Now entering the 2nd year of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Fantasy Series, we are hoping for a great season ahead, Antrodemus' Iron Horse Racing won last years championship and I'm sure will be looking to defend it's title.
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For those who haven't been a part of something like this before, it's fairly simple, You have a team, and a budget, and make the team of your choice, providing you don't go over budget. You can have a PR person to issue press statements, make liveries make car numbers, sponsers, whatever, it's all good fun.
Here's the not overly large rulebook:
Your Budget:
$1,700,000
You can hire up to 4 drivers for your cars.
Driver Values:
$900,000
#48 Jimmy Johnson
#24 Jeff Gordon
#20 Tony Stewart
$800,000
#29 Kevin Harvick
#88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
#31 Jeff Burton
#17 Matt Kenseth
$700,000
#2 Kurt Busch
#18 Kyle Busch
#99 Carl Edwards
#07 Clint Bowyer
#11 Denny Hamlin
#1 Martin Truex Jr.
$600,000
#16 Greg Biffle
#9 Kasey Kahne
#12 Ryan Newman
$500,000
#19 Elliott Sadler
#43 Bobby Labonte
#7 Robby Gordon
#26 Jamie McMurray
#5 Casey Mears
#28 Travis Kvapil
#22 Dave Blaney
#42 Juan Montoya
$400,000
#66 Scott Riggs
#38 David Gilliland
#70 Jeremy Mayfield
#41 Reed Sorenson
#96 J.J. Yeley
#6 David Ragan
#8 Mark Martin/Aric Almirola Martin 24 races, Almirola 12 races)
$300,000
#15 Paul Menard
#45 Kyle Petty/Chad McCumbee? (Petty 30 or 31 races, McCumbee(?) drives when Petty commentates for TNT)
#40 Dario Franchitti
#01 Regan Smith
$200,000
#44 Dale Jarrett/David Reutimann (Jarrett first 5 races, Reutimann from then on)
#00 David Reutimann/Josh Wise/ Michael McDowell (Reutimann first 5 races, Wise and McDowell sharing from then on)
#55 Michael Waltrip
#83 Brian Vickers
#77 Sam Hornish Jr.
#27 Jacques Villeneuve
#10 Patrick Carpentier
#78 Joe Nemechek
#84 A.J. Allmendinger
#21 Bill Elliott/Jon Wood/Marcos Ambrose
$100,000
Non-fulltime drivers
#02 Brandon Ash
#03 Todd Bodine
#08 Carl Long/Burney Lamar
#09 Sterling Marlin/Max Papis
#33 Kirk Shelmerdine/Scott Wimmer
#37 Eric McClure
#47 Marcos Ambrose
#50 Stanton Barrett
#57 Norm Benning
#60 Boris Said
#49 Ken Schrader
#58 James Hylton
#4 Mike Wallace
#89 Morgan Shepherd
#87 Jeff Fuller
You can have 7 driver changes over the whole season, one thing that is new for this year is this:
If your driver gets fired from his real team, swaps teams etc, you automatically get the new driver in that car, you can also choose to keep the same driver in the new real team, either of these options is ‘free’, it won’t affect the amount of driver changes you have left. Also, there is some drivers sharing a ride, you can pick that car, but there is no concessions if one of the drivers gets fired/leaves etc, excepting Marcos Ambrose, he is scheduled to drive in 12 races in the #21, and 4 in the #47, you can choose to have the #21, but have Marcos if he’s in the #47 for those 4 races. Picking the #00 doesn’t mean you get David Reutimann for ‘free’ when he moves to the #44, he’s not being fired just moving sideways. If a driver you have gets fired, and the new driver isn’t from the list, he’s the same price as the outgoing driver.
I hope this makes sense, it’s been a fair bit of head scratching to try and make part time and shared rides useable in the game, if you have any queries etc, just ask.
Keep track of your driver movements at Jayski's great site here:
http://www.jayski.com/pages/2008teams.htm
Points:
Points are the same as the real series. Whatever a driver scores at each round in real life is what that driver will receive here, including penalties. The 'Chase' will not be used. If you notice that your team hasn't scored as many points as you think they should have (or more than they should have), let me know and I'll look into it.
Team Ownership, and you
- You don’t have to use all $1.7 million, but DO NOT GO OVER BUDGET!!! You will be disqualified from the round if I discover any creative bookkeeping.
- A driver can be chosen by more than one team - these guys are consummate professionals and are able to drive any amount of cars at once.
- Round results and championship standings will be posted here following the conclusion of each round. (if you hadn't noticed, alot of this is just copied from the V8 series, wonder if anyone will notice, just like this I'm writing)
- After the results have been posted, you can write press releases on your team’s performance (or lack of). Show us how good you are at distributing propaganda.
Team Announcements
Once you’ve picked your driving line-up, give your team a name, announce some sponsors, racing numbers, liveries, grid girls (pictures please! ), mascots, overseas technical partners and any other stuff you can think of, and of course your manufacturer of choice (though your manufacturer doesn't affect you points), then post here giving a detailed description of the copious quantities of hide your team will kick in the forthcoming season.
To make it easy for me, could you please condense the propaganda into this sort of form following your press release:
Quote:
NAME: John Doe Racing
SPONSOR(S): Wendy’s, Mopar
DRIVERS:
#33 Dale Earnhardt jr
#99 Robby Gordon
#777 Jeremy Mayfield
MANUFACTURER: Dodge
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(your choice of car numbers and Manufacturer doesn't actually affect anything, is just for fun, and people can make up their own liveries based upon that)
Posting Images and Liveries
Half of the fun of this is creating and posting your own liveries. While everybody likes to show infinite detail at super-high-resolution, not everybody’s screen can take it. While I can handle going over 400x400 (given there are warnings about large images), it's a bit rough posting images wider than a regular screen. I refer you to the piece highlighted in red - 800x600 is probably the largest you should go.
I know there are some real good livery makers here, so get into it (however, I am totally useless at it)
Other
For those of you not so knowledgeable about NASCAR, in the Nextel Cup series, only the top 35 cars in owner (not driver) points is guaranteed a starting stop in the field of 43, the 7 fastest of the rest get in, often there is more than 43 cars competing to even get into the race, hence driver values for drivers in cars out of the top 35 may seem a little low. Rookies and new teams especially will have a hard time, also the top 35 from 2007 is locked in for the first 5 races of 2008.
http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2007...ngs_owner.html
(look for the real life car number, there is driver names there may not neccesarily be the driver of that car)
So get you entries in people, you can change your team as many times as you like 'till Daytona (before the 1st Duel, 14th Feb), if you enter later than that you'll just score from the 1st round that you start. (schedule here:
http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2008/data/schedule.html)
Any questions/issues etc post here or PM me
Good luck
Stu