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CT Rankings Update #5
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 18-01-2018 22:00
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There have been 5 races this month for CT teams to score points in, starting with the C2 classics of Windhoek ITT and Cacak Classic. Then there were stage races: C2 Euskal Bizikleta; C2HC Tour du Faso; C1 Olympia's Tour.
And this was a month in which cycleYorkshire pressed home their time trial advantage. They took places 1st, 2nd and 4th in Namibia, with Tennant leading the way. This netted them 94 points, but more was to come later. In-n-Out were to take 47 points at Windhoek.
Marcel Wyss' return to C2 winning ways netted Philips 48 points at the Cacak Classic. Other good scorers were World Cycling Centre 37, and 35 for both In-n-Out and Wiggle.
The hills continued in Spain, and with Campari taking the victory they top-scored on 85. Again, In-n-Out were with the top scorers on 80, then there was Philips on 74 and both Philips and Xero taking 60.
World Cycling Centre arrived at the Tour du Faso, and they achieved it. Harrison was the man to achieve it, and in total the team score 188 points: the highest total achieved by a team in a single race so far this season. Philips employed some good team depth with three riders in the Top 10, and that scored them 124 points. 92 for Kulczyk, 82 for Wiggle, 72 for cycleYorkshire and 69 for Campari.
But the record score of WCC did not last, because cycleYorskhire rode to a new record at Olympia's Tour: 197. Also with three in the top 10, led by Stannard in 2nd - only missing out on the C1 victory by 1 second. Next best scorers were Löbauer Stadtwerke on 29 points - thanks to the KoM jersey of Benoot.
| | Team | WITT | CC | EB | TdF | OT | May | | 1 |  | cycleYorkshire | 94 | 0 | 17 | 72 | 197 | 380 | | 2 |  | World Cycling Centre | 0 | 37 | 58 | 188 | 0 | 283 | | 3 |  | Philips - Continental | 7 | 48 | 74 | 124 | 23 | 276 | | 4 |  | In-n-Out p/b Carrefour | 47 | 35 | 80 | 49 | 0 | 211 | | 5 |  | Campari - Super Dry | 0 | 0 | 85 | 69 | 0 | 154 | | 6 |  | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 10 | 29 | 0 | 92 | 4 | 135 | | 7 |  | Wiggle p/b Boardman Bikes | 10 | 35 | 0 | 82 | 0 | 127 | | 8 |  | Azteca - NBCSN | 0 | 23 | 60 | 34 | 0 | 117 | | 9 |  | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 0 | 24 | 60 | 9 | 0 | 93 | | 10 |  | Löbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx | 20 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 29 | 77 | | 11 |  | Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack | 0 | 20 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 67 | | 12 |  | Sauber Petronas Racing | 19 | 2 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 67 | | 13 |  | Telia-Brussels Airlines | 11 | 0 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 59 | | 14 |  | Proximus Continental Team | 0 | 1 | 4 | 35 | 0 | 40 | | 15 |  | Repsol - Honda | 1 | 9 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 34 | | 16 |  | Andorra Cycling Project | 20 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 29 | | 17 |  | SanCor | 0 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 22 | | 18 |  | Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 19 | | 19 |  | Statoil Pro Cycling | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | | 20 |  | The Balkan Cycling Project | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 13 | | 21 |  | Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | | 22 |  | VMP - Argon 18 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | | 23 |  | Team Reddit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 24 |  | Eddie Stobart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Clearly, cycleYorkshire's season has been transformed, they've more than doubled their points tally this month and jump up from 14th place to 4th, and just one point from 3rd. They're right in the thick of a tight battle for places 2nd to 5th. Kulczyk hold on to 2nd, ahead of In-n-Out, while Philips moving up four places to 4th.
The leaders are World Cycling Centre though, and they had the 2nd best month of the division. The affect of that is that they now have a very healthy lead of 172 points over 2nd place.
Repsol, Xero and Azteca are slipping down, as are Goldcorp and Sauber, while Campari are up three places and into the Top 10. Proximus, Telia and Reddit all shift down, as a result of cycleYorkshire and Campari's gains.
In the second half of the table, Wiggle have also doubled their points, and rise from 21st to 16th. Also on the up are Lobauer to 18th. This sees Aeropostal, Balkan, SanCor and Eddie Stobart losing positions.
No changes at the bottom though, only minor points were VMP, Statoil and Garmin. The latter have raced fewer than everyone though, less than a quarter through their allocation - while Philips have hit the 50% point.
| | | Team | Total | Rd | PpRD | Proj | | 1 | 1 | | World Cycling Centre | 858 | 51 | 16.82 | 2018 | | 2 | 2 | | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 686 | 58 | 11.83 | 1420 | | 3 | 4 | | In-n-Out p/b Carrefour | 669 | 56 | 11.95 | 1434 | | 4 | 14 | | cycleYorkshire | 668 | 42 | 15.90 | 1908 | | 5 | 9 | | Philips - Continental | 632 | 60 | 10.53 | 1264 | | 6 | 3 | | Repsol - Honda | 544 | 56 | 9.71 | 1165 | | 7 | 5 | | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 507 | 54 | 9.39 | 1127 | | 8 | 7 | | Azteca - NBCSN | 504 | 53 | 9.51 | 1141 | | 9 | 12 | | Campari - Super Dry | 465 | 54 | 8.61 | 1033 | | 10 | 6 | | Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack | 464 | 58 | 8.00 | 960 | | 11 | 8 | | Sauber Petronas Racing | 439 | 58 | 7.57 | 908 | | 12 | 10 | | Proximus Continental Team | 386 | 57 | 6.77 | 812 | | 13 | 11 | | Telia-Brussels Airlines | 371 | 52 | 7.13 | 856 | | 14 | 13 | | Team Reddit | 297 | 36 | 8.25 | 990 | | 15 | 15 | | Andorra Cycling Project | 259 | 48 | 5.40 | 648 | | 16 | 21 | | Wiggle p/b Boardman Bikes | 253 | 44 | 5.75 | 690 | | 17 | 16 | | Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo | 249 | 42 | 5.93 | 712 | | 18 | 20 | | Löbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx | 208 | 52 | 4.00 | 480 | | 19 | 17 | | The Balkan Cycling Project | 200 | 54 | 3.70 | 444 | | 20 | 18 | | SanCor | 191 | 43 | 4.44 | 533 | | 21 | 19 | | Eddie Stobart | 136 | 49 | 2.78 | 334 | | 22 | 22 | | VMP - Argon 18 | 81 | 53 | 1.53 | 184 | | 23 | 23 | | Statoil Pro Cycling | 66 | 40 | 1.65 | 198 | | 24 | 24 | | Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling | 46 | 29 | 1.59 | 191 |
For the most part, the current standings line up with the projected standings, with cycleYorkshire the closest team to WCC on PpRD. Reddit the only team notably lower than their projected position.
With Valls and Penasa out of action, and 3rd placed Harrison winning the C2HC race, it's no surprise to see that the Brit has now moved into the Individual rankings lead.
New entries into the Top 10 are Havik, Roux, and Tennant.
The biggest climber though is Ian Stannard. From 2 points in 232nd place, to 120 points and 19th place.
| 1 | Sam Harrison | GBR | | World Cycling Centre | 349 | | 2 | Rafael Valls | ESP | | Repsol - Honda | 306 | | 3 | Pierre Paolo Penasa | ITA | | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 249 | | 4 | Cedric Lebris | FRA | | Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack | 169 | | 5 | Yoeri Havik | NED | | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 167 | | 6 | Robert Bush | USA | | World Cycling Centre | 163 | | 7 | Anthony Roux | FRA | | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 152 | | 8 | Marco Haller | AUT | | In-n-Out p/b Carrefour | 147 | | 9 | Andrew Tennant | GBR | | cycleYorkshire | 145 | | 10 | Mohamed Harrif Salleh | MAS | | Sauber Petronas Racing | 140 | | 11 | David Boily | CAN | | World Cycling Centre | 139 | | 12 | Ryan Eastman | USA | | Azteca - NBCSN | 138 | | 13 | Richard Laningo Laizer | TAN | | Andorra Cycling Project | 134 | | 14 | Boy Van Poppel | NED | | Proximus Continental Team | 126 | | 15 | Denys Karnulin | UKR | | The Balkan Cycling Project | 125 | | 16 | Johan Esteban Chaves | COL | | Azteca - NBCSN | 124 | | 17 | George Bennett | NZL | | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 123 | | 18 | Dario Cataldo | ITA | | Campari - Super Dry | 121 | | 19 | Ian Stannard | GBR | | cycleYorkshire | 120 | | 20 | Jempy Drucker | LUX | | Philips - Continental | 116 |
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 18-01-2018 22:21
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June will be a much better month for us, with Valls hopefully winning in Andorra and doing a nice job in his first C1 outing in Costa Rica. If everything goes as planned in June, we should back in the Top 4 or Top5 and Valls should be leading again the Invidivual Rankings.
Thanks for the update SN!
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 18-01-2018 23:28
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Although only with Windhoek and Faso in the calendar, i expected more out of the team but it wasn't a disaster. June should be the most important month for us, really have to put on quite a performance, specially in Andorra our home race! But also in Costa Rica and Monterrey TTT we have to rack up good points.
Stellar month for CycleYorkshire and WCC, absolutely dominant 
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 18-01-2018 23:42
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At least Roux is top puncheur and Bennett is beating the fake inferior version of himself, Cataldo. Thanks for the update SN!
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| Kentaurus |
Posted on 19-01-2018 01:24
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Just scrapping in some points, not enough to be serious though.
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| ryant |
Posted on 19-01-2018 01:40
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And... this makes for some impressive reading!!!
Shame for us is that I think most of our best races are behind us already so we shouldn't be doing this well in the future but I hope that we can still manage an automatic promotion spot come the end of the year. WCC are really bossing it right now and it seems like they have got the overall rankings sown up already, but we may see some big swings later on by the other favourites!
Also, its quite shocking to see Tvetcov being my 6th best rider on 43 pts so far this season, despite me being wholly reliant on him during his stellar campaign last year. I just hope he can find a little of that magic as we head towards the rest of his races, as we'll need him to score a decent amount for us to keep our push for promotion going.
P.S. RIP my individual rider rankings goal 
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 19-01-2018 02:35
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Not much to say, we had a very dissapointing Faso, and points weren't hanging on the tree in other races. As long as we go top 15 overall come the end of the season I have nothing to complain about.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 19-01-2018 02:39
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We need to score a little better going forward as I feel we will need to gain a couple more spots to even be in a disband promotion place. Obviously I'd prefer to find a way to climb all the way into the top 5 and an automatic one but just getting back to what will likely be a disband one would be a good start.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 19-01-2018 05:29
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The good: We made the comeback that we needed to.
The bad: Highest RDs used so far! Not particularly suitable races coming up!
Things are heating up  But WCC seem to be walking to the title!
Thank you for the update SN
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 19-01-2018 07:14
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Thank you for the extensive update SN
Was a good month for us, few RC compared to a fine points haul , but next month could easily be the opposite  .
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| Booker |
Posted on 19-01-2018 10:27
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Wow, dominant performance by WCC so far, well done to Scorchio. Thanks for the update SN, much appreciated as always.
Havik scoring well in Faso was a welcome surprise, I didn't know if he'd have the power over the cobbles to hold onto the top favourites. However, Olympia's Tour was an exercise in futility, as I forgot to bring enough time trialists for the team trial! 
Echoing Aquarius, Penasa should have something to say in Costa Rica and Andorra this month, and hopefully Bennett/Hochmann start to show something in Mexico. Havik's inclusion in the top 10 will hopefully be boosted by a strong performance at Lillestrom, but not holding my breath here.
We're just thankful to still be second after a few less than flashy months; some star performances from PPP would really come in handy over June/July
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| Vien |
Posted on 19-01-2018 10:32
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3 more points in Faso than I expected Seriously though, after April's uprising we yet again have to bounce back in June. Top 10 in pprd is still respectable, but I kinda want to see us in the standings there too. |
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| Scorchio |
Posted on 19-01-2018 17:57
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Hard to see how things could look much better for WCC at this near half-way point in this 'push-for-promotion' season. If we can continue in this vain, it will certainly cushion the blow of having to sacrifice on some development objectives to chase a PCT spot.
Our cobbled unit has had a brilliant spring, and Boily and his puncheur helper-monkeys are also ticking along (although not actually raced too often). We have raced fewer RD's than everyone in the top 10 other than cycleyorkshire (although mandatory Andorra this month upcoming pretty much guarantees a big fat goose-egg nil points which brings us up to similar RD's without any benefit). Still waiting to get much return from our sprint combo of JAC and Lay, and the onus is going to come on them more and more as the season precedes now that cobbles are pretty much over. Harrison and Bush have very few RD's left so are likely to slide in the individual rankings, however cannot be at all disappointed with their return across their heavy spring racing programme. ppRD guaranteed to take a knock in June with the upcoming races, but if we can keep the scoreboard ticking over somewhat, our healthy lead puts us in a great position.
Cycleyorkshire have demonstrated how one big result can have a massive impact on the CT standings. They are dangerous going forward, and still expect the likes of In-and-Out and Azteca to start making progress in leaps-and-bounds as there depth across the dominant terrains in the 2nd half of the season starts to payy off.
Thanks for the congrats thus far guys, but remember everything is still up for grabs with still more than half of the season to go.
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| knockout |
Posted on 20-01-2018 17:22
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Cool to see WCC so dominant at this moment. I have a sweet spot for them and they surely look set for direct promotion right now. Behind them it's very close from 2. to 8. Each of the teams could still promote directly and it's still just as hard as before the season which one it actually is. cycleYorkshire has now moved up as it was expected. If anyone was still in doubt about their chances Olympia Tour should have changed that ^^
Also obligatory "Yay " for another strong Philips month
Short update for the prediction correlations:
Spoiler 
Biggest change in the ranking has been the rise of cycleYorkshire which hurt Vien and helped most other predictions towards a higher correlation.
Jandal claims the top spot right now with Vien, Croatia and myself as closest behind.
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| ivaneurope |
Posted on 20-01-2018 18:40
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Is there a reason to keep on with this agony?
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