 contender, and indeed would have finished 10th on at least one occasion, in multiple seasons but never higher than that. At least as far as I can recall. This is definitely on the lower end for collective team (I don't think this iteration has earned the wisdom part of the name).

 

[Panda Claws]

It should give more weight to the voices of our more ancient participants

 

[YellowSocks]

I'm earning points, I'm dropping down the rankings. This game is a scam.

 

[Panda Claws]

I'm earning points, I'm dropping down the rankings. This game is a scam.

Posts that could be tweets

 

[Earns1985]

How are you all looking at Blackmore now? Is he really not riding anything before the Ardennes?

What I experience right now with Lafay (dropped basically from every startlist this season), I have to say I would be more than glad, if Blackmore would ride the ardennes classics. That there are no information at all about him, is very worrying..

 

[SafeBet]

Lafay, Blackmore, Stephen Williams, even Poole to an extent... they are all riders you should pick if you're prepared to spend the whole season wondering what the hell it's going on. You can't bet on them scoring higher than last year, or even scoring on point. All the signs were there. That's why I picked three out of four 😂

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

17 of us (me included) with the Poole/Blackmore/Williams combo. Maybe British riders are best avoided...

 

[the asian]

Lafay, Blackmore, Stephen Williams, even Poole to an extent... they are all riders you should pick if you're prepared to spend the whole season wondering what the hell it's going on. You can't bet on them scoring higher than last year, or even scoring on point. All the signs were there. That's why I picked three out of four 😂

Well, I picked all four of them, and Archie Ryan, Widar and Withen Philipsen.

 

[MADRAZO]

Do we know, where the collective wisdom team would stand right now?
The most popular team @MADRAZO is pretty low in the standings. (place 55)

My team is really doing misserable so far this year


UIJTDEBROEKS Cian - set back by injury
WITHEN PHILIPSEN Albert - crashing out in every race and missing many imporant races
LANDA MEANA Mikel - late season start and sounding surprisingly unambitious
NYS Thibau - Badly injured and missing all the most important races
VAN GILS Maxim - Badly injured and missing all the most important races
VAN EETVELT Lennert - lots of injury setbacks and missed opportunities
BLACKMORE Joseph - ??
RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos - Set back by crashes
BISIAUX Léo - Late start and set back by crash
WIDAR Jarno - First ill and then injured and missing all the most imporatnt races
POOLE Max - Was a known risk with his illness but still dissapointing that its stopped him
FOLDAGER Anders - Set back by illness and also just generally dissapointing
DE KLEIJN Arvid - Set back by first parental leave (failed research from me there I guess) and now also ?
VANSEVENANT Mauri - Unlucky in several ways and not getting much out of good early season legs
HOBBS Noah - Crashing out with a few KM left of his best chance to score well so far
BEHRENS Niklas - Badly injured and missing all spring
JAKOBSEN Fabio - Guess I was naive for believing in his optimism
WILLIAMS Stephen - Was a gamble to use a spot on him not knowing about his status and again a failed one
SANCHEZ MAYO Pelayo - ? Thought he was over his injury but apparantly not

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

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 Olav	1182 pt cost	2 teams​
BENOOT Tiesj	605	2​
BARRE Louis	553	2​
NYS Thibau	423	46​
FREDHEIm Stian	336	2​
BLACKMORE Joseph	277	31​
MAIRE Adrien	246	1​
POOLE Max	215	60​
RYAN Archie	215	9​
LAFAY Victor	215	6​
HAJEK Alexander	198	1​
FOSS Tobias Svendsen	196	2​
BENNETT Sam	183	6​
GUERNALEC Thibault	161	1​
CONCA Filippo	150	1​
WOODS Michael	141	1​
DE KLEIJN Arvid	134	22​
JUNGELS Bob	121	1​
PICKERING Finlay	112	12​
DALBY Simon	107	1​
PRIDAL Tomas	105	1​
HELLEMOSE Asbjørn	103	1​
HANSEN Alexander Arnt	100	1​

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

	riders on 0	overall 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-scor	position in game	cost 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​

 

[RedheadDane]

The most expensive yet to break a duck are:

English is a very violent language!
Say no to violence towards ducks! What did the ducks do?

 

[the asian]

Some highly rated first year Under 23 riders yet to open their account.