Hope for Alba or Devenyns to do ok in Hammer. Obviously Taaramae should go well in Estonia, don't know the profiles though.
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jandal7 wrote:
Hope for Alba or Devenyns to do ok in Hammer. Obviously Taaramae should go well in Estonia, don't know the profiles though.
Looks rather flat. But in those small races or criteriums, this doesn`t mean nothing really. Would be surprised if a WT kind of rider can`t top5 there.
The first GT of the season is over and it was a real slaughter in the end. When was the last GT or even race, where the GC leader drops ~20 spots after dominating until then? And also other podium riders with several minutes lost?
OZrocker might have the clear top scorer in Simon Yates but the GC points were gone after 2 weak stages. Still fantastic 661 points, which also deliver him the manager title for the Giro.
It could have been so much more.
Similar for Pozzovivo, who had one weak day and hence dropped some spots but far less. Hence bbl312 still had good scoring by him, while his 2nd top10 candidate suffered illness in the second half and dropped ~10-15 spots. Hence his 499 points are good but less than maybe hoped for.
Back to the top. dominox as 2nd best team just ~50 points behind OZrocker. Carapaz with an incredible consistent Giro and just outside the podium was the main rider and one of the big surprises. Modolo, Mohoric with some decent results as well for the depth.
Coming to the sprinters. It was Viviani vs. Bennett and no one else really. Hence big points for jaxika and jseadog. Both with ~440 points for their sprinters alone which also was like 85% of their actual scoring.
Best placed league rider in the GC was Miguel Angel Lopez (yikes) with 394 points and hence "just" 5th best individual scorer due to missing stage results as the better four did have.
Dennis (Abishek), Formolo (alexkr), Bilbao (ember), Bennett (jandal) are the other solid scorers here while Battaglin due to stages for Marco and Oomen/Geniez for solid, consistent ~10th in the GC for Ollfardh/NV also had good scoring.
Bad luck for some managers as well as their riders weren`t as good as possible wanted. Such as Chaves for Aquarius with 121 points, Wellens (Marco) 77pts, LLS due to bad luck (hillis) 57 pts, Hermans (ember) 21 pts, O'Connor due to a late crash (ember) 0pts, Meintjes (roturn) 0 pts.
Having the 1-2 in a GC always helps. Hillis with Keukeleire and Vanendert did exactly this. Great Lotto picks here. 341 pts in a non WT race is massive.
Jandal with Smith`s 110 pts, Aquarius with Coquards 93 and also Grivko (trek), Dunbar (bbl) or Laporte (jandal) with solid results.
Tour of Japan
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
BOLE Grega
trekbmc
121
LEBAS Thomas
sutty68
92
PERNSTEINER Hermann
Croatia14
90
CANOLA Marco
hillis91
37
BIBBY Ian
sutty68
31
RÄIM Mihkel
jaxika
23
KREDER Raymond
Marcovdw
13
SANTAROMITA Ivan
AbhishekLFC
0
HUCKER Robbie
jaxika
0
BAYLY Cameron
matt17br
0
Manager
Points
Riders
Avg. Per Rider
sutty68
123
2
61,5
trekbmc
121
1
121
Croatia14
90
1
90
hillis91
37
1
37
jaxika
23
2
11,5
Marcovdw
13
1
13
AbhishekLFC
0
1
0
matt17br
0
1
0
Smaller field, okay scoring of the 2nd or 3rd row.
Sutty is back! Since the awesome January, he suffered often. Here with Lebas and Bibby he got 123 points in a 2.1 event. Not bad. trekbmc came close with Bole on 121 pts alone!
Croatia`s Pernsteiner at 90 was the other big scorer.
Tour of the Fjords
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
ALBASINI Michael
jandal7
200
LAMBRECHT Bjorg
dominox
145
LIGTHART Pim
matt17br
120
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
ember
73
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh
Croatia14
56
JAKOBSEN Fabio
dominox
50
GUERREIRO Ruben Antonio Almeida
jandal7
44
JENSEN August
matt17br
38
VAN DER LIJKE Nick
hillis91
30
WARBASSE Larry
ivaneurope
22
HOFLAND Moreno
sutty68
15
KOCH Jonas
AbhishekLFC
13
HALVORSEN Kristoffer
NicoVirenque
10
VAN GESTEL Dries
trekbmc
8
GROSU Eduard-Michael
alexkr00
5
WEENING Pieter
baseballlover312
5
SCHLEGEL Michal
Croatia14
5
BOOM Lars
ember
5
GESCHKE Simon
ember
5
KAMP Alexander
ember
5
COMBAUD Romain
jseadog1
5
VERONA QUINTANILLA Carlos
Marcovdw
5
DOULL Owain
OZrocker
5
HAMILTON Lucas
Tamijo
5
CANTY Brendan
trekbmc
5
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt
AbhishekLFC
0
MEYER Cameron
AbhishekLFC
0
POWER Robert
Aquarius97
0
MONFORT Maxime
baseballlover312
0
VANMARCKE Sep
baseballlover312
0
BANASZEK Alan
Croatia14
0
DURBRIDGE Luke
Croatia14
0
TUSVELD Martijn
dominox
0
DENIFL Stefan
ivaneurope
0
GULDHAMMER POULSEN Rasmus
jaxika
0
BAUHAUS Phil
Ollfardh
0
GERTS Floris
Ollfardh
0
KUDUS Merhawi Gebremedhin
roturn
0
DIBBEN Jonathan
sutty68
0
EARLE Nathan
sutty68
0
LAWLESS Christopher
sutty68
0
STORER Michael
Tamijo
0
THEUNS Edward
Tamijo
0
TERPSTRA Niki
trekbmc
0
Manager
Points
Riders
Avg. Per Rider
jandal7
244
2
122
dominox
195
3
65
matt17br
158
2
79
ember
88
4
22
Croatia14
61
4
15,3
hillis91
30
1
30
ivaneurope
22
2
11
sutty68
15
4
3,8
AbhishekLFC
13
3
4,3
trekbmc
13
3
4,3
NicoVirenque
10
1
10
baseballlover312
5
3
1,7
Tamijo
5
3
1,7
alexkr00
5
1
5
jseadog1
5
1
5
Marcovdw
5
1
5
OZrocker
5
1
5
Ollfardh
0
2
0
Aquarius97
0
1
0
jaxika
0
1
0
roturn
0
1
0
Albasini with a great race in Norway with 200 points for Jandal, who also got small scoring of 44 pts by Guerreiro, who is very consistent this year.
Lambrecht and Jakobsen for dominox with 195 pts in total as well while matt got 158 pts from Ligthard and Jensen combined.
Home manager ember with 88 points from Jansen/Boom/Geschke/Kamp combined.
Plumelec had a solid race fom Jseadog with Pasqualon winning. But it`s Herrada`s points delivering him the win as hillis yet again with 2 strong riders in J.Simon and Dumoulin which delivered 95 points in total.
Next race in France and yet another fantastic one for Vichot and hence ivaneurope.
Within 1 week and 3 French races, Vichot now scored 232 points which is 88% of his season total.
Race wise matt though won due to Meurisse and Hardy both scoring well.
Tour of Estonia
Spoiler
Rider
Team
Points
TAARAMÄE Rein
jandal7
21
PATERSKI Maciej
AbhishekLFC
15
BAZHKOU Stanislau
AbhishekLFC
0
LAUK Karl Patrick
matt17br
0
Manager
Points
Riders
Avg. Per Rider
jandal7
21
1
21
AbhishekLFC
15
2
7,5
matt17br
0
1
0
I might have been too optimistic. On 2 flat days, Taaramae struggled to score more than 21 points on that terrain, which was 11th in the GC.
Paterski as other scorer with 15 points, 13th in the GC.
Startlists
Not yet 100% correct but already a good overview about many riders partipating in the next 2 bigger events.
Points wise that looked like a great Giro for me for a long time, despite having Poels that didn't really do as good as hoped, clearly lacking quite a lot compared to his top level. But O'Connor crashing out was unfortunate, and saw my team loose out on 100++ points in addition to those we got. Bilbao with quite a Giro though, a new Zubeldia in the making
Some really massive scoring for some guys in the Giro, will be the same in the Vuelta too I guess, not good for me.
Our late picks Bole and Grivko are managing to fly the flag and get us some good points though, maybe Gallopin finds some form finally at the Dauphine? Not optimistic, Van Aert and De Bie in Luxembourg could be exciting for some good points for us though, might put some effort into trying to follow that race.
Small shoutout to Dries Van Gestel btw, now at 101 points off mostly just scoring finishing points in races, only top 20s in Brabantsje, Omloop and Eschbon Frankfurt giving anything above 10 points for him.
Thanks again Roturn, love getting all this detail on lots of the smaller races, I certainly paid more attention to the Tour of Japan seeing the potential for Bole to do well.
trekbmc wrote:
Thanks again Roturn, love getting all this detail on lots of the smaller races, I certainly paid more attention to the Tour of Japan seeing the potential for Bole to do well.
That`s the spirit.
My own Giro was okay but far from my hopes.
Lopez luckily found his form in the 3rd week but had no big stage results that added points.
Henao got lucky due to other riders dropping out and hence up to 13th in the GC, which is about expectations scoring wise.
Preidler and Roelandts okay but nothing spectacular while Haig had too much helper role for bigger scoring.
In the end the "0" of Senni and in especially Meintjes is about the ~200 points I was expecting to come, which would have given me the race win.
70 PPR is okay but with such team only being in the midfield of the league in PPR was not ideal.
Luxembourg might be added before the next monthly update. But anyway expect it to come next Monday/Tuesday.
Happy with Smith in Belgium, Guerreiro and Albasini in Fjords, plus Laporte and Taaramae doing ok. My Dauphine squad looks really good, Laporte could do ok in Luxembourg too with (iirc) a TT and some rolling stuff.
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11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Earlier than expected but as Luxembourg goes into June anyway, here the full May update post Giro.
Ranking Update #5 - May
The Giro d'Italia was the dominant race in this month and hence huge scoring took place. California and Eschborn were the other WT events.
Then couple of HC races with Dunkerque, Norway, Fjords, Belgium alongside several other .1 or .2 races with decent scoring such as Yorkshire, de l'Ain, Japan or Plumelec.
Manager
2018
Last Update
Since Last Update
2017
dominox
5046
3590
1456
7304
NicoVirenque
4457
3472
985
6149
AbhishekLFC
4448
3785
663
8479
jandal7
4207
3112
1095
7095
jseadog1
4074
2843
1231
9503
Marcovdw
3914
3208
706
7720
trekbmc
3815
3137
678
6032
ember
3457
2316
1141
7405
hillis91
3443
2649
794
8692
jaxika
3299
2556
743
9385
alexkr00
3247
2412
835
7158
roturn
3225
2235
990
6806
baseballlover312
3052
2084
968
7876
Tamijo
3041
2223
818
8875
Aquarius97
3014
2317
697
6264
OZrocker
2877
2003
874
7784
ivaneurope
2736
1923
813
8804
matt17br
2553
1929
624
8238
sutty68
2483
1918
565
5643
Croatia14
2398
1828
570
5898
Ollfardh
2328
1886
442
4632
dominox was the topscorer this month with 1456 points scored. And with Abishek being on the other end, we see a change in the lead.
Only 3 other managers got a 1000+ May: jeadog, ember and jandal. Mainly responsible for those months were Carapaz/Lambrecht/Pedersen (dominox), Bilbao/Betancur/Bevin/Goncalves (ember), A.Yates/Albasini/G.Bennett/Taaramae/Smith (Jandal) and S.Bennett/Bernal/Pasqualon (jeadog).
Other than those NV up to 2nd with a decent month while Abishek drops down to 3rd.
Manager
2018
2017
% of 2017
NicoVirenque
4457
6149
72,48%
dominox
5046
7304
69,09%
trekbmc
3815
6032
63,25%
jandal7
4207
7095
59,30%
AbhishekLFC
4448
8479
52,46%
Marcovdw
3914
7720
50,70%
Ollfardh
2328
4632
50,26%
Aquarius97
3014
6264
48,12%
roturn
3225
6806
47,38%
ember
3457
7405
46,68%
alexkr00
3247
7158
45,36%
sutty68
2483
5643
44,00%
jseadog1
4074
9503
42,87%
Croatia14
2398
5898
40,66%
hillis91
3443
8692
39,61%
baseballlover312
3052
7876
38,75%
OZrocker
2877
7784
36,96%
jaxika
3299
9385
35,15%
Tamijo
3041
8875
34,26%
ivaneurope
2736
8804
31,08%
matt17br
2553
8238
30,99%
47% is average in comparison to the 2017 total score. Only the top9 are higher though with NV topping it with 72% already.
At the bottom matt and ivaneurope with 31% still a lot of potential.
Roglic, Viviani, Wellens was the order in April. First did not race this month and hence Viviani with multiple stages in the Giro is at the top while also Wellens with a stage win did pass the Lotto Jumbo rider.
Also passing are Simon Yates up to 2nd due to his long 2-week Giro domination. Even with lost GC points in the end, he was the individual top league scorer, while Bernal added the California GC to his stunning 2018 palmares and als up to 3rd.
Miguel Lopez and Pozzovivo inside the top10 now as well with Carapaz in 11th just outside as one of the main surprises.
Riders
Team
2018
% of 2017
CRADDOCK Lawson
Ollfardh
103
686,67%
MOSER Moreno
OZrocker
142
568,00%
DE BIE Sean
trekbmc
258
452,63%
HOFSTETTER Hugo
dominox
486
342,25%
JAKOBSEN Fabio
dominox
403
341,53%
MORENO BAZAN Javier
NicoVirenque
285
320,22%
IMPEY Daryl
sutty68
760
314,05%
PHINNEY Taylor
Ollfardh
112
311,11%
GUARDINI Andrea
NicoVirenque
119
305,13%
SIUTSOU Kanstantsin
trekbmc
253
240,95%
Spoiler
FORMOLO Davide
alexkr00
500
230,41%
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio
dominox
678
194,27%
TERPSTRA Niki
trekbmc
806
193,29%
POZDNYAKOV Kirill
jseadog1
67
191,43%
BIERMANS Jenthe
Ollfardh
85
188,89%
BILBAO LOPEZ DE ARMENTIA Pello
ember
432
182,28%
SERRY Pieter
OZrocker
210
179,49%
PRADES REVERTER Eduard
Tamijo
459
175,86%
MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe
dominox
361
166,36%
SCHACHMANN Maximilian
Tamijo
358
161,99%
KREUZIGER Roman
AbhishekLFC
423
159,62%
NIZZOLO Giacomo
trekbmc
105
159,09%
WISNIOWSKI Lukasz
Croatia14
164
156,19%
COQUARD Bryan
Aquarius97
337
153,18%
LAPORTE Christophe
jandal7
472
152,26%
STRAKHOV Dmitry
matt17br
304
140,74%
LEBAS Thomas
sutty68
312
137,44%
VANENDERT Jelle
hillis91
380
137,18%
BOLE Grega
trekbmc
198
135,62%
LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel
roturn
850
135,14%
MOLARD Rudy
NicoVirenque
304
133,92%
KAMP Alexander
ember
191
132,64%
PHILIPSEN Jasper
dominox
141
131,78%
SMITH Dion
jandal7
181
131,16%
YATES Simon
OZrocker
1122
130,77%
SARREAU Marc
NicoVirenque
336
128,24%
VALGREN ANDERSEN Michael
AbhishekLFC
613
126,92%
BENNETT George
jandal7
570
126,39%
TEUNISSEN Mike
alexkr00
248
124,62%
DUNBAR Eddie
baseballlover312
171
123,91%
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley
jseadog1
936
122,19%
HAUSSLER Heinrich
trekbmc
73
121,67%
GROSSSCHARTNER Felix
ivaneurope
234
120,62%
DE TIER Floris
roturn
112
120,43%
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon
hillis91
649
120,41%
NARVAEZ PRADO Jhonatan Manuel
dominox
144
120,00%
BATTAGLIN Enrico
Marcovdw
240
117,65%
OWSIAN Lukasz
roturn
200
117,65%
CLAEYS Dimitri
NicoVirenque
235
116,34%
VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan
Ollfardh
94
114,63%
BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto
ember
182
114,47%
HOELGAARD Daniel
ember
101
113,48%
DEVENYNS Dries
jandal7
284
111,37%
DEBUSSCHERE Jens
trekbmc
352
106,02%
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
trekbmc
206
105,64%
BASKA Erik
Ollfardh
73
104,29%
ROELANDTS Jürgen
roturn
235
103,07%
HIVERT Jonathan
jseadog1
427
102,89%
VAN POPPEL Danny
Croatia14
295
102,79%
CICCONE Giulio
alexkr00
269
101,89%
O'CONNOR Ben
ember
181
101,69%
LIGTHART Pim
matt17br
285
101,42%
MCCARTHY Jay
Aquarius97
381
100,53%
Craddock and Moser remain in the top2 here with De Bie and Hofstetter swapping.
None of them is really a zero scorer and all are up to at least 100 points now, which shows, that they are decent picks and just had a total off 2017 season.
Jakobsen might be most impressive next to Hofstetter. Future is looking bright and dominox had the perfect picks here.
Formolo in 11th, Carapaz in 12th, Bilbao in 16th or Felipe Martinez in 17th are also awesome picks as they all scored very well and have the potential for a lot more.
Biggest scores in those category are Simon Yates, who already is at 130% of his full 2017 or Bernal (122%), Miguel Angel Lopez (135%).
I still can't believe I'm top 5. I'm even more shocked I'm still scoring that well! Thought I didn't have such a great squad but depth scoring with cool riders makes a difference
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
True, making a solid top 4 then some depth rather than 1 or 2 top guys.
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
May was a bad month but still being among the podium positions is encouraging. Hopefully things pick up again in June. Incredible month for dominox though
We were one of the weaker teams that month, poor Giro squad, afraid the Tour and Vuelta will see similar losses for us.
On the other hand, maybe the end of the Giro will mean our young Italians start racing outside of Italy and we still have a proper awesome Autumn classics squad up our sleeve.
Wow, I'm also more shocked than you all think. Didn't expect that at all.
roturn wrote:
Jakobsen might be most impressive next to Hofstetter. Future is looking bright and dominox had the perfect picks here.
I have said it not once. That was my plan for the second half of my picks. I wanted to choose riders young enough with a potential of a breakout year. It seems to be working so far
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While it's easy to blame everything on Degenkolb, I just did some really bad picks. Okay, De Plus and Bauhaus had injuries, nothing I can do about that. But too many riders just being used as domestiques (Boeckmans, Bettiol, Vervaeke and even Oomen in the Giro). Or guys like Conti and Gerts, lots of TV time but no points. Meh.
Giro d'Italia
Tour of Belgium
Tour of Japan
Tour of the Fjords
GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
Tour of Estonia
Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg 
