Update #32: Akuryo has a week to rememberWith Laurens De Plus having a breakout win at the BinckBank Tour, the 24 teams who picked him were bound to be happy this week. As always, rounding out that pick with riders who did well in the other races of the week (Burgos, Arctic Race of Norway) is crucial to win the week.
This Week's Top ScorersRank Team Points this week
1 Akuryo 843
2 Jon_Ezeitza 772
3 vladimir 753
4 Jakob747 752
5 Leadbelly 725
Akuryo has a fantastic week, especially for mid-August, clearing 800 points. Their team was led by De Plus' 252 for winning BinckBank, and Barguil's 148 points for allllmost winning Arctic Tour of Norway (he's on 12 teams). Aside from that, Lucas Hamilton (10 teams) had 105, Garcia Cortina (14 teams) had 95, and a smattering of riders contributed a handful each. Jon Ezeitza has a fine second place showing, with of course De Plus but also 226 from Ivan Sosa (3 teams) and 126 from Marc Hirschi (10 teams). vladimir just squeezes into third over Jakob747 thanks to De Plus, Barguil, and 117 more from the gift that keeps on giving to 3 teams, Mike Teunissen.
This Week's High MoversRank Team Up/down
1 Leadbelly (+18)
2 Jakob747 (+15)
3 vladimir (+13)
4 Jon_Ezeitza (+12)
5 HelgeBlendet (+11)
5 Eyeballs Out (+11)
A different champ here, as Leadbelly leaps 18 spots to claim the biggest jump of the week, benefiting from having a number of unique and rare picks hit this week. Of course De Plus is the power, but Calmejane (115, 2 teams) and unique picks Krists Neilands (109 points), Michael Kukrle (73 points) and Matteo Badilatti (44 points) sure help out. Jakob747 does make the podium on this one, with De Plus/Hamilton/Eg/Cosnefroy leading the way. vladimir repeats on the podium here as well.
Green Jersey CompetitionRank Team Total
1 armchairclimber 211
2 ruvu75 192
3 TheArt 190
4 MADRAZO 185
5 Kryvo 177
Kryvo scores 14 points on the week to squeeze team skidmark out of the top 5; aside from that, no scoring by the overall leaders.
Top 10 OverallRank Up/down Team Points
1 (-) fauniera 11918
2 (-) karaev 11872
3 (+4) Kryvo 11120
4 (-) Tigerion 11094
5 (-2) SafeBet 11074
6 (+8) Hakkie2 10868
7 (-1) ruvu75 10857
8 (-) skidmark 10841
9 (-4) shalgo 10815
10 (+2) Eric10 10759
Things are interesting at the top - neither of the top 2 had a particularly good week, each finishing outside the top 80 scorers. However, karaev gained 56 points on fauniera and is now just 46 points back. Those two are in a class of their own, but below it's quite tight, with less than 50 points separating 3rd from 5th, and just over 100 points separating 6th through 10th. Hakkie2 and Eric10 jump into the top 10, while TheArt and DFA123 slide out.
spreadsheet at dropbox