AbhishekLFC wrote:
Not many seem to read my updates anyway, so not a bad idea

Before starting of with the monthly World Ranking updates for the season, I would like to thank our admins for the monthly points update for all divisions, without which these updates would not be possible.

No changes at the top from the end of last season, with the first changes showing up with teams having promoted/relegated last year. The gap at the top has decreased considerably though.

A few notable changes in the Top 10 with Dombroski and Bakelants making a jump up while while Van Avermaet moves out of it, with Alarcon also dropping. The most improved riders in the Top 50 are Peter Kennaugh and Bryan Coquard, both moving up 21 positions, while Caio Godoy jumps a whopping 690 positions on the back of his shocking win in Badaling!

We're halfway through the season, minus a couple of races, and the MG World Rankings have seen some major changes over the past months. The recent points update, with some great work by roturn to get them out, have shown us how the divisions are shaping up. Now let's see how all of that has affected the rankings.

No changes at the top but the gap between Festina and Moser is down to just 200 points! Puma's superb season so far have seen them rise meteorically to 3rd. Other big movers in the PT include Grieg and Air-France who are holding their own in the division despite being newly promoted teams. Bennelong and Spotify have seen falls of a couple of positions each.

The big mover in the PCT division is Repsol, who are flying high to have gained 12 positions in the standings. Can they become the next Isostar? Phillips and Reddit are other teams who've been on a steady rise, despite currently being stuck in midfield in the division. Minions have risen six positions, and are another surprise package this year. Most of the substantial fallls in the PCT come from relegated teams, who are not earning PT points anymore. Iberia with the biggest fall of 5 places, but they're still the highest ranked PCT team. Meiji are the team to have dropped the furthest, despite remaining in the PCT. Azteca are having a difficult season, and despite having promoted, they've lost 10 positions since the start of the year.

Valio remain the highest ranked CT team, and haven't lost any spots in the rankings. ENI-MOL and Compal have lost 7 and 6 positions respectively. Andorra are the highest gainers of the CT division, climbing 4 spots. Equinor and Eddie Stobart drop five places each, despite remaining in the CT.

Team	Division	Coefficient	Rank	2018 Change
Festina – Dexia	PT	8071	1	0
Moser Sygic	PT	7823	2	0
Team Puma – SAP	PT	7536	3	5
EA Vesuvio	PT	7073	4	-1
Evonik – ELKO	PT	6741	5	-1
Aegon – Lavazza	PT	6165	6	-1
Aker – MOT	PT	6046	7	-1
eBuddy	PT	6004	8	-1
Gazelle	PT	5944	9	0
RBC Pro Cycling	PT	5675	10	1
Hugo Boss	PT	5668	11	3
Bennelong – Mitchelton	PT	5631	12	-2
Team Tinkoff	PT	5211	13	-1
T-Mobile	PT	5097	14	-1
Grieg – Eftel	PT	4591	15	6
Air France – KLM	PT	4413	16	4
Porto – Prio	PT	4323	17	0
Volvo acc. by Spotify	PT	4287	18	-2
Desigual	PT	4275	19	0
Iberia – Team Degenkolb	PCT	3793	20	-5
Team UBS	PT	3675	21	2
Ayubowan!	PCT	3547	22	-4
Isostar Slovenija	PT	3515	23	4
Berg Cycles	PT	3318	24	0
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	PCT	3168	25	-3
Generali – EDF	PCT	2876	26	2
Indosat Oordedoo – ANZ	PCT	2844	27	2
Fablok – Bank BGZ	PCT	2750	28	-2
SPAR – Shimano – SCG	PCT	2517	29	1
Meiji – JR East	PCT	2423	30	-5
Podium Ambition	PCT	2371	31	2
Novatek – Panarmenian.net	PCT	2178	32	-1
Minions	PCT	2137	33	6
Kraftwerk Man Machine	PCT	2084	34	-2
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam	PCT	1954	35	1
Netia – Vónin	PCT	1923	36	-1
Valio – DeLaval	CT	1873	37	0
Euskaltel – Elior	PCT	1863	38	-4
Carrefour – ESPN	PCT	1827	39	1
Carlsberg – Danske Bank	PCT	1779	40	-2
Repsol – Netflix	PCT	1771	41	12
World Cycling Center	PCT	1685	42	1
cycleYorkshire	PCT	1578	43	4
Xero Racing p/b Octagon	PCT	1569	44	2
Kulczyk – DMTEX	PCT	1568	45	3
Philips – Continental	PCT	1401	46	5
Team Reddit	PCT	1376	47	5
Team Cerveceria Costa Rica	CT	1352	48	-3
ENI – MOL	CT	1308	49	-7
Compal – Merida	CT	1274	50	-6
Azteca – NBCSN	PCT	1269	51	-10
GCN ProTeam	CT	1131	52	-3
Sauber Petronas Racing	CT	1084	53	-3
Nordstrom – BioWare	PCT	974	54	1
Andorra Cycling Project	CT	840	55	4
Campari – Super Dry	CT	760	56	0
Telia – Brussels Airlines	CT	669	57	-3
Delvaux	CT	585	58
BNZ Cycling Team	CT	565	59	-1
Swisslion Cycling Team	CT	520	60
Adastra – Argon 18	CT	480	61	-1
Eddie Stobart	CT	448	62	-5
Banco de Bogota	CT	367	63
Rothaus - Aegon	CT	356	64
Oberfranken	CT	293	65
Equinor Pro Cycling	CT	237	66	-5
DK Zalgiris	CT	128	67
Festina-Canal+	AM	90	68
Eritel - RwandAir	AM	38	69
Signal Iduna	AM	34	70
Bianchi Racing p/b eBuddy	AM	25	71
Wiesenhof-Andritz	AM	19	72
Mitchelton - Cobra9	AM	17	73
Vattenfall	AM	14	74
Becherovka - Petrof	AM	13	75
Newton Foundation	AM	11	76
Diesel Development Team	AM	8	77
RBC - Spidertech	AM	4	78
Team B&O	AM	2	79
Risa - Ergon	AM	0	80

The biggest movers in the Top 20 are unsurprisingly taken up by the Puma duo of Herklotz and Demare, gaining 29 and 35 positions respectively. The mantle of the highest gainer in the Top 50 is taken by Coquard, who's improved 43 positions so far. Dekker with the biggest drop of 23 positions in the same bracket. Godoy remains the biggest mover in the top 500, climbing 699 positions! Michael Schar is the next best, at 489 places gained.

Name	Team	Coefficient	Rank	2018 Change
Sam Bewley	Moser - Sygic	2708.2	1	0
Andy Schleck	EA Vesuvio	2461.5	2	2
Taylor Phinney	RBC Pro Cycling	2246.75	3	0
Simone Ponzi	Hugo Boss	2184.3	4	4
Aleksandr Pluchkin	Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff	1965.3	5	0
Simon Spilak	Isostar Slovenija	1950.15	6	-4
Edvald Boasson Hagen	Air France - KLM	1845.55	7	3
Rein Taaramäe	T-Mobile	1683.4	8	-2
Jan Bakelants	Grieg - Eftel	1669.8	9	4
Silvio Herklotz	Team Puma - SAP	1641.6	10	29
Jose Alarcon	Hugo Boss	1596.85	11	0
Joseph Dombrowski	eBuddy	1542.55	12	0
Arnaud Demare	Team Puma - SAP	1534.1	13	35
Greg Van Avermaet	Evonik - ELKO	1504.9	14	-5
Ben Swift	Aegon - Lavazza	1411.25	15	-1
Tejay Van Garderen	T-Mobile	1392.25	16	2
Peter Sagan	Moser - Sygic	1378.9	17	3
Robert Gesink	Berg Cycles	1367.35	18	-11
Michael Van Stayen	Evonik - ELKO	1361.1	19	2
Andrei Amador	Team UBS	1354.7	20	-4
Angel Madrazo	Gazelle	1338.35	21	-2
John Degenkolb	Iberia - Team Degenkolb	1288.3	22	-7
Toms Skujins	Evonik - ELKO	1261.4	23	1
Jack Bobridge	Bennelong - Mitchelton	1170.8	24	-1
Jerome Coppel	Carrefour - ESPN	1160.05	25	-8
Alexey Lutsenko	Team Reddit	1096.85	26	-4
Bryan Coquard	Festina - Dexia	1066.8	27	43
Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier	Festina - Dexia	1001.25	28	0
Francesco Ginanni	Gazelle	970.4	29	-2
Tiago Machado	Porto - Prio	934.85	30	-4
Sean De Bie	Aegon - Lavazza	918.75	31	37
Wilco Kelderman	Team Puma - SAP	858.35	32	4
Rigoberto Úran	Minions	849.45	33	12
Mark Cavendish	Kraftwerk Man Machine	811.7	34	-4
Yuri Trofimov	Team UBS	807.3	35	-6
Danny Summerhill	RBC Pro Cycling	793.05	36	-2
Lukasz Wisniowski	Grieg - Eftel	773.25	37	18
Timofey Kritskiy	Team Tinkoff	767.45	38	33
Ben Gastauer	EA Vesuvio	766.05	39	1
Jonas Ahlstrand	Volvo acc. by Spotify	759.4	40	-3
Alexander Kristoff	Hugo Boss	751.15	41	8
Rasmus Guldhammer	Aker - MOT	747.4	42	11
Martijn Keizer	Indosat Ooredoo - ANZ	744.35	43	1
Peter Kennaugh	Air France - KLM	744.2	44	12
Marko Kump	Isostar Slovenija	736.6	45	14
Diego Ulissi	Generali - EDF	731.45	46	1
Peter Velits	Xero Racing p/b Octagon	727.55	47	-15
Thomas Dekker	Aegon - Lavazza	722.2	48	-23
Stefan Denifl	SPAR - Shimano - SCG	722.05	49	9
Chris Froome	Fablok - Bank BGZ	715.35	50	-17