Thanks for the updates Roturn! And Congrats on leading Sutty, Impey was a great pick for you!
Not too many comments for my team so far, Gallopin had a good start in the early French races and I like the sound of him going for the win in PN. Nizzolo had a decent start too and Brambilla was actually leading for us after January (think he's been overtaken already by Gallopin though ) but not many guys have scored for us anyway yet.
Already kicking myself for missing some guys though, Laporte having an awesome season but I thought I could get him a little later given how down everyone is on him. Moser also proving the risk would've been worth it but I thought I could've waited one more round on him too.
As for the next races, Nizzolo already has a podium in Oman so he's looking alright, not expecting much for Terpstra starting his season nor Planckaert here, Le Bon should be on lead-out duties for Oman too, for Andalucia, De Bie could be intersting given the weak sprinting field and Algarve we only have Debusschere, but he should be allowed to go as a free element in the sprints.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Tamijo wrote:
NicoVirenque got "CORT NIELSEN" in Tour of Oman
Think you missed him.
Great spot.
Not an issue for the full updates as those are using formulas from the CQ ranking.
Startlists though are using formulas from PCS and apparently they changed the name from "Nielsen Magnus Cort" at the start of the year or last season to "Cort Nielsen Magnus" which caused the problem. Now fixed.
trekbmc wrote:
Not too many comments for my team so far, Gallopin had a good start in the early French races and I like the sound of him going for the win in PN. Nizzolo had a decent start too and Brambilla was actually leading for us after January (think he's been overtaken already by Gallopin though ) but not many guys have scored for us anyway yet.
Indeed Brambilla was your top scorer but he should be passed by at least Nizzolo and Gallopin in February and likely as well by Terpstra and Debusschere.
Nizzolo at 50% of 2017 and Brambilla, Siutsou and Canty all at 20-33% of 2018 though seems to be nice picks early on.
roturn wrote:
Indeed Brambilla was your top scorer but he should be passed by at least Nizzolo and Gallopin in February and likely as well by Terpstra and Debusschere.
Nizzolo at 50% of 2017 and Brambilla, Siutsou and Canty all at 20-33% of 2018 though seems to be nice picks early on.
Gallopin's already ahead on 234 now, he's had a good early Feb. Brambilla I think was just off San Juan, same for Siutsou - and Canty with the Australian races, so it'll be interesting to see if they and Nizzolo continue into a good season from here and pretty crucial as our team is based off riders who scored low last season (tbh not expecting heaps more out of Canty, but I love him as a rider and he could break through this year).
Thanks for the update on my squad, a lot of guys not having started their season yet, which contrasts the last couple seasons where we started quickly.
Lutsenko might have won the race, but in the league table it`s his Astana team mate Miguel Angel Lopez to take the big score as runner-up in the GC. Big points for roturn, who also got some valuable scoring by Kudus, which delivers the race win.
Other impressive scoring by Nathan Haas (ember), who is having a nice early season so far it seems.
Jandal7 as well with yet another nice depth scoring as both Gorka Izagirre and Dries Devenyns did well which brings him to #2 in Oman.
Jesus Herrada (jseadog1) as well proving a nice pick early on since his team chaange. Hillis with the duo Wiking/Visconti as well mentionable.
Big, big race for Tim Wellens. Not only strongest on the climbs, also with a very good ITT, which sees him keeping the GC and also the top league scoring, which is great news for Marcovdw, who alos had a top10 scoring by Kruijswijk.
ember as in Oman being strong with Poels doing fine and Hermans scoring a bit.
hillis and jandal7 again in the top area as LLS, Clement, Vanendert scored for earlier and Amador, Clarke for later.
jseadog1`s big #1 pick Landa did okay and surely will do better once the big events come.
Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
THOMAS Geraint
hillis91
179
VAN GARDEREN Tejay
Aquarius97
100
JUNGELS Bob
dominox
74
ROSON GARCIA Jaime
Marcovdw
71
PAUWELS Serge
Marcovdw
66
SCHACHMANN Maximilian
Tamijo
62
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix
ivaneurope
50
OLIVEIRA Nelson Filipe Santos Simoes
Marcovdw
47
SPILAK Simon
dominox
34
OOMEN Sam
Ollfardh
30
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida
jandal7
26
STYBAR Zdenek
Marcovdw
22
SERRY Pieter
OZrocker
19
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente
jseadog1
17
CAMPENAERTS Victor
AbhishekLFC
15
KÃœNG Stefan
alexkr00
15
PELUCCHI Matteo
dominox
15
SMITH Dion
jandal7
15
MEINTJES Louis
roturn
13
HOFSTETTER Hugo
dominox
10
CONTI Valerio
Ollfardh
10
DEGENKOLB John
Ollfardh
10
BACKAERT Frederik
jseadog1
8
ROELANDTS Jürgen
roturn
6
LAENGEN Vegard Stake
Aquarius97
5
GESCHKE Simon
ember
5
SEPULVEDA Eduardo
ember
5
KEUKELEIRE Jens
hillis91
5
DUPONT Timothy
jaxika
5
KIRYIENKA Vasil
jaxika
5
MARTIN Tony
jaxika
5
LAMMERTINK Maurits
Marcovdw
5
CLAEYS Dimitri
NicoVirenque
5
ELISSONDE Kenny
OZrocker
5
TEUNS Dylan
OZrocker
5
THWAITES Scott
roturn
5
SWIFT Ben
sutty68
5
SENECHAL Florian
Tamijo
5
HOFSTEDE Lennard
alexkr00
0
ROOSEN Timo
alexkr00
0
SINKELDAM Ramon
alexkr00
0
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
alexkr00
0
VLIEGEN Loïc
alexkr00
0
HERRADA LOPEZ Jose
Aquarius97
0
KÄMNA Lennard
Aquarius97
0
VALLS FERRI Rafael
Aquarius97
0
GONÇALVES Jose Isidro Maciel
ember
0
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
ember
0
OFFREDO Yoann
ember
0
RESTREPO VALENCIA Jhonatan
ember
0
BENTA Joao Ricardo Cardoso
hillis91
0
NOCENTINI Rinaldo
ivaneurope
0
ANTON HERNANDEZ Igor
jandal7
0
BRÄNDLE Matthias
jaxika
0
KONOVALOVAS Ignatas
jaxika
0
STUYVEN Jasper
jaxika
0
MARTENS Paul
jseadog1
0
CIMOLAI Davide
Marcovdw
0
DEVRIENDT Tom
Marcovdw
0
LINDEMAN Bert-Jan
Marcovdw
0
DE BUYST Jasper
matt17br
0
DOULL Owain
OZrocker
0
GERRANS Simon
OZrocker
0
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto
OZrocker
0
MULLEN Ryan
OZrocker
0
PÖSTLBERGER Lukas
OZrocker
0
SÃœTTERLIN Jasha
OZrocker
0
MAES Nikolas
sutty68
0
HINDLEY Jai
Tamijo
0
KUSS Sepp
Tamijo
0
LAMPAERT Yves
Tamijo
0
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
trekbmc
0
Manager
Points
Riders
Avg. Per Rider
Marcovdw
211
8
26,4
hillis91
184
3
61,3
dominox
133
4
33,3
Aquarius97
105
5
21
Tamijo
67
5
13,4
ivaneurope
50
2
25
Ollfardh
50
3
16,7
jandal7
41
3
13,7
OZrocker
29
9
3,2
jseadog1
25
3
8,3
roturn
24
3
8
AbhishekLFC
15
1
15
alexkr00
15
6
2,5
jaxika
15
6
2,5
ember
10
6
1,7
NicoVirenque
5
1
5
sutty68
5
2
2,5
baseballlover312
0
0
0
Croatia14
0
0
0
matt17br
0
1
0
trekbmc
0
1
0
This race saw a Sky dominance. And if it wasn`t for undraftable Kwiatkwoski going crazy on the final stage as basically only GC rider, it would have been Geraint Thomas (hillis91) keeping the lead and scoring even bigger. And while this was by far the biggest individual scoring, the depth of Marcovdw takes the race win.
Roson, Pauwels, Oliveira, Stybar. Not the names you would have expected to score big here. But the quartett beats Thomas` performance.
Other mentionable performances by TVG (Aquarius97), Jungels (dominox) or Schachmann (Tamijo) which see their managers picking nice points.
ember for once with a bad race as 6 riders only managed 10 points in total and hence in especially hillis91 looking dangerous for the lead with 3 solid races.
League leader sutty68 surely is losing in February as all 3 races basically had close to nothing for him. The sprinter team needs other races to score big.
Weak for us, only finishing points from Terpstra to add to Nizzolo's 20 stage points (he's just about at 100% though ).
Didn't have huge expectations though and now that the classics are starting hopefully it'll look better, in Omloop already Terpstra, Nizzolo, Planckaert, Le Bon, De Bie & Van Aert could be some good points.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Not a great set of races for my team, but with Tejay scoring nice in Algarve and Coquard's stage win in Oman at least we get some points out of this It's also great to very few of my riders were present on one of those races, so PpRider are ok
Very respectable result from Maximilian Schachmann in Algarve.
Saving those races for me, with very little points in Oman, and a semi-bad Ruta Del Sol also.
Good to see Haas bouncing back after a hopeless Tour Down Under in terms of CQ Ranking points. Still behind his 2017 though, but he should be able to perform better overall for the rest of the year, at least that was the main reason I wanted him in my team. Last year he didn't do much more than the fourth place in AGR from this point of the season to the very end.
Poels also doing a good GC in Ruta del Sol was good, but I do fear he'll have to settle for a role as more of a support rider in the Ardennes compared to 2016, when I also had him in my team. That will probably hurt his season looking at the points, as I'm then kind of relying on a "lucky" Grand Tour GC from him, which is always going to be risky for a Sky rider, especially if Froome isn't punished.
None of the 3 races is yet 100% confirmed but it should be pretty accurate already. Hence here the startlist updates for the next 3 events, which might be the final February ones before the big updates.
Abu Dhabi Tour
2018-02-21 - 2018-02-25
This race has a lot of potential. Viviani (jaxika) might be the best sprinter at the moment with an incredible form. Then there is still Kittel (alexkr00), Ewan (NicoVirenque), Cavendish (sutty68) and Bauhaus (Ollfardh) alongside undraftable sprinters Kristoff and Greipel.
Though the GC is decided on the final 2 stages. An 11km ITT and the uphill finish on Jebel Hafeet with 10,8km on 6,6% in average.
Here it`s mainly Miguel Angel Lopez (roturn), Pozzovivo/Majka (baseballlover312), Kelderman (Tamijo), S.Yates (OZrocker) with good chances while Woods (baseballlover312) is a wildcard seeing it`s his first season race.
Undraftable top riders are Dumoulin, Valverde, Zakarin, Ulissi, Aru, Costa, I.Izagirre or Alaphillipe. Hence showing the top field here.
Spoiler
DENNIS Rohan
AbhishekLFC
GRMAY Tsgabu Gebremaryam
AbhishekLFC
KREUZIGER Roman
AbhishekLFC
CICCONE Giulio
alexkr00
FORMOLO Davide
alexkr00
HOFSTEDE Lennard
alexkr00
KITTEL Marcel
alexkr00
TEUNISSEN Mike
alexkr00
VAN EMDEN Jos
alexkr00
VAN HOECKE Gijs
alexkr00
VILLELLA Davide
alexkr00
CASTROVIEJO NICOLAS Jonathan
Aquarius97
CATALDO Dario
Aquarius97
HANSEN Jesper
Aquarius97
MAS NICOLAU Enric
Aquarius97
MINALI Riccardo
Aquarius97
PORSEV Alexander
Aquarius97
VALLS FERRI Rafael
Aquarius97
ZABEL Rick
Aquarius97
BOOKWALTER Brent
baseballlover312
FRANK Mathias
baseballlover312
MAJKA Rafal
baseballlover312
POLJANSKI Pawel
baseballlover312
POZZOVIVO Domenico
baseballlover312
ROJAS GIL Jose Joaquin
baseballlover312
ROWE Luke
baseballlover312
WOODS Michael
baseballlover312
HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian
Croatia14
NOVAK Domen
Croatia14
VAN POPPEL Danny
Croatia14
LAMBRECHT Bjorg
dominox
MOHORIC Matej
dominox
MORTON Lachlan
dominox
BEVIN Patrick
ember
BILBAO LOPEZ DE ARMENTIA Pello
ember
BYSTRØM Sven Erik
ember
ARMEE Sander
ivaneurope
DE LA PARTE GONZALEZ Victor
ivaneurope
DEBESAY Mekseb Abraha
ivaneurope
ARNDT Nikias
jandal7
BAUER Jack
jandal7
CUMMINGS Stephen
jandal7
BRÄNDLE Matthias
jaxika
VIVIANI Elia
jaxika
BENNATI Daniele
Marcovdw
CARUSO Damiano
Marcovdw
MEZGEC Luka
Marcovdw
BUCHMANN Emanuel
NicoVirenque
COSNEFROY Benoit
NicoVirenque
EWAN Caleb
NicoVirenque
GENIEZ Alexandre
NicoVirenque
GUARDINI Andrea
NicoVirenque
HALVORSEN Kristoffer
NicoVirenque
BASKA Erik
Ollfardh
BAUHAUS Phil
Ollfardh
CRADDOCK Lawson
Ollfardh
ROLLAND Pierre
OZrocker
SÃœTTERLIN Jasha
OZrocker
YATES Simon
OZrocker
GEOGHEGAN HART Tao
roturn
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel
roturn
MORENO FERNANDEZ Daniel
roturn
SCOTSON Miles
roturn
BONIFAZIO Niccolo
sutty68
CAVENDISH Mark
sutty68
DOWSETT Alex
sutty68
MCLAY Daniel
sutty68
BARBIER Rudy
Tamijo
GASTAUER Ben
Tamijo
KELDERMAN Wilco
Tamijo
TOLHOEK Antwan
Tamijo
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
trekbmc
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas
trekbmc
ROSSKOPF Joey
trekbmc
Spoiler
alexkr00
8
Aquarius97
8
baseballlover312
8
NicoVirenque
6
roturn
4
sutty68
4
Tamijo
4
Croatia14
3
Ollfardh
3
AbhishekLFC
3
dominox
3
ember
3
jandal7
3
Marcovdw
3
OZrocker
3
trekbmc
3
ivaneurope
3
jaxika
2
hillis91
0
jseadog1
0
matt17br
0
- 53% of the peloton are in the Fantasy League
- Top Sprinters: E.Viviani, M.Cavendish, C.Ewan, M.Kittel
- Top GC: M.A.Lopez, D.Pozzovivo, R.Majka, W.Kelderman, S.Yates
- Others: R.Dennis, M.Woods, P.Bauhaus, R.Kreuziger, A,Guardini, E.Buchmann
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2018-02-24
Ollfardh showing his classic squad by sending 9 riders here followed by trekbmc with 8 and Marcovdw/sutty68 with 7.
hillis91 on the other end with just 1 rider.
Top CQ rider is Wellens (Marcovdw= but while his just won Andalucia, this race is different and he first has to show his allround skills in the big cobbled classics.
Trentin (Tamijo), Stuyven (jaxika), Naesen (dominox), Drucker (ivaneurope), Benoot (matt17br) are bigger favourites alongside couple others of course such as Terpstra (trekbmc), Lampaert (Tamiho), Stybar (Marcovdw)...
KBK is the second cobbled classic, though a lot more sprinter friendly. Hence not a surprise to see sutty68 with the biggest squad at 9 followed by Ollfardh with still 7.
Next to many clashes with Omloop some riders surely focus on KBK a bit more such as Gaviria (ivaneurope), Bennett (jseadog1), Cort Nielsen (NicoVirenque) or Nizzolo (trekbmc).
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Omloop we have Terpstra of course, Van Aert is super interesting, then Nizzolo if it's a sprint and De Bie and Planckaert as outside options, Le Bon, Van Gestel & Bole could do something in the right circumstances too.
Then in Kuurne Nizzolo & Debusschere should be team leaders though maybe expecting less of the other guys, although Terpstra could go for it.
As for Abu Dhabi, hoping Brambilla has some form or Navardauskas does something but really not many points for us there.
Jandal will win this whole month though with Laporte's success.
) but not many guys have scored for us anyway yet.
Tour of Oman
Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol
Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta
Abu Dhabi Tour 
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 
