Romandie saw three huge rider efforts:
- Roglic might be the best 1-week-stage racer this year so far and hence one of the top CQ riders in the league table. After Pais Vasco he also has won Romandie now and being top scorer. Having Dennis as well sees Abishek winning with a big margin.
- Bernal is one of the greatest uphill riders this season. Could he even surprise in a GT? At least by the look of it, he could be Sky`s number 2 or 3 already. Who knows? Maybe even #1? Thomas in Romandie was not very good and Bernal was just beaten by Roglic with couple seconds. Huge race for jseadog. 1 rider in the race but 308 points scored!
- De Gendt! This guy is awesome. Winning multiple stages in his career. Mainly on WT level in the big races and this year already the second time from a break. In addition to this, he often lands high KoM positions and here he has even won it. Plus he also took the point competition and hence nice points for Jandal!
Other mentions to Fuglsang for ivaneurope or Kruijswijk for Marcovdw while Latour (Ollfardh), Buchmann (NV) and Daniel Felipe MArtinez (dominox) show their talent once more with decent GCs.
Full April rankings likely on Wednesday. Not yet available with Romandie included.
De Gendt <3 What a race. Roglic is an awesome pick, Bernal as well. Shame Gorka didn't do so well, but some nice points from Tommy for my struggling team
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April started with Pais Vasco and then over to Paris Roubaix and the Ardennes Classics. Hence big classics and lots of scoring did happen this month.
Most recently the Tour de Romandie as last WT event while Eschborn Frankfurt goes into the May Update.
Some smaller races with the Tour of the Alps and in Croatia as also Scheldeprijs, Brabantse Pijl and several more should make a lot of changes.
Manager
2018
Last Update
Since Last Update
2017
AbhishekLFC
3785
1993
1792
8479
dominox
3590
2587
1003
7304
NicoVirenque
3472
2848
624
6149
Marcovdw
3208
2310
898
7720
trekbmc
3137
2295
842
6032
jandal7
3112
2491
621
7095
jseadog1
2843
1844
999
9503
hillis91
2649
2060
589
8692
jaxika
2556
2122
434
9385
alexkr00
2412
1616
796
7158
Aquarius97
2317
1673
644
6264
ember
2316
1598
718
7405
roturn
2235
1517
718
6806
Tamijo
2223
1728
495
8875
baseballlover312
2084
1115
969
7876
OZrocker
2003
1569
434
7784
matt17br
1929
1339
590
8238
ivaneurope
1923
1506
417
8804
sutty68
1918
1544
374
5643
Ollfardh
1886
1476
410
4632
Croatia14
1828
1465
363
5898
What a month for Abishek. From 8th to 1st in one month scoring almost as much in April as the bottom teams in total! Big name behind this success is clearly Roglic! Winning both WT stage races in April was key here. Plus having an Ardennes winner in Valgren, a consistent scorer in Kreuziger and couple others such as Dennis, Barbero or Campenaerts shows the depth of his team this month.
dominox remains in 2nd but couldn`t perform as strong as in March, where he even topped Abishek`s Aprol score. Still 2nd best as well this month with Jungels` win in LBL being great for him as also Carapaz most recently in Asturias.
NicoVirenque drops from 1st to 3rd and history seems to repeat as it was very similar in 2017. Mainly Buchmann though keeping him up as the young German did very consistent this season and maybe has a big step left for the Vuelta later this year.
Then Marcovdw, trekbmc, jandal, hillis, jseadog all remain in the top half with consistent scoring.
At the bottom baseballlover had a fantastic month jumping from last 6 spots higher being the 4th best scorer in April. Pozzovivo, Woods, Vanmarcke and Majka his main riders and hence the Giro could be huge with first two leading their teams in solid form.
Instead Croatia is in last spot with Ollfardh, sutty, ivaneurope and matt just ahead. All 5 the only teams below 2000 points yet. Mainly their sprinters did not deliver yet. Cavendish, Gaviria, Degenkolb all with unfortunate spring racing this season.
Manager
2018
2017
% of 2017
NicoVirenque
3472
6149
56,46%
trekbmc
3137
6032
52,01%
dominox
3590
7304
49,15%
AbhishekLFC
3785
8479
44,64%
jandal7
3112
7095
43,86%
Marcovdw
3208
7720
41,55%
Ollfardh
1886
4632
40,72%
Aquarius97
2317
6264
36,99%
sutty68
1918
5643
33,99%
alexkr00
2412
7158
33,70%
roturn
2235
6806
32,84%
ember
2316
7405
31,28%
Croatia14
1828
5898
30,99%
hillis91
2649
8692
30,48%
jseadog1
2843
9503
29,92%
jaxika
2556
9385
27,23%
baseballlover312
2084
7876
26,46%
OZrocker
2003
7784
25,73%
Tamijo
2223
8875
25,05%
matt17br
1929
8238
23,42%
ivaneurope
1923
8804
21,84%
~40% is done but the biggest scoring in the GTs yet to start. NV with 56% and trekbmc with 52% of their riders 2017 total though is impressive
dominox just under 50% following while Abishek is impressive at 44% seeing the big amount of 2017 scoring. Most big 2017 scorers find themselves in the lower end of that percentage table.
We have a new individual leader. Roglic, the master of 1-week-stage races takes over from Viviani with Wellens following in 3rd! Huge seasons for all of them.
Next up Terpstra, who was strongest in the cobbled classics this year while Benoot in 5th should boost as well since he celebrated his first win this season after years of high consistency.
Impey slowly drops but still is the best in comparison to 2017. Bernal already higher than last year and could become a big threat of overperformer of the season if he continues like this and maybe even in one GT.
Same could be said about Miguel Angel Lopez, since he didn`t start his 2017 season before May.
Riders
Team
2018
% of 2017
CRADDOCK Lawson
Ollfardh
87
580,00%
MOSER Moreno
OZrocker
142
568,00%
HOFSTETTER Hugo
dominox
460
323,94%
DE BIE Sean
trekbmc
183
321,05%
GUARDINI Andrea
NicoVirenque
119
305,13%
PHINNEY Taylor
Ollfardh
107
297,22%
IMPEY Daryl
sutty68
718
296,69%
JAKOBSEN Fabio
dominox
339
287,29%
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin
trekbmc
253
240,95%
TERPSTRA Niki
trekbmc
792
189,93%
Spoiler
SERRY Pieter
OZrocker
210
179,49%
NIZZOLO Giacomo
trekbmc
105
159,09%
WISNIOWSKI Lukasz
Croatia14
164
156,19%
KREUZIGER Roman
AbhishekLFC
401
151,32%
MORENO BAZAN Javier
NicoVirenque
131
147,19%
LAPORTE Christophe
jandal7
419
135,16%
MOLARD Rudy
NicoVirenque
304
133,92%
VALGREN ANDERSEN Michael
AbhishekLFC
613
126,92%
STRAKHOV Dmitry
matt17br
274
126,85%
POZDNYAKOV Kirill
jseadog1
44
125,71%
FORMOLO Davide
alexkr00
272
125,35%
PHILIPSEN Jasper
dominox
132
123,36%
HAUSSLER Heinrich
trekbmc
73
121,67%
TEUNISSEN Mike
alexkr00
234
117,59%
NARVAEZ PRADO Jhonatan Manuel
dominox
139
115,83%
DEVENYNS Dries
jandal7
284
111,37%
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
hillis91
592
109,83%
VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan
Ollfardh
89
108,54%
MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe
dominox
235
108,29%
HOELGAARD Daniel
ember
96
107,87%
BASKA Erik
Ollfardh
73
104,29%
DE TIER Floris
roturn
96
103,23%
SCHACHMANN Maximilian
Tamijo
225
101,81%
O'CONNOR Ben
ember
181
101,69%
MCCARTHY Jay
Aquarius97
381
100,53%
SARREAU Marc
NicoVirenque
262
100,00%
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
jandal7
515
97,17%
LEBAS Thomas
sutty68
220
96,92%
HIVERT Jonathan
jseadog1
402
96,87%
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
trekbmc
318
95,78%
OWSIAN Lukasz
roturn
160
94,12%
ROELANDTS Jürgen
roturn
208
91,23%
GAUDIN Damien
NicoVirenque
177
89,39%
AMADOR BIKKAZAKOVA Andrey
jandal7
206
89,18%
BENOOT Tiesj
matt17br
720
88,56%
POWER Robert
Aquarius97
96
86,49%
BILBAO LOPEZ DE ARMENTIA Pello
ember
204
86,08%
BENNETT George
jandal7
385
85,37%
VANENDERT Jelle
hillis91
235
84,84%
TOTO Paolo
Tamijo
160
82,90%
KANGERT Tanel
Croatia14
48
82,76%
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley
jseadog1
631
82,38%
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix
ivaneurope
159
81,96%
LATOUR Pierre
Ollfardh
368
81,24%
EDMONDSON Alexander
ember
132
80,49%
FUGLSANG Jakob
ivaneurope
564
80,23%
Craddock at 580% being best in comparison to 2017 but with a total of 87pts, this doesn`t say a lot.
Rohan Dennis slowly drops in the ranking, where you want to drop after being 1st here last month.
Instead Felline with a huge differential between 2017 and 2018 at this date. Henao Montoya as well but (for me hopefully) does good in the Giro.
Vichot, Albasini and Durbridge all far from their 2017 performance due to health issues/bad luck or just no form.
Kittel/Degenkolb then following with a hard time here. First had an off season 2 years ago, then a strong one last year and now another struggling one. Maybe strong again next year?
People clearly missed out on Ackerman. The Bora sprinter having his breakthrough year it seems with a win in Romandie and consistent top positions. With Sagan focussing on the classics, Bennett and Ackerman share the 1-week races fairly and both are doing fine.
Ovechkin "dominating" the small races while Dyball and Gasparotto also could have been good picks just like Hodeg of course.
Here we are. The first GT of the year starts this week and hence here the full startlist with huge scoring potential.
alexkr00 with 10 riders topping the list with roturn (9) and Marco (8) following. Lowest amount by matt with 2 and couple of managers with 3 and 4 participants.
Ragarding the top riders, see the last Giro preview as also the list below.
Well, i thought we would be in a much worse position, though we are only 500 points ahead of the last place. Mid-table at this point is good given that neither Chaves or Coquard have scored consistenly so far
Wow, Abhishek killing it there! Looks like I know who we'll be 2nd to this time round.
We're still going well, just lurking near the top.
Our problem is that Gallopin has been rather average while Nizzolo has been outright terrible, big hit to take from our top 2 guys, while otherwise Terpstra, Van Aert, De Bie, Debusschere, Siutsou and Vendrame have been awesome. And I love how precense we have on the overperformers rankings, #4, #9, #10, #12, plus 2 other guys on there.
Van der Hoorn and Herklotz having score nothing is a bit disapointing though.
Also not reflected here, Eschborn - Frankfurt was an awesome race for us with De Bie and Bole doing amazing, while Van Gestel also picked up some points.
Giro looks exciting, not expecting heaps but I think Siutsou or Debusschere could treat us to an interesting race (Brambilla too but I think he has optimistic GC ambitions )
Can we all just appreciate that if this was 2017 I would be destroying everyone
Last year I was towards the bottom of the pack at this time and I had the best scoring out of 2016. I am always a year behind
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Two smaller events, but as this is what the game is all about. Also following the less popular riders, here you go with the startlists.
Madrid might not be 100% secured yet.
Tour de Yorkshire
2018-05-03 - 2018-05-06
The Tour de Yorkshire got a 4th stage included and actually might be the hardest with a late hill top finish. ~200m in height on the last 1,8km which means ~8% in average. Could become the decider, though also the stages 3 & 4 aren`t that easy and sprinters might struggle.
Top rider here is Van Avermaet. Other than him the next 29 top rated riders are all in the Fantasy League.
Nico Virenque with Cort Nielsen might do well while jseadog has last years podium finisher in Hivert, who is yet again a good bet here.
Marcovdw with last years winner Pauwels might have some hope, but it will be difficult.
Other strong riders are Weening, Kiserlovski, Dunbar (bbl312), Swift, Lawless, Cavendish, Bibby (sutty), Coquard (Aquarius), Bevin (ember), Moser, Machado (OZrocker) or Stohrer (Tamijo).
sutty with 8 riders clearly the most here but mainly sprinters while the GC should go to the puncheurs and hence bbl312 and OZrocker might be the managers to watch out for.
Really interesting to see updates for the smaller races, I'm slightly surprised none of our guys are in Yorkshire, though looking at my squad there's no real reason to expect them to be.
Sutty could have quite a big race in Yorkshire with a strong bunch of genuine points scorers.
I will hopefully be able to make more of those small ones as I noticed myself that those are "more" interesting due to no TV time or you just follow them less or different and actually this was kind of reason for the original idea of that game.
So whenever I have ~15min spare time, I will at least make startlists for those and results whenever possible.
I agree that these sorts of races are some of the most important - I know that I personally chose a lot of guys who I thought would perform in smaller races rather than larger ones.
Sitting in the bottom half despite having decent looking low pick scorers in Bilbao, O'Connor, Betancur (!), Edmondson, Hoelgaard, Hagen and others, it doesn't help much when my two top pics are far away from their potential and 2017 scorings, and Boom having to sit out the spring campaign after his heart surgery in January.
Poels' lack of scoring is of course understandable, due to the crash in Paris-Nice when he looked set to win.
Then there's Moscon, who I think actually has delivered more points up to this point of the season compared to 2017, but I struggle to see him copy his 2017 autumn, so it would have helped if his classics campaign was stronger
I really need a big Giro from Poels, and then there should be stage potential in O'Connor, Bilbao, Hermans and even Betancur as well, but we shall see how it goes. Most important thing is that they don't crash out or get injured during the race, then they'll at least have the chance to score
ember wrote:
Then there's Moscon, who I think actually has delivered more points up to this point of the season compared to 2017, but I struggle to see him copy his 2017 autumn, so it would have helped if his classics campaign was stronger
Pre Giro
244 pts in 2018
207 pts in 2017
End of Season 2017
864 pts
So yes, he is doing okay this year despite his main result is 8th in E3 Prijs and 2x top10 in the Mallorca Events while last year it was 5th in Paris Roubaix.
Issue will be to repeat Italian NC, Top6 in both WCs, 5th in Emilia, 7th in Varesine and 3rd in Lombardia.
Might indeed be a tough task.
Then again, there is the good chance, he will improve from his 27th in the Vuelta.
Good to see races with different riders in the top scoring area. Tamijo taking the win in Yorkshire due to high scoring by Eduard Prades and additionally by young Aussie Storer.
bbl312 came clsoe due to Kiserlovski, Dunbar and Bookwalter. In fact, Dunbar`s attacks could have lead to a higher scoring, would the terrain have been a little bit more selective. He surely was impressive.
NicoVirenque with a high scoring duo in Cort Nielsen, who showed a stunning performance on the hill sprint, as also by Anthony Perez. Those delivers him the runner-up behind Tamijo.
Other good performances by last years winner Pauwels for Marcovdw and Bibby for sutty, while ember is getting a bit by Pat Bevin.
Vuelta Ciclista Comunidad de Madrid
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
BARBERO CUESTA Carlos
AbhishekLFC
36
STRAKHOV Dmitry
matt17br
30
BOL Jetse
roturn
4
BENTA Joao Ricardo Cardoso
hillis91
0
CELANO Danilo
hillis91
0
SEVILLA RIVERA Oscar Miguel
ivaneurope
0
ALARCON GARCIA Raul
jaxika
0
GARCIA DE MATEOS RUBIO Vicente
jseadog1
0
PUJOL MUÑOZ Oscar
jseadog1
0
BENNATI Daniele
Marcovdw
0
KREDER Raymond
Marcovdw
0
PARDILLA BELLON Sergio
roturn
0
Manager
Points
Riders
Avg. Per Rider
AbhishekLFC
36
1
36
matt17br
30
1
30
roturn
4
2
2
hillis91
0
2
0
jseadog1
0
2
0
Marcovdw
0
2
0
ivaneurope
0
1
0
jaxika
0
1
0
3 riders only scored in Madrid. Actually the top 2 CQ riders in the race were the only 2 decent scorers as Barbero for Abishek and Strakhov for matt showed some results.
Bol`s 4 points due to a mid twenty GC position as third best.
The race in the end was not as selective as in the past at times and hence several riders within s.t. in the GC and the first stage order basically was key.
Prologue specialists and sprinters were the main scorers so far in this Giro with just 3 stages in.
No surprise that Viviani scored the best in Israel with 2 stage wins and hence jaxika is in the lead.
Dennis with a 2nd in the prologue and the bonus seconds at the intermediate that gave him the GC lead is runner-up and hence Abishek is in a good position as well with Campenaerts also in the scoring.
alexkr with Marezco, dominox with Modolo and jseadog with Bennett being in decent points as well.
Next days on Sicily should give other riders points as it starts to get hilly and also the first mountain top finish on the Etna is coming.
Startlists
4 Jours de Dunkerque
2018-05-08 - 2018-05-13
Small changes in the startlist might still happen but Dunkerque should see lots of chances for the league riders.
Greipel after injury and Bouhanni with not really a lot of form are the top undraftable riders, then a long list of the Fantasy league.
jaxika with Dupont and Vermeltfoort being high on the list as also hillis with de Haes, Simon and Dumoulin.
matt with de Buyst and Meurisse, NV with Sarreau or Sutty with Hofland, Wippert might also show up while Tamijo has Barbier as his leader.
Some more mentions to Finetto (jseadog), De Bie (trekbmc) or Vantomme (ivaneurope).
Tour de Romandie
Giro d'Italia 
Looks like I know who we'll be 2nd to this time round. 
Tour de Yorkshire 
Vuelta Ciclista Comunidad de Madrid 
4 Jours de Dunkerque 
