HelloFresh really did well this month due to their steady scoring on many terrains. Mountains in Catalunya, Hills and sprints in Southland or the three early cobble classics.
Aramco following due to mainly Catalunya while Trans Looney as well had a strong race in Spain.
Crabbe mainly scored then in the cobbles and by the look of it, they really could continue to do so in March/April.
At the bottom Tafjord really with a low scoring month but also BNZ, Eddie Stobart, Gjensidige or BWT Hyundai far from a good month.
Team
Vca
GW
GPH
Cat
Ukr
ToS
HelloFresh
95
51
49
172
0
111
478
Aramco DP
0
37
0
238
0
31
306
Trans Looney Tunes
41
19
27
179
0
4
270
Crabbe-CC Chevigny
69
136
27
29
0
0
261
Strava
0
77
7
55
0
51
190
McCormick Pro Cycling
0
21
0
63
0
49
133
Volcanica - Fox
0
0
0
105
0
16
121
Pas Normal Studios - Mikkeller
0
51
32
37
0
0
120
Glanbia Foods Cycling Project
0
0
0
97
0
13
110
BWT Hyundai N Cycling
0
7
0
67
17
2
93
Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team
0
0
0
46
0
16
62
Eddie Stobart
32
9
0
18
0
0
59
BNZ-Superhero Racing
0
8
0
9
0
29
46
Tafjord Kraft
0
0
0
9
0
0
9
Full Ranking
HelloFresh also taking the lead in the full ranking, though they used a few more race days as the others, if you do it on such high PpRD though, it won`t hurt you usually.
Crabbe, Aramco, Trans Looney and McCormick following then. Just like last year McCormick starts to drop after a very good January performance. At least their depth is a lot better now to realisticaly score with more riders this season.
At the bottom Tafjord, BNZ, Eddie Stobart and Hyundai. They really need to start scoring soon to avoid a pretty weak all year performance.
Pos
Last
Team
Total
RD
PpRD
Proj
1
-
HelloFresh
571
29
19,69
2954
2
-
Crabbe-CC Chevigny
356
26
13,69
2054
3
-
Aramco DP
355
22
16,14
2421
4
-
Trans Looney Tunes
319
24
13,29
1994
5
-
McCormick Pro Cycling
306
29
10,55
1583
6
-
Strava
257
22
11,68
1752
7
-
Gjensidige Pro Cycling Team
233
30
7,77
1166
8
-
Glanbia Foods Cycling Project
230
28
8,21
1232
9
-
Volcanica - Fox
206
29
7,1
1065
10
-
Pas Normal Studios - Mikkeller
189
15
12,6
1890
11
-
BWT Hyundai N Cycling
158
31
5,1
765
12
-
Eddie Stobart
109
16
6,81
1022
13
-
BNZ-Superhero Racing
98
24
4,08
612
14
-
Tafjord Kraft
60
24
2,5
375
Individual Ranking
Enric Mas is leading the table but it`s still very close as Iino, Potocki, Tsatsevich or Kump, Martin, Salinas, De Vos are not far from them. Some of them really belong to the expected top3-5 scorers, some others still a bit lower such as Amador in 11th, Vanspeybrouck or Vanmarcke waiting for the big cobbles, Eiking still trying to find his success, Meyer or Chaves.
I was expecting to be bad, but not that attrocious. Catalunya was good, but not good enough. In Gent he had to make do with what we had at our disposal as this team unlike Crabbe isn't going beast mode on cobbles. Ukraine was pointless excusrsion (even though we've scored more points than Cedevita and Jura - Fiat, but not much) and Southland was a total disaster
ivaneurope wrote:
Ukraine was pointless excusrsion (even though we've scored more points than Cedevita)
Truly nothing to brag about, but I'm probably more happy with my point total than you are
If we remove those 17 points, I'd be with 76 points and nothing would fundamentally change. Ever since I've joined the MG bad things happen there and even if I'm on the up it's immediately squandered. And I'm honestly getting frustrated of the lack of consistent success which affects my motivation honestly.
Not too bad considering cobbles was always going to a zero pointer.
My only race in March is already over (1 point) so I'm guaranteed to fall back a bit but pprd shouldn't take too much of a hit. As long as Dan Martin keeps scoring I can hope my Time Trialers and Sprinters can push us up too.
My big worry this year is that my Tour of America team is weaker. That's normally a big one for me so will have to score more consistently over the season. Two or three promotion spots already looking safe
Super happy with this month! Also I am just going to reel in Adam The Boss being 8th place in the individual rankings, it just kinda shows how ridicilous his opening to this season has been. Thanks for the update , hopefully the projected points becomes the truth!
Still pretty much riding Tachira and the weak field there to respectability. Think there is still a lot more downside than upside with McNulty over performing and Boswell already using significant days.
The cobbles rendered us nothing, as expected (although the beginning of March came with a very nice surprise). Unfortunately we under performed heavily at Southland and that made us suffer. Villalobos brought us some points, but not as much as we needed. Perhaps Amador and Chaves would preform better and help us make a push for promotion. If not we have to do as much as possible to reach our season goal, top 10.
Catalunya really changed everything for my team. I thought we would get only a few points but at the and stage and GC win that was a big surprise for me.
I think it will be hard to compete with HelloFresh and Aramco on all terrains and it's nice to watch the battle with Hello, Crabbe, and my team on cobbles as at the end of the stage or race I'm always nervous if Pieter will be able to hold on.
