Hola mi gente and welcome back to the monthly CT ranking update. We'll delve right into it. The main conclusion? Two teams scored 200+ points, three teams 100+, eight teams with less than 50 and another three teams with zero points.
Highest scoring teams are Podium Ambition (220) and, once again, Bianchi Enel (215). Podium ambition mainly thanks to the Faso and Vlaanderen cobbles, Bianchi with consistency on several terrains.
Peugeot (125) is the best of the rest with their highest points tally coming from Faso, and the same can be said for Kraftwerk (111) and The ONE (109), who scored more in this month than the previous months combined.
The teams below not scoring much at all, also because of the fact that it was a bit of a cobble and C1/HC month I assume. Most points of the remaining teams scoring come from Pologne and Faso. Three teams might not have skipped leg day, but they did skip the month of April. These are Ethiopian Airlines, Euskadi and Glanbia.
Pos
Team
Apr
Her
Bad
Pol
TdF
Lin
Wal
Lis
DDV
1
Podium Ambition
220
9
0
29
118
13
0
0
51
2
Bianchi Enel
215
0
41
69
32
42
0
0
31
3
Peugeot - Bancolombia
125
35
5
0
59
0
0
0
26
4
Kraftwerk Man Machine
111
10
0
0
48
23
0
0
30
5
The ONE - Fox God
109
0
0
5
87
15
0
0
2
6
Tafjord Kraft
42
4
0
6
18
11
0
0
3
7
Air New Zealand-Prada
36
2
0
28
0
6
0
0
0
8
Kone-Nordea
32
4
0
27
0
0
0
0
1
9
Parmalat - Ecopetrol
30
0
0
30
0
0
0
0
0
10
Team Zappes Kölsch
25
0
0
4
21
0
0
0
0
11
IncaLine Pro Cycling
17
0
0
0
17
0
0
0
0
12
Euskotren - Pays Basque
13
8
0
4
0
1
0
0
0
13
SEE Turtles
12
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
14
Ethiopian Airlines
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
15
Euskadi-Murias
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
16
Glanbia
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
So, when looking at the new rankings, there are not too many surprises and upsets because of the general low scoring.
Bianchi remains comfortably in the lead, with Kraftwerk also comfortably in second. Their good month sees Podium Ambition join them on the podium. Peugeot and The ONE - Fox God both jumping three positions as well with their 100+ scoring in April, and Glanbia now with the red lantern.
Pos
Last
Team
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
Total
RD
PpRD
Proj
1
1
Bianchi Enel
223
338
211
215
987
52
18,98
2657
2
2
Kraftwerk Man Machine
76
159
401
111
747
47
15,89
2225
3
5
Podium Ambition
52
34
257
220
563
39
14,44
2022
4
3
Ethiopian Airlines
95
152
247
0
494
34
14,53
2034
5
4
Euskadi-Murias
18
81
281
0
380
37
10,27
1438
6
9
Peugeot - Bancolombia
20
134
92
125
371
30
12,37
1732
7
7
Tafjord Kraft
11
123
169
42
345
37
9,32
1305
8
6
Euskotren - Pays Basque
14
185
120
13
332
36
9,22
1291
9
8
IncaLine Pro Cycling
50
156
82
17
305
39
7,82
1095
10
10
Parmalat - Ecopetrol
30
57
138
30
255
40
6,38
893
11
12
Kone-Nordea
12
52
133
32
229
36
6,36
890
12
11
SEE Turtles
0
71
131
12
214
33
6,48
907
13
16
The ONE - Fox God
1
47
51
109
208
30
6,93
970
14
13
Team Zappes Kölsch
8
62
108
25
203
44
4,61
645
15
15
Air New Zealand-Prada
5
55
74
36
170
42
4,05
567
16
14
Glanbia
23
2
115
0
140
43
3,26
456
Bianchi also back on top of the individual scoring table as Basso surpassed Perera again. Nice jump from 55 to 4 for Richardson, as Bianchi still has the other three positions inside that top-6 as well.
in 7th and 9th we see two other big jumpers in Van Lerberghe and Shiki Kuroeda, with Harrison and Bol remaining inside the top-10 for Kraftwerk as well. The riders losing their top-10 spot are Turgis (Euskadi), Masnada (Kraftwerk) and Van der Lijke (Parmalat).
Not a bad month for us and good to be climbing on the table. Bert with 50 more points than I expected is really good! We are also closing in on Galta starting his season
Congrats on a great month to TMM! Richardson really good this month!
Also harder and harder to see anyone actaully catching Bianchi imo, just continiously scoring points
This has to be one of the craziest seasons ever. I guess we saw it coming with how much JT talked about needing to conform to this engine, but the results are still insane! A near minimum rider leading the standings with several teammates right behind. Congrats!
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Another great month powered by Basso on the cobbles he's slowly coming to the end of his races but he should finish top 10 in the individual rankings which will be a great achievement
This has to be one of the craziest seasons ever. I guess we saw it coming with how much JT talked about needing to conform to this engine, but the results are still insane! A near minimum rider leading the standings with several teammates right behind. Congrats!
Probably one of the bigger switches we've had in the engine I haven't played as much PCM25 but the engine seems to be pretty similar to this one with a big graphics update
0 pointer for the month, must be the first and hopefully last time that's happened to me in my mg career. Mostly unsuitable races, and a few that we were kicked out of as they were oversubscribed iirc, but in future planning I might prioritise a more spread out calendar over optimising the schedule scoring wise purely so I get to see my team in action more lol.
A good month for the other podium challengers really puts the pressure on. I knew going in that we'd fall behind in the current rankings, but was hoping our PpRD could stay higher and keep us up there in the projections, but that didn't really materialise. Think a top 5 would still be a great result anyway but with the likes of Peugeot gathering steam that'll be tough too.
Very bad month for us, which could have been excellent with proper planning.
Still, we're not that bad in the rankings, and still have many RD to come. May could be a big (or bad) month with Luxembourg, TOA and Isle of Man.
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Who had money on Chequan Richardson being a Top5 ranking rider - at any point ever? We havn't had cobbles success like this since Geraint Thomas was kicking around (which says a lot when you remember Altur was on our squad for years).
Massive month on the back of the Bermudan. Going to need a lot more points to secure a promotion but so far things are working out. Lots of Lagane racing to come, plenty of chances to get our climbers working. We're in the fight and that's all i ask.
Plus, for all the Bianchi talk, one team has outscored them two months in a row. So you know, never underestimate the Pirates!
We're content with 42 points, seeing that many other teams also scored quite bad this month. But we really need to step it up if we want to be in contention later this season!
Thanks a lot for the great ranking updates Nemo! <3
Kraftwerk are very pleased with April which we thought would be one of our worst months, this is mainly due to Sam Harrison performing better than predicted over the cobbles.
Basso beating us up early in the season, expecting the baton to be handed over to Galta from now on!
A tough month for the SEE Turtles, but really that was to be expected. Just one race and we didn't have anyone for stages really outside of the prologue.
Yeah, looking at the top of the rankings it is absolutely absurd how strong Bianchi is up front. Truly in awe and really should have similar feeling about Kraftwerk still predicted above 2000 points. ToA should slow some of the PPRD, but way this feels like a very strong division right now
