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CT Rankings Update #6
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 06-02-2018 22:02
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This month's races:
1. Lillestrom GP
2. Costa Rican Mountain Classic
3. Circulo de Juarez
4. Tour of Slovenie
5. Nelspruit Classic
6. Tour d'Andorra
1. Goldcorp took the win on the cobbles, and with it 85 points. 5th and 7th for Proximus actually made them the 2nd best scorer on 62, ahead of World Cycling Centre on 52 and cycleYorkshire n 48.
2. A number of climbers took on PCT competition in Costa Rica, with Kulczyk and Repsol earning Top 8 finishes, for some decent points.
3. A tight sprinters battle went down to the wire, Castaneda holding off Haller by 1 second, and his team top-scoring by 2 points with a total of 97, after In-n-Out won the last stage of the race. 79 for Sauber, 76 for Kulczyk and a good 69 for SanCor.
4. In-n-out's triumphs continued at the Tour de Slovenie, this time beating PCT competition for a huge haul of 273 points. Reus winning the race, Kreuziger in 5th overall - and very nearly higher. The highest single race score for a CT team all season. Sauber, Garmin and cycleYorkshire also scoring well from the race.
5. 21st for Boily and Thomson as best African in 23rd. 5 points for World Cycling Centre.
6. Andorra saw the second highest single race score for a CT team this season, as Valls led Repsol to a total of 203. Climbing rivals Kulczyk followed on 143, with 141 for Reddit. 79 for Philips and Campari, then 78 for Balkan. Lots of points earned across the division, only 3 teams going away empty handed.
No surprise then that In-n-out topped the CT division in June, with regular points putting Kulczyk 2nd, to outscore Repsol. Sauber in 4th, while leaders World Cycling Centre were the 5th best team.
| | Team | LIL | COS | JUA | SLO | NEL | AND | June | RD | | 1 |  | In-n-Out p/b Carrefour | 9 | 0 | 95 | 273 | 0 | 1 | 378 | 17 | | 2 |  | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 38 | 36 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 293 | 14 | | 3 |  | Repsol - Honda | 8 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 203 | 235 | 9 | | 4 |  | Sauber Petronas Racing | 35 | 0 | 79 | 54 | 0 | 7 | 175 | 17 | | 5 |  | World Cycling Centre | 52 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 165 | 14 | | 6 |  | Team Reddit | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141 | 158 | 9 | | 7 |  | Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack | 85 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 123 | 12 | | 8 |  | cycleYorkshire | 48 | 0 | 29 | 39 | 0 | 1 | 117 | 17 | | 9 |  | Philips - Continental | 11 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 116 | 12 | | 10 |  | Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling | 4 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 64 | 115 | 14 | | 11 |  | Campari - Super Dry | 0 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 79 | 95 | 19 | | 12 |  | Proximus Continental Team | 62 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 14 | | 13 |  | Azteca - NBCSN | 0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 80 | 14 | | 14 |  | The Balkan Cycling Project | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 78 | 17 | | 15 |  | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 21 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 77 | 14 | | 16 |  | SanCor | 5 | 2 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 14 | | 17 |  | Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 62 | 12 | | 18 |  | Wiggle p/b Boardman Bikes | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 50 | 12 | | 19 |  | Andorra Cycling Project | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 48 | 14 | | 20 |  | VMP - Argon 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 37 | 12 | | 21 |  | Telia-Brussels Airlines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 28 | 7 | | 22 |  | Eddie Stobart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 14 | | 23 |  | Statoil Pro Cycling | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 12 | | 24 |  | Löbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Make that former leaders, because In-n-Out now lead the way, taking a 24 point lead over World Cycling Centre, as both pass the 1000 point mark. It's becoming a 3 horse race for the division title, with Kulczyk only 68 points from the top.
cycleYorkshire remain 4th, just ahead of Repsol who swap with Philips for the final automatic promotion position. Good progress being made by Sauber, up 4 places to 7th, and Goldcorp, up 2 places to 8th. This comes at the expense of Azteca, Xerp and Campari.
Reddit have switched places with Telia, while Aeropostal are up 2 and now in 15th place. Gains too for Balkan and SanCor, pushing Lobauer down to 20th. Garmin finally started scoring points with a couple of good races, more than tripling their season tally. It lifts them up 3 places, and the remain the least raced team too. Eddie Stobart, VMP and Statoil all shift down 1.
Reddit stand out projections wise, as that would lift them up to 7th. The Top 5 PpRD teams are all currently in the Top 5 though.
| | | Team | Total | Rd | PpRD | Proj | | 1 | 3 | | In-n-Out p/b Carrefour | 1047 | 73 | 14.34 | 1721 | | 2 | 1 | | World Cycling Centre | 1023 | 65 | 15.74 | 1889 | | 3 | 2 | | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 979 | 72 | 13.60 | 1632 | | 4 | 4 | | cycleYorkshire | 785 | 59 | 13.31 | 1597 | | 5 | 6 | | Repsol - Honda | 779 | 65 | 11.98 | 1438 | | 6 | 5 | | Philips - Continental | 748 | 72 | 10.39 | 1247 | | 7 | 11 | | Sauber Petronas Racing | 614 | 75 | 8.19 | 983 | | 8 | 10 | | Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack | 587 | 70 | 8.39 | 1007 | | 9 | 8 | | Azteca - NBCSN | 584 | 67 | 8.72 | 1046 | | 10 | 7 | | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 584 | 68 | 8.59 | 1031 | | 11 | 9 | | Campari - Super Dry | 560 | 73 | 7.67 | 920 | | 12 | 12 | | Proximus Continental Team | 476 | 71 | 6.70 | 804 | | 13 | 14 | | Team Reddit | 455 | 45 | 10.11 | 1213 | | 14 | 13 | | Telia-Brussels Airlines | 399 | 59 | 6.76 | 811 | | 15 | 17 | | Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo | 311 | 54 | 5.76 | 691 | | 16 | 15 | | Andorra Cycling Project | 307 | 62 | 4.95 | 594 | | 17 | 16 | | Wiggle p/b Boardman Bikes | 303 | 56 | 5.41 | 649 | | 18 | 19 | | The Balkan Cycling Project | 278 | 71 | 3.92 | 470 | | 19 | 20 | | SanCor | 258 | 57 | 4.53 | 544 | | 20 | 18 | | Löbauer Stadtwerke - Etixx | 210 | 59 | 3.56 | 427 | | 21 | 24 | | Garmin - BikeNZ Cycling | 161 | 43 | 3.74 | 449 | | 22 | 21 | | Eddie Stobart | 150 | 63 | 2.38 | 286 | | 23 | 22 | | VMP - Argon 18 | 118 | 65 | 1.82 | 218 | | 24 | 23 | | Statoil Pro Cycling | 69 | 52 | 1.33 | 160 |
Valls retakes the individual rankings lead and extends his advantage over closest rival Penasa. Harrison slips to 3rd, while Slovenie champion Kai Reus now sits 4th - up from 42nd position.
Haller and Salleh moved up, while Cataldo and Karnulin enter the Top 10. Van Keirsbulck, Roux, Bardet and Thwaites go into the Top 20.
| 1 | Rafael Valls | ESP | | Repsol - Honda | 533 | | 2 | Pierre Paolo Penasa | ITA | | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 423 | | 3 | Sam Harrison | GBR | | World Cycling Centre | 349 | | 4 | Kai Reus | NED | | In-n-Out p/b Carrefour | 237 | | 5 | Marco Haller | AUT | | In-n-Out p/b Carrefour | 225 | | 6 | Mohamed Harrif Salleh | MAS | | Sauber Petronas Racing | 219 | | 7 | Yoeri Havik | NED | | Kulczyk - DMTEX | 215 | | 8 | Robert Bush | USA | | World Cycling Centre | 213 | | 9 | Dario Cataldo | ITA | | Campari - Super Dry | 206 | | 10 | Denys Karnulin | UKR | | The Balkan Cycling Project | 186 | | 11 | Cedric Lebris | FRA | | Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack | 179 | | 12 | Ryan Eastman | USA | | Azteca - NBCSN | 176 | | 13 | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck | BEL | | Goldcorp - Nordstrom Rack | 175 | | 14 | Anthony Roux | FRA | | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 152 | | 15 | Romain Bardet | FRA | | Philips - Continental | 151 | | 16 | Scott Thwaites | GBR | | cycleYorkshire | 148 | | 17 | George Bennett | NZL | | Xero Racing p/b Octagon | 145 | | 18 | Andrew Tennant | GBR | | cycleYorkshire | 145 | | 19 | David Boily | CAN | | World Cycling Centre | 142 | | 20 | Richard Laningo Laizer | TAN | | Andorra Cycling Project | 134 |
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| Aquarius97 |
Posted on 06-02-2018 22:22
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Well, this is most likely our last month in a direct promotion spot in the season, unless Valls dominates Bulgaria - which i know it wouldn't be surprising now  - and Philips and Yorkshire have bad months. But after August we can expect a big drop in the rankings to the region of 8th-10th, until Valls comes back in October to close the season.
Meanwhile, the Individual Title looks kinda safe, with a 110 points gap to Penasa, and no one else having enough races left to reach 600 points, which is the very least that Valls will reach at the end of the season, with something in the region of 650 to 700 the most likely outcome for him.
I would say that it's good that we have more RD's left to do than all the teams in the promotion battle except Yorkshire, but given that will have to race Japan, where Cunego will be at best a top15 contender like in Romandie...
Thanks for the update SN!
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 06-02-2018 22:39
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Thanks SN! Always great to see everybody's months' work.
It was a good month for us, the expectations were very high. Costa Rica and Slovenie were complete dissapointements with absolutely wasted RDs. Andorra wasn't a disaster but we had hoped for more and Lilestrom went good but there weren't many points available.
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| Vien |
Posted on 06-02-2018 23:06
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Super happy with my pprd for the first time since the season started. Certainly put a grin on my face. The top 4 seems to have a major gap, but we're still in contention for that 5th spot. July and August should be strong months too, so I hope we can keep this up. |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 07-02-2018 01:43
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I wasn't expecting to be top 5 but this is a new level of bad, one I didn't expect.
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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."
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 07-02-2018 02:30
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Finally a Garmin doing something right! We are on th charge now!!
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 07-02-2018 05:21
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Pleasantly surprised to see us still in 6th position with a big gap to 7th. If not for those two crashes in Lillestrom and Juarez, we would've been in a comfortable 4th position. Andorra definitely helped with the recovery. Bardet moving into the top 20 is a great reflection of how good he has been for us.
Another tricky month for us in July with a hilly and a mountain stage race and a cobbled classic. Hopefully we can keep our consistency going.
The top 3 seem to be decided already!
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| Booker |
Posted on 08-02-2018 11:56
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Thanks for this analysis SN 
Loving our consistency on the points front, and the race for the title should only heat up after July.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 08-02-2018 14:41
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As most month's Ok, but not great.
Guess my plan was a learning year, i'm still doing that 
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| maxime86 |
Posted on 08-02-2018 15:53
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2 riders in the top 5, 6 riders in the top 35 and currently riding in 1st, I'm super happy with our team's performance this month and season so far.
However, I don't expect to stay in front of World Cycling Center for very long as they have more race days left than us, but hopefully we can give them a run for their money |
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| Scorchio |
Posted on 08-02-2018 18:06
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Just a single month ago folks wanted to hand WCC the title and I warned that this was significantly pre-mature in my CT #5 response. How rapidly things can change! An awesome month for In-n-Out better reflects my pre-season expectations for them as out-and-out title favourites. I'm sure that key guys like Reus still have plenty of RD's left with plenty the type of races that suit him/them on the horizon. However exceeding even our own expectations in terms of cobbled calendar performance does mean that WCC remain in the ball-park of contesting for the title all the way to the wire. Looks like the top 4 are starting to detach themselves in terms of ppRD from the challenging pack, but lots of swings and roundabout still to be expected.
In general quite happy with how the month worked out in securing a steady 5th position keeping the points accumulation rolling. Andorra was always going to be very low scoring for WCC, but we avoided that charactersing the month as a whole. Juarez worked out very well for us, I had fingers crossed pre-race, but was holding my breath and steeling for disappointment, particularly after stage 1, but things came together.
Hoping that JAC creeps into the top 20 at the end of the next month, and Boily set to make a good bound up the ladder,perhaps towards the top 10, but Harrison and particularly Bush look vulnerable to slipping down and out of the top 10 given the balance of RD usage. Both should still maintain top 20 I reckon though, so if Boily and JAC keep cementing their own results, outside chance of 4 in top 20 at season's end; a good target to aim for at any rate!
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 08-02-2018 19:44
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Pretty good month for us. Sitting in 8th is most likely the highest we will end with the current races left. However I am not getting my hopes up for more.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 08-02-2018 23:51
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A strong month for us boosts us up 4 to 7th in the rankings, hopefully we can keep this good run of form going as it's a very tight fight in the lower top 10 and the positions could end up being absolutely crucial come the end of the season.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 09-02-2018 00:20
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The bottom is getting closer  |
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