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http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/StatsKilometers.asp

Merckx, Hinault, Lemond would be ashamed ! :eek:

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What's CQ?
IQ, EQ,... CQ?

CQ is short for Cycling Quotient. The CQ-ranking is a world ranking of professional road cyclists, based on their performances during the last 12 months. It can be seen as the non-official successor of the UCI-ranking which disappeared when the ProTour was introduced in 2005.
History

For years, the UCI published weekly a world ranking, the UCI-ranking (formerly known as FICP-ranking). This ranking gave a value to all professional cyclists and was used in this respect in the webcompetition Gigabike. In 2005, the UCI abandoned the UCI-ranking while introducing the ProTour. Because Gigabike still required an overall ranking system of professional cyclists, the organizers decided to calculate the ranking themselves from that moment on. They called their ranking initially the Anja-ranking, based on the first names of the data managers, being Andy Roose and Jasper Van Hoof.

In 2007 Anja became CQ, representing a more professional approach. On April 14th, 2007 this website was launched with the intention to make the ranking and the results database accessible for all cycling fans all over the world.

The point scales used for the CQ-ranking are still based on the old UCI-ranking scales and follows the race categorisation as defined by the UCI. Since its foundation in 2005 only some limited adjustments were done to the existing scales. The applied scales for the different race categories can be found here.


Women CQ

Although the UCI-ranking for women still exists, the organizers of Gigabike also decided to start calculating the women Anja/CQ-ranking for their spin-off Chicabike. The main arguments for doing that, were the availability at all times of the ranking and the fact that the UCI made some mistakes in their calculations! Some people might remember the Bubnenkova/Boubnenkova confusion. Even at this moment there are still mistakes in the UCI-ranking. For example, in the final ranking of 2006: ...there were no points awarded to the world cup leader after the world cup races (according to the UCI rules, that rider must receive 10 points), ...no points were awarded in the NC time trial of Germany, France, Switzerland and Belgium, ...too many points were awarded in the NC time trial of Australia, ...no points were awarded in stage 2 of the New Zealand Tour, ...often too many riders received points in TTT's, ...Clemilda Fernandes appeared two times (Silva Clemilda Fernandes and Fernandes Silva Cremilda), ...the NC of Egypt was actually the African championship of 2005 in Egypt, etc. etc.
 
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good table that and interesting looking at the efficency ratings..

as a brit, looking at just the GB rankings it annoys me even more that kristian house hasnt been given an opportunity with a bigger team..

good to see Thomas DE GENDT racked up 10,000 k as well.. :D
 
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From the GC-GT guys, I spot in the top 100 for most kilometres:

Basso @ 25th
Evans @ 41st
Valverde @ 59th

Then the second tier GC guys

Rogers @ 64th
Zubeldia @ 72nd
Cancellara @ 97th

No AC, no LA, no AS/FS??
I wouldn't expect them to be there given there one-tour focus and injuries to LA, AS and FS...
 
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The CQ and Efficiency ratings are very interesting.

The CQ top 15:

1. VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro GCE 13,517.70 2482 18.36
2. CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto AST 9,865.00 2271 23.02
3. EVANS Cadel SIL 13,971.10 1895 13.56
4. GILBERT Philippe SIL 15,987.80 1720 10.76
5. CAVENDISH Mark THR 13,055.70 1640 12.56
6. BOASSON HAGEN Edvald THR 12,781.90 1611 12.60
7. SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel EUS 10,417.50 1534 14.73
8. CANCELLARA Fabian SAX 12,874.50 1480 11.50
9. GREIPEL Andr� THR 11,865.40 1391 11.72
10. BOONEN Tom QST 13,094.70 1377 10.52
11. FARRAR Tyler GRM 14,860.60 1349 9.08
12. HUSHOVD Thor CTT 10,282.60 1287 12.52
13. CUNEGO Damiano LAM 14,865.20 1266 8.52
14. MENCHOV Denis RAB 11,623.20 1245 10.71
15. SCHLECK Andy SAX 11,091.90 1242 11.20

I suggested in the pro tour racer of the year thread, that I personally felt Valv had the best season. And I think the extra 4000km racing is reflected in this CQ rating

The Efficiency top 15:

1. CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto AST 9,865.00 2271 23.02
2. VALVERDE BELMONTE Alejandro GCE 13,517.70 2482 18.36
3. SANCHEZ GONZALEZ Samuel EUS 10,417.50 1534 14.73
4. EVANS Cadel SIL 13,971.10 1895 13.56
5. BOASSON HAGEN Edvald THR 12,781.90 1611 12.60
6. CAVENDISH Mark THR 13,055.70 1640 12.56
7. HUSHOVD Thor CTT 10,282.60 1287 12.52
8. GREIPEL Andr� THR 11,865.40 1391 11.72
9. DI LUCA Danilo LPR 8,734.20 1016 11.63
10. CANCELLARA Fabian SAX 12,874.50 1480 11.50
11. SCHLECK Andy SAX 11,091.90 1242 11.20
12. KL�DEN Andreas AST 8,206.20 893 10.88
13. PLAZA MOLINA Ruben LSE 5,436.90 589 10.83
14. GILBERT Philippe SIL 15,987.80 1720 10.76
15. MENCHOV Denis RAB 11,623.20 1245 10.71

This puts Conti back on top, Sanchez jumps up to 3rd, and Gilbert has a huge drop down to 14th. I'm guessing efficiency has something to do with the results/kilometres ratio perhaps, which is prob why Conti is on top. didn't race much, but when he did, he usually won the stage race.

I'm unsure why Schlecklet is out of the top 10 in both rankings. Perhaps the early Vuelta exit and subsequent loss of autumn racing contributes to this

Thanks for the link, I like these rankings better than the world rankings actually. I prefer the CQ over the efficiency, as it seems to take into account how much racing teh rider does, hence Valv ahead of Conti, and guys like Cunego and Gilbert move up, which is reflective of their year
 
tubularglue said:
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/StatsKilometers.asp

Merckx, Hinault, Lemond would be ashamed ! :eek:

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Just this week I was watching old clips of Paris-Roubaix on Youtube and it was just amazing to see Lemond up there competing with 'King Kelly' at Paris-Roubaix. Fantastic stuff.

I do agree that these rankings are more realistic than the ProCycling list we discussed on another thread but are also very robotic as they dont take into account other factors e.g injuries etc.
 
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so is that chart raced kilos or total ridden? it did not specify at least where i looked someone clarify please thanks.

Isn't those two the same?:confused:

Or did you think the chart might reflect the riders total km's including trained km's? That would be a treat!:)

The chart shows how many km's a specific rider has raced in 2009 - actually Only cat. X.1 races and above is included.
 
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so some guys are racing about 10000 miles a year give or take. that would mean like 80 to 100 hundred races of a hundred miles or more per year if thats correct im impressed i ride 10000 to 12000 miles a year give or take depending but not racing.