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Sorry it is late: I trust that you knew it was coming anyway...

The game is as before: 9 riders, 3500 points.  If you need the details, here they are:


Rules
Team of exactly nine riders.  Teams with fewer riders will be filled out with cheapest riders available (2nd sort criteria will be alphabetical by surname).  If quota of nine cannot be reached in this manner (eg, 8 riders totalling exactly 3500, no free riders starting race) team will be disqualified.<...

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Here we go again...

Most of you already know most of this: the substantial changes (dates, one rule change) are underlined to aid the lazy reader...


Rules
Team of exactly nine riders.  Teams with fewer riders will be filled out with cheapest riders available (2nd sort criteria will be alphabetical by surname).  If quota of nine cannot be reached in this manner (eg, 8 riders totalling exactly 3500, no free riders starting race) team will be di...

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New header (The lower part of this message is the original post to start the discussion: the first part is the headline information)
Teams12 riders, to a budget of 3000 points from the 31 December 2014 download: this spreadsheet at Dropbox might help.
All riders available (except Valverde, who single handedly would put a team over budget), no distinct doper rules...

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The 2015 CQ Ranking Manager Thread!

Hi all, and welcome to the 2015 CQ Ranking Manager Game! This is the fifth edition of the game. Please see below for some history, basics, and more specific rules related to dates, dopers, etc.

History

The game was launched on December 8th 2010 by cyclingnews forum poster Hugo Koblet. His idea was to have a game where you build a cycling team from the website cqranking.com and its comprehensive numerical ra...

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I think it was jsg who came up with the idea after we did a mini version in the chatbox, or maybe cj, anyway the idea is that a CQ graph gets posted, then the person who guesses which rider the graph belongs to gets to post another graph. That person then gets a points. So every time you guess a graph, post a new graph and post a list of names with points

For example
JSG 2
Flo 2
search 4
CJ 3

CJ gets a point and posts
JSG 2
Flo 2
search 4...