Dropping in the WT ranking and the Prestige ranking too. But to see the positives, we have already more points then last year in both of the rankings. So, from now on the goal is not to drop out from the top5 in both. Gaining upper places seems impossible because the huge advantage of the top2 and the team quality, especially Vuelta from the 3rd, Ecopetrol. All in all, after the jumpstart a little downhill, but we are better then i expected
Hmm 18 PT teams and Saeco are 17th on Prestige - in a bit of a death race with Al-titty and Vagina for safety.
We are helped of course by Team Wales Wales being very poor and Soppy Bankers and LA - titty never in reach either. Whilst Euro - poop and Not so smart not out of the tendrils of the bottom feeders either.
Alone Sagan with 1100 WT Pts in only one month and the whole team scoring 2000 WT Points
Going from 7th with -2600 Pts to the top to 3rd with -1200 Pts is huge
Similar story in the Prestige Ranking: From 2500 points behind (7th) to 1100 points behind (3rd) is equally great
Greg and Kristoff are done already but I still have Kittel at the Vuelta & Quebec and Sagan in Course de la Paix, Quebec, Bucaramanga & Il Lombardia. Can we do the monster comeback
Still #1 with Angel Dingsbums in U23
Thanks a lot Bikex and Brewers!
@Bikex: How hard would it to add a Races for Rider X planned feature for the startlist file. If that is rather easy then i could imagine that this could make for a nice and quick overview for the next seasons.
Gratz, increible stuff by you. I regret not pursuing Kristoff more with the season he is having.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
Just me, or the Vuelta its not overcrowded by big GC contenders (big4 as example). O dont complain, will be great to see nearly same quality riders fighting
Top rankin' ( top rankin' )
Did ya mean what you say now!
To hold Italo like that is big! They bring a strong-ish Vuelta squad we have VDB and De Clerq with a bunch of rouleurs, getting on the podium is the goal. Just 1 more stage win needed for our record no. of stage wins in season with about 35 stages left, should be done?!
Surprisingly Cymru Wales are outscoring LA-Antarte!
@knockout: It's not part of the startlist file yet as I was too lazy to do it, but it is planned since I made the file the first time. Don't know how hard it should be to implement something like that, but I think it's doable.
@The Rider: As I said from the beginning, I doubt that Italo has any chance against Prorace in the rankings. You are right I have a decent team at the Vuelta, but I believe alone VDB will score more than my entire team there. My only hope is Nibali winning Peace Tour after the fail last year. He should be the big favourite and hopefully overtake Froome in the individual ranking.
After an impressive season so far Nibali leads the ranking. Out of the 25 top 10s he had this season he was 13 times on the top spot. Among the wins are several classics and Giro stages as well as the overall win there. Demare and Fuglsang on 2nd with 9 wins each.
Also it's interesting who had the most 2nd places:
Rojas instead of always finishing 4th here now is the one who closely missed a win close, along with Quintana. For him it turned out to be a mistake having the same race schedule as Froome.
Also interesting who missed the podium closely the most:
4
1
Julian Alaphilippe
Achieve Northside Skinnergate
FRA
8
2
Fabio Aru
La Gazzetta Dello Sport
ITA
8
3
Rafal Majka
Vegeta Cycling Team
POL
6
4
Alberto Contador
Illes Balears
ESP
6
5
Wilco Kelderman
Leopard - Evonik Pro Cycling
NED
5
Standing out are Alaphilippe and Aru finishing 4th both 8 times.
Froome is in the lead here. Impressive 39 Top 10s by him this season so far. Surprising is Talansky in 2nd with 37 Top 10s he was not so far on top in the other lists here so far. But his CT lead is no surprise looking at this.
I also was interested in Riders finishing Top 10 without achieveing a single win:
Robert Gesink is the leader of this unlucky statistic. Also interesting Degenkolb with 18 top 10s. Among that are 6 second places but no win. Last season he for sure was a little happier at this point.
Allianz lead this ranking after a stunning season so far. Italo with Nibali only closely behind. Only 6 teams were not able to win something so far, all development teams. Non U23 teams with less than 3 wins are LA - Antarte and SAP - Bianchi. No wonder they both are fighting against relegation.
This ranking of course also includes TTTs. We had not many of them so far, but which team did the best in this discipline:
1
2
3
1
Illes Balears
2
1
1
2
Bunzl - Centrica
1
0
0
3
Celesio Pro Cycling
1
0
0
4
Ecopetrol - Vivo
0
2
0
5
UNHCR Pro Cycling
0
1
1
6
Italo - Ventilair
0
0
1
7
LA - Antarte
0
0
1
Illes Balears! The squad around Contador could win 2 TTTs so far. The other two in which they took part lead them also on the podium.
Now the countries win ranking:
1
2
3
4
5
Top 10
1
Italy
57
37
45
55
44
463
2
France
41
44
33
34
41
374
3
Netherlands
29
23
40
37
39
342
4
Belgium
28
23
23
18
32
267
5
Great Britain
22
19
24
16
11
169
6
Germany
21
19
13
17
13
178
7
Spain
19
27
28
21
20
217
8
Colombia
17
21
16
18
14
139
9
Denmark
14
13
9
11
10
115
10
Norway
12
9
10
10
11
89
11
Australia
12
6
16
8
15
146
Spoiler
12
USA
10
17
18
16
21
142
13
Estonia
8
4
7
6
8
69
14
Luxembourg
6
8
4
0
4
28
15
Slovenia
6
4
5
7
7
60
16
Sweden
6
4
2
3
3
41
17
Slovakia
5
6
5
4
3
41
18
Croatia
5
3
1
5
4
27
19
Poland
4
5
6
8
6
61
20
South Africa
3
7
7
6
6
60
21
New Zeeland
3
4
3
3
2
25
22
Russia
3
4
2
0
2
31
23
Austria
3
3
1
5
3
36
24
Ireland
3
2
3
7
4
32
25
Lithuania
2
4
3
5
6
35
26
Switzerland
2
3
3
2
1
17
27
Czech Republic
1
7
5
5
2
49
28
Portugal
1
6
3
4
4
34
29
Canada
1
2
4
0
0
39
30
Costa Rica
1
2
2
0
3
17
31
Brazil
1
0
0
2
3
13
32
Japan
1
0
0
0
0
6
33
Turkey
1
0
0
0
0
5
34
San Marino
1
0
0
0
0
1
35
Belarus
0
4
0
5
3
27
36
Ukraine
0
3
1
3
0
12
37
Greece
0
2
2
1
2
15
38
Eritrea
0
2
0
0
1
13
39
Ethiopia
0
1
1
2
0
7
40
Venezuela
0
1
1
1
0
9
41
Cyprus
0
1
0
0
1
11
42
Barbados
0
0
1
1
0
2
43
Kirgizistan
0
0
1
0
1
7
44
Mexico
0
0
1
0
1
2
45
Cameroon
0
0
1
0
0
1
46
Namibia
0
0
1
0
0
1
47
Kazakhstan
0
0
0
2
1
13
48
Hungary
0
0
0
2
0
9
49
Moldavia
0
0
0
1
0
2
50
Algeria
0
0
0
1
0
1
51
Morocco
0
0
0
1
0
1
52
Latvia
0
0
0
0
0
3
53
Iran
0
0
0
0
0
3
54
Dominican Republic
0
0
0
0
0
3
55
Argentina
0
0
0
0
0
3
56
Malaysia
0
0
0
0
0
2
57
Chile
0
0
0
0
0
1
Italy with a big lead already on the rest, lead by France.
Now onto the jerseys (these do not include leader jerseys):
80 riders could take home special classification jerseys so far this season. Barguil and Demare both 5, of course favoured by both being U25. The most points jerseys so far were won, not by a sprinter, but by Jakob Fuglsang, he took the mostly green jersey already 3 times. The KoM jersey was won twice by Nibali, Varro and Urán. 4 young rider jerseys went to both of Demare and Kelderman.
Now looking at the teams, this now also includes the team rankings:
Leopard lead to the top of this ranking by Kelderman and Fuglsang. Carbonsports behind due to as much as 5 points jerseys won by their sprinters. That's two more then any other team. The most KoM jerseys went to breakaway kings of Vegeta's development Podravka Development, they won 4 dotted jerseys, Gregelry Varro had the half of that. The climbers of Ecopetrol are shrtly behind with 3 mountain jerseys. Leopard won the most U25 classifications due to Kelderman as wekk as with 4 the most team classifications together with Ecopetrol. 15 teams have not won any special classification yet. Among that are WT teams Smartone and Cymru Wales.
Jerseys won based on countries:
Points
KoM
U25
Total
1
France
7
3
8
18
2
Italy
6
7
2
15
3
Netherlands
2
5
4
11
4
USA
0
3
6
9
5
Belgium
2
1
4
7
6
Great Britain
2
1
2
5
7
Colombia
0
4
1
5
8
Denmark
4
0
0
4
9
Germany
3
0
1
4
10
Hungary
0
3
0
3
Spoiler
11
Lithuania
2
0
0
2
12
Norway
2
0
0
2
13
Slovakia
2
0
0
2
14
Croatia
1
1
0
2
15
New Zeeland
1
1
0
2
16
South Africa
1
1
0
2
17
Austria
0
1
1
2
18
Sweden
0
0
2
2
19
Poland
1
0
0
1
20
Spain
1
0
0
1
21
Turkey
1
0
0
1
22
Brazil
0
1
0
1
23
Canada
0
1
0
1
24
Dominican Republic
0
1
0
1
25
Greece
0
1
0
1
26
Portugal
0
1
0
1
27
Sambia
0
1
0
1
28
Ukraine
0
1
0
1
29
Australia
0
0
1
1
30
Belarus
0
0
1
1
31
Ethiopia
0
0
1
1
32
Slovenia
0
0
1
1
France and Italy also top this ranking.
Hope you enjoyed this quick look at the wins of this season so far. The complete rankings can be found in this file, which will be updated alongside the Archive File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7f9xzlkqts....xlsx?dl=0
YES!!! The first time we've ever worn the leader's jersey in a GT. And it's Rohan Dennis, who has done nothing for the best part of three years. The irony.
Great stuff from Achieve too. Shame their manager's not here to enjoy it.
Manager of Bunzl - Centrica
ICL's World Tour Champions and Talented Bottlers
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