PTHC Franceville Classique, HC in Berlin and Middle East and 5 C1 events in South Africa, Monterrey TTT, Torshavn, Celtic Chrono and Kenya Mountain. Those are in that order listed in the first race overview while the 5 C2 events follow in the 2nd overview, Amissa Bongo, Pico Basile, San Luis, Sakartvelo, Chile.
Main points obviously coming from the first table.
The last update saw Farfetch being first by quite a gap and least race days used of the top teams. Repsol, Mapei follow but also Bakkafrost, MOL, Popo4ever,Xero, Polar are not far behind in a thrilling promotion fight with teams such as Duolingo or Podium Ambition a bit behind.
On the lower end Campari struggled big time but not much better for Aramco with Nordstrom, Azteca and Adastra at least still having contact to GCN, Swisslion or Fablok just over the line with all other teams for now being in the rather safe midfield.
Duolingo might not have given up yet on their promotion chances and top the scoring this period, mainly due to an excellent South Africa performance by Borges and the whole team but also Franceville saw solid 170 points.
Repsol follow in 2nd and keep their run going and even put Farfetch under pressure as those are further down in 9th only. Also Xero, Popo4ever or MOL with bold moves in the hope for promotion.
Last
Team
FRA
BER
TME
TSA
TTT
TOR
CC
KEN
Summe
1
Duolingo
170
7
0
268
65
0
34
0
544
2
Repsol - Netflix
0
9
243
0
50
0
148
38
488
3
Xero Racing
6
38
105
229
0
59
0
0
437
4
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
0
0
278
0
15
46
0
16
355
5
MOL
125
58
134
0
0
0
0
37
354
6
Minions
0
0
173
64
40
0
10
0
287
7
DK - SVA Zalgiris
0
36
86
0
100
0
19
41
282
8
Bakkafrost
0
58
161
0
0
30
0
32
281
9
Farfetch Pro Cycling
22
98
95
0
0
0
24
24
263
10
Kraftwerk Man Machine
2
17
188
0
0
20
16
13
256
11
Mapei
21
22
0
93
30
7
71
0
244
12
Berg Cycles
2
0
116
0
25
40
0
56
239
13
GCN Racing
11
145
0
0
0
0
46
8
210
14
Swisslion Cycling Team
0
79
29
0
0
52
13
13
186
15
Nordstrom - CA Technologies
0
21
0
75
0
86
0
0
182
16
Desigual
0
0
78
0
0
0
0
80
158
17
Podium Ambition
0
75
0
0
0
32
41
0
148
18
Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling
15
10
0
88
0
0
0
28
141
19
Fablok - Chocolate Jacques
26
0
50
0
0
0
0
48
124
20
Azteca - NBCSN
72
0
15
0
35
0
0
0
122
21
Polar
0
0
40
0
45
0
30
0
115
22
Aramco DP
6
0
98
0
0
10
0
0
114
23
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
37
16
23
0
0
17
0
20
113
24
Valio - Viking Genetics
0
26
1
63
0
0
0
0
90
25
Andorra Cycling Project
15
0
6
37
10
16
0
0
84
26
Campari Asahi Procycling
0
0
27
7
0
0
0
0
34
C2 scoring by PCT teams was topped by Aramco DP. As they weren`t as successful in the other races, chances are high, that next season they might find themselves in a lot more C2 events actually.
Minor scoring in general here.
Last
Team
TAB
BAS
LUI
SAK
CHI
Summe
1
Aramco DP
76
0
0
0
0
76
2
DK - SVA Zalgiris
0
0
0
33
0
33
3
Repsol - Netflix
0
0
0
28
0
28
4
Swisslion Cycling Team
0
2
0
25
0
27
5
Nordstrom - CA Technologies
0
0
26
0
0
26
6
Berg Cycles
0
22
0
0
0
22
7
Kraftwerk Man Machine
0
0
0
0
19
19
8
Mapei
0
0
0
0
19
19
9
Valio - Viking Genetics
0
16
0
0
0
16
10
Bakkafrost
0
7
0
0
0
7
11
Azteca - NBCSN
0
0
0
0
7
7
12
Andorra Cycling Project
7
0
0
0
0
7
13
Fablok - Chocolate Jacques
0
4
0
0
0
4
The full ranking still has Farfetch as big favourite on the title. Their gap might be down to ~200 points as Repsol scored better, but race days are still friendly to them.
Mapei in 3rd under pressure by MOL now, another team with less race days used.
Bakkafrost for now being the final promoting team ahead of Xero and actually a bit of a gap here to Xero and also Popo4ever or Duilingo. Polar with less race days might be in for another big jump later on, similar as the Minions.
At the bottom no big changes. Nordstrom made some steps forward but still under the line but keeping contact as also Adastra or Azteca, while Aramco a bit and Campari a lot struggle to keep points coming.
Pos
Last
Team
Total
RD
PpRD
Proj
1
1
Farfetch Pro Cycling
3257
118
27,6
4830
2
2
Repsol - Netflix
3063
131
23,38
4092
3
3
Mapei
2757
134
20,57
3600
4
5
MOL
2720
123
22,11
3869
5
4
Bakkafrost
2711
132
20,54
3595
6
7
Xero Racing
2593
129
20,1
3518
7
6
Team Popo4Ever p/b Nemiroff
2548
131
19,45
3404
8
9
Duolingo
2486
131
18,98
3322
9
8
Polar
2221
121
18,36
3213
10
12
Minions
2068
118
17,53
3068
11
13
DK - SVA Zalgiris
2064
131
15,76
2758
12
10
Podium Ambition
2052
138
14,87
2602
13
11
Berg Cycles
1983
125
15,86
2776
14
14
Desigual
1906
107
17,81
3117
15
15
Valio - Viking Genetics
1852
127
14,58
2552
16
16
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo PCTeam
1825
116
15,73
2753
17
17
Kraftwerk Man Machine
1783
113
15,78
2762
18
18
Andorra Cycling Project
1638
124
13,21
2312
19
20
Swisslion Cycling Team
1524
132
11,55
2021
20
19
Fablok - Chocolate Jacques
1488
103
14,45
2529
21
21
GCN Racing
1484
128
11,59
2028
22
24
Nordstrom - CA Technologies
1429
130
10,99
1923
23
23
Azteca - NBCSN
1351
110
12,28
2149
24
22
Adastra N Hell Energy Cycling
1329
130
10,22
1789
25
25
Aramco DP
1283
127
10,1
1768
26
26
Campari Asahi Procycling
895
114
7,85
1374
Edit: Trentino fixed here as well. Maybe 1-2 pieces from the text above are now a bit wrong as the order could have swapped here and there, e.g. Minions and DK Zalgiris or Kraftwerk swapped a bit.
Edited by roturn on 30-04-2021 08:33
Individually Pluchkin didn`t have to race to defend his lead, which still is comfortable.
Kudus though up to 2nd after his win in Middle East with Summerhill still in 3rd as best classic rider.
Tenorio up to 4th following his Kenya win after a bad Middle East performance though. Guarnieri best sprinter remains on 5th while Gesink and Manninen drop a bit and are now under pressure by Monsalve, who also passes Eastman and Bennett.
Big jump from Borges from 30 to 13 after South Africa or also Itami 32->20 and Padun 51->21.
How is Beltran behind Boeckmans hopefully Swisslion can survive and Xero promote Kump on 31 is also a shame, hopefully he can make Nordstrom suvive as well
Croatia14 wrote:
How is Beltran behind Boeckmans hopefully Swisslion can survive and Xero promote Kump on 31 is also a shame, hopefully he can make Nordstrom suvive as well
Kump's only remaining start is Benelux Challenge so doubtful, sadly.
Not going to lie this is a bit better than expected, but survival still seems to be out of the question sadly.
Looks like a very exciting battle both for promotion and relegation! Best of luck to everyone
Go go Swisslion! Beltran hopefully finds his old legs back in his last races of the season, as I feel they have been very unlucky this season.
As a future semi-Belgian team as well, I hope Lierse can also get some nice results in the last months of the season of course! Just make sure your riders don't copy the football version of Lierse too much Fablok also half Belgian iirc, but even though they're not placed very high atm I believe they still have quite a lot of "good" RD's left, so they should be fine.
Ewan heading back upwards breifly, but still looking good to finish as the divisions highest scoring lead-out man
AC's push for Top20 faltering, he needs another major fluke ride really.
We continue to slide downwards, and will do all the way to the finish. But it's slow and looking more comfortable. As always, you only need to beat 5 teams and unfortunately for a few managers there are 4 hugely struggling ones.
Just painful to look at the scoring of the likes of Guarnier/Manninen & Trentin/Vanspey and think we should really be in an outside promotion fight, not an outside relegation chance.
Annoyingly we should start planning accordingly for PCT, which throws out my actually fun ideas because i don't think the MGUCI would add 20 PCT quality females
I didn't know where we'd be, could have been a lot worse. Liking the look of our PPRD though we have to score really big if we want to move up some places in the rankings. Uran is expectedly down on his total from last year but Vesely compensates that.
only 103 RD's, when many are in the 130s. No wonder we are so down and no wonder there haven't been any reason to be active these past months. I do hope we get to see some action soon. I had no idea that there would be so many time gaps with this calendar, it's just crazy to be honest
It really hasn’t been a good season for us and only a miracle will keep us up. Hopefully the team shows some fight and we can have a strong finish to the season but CT planning is on the radar.
sgdanny wrote:
only 103 RD's, when many are in the 130s. No wonder we are so down and no wonder there haven't been any reason to be active these past months. I do hope we get to see some action soon. I had no idea that there would be so many time gaps with this calendar, it's just crazy to be honest
To be honest, I find it a bit strange to read that sentence. Looking at your points scored, you were in at least half the races of this update, I remember some of them that I reported on, where your riders were quite active as well. But when I look at your latest comments, I simply see that your last comment before this one was on the previous ranking updates.
Don't ge me wrong, I am not trying to "attack" you or hold a grudge against you or whatever, but I think I can speak for all reporters if I say that it is nice to have some activity in the discussion threads, to not feel as if we wasted our time for "only" four people. Once again, I want to say clearly this is not sth specially meant towards you, I know you are and have been an active manager and you have commented on a lot of other threads as well this season, but saying there has been no reason to be active, imo, just feels a bit disrespectful towards me/other reports, and of course I know you didn't exactly mean it like that
To be very clear, I don't expect people to log in every hour of every day and make sure they comment on every thread there is, I'm just saying it would be nice if people could make an effort to comment on the races they're in, as it can feel really annoying as a reporter to do a seven day stage race and see the same 7-ish managers of 20 teams, reply all day, and maybe half never. Of course there can be many important reasons for short/longer inactivity, this message is not directed at them
Projected points don't look good in the title battle, but winning the PCT title was always going to be an strecht. Gap to 6th looks solid, but not big enough to make me feel sure of the promotion yet.
Didn't expect Kudus to be up to 2nd in the individual ranking. With only Andorra left in his season he will surely drop some places eventually, but nice to be the best non-Pluchkin climber.
And most likely Zmorka will be one that overtakes him, he's performed at a top level all season and has a few important races left in his season
Over 300 points for an unmaxed Dunbar without any breakaway "luck" is just amazing. Kittel and Gonzalez Salas over 200, if everything goes right, they might go around the 350-400 point range at the end.
Really close in the promotion battle. Xero, Popo4Ever and Duolingo have all gotten closer, so I feel like we should have performed a little better during this period. It will be very hard to keep Xero behind us. I think we need to rely on a couple of overperformances in the remaining races to secure the top 5.
Nice to see Monsalve enter the top 10 meanwhile. He's been pretty strong outside of the PTHC races all season, so hopefully he can do well in his remaining races as well. Gallopin on the other hand has been disappointing, but he has a few opportunities coming up where he can remedy that.
The relegation battle also looks really close. Lots of excitement to look forward to in the closing phases of the season!
Thanks for the update roturn Happy to see the Xero A-squad looking absolutely set on the title, well deserved!
I'm just keeping on telling myself we're not really in the promotion fight... not getting my hopes up Has been a great season so far though even if we had some proper underperformances (actually from Bennett, which sounds ridiculous given his rankings spot), they have been balanced with some overachieving of course too to bring us to 6th now.
Sykkel_Freak wrote:
It will be very hard to keep Xero behind us. I think we need to rely on a couple of overperformances in the remaining races to secure the top 5.
Don't think I'm being overly modest or pessimistic in saying we will fade and I doubt we'll be looking at the spots above us at all, more trying not to slip down. With Bennett only having one PTHC race to go, a level where he struggled earlier in the year, and then mostly either unlikely long shots (Lithuania, Britain, Slovenie, etc.), flat classics which are sometimes great or more often pretty meh for us, and then Benelux which, if there was justice in the world, would be a GC win for Debesay, but I really doubt it
Boring stuff that sounds more like an end-of-season post but for some reason I wrote now:
Spoiler
On the whole however we go from here (except some kind of disaster) I'm happy with the season - the stated goal pre-transfers was top 10, with me predicting us to slightly fail after transfers, but thinking privately that if it clicked we could mount a challenge for the 7-9th spots where I think we should end up.
With no declines in the team for a couple of years, probably a decent amount off the wages in renewals (depending what Areruya wants, especially since he's done so well already this season) and maxed Schomber and Areruya, this season is looking a really positive step looking to promotion with some configuration of this core. Think the most likely step to make it happen is (sadly as I love them both) turning the cap space and transfer value of that Rowe-Houle combo into something more efficient.
Thanks for the cheers Croatia and Ollfardh, doubt we'll be offered promotion without a few disbands which I'd hate to see, but hope we can repay your support
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hopefully Swisslion can survive and Xero promote 
Kump on 31 is also a shame, hopefully he can make Nordstrom suvive as well 
Fablok also half Belgian iirc, but even though they're not placed very high atm I believe they still have quite a lot of "good" RD's left, so they should be fine.
