 |
Fantasy Nascar League Rules |
|
|
 |
|||
HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED |
|
|---|---|
| League Setup: | The NASCAR Sprint Cup 36 points races make up the whole season. The season is divided into 4 Segments using the following format: Segment 1: (Races 1-9) 9 races Segment 2: (Races 10-18) 9 races Segment 3: (Races 19-26) 8 races Fantasy Chase for the Championship and Segment 4: (Races 27-36) 10 races |
| Fantasy Playoff: | The Top 12 fantasy teams in the Overall Standings after Race #26 will qualify for the Fantasy Playoff. Only these 12 teams will be eligible for the Fantasy NASCAR championship. |
| Segment 4: | The remaining teams teams that are not eligible for the Fantasy Nascar championship will be placed in their own group to compete for Segment 4 honors. |
| Points Structure: | Total qualifying and finishing points accumulated throughout the whole season. No points are awarded if qualifying gets rained out. Separate awards will be given for each segment as well as overall winners. Points structure is listed at the bottom of this page. |
| Bonus Points Towards Fantasy Chase: | Any time a fantasy team chooses the winning driver during a race week, they will be awarded 5 bonus points to go towards the Fantasy Chase when it starts. Your team must make the Fantasy Chase for the Championship in order to receive these points. |
| Weekly Scoring: | Scoring for each week will be final on the Friday following the race. If you feel a mistake was made to your scoring, please contact the commissioner before this deadline to get it corrected. |
| Choosing Your Drivers: | Drivers are divided into 6 groups below labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. (The example below is just a sample group. The real groups will be provided at the beginning of the season) Choose one driver from each of the 6 groups. Driver groups will change at the end of each Segment. |
| Weekly Starting Lineups: | You may change your drivers weekly if you wish, but are not required to. After each Segment, however, you may be required to due to the driver groups changing. (Your lineup may not have the same drivers in the same groups) |
| Deadline For Submitting Picks: | Changes are due each week before qualifying. Qualifying varies from week to week according to qualifying procedures set by NASCAR. While effort will be made to keep you posted on this, it is ultimately the team owners responsibility to make sure picks are submitted on time before qualifying each week, if you are making any. IMPORTANT: If there is a rain delay during qualifying or qualifying is rained out, you are still responsible to submit your selections for the week, if you are making any, before the original scheduled start of qualifying |
| When Can Driver Selections Be Made?: | NEW FOR 2011: Driver selections can be made at any time. They can be made as many races ahead of time as you wish, however, keep in mind that driver groups change after each segment throughout the season, so team owners should plan for this. Changes to your selections for a race may be made at anytime before that race deadline. NOTE: If you make a set of picks prior to a new segment driver groups being set, you will have to go back in to your picks page and make sure a selection is made for every group. A driver that changes groups will have your selections page reset for that group (meaning you won't have a selection in that group anymore) and therefore subject to penalties should a group be left empty after the deadline has passed. (See the Pick'em Penalties further down the page, for more info) |
EXAMPLE DRIVER GROUPS (THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE) Opening Day Drivers and Segment 1 Groups Will Be Provided Before the Season Starts |
||
|---|---|---|
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
| 24-Jeff Gordon 48-Jimmie Johnson 14-Tony Stewart 33-Clint Boyer 18-Kyle Busch 17-Matt Kenseth |
11-Denny Hamlin 99-Carl Edwards 29-Kevin Harvick 56-Martin Truex, Jr. 22-Kurt Busch 88-Dale Earnhardt, Jr |
1-Jamie McMurray 16-Greg Biffle 4-Kasey Kahne 31-Jeff Burton 39-Ryan Newman 5-Mark Martin |
Group 4 |
Group 5 |
Group 6 |
| 43-A.J. Allmendinger 6-David Regan 27-Paul Menard 42-Juan Montoya 20-Joey Logano 00-David Reutimann |
9-Marcos Ambrose 83-Brian Vickers 2-Brad Keselowski 21-Trevor Bayne 13-Casey Mears 77-Sam Hornish, Jr. |
7-Robby Gordon 34-Travis Kvapil 78-Regan Smith 87-Joe Nemechek 38-David Gilliland 47-Bobby Labonte |
SEGMENTS |
|
|---|---|
| Races Per Segment: | The season is divided into four segments using the following format: Segment 1: (Races 1-9) 9 races Segment 2: (Races 10-18) 9 races Segment 3: (Races 19-26) 8 races Fantasy Chase and Segment 4: (Races 27-36) 10 races After every segment is completed, but before the following race, the driver groups will change. Typically, this is done according to Fantasy Nascar points accumulated by the drivers over the course of the season, but there may be exceptions to this rule in order to attempt to keep a level playing field in all groups. |
| Segment 1: | 9 Races: Races 1-9 (Driver groups change before qualifying for Race #10) |
| Segment 2: | 9 Races: Races 10-18 (Driver groups change before qualifying for Race #19) |
| Segment 3: | 8 Races: Races 19-26 (Driver groups change before qualifying for Race #27) |
| Chase Championship and Segment 4: | 10 Races: Races 28-36 (End of season) |
| Excluded Races: | The Bud Shootout and the All-Star Race (or whatever they will be named this year) are non points races in this league |
DAYTONA 500 (RACE #1) |
|
|---|---|
| Selections Due for Daytona 500 only: | Selections for the Daytona 500 will not be due until 1PM Eastern time the day of the race. NO QUALIFYING POINTS WILL BE AWAREDED FOR THIS RACE. ONLY RACE POINTS. This is to give people more time to sign up if they wish to play with us this season. |
FANTASY CHASE PLAYOFF |
|
|---|---|
| How Do You Qualify For This: | Your fantasy team must be in the Top 12 in the Overall Fantasy Standings after the Week #26 race at Richmond |
| What Happens to The Top 10 That Make The Chase Playoff?: | Nascar currently uses a format that rewards drivers bonus points to use when they begin the Chase for the Championship. This league will use a similar format as well. Here is how it works: The 12 teams that make the chase will have their points reset to zero. In addition, each race winner they select (during the first 26 races only), will earn 5 playoff bonus points for their team. This total is the amount of points their fantasy team will start the Fantasy Chase with. Example 1: Team A chooses the winning driver in 10 races, they will start the Fantasy Chase with 50 pts. Example 2: Team B chooses the winning driver in 8 races, they will start the Fantasy Chase with 40 pts. The goal is to award the team owners that choose the winning driver each week. Once the Fantasy Chase starts, points will be awarded the same as every other race. The team with the most points after the final race of the season (Homestead) is your fantasy league champion. |
| What Happens To The 10 Fantasy Teams That DON'T Qualify For The Playoff?: | Fantasy teams outside of the top 12 in fantasy points will be placed in their own segment of 10 races. Everyone in this segment starts at zero and the team to accumulate the most points in the final 10 races will be the winner of Segment 4. No bonus points will be used towards this segment. Everyone will start equal. NOTE: Since these team owners are not eligible for the Fantasy Chase for the championship, this will be scored in its own separate group. |
| Can the 10 Fantasy Teams in the Chase Also Win The 4th Segment?: | Teams who make the Fantasy Chase will not be eligible to compete in Segment 4. The 4th Segment is reserved for only those Fantasy NASCAR teams that do not make the Fantasy Chase for the Championship. This is to give those that are not in the top 10 in the standings something to play for at the end of the season. |
PICK'EM PENALTIES |
|
|---|---|
| No Driver Selections For A Certain Group or Missed Picks Altogether: | The penalty will be as follows for groups with no selection made: After the race is over, you will be assigned the driver with the lowest point total accumulated for that group for that race. If multiple groups have missed picks, the same format will be followed for all groups. Important: It is the responsibility of all team owners to make sure that weekly selections get accepted via the picks form on time (if you make any) or you may email them if you choose to do it that way. When Driver Groups Change: Team owners are strongly encouraged to go back into their picks page to ensure all groups have a selection. (See"When Can Driver Selections Be Made?" in the "How The Game Is Played" section above. The league commissioner will not be held responsible for any changes being late, lost, or misdirected as a result of any computer malfunction, delay, etc. If you are having computer problems, contact the commissioner before the deadline and he will enter your desired changes for you. |
DRIVER PENALTIES |
|
|---|---|
| Qualifying: | If a driver is found to have illegal equipment, etc during or after qualifying and he is sent to the rear of the field, he will be penalized the same in this league. If NASCAR has the driver starting 35th, then qualifying points will be given for 35th position. The determining factor will be, did that/those driver(s) earn those points? The answer would be no so no points should be given. |
| Backup Car/Engine Change: | If a driver is sent to the rear of the field due to having to use a backup car or to change an engine, he will not be penalized and will still receive his qualifying points for that race as the reason for going to the back of the field was voluntary and not the result of a penalty. |
| Race: | If a driver is docked points by NASCAR for illegal equipment etc. during the race, his finishing points will be determined where his finishing position would have been after the points were docked according to NASCAR points. (Example: A driver finishes 2nd in the race (42 NASCAR pts) but after inspection is docked 10 points for something illegal, dropping his point total to 32 NASCAR pts, his resulting finish would be 12th according to NASCAR points depending on the other drivers points. He would go from 46 Fantasy League finishing points to 36 points) |
| Non-Race Penalties Issued by Nascar: | If an altercation should happen after the race, and points are deducted by NASCAR due to driver behavior, crew chief behavior, etc, with no direct correlation to what happened on the track, no points will be deducted in this fantasy league. |
FANTASY NASCAR SCORING |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Qualifying Points |
|||||||||
1st |
15pts |
4th |
12pts |
7th |
9 pts |
10th |
6 pts |
13th |
3 pts |
2nd |
14pts |
5th |
11pts |
8th |
8 pts |
11th |
5 pts |
14th |
2 pts |
3rd |
13pts |
6th |
10pts |
9th |
7 pts |
12th |
4 pts |
15th |
1 pts |
Finishing Points |
|||||||||
1st |
60pts |
10th |
38pts |
19th |
29pts |
28th |
20pts |
37th |
11pts |
2nd |
46pts |
11th |
37pts |
20th |
28pts |
29th |
19pts |
38th |
10pts |
3rd |
45pts |
12th |
36pts |
21st |
27pts |
30th |
18pts |
38th |
9pts |
4th |
44pts |
13th |
35pts |
22nd |
26pts |
31st |
17pts |
40th |
8pts |
5th |
43pts |
14th |
34pts |
23rd |
25pts |
32nd |
16pts |
41st |
7pts |
6th |
42pts |
15th |
33pts |
24th |
24pts |
33rd |
15pts |
42nd |
6pts |
7th |
41pts |
16th |
32pts |
25th |
23pts |
34th |
14pts |
43rd |
5pts |
8th |
40pts |
17th |
31pts |
25th |
22pts |
35th |
13pts |
||
9th |
39pts |
18th |
30pts |
27th |
21pts |
36th |
12pts |
||
Additional Points |
|||||||||
Led Lap:
|
2pts |
Most Laps Led |
3 pts |
||||||
| COST TO PLAY |
| By Mail $50 full season By Paypal $52 full season No Additional Costs For Transactions |
SEGMENT PAYOUTS |
||
Winner of Segment One Races (1-9) |
$50 |
|
Winner of Segment Two Races (10-18) |
$50 |
|
Winner of Segment Three Races (19-26) |
$50 |
|
Winner of Segment Four (Non Playoff Teams Only) Races (27-36) |
$50 |
|
All Segment Payouts Will Be Made End Of Season |
||
OVERALL PAYOUT (In addition to the above Segment payouts) Based on Total Number of People Playing |
||
People Playing |
Overall Payout
|
|
20 |
$500
|
|
25 |
$675
|
|
30 |
$850
|
|
35 |
$1025
|
|
40 |
$1200
|
|
45 |
$1375
|
|
50 |
$1550
|
|
PLEASE NOTE: The segment and overall payout amounts listed are only guaranteed minimum payouts.
Typically, the actual payouts are higher. Official payout amounts will be announced shortly after the season begins. |
||
