NASCAR Fantasy League 2010

reefraff

reefraff

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Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/3228481
It did look like she drove straight into it. I was wondering why her spotter didn't tell her to drop down %%
She said the first wreck they slid down the track so......
I was sorta surprised she didn't make any move but they are going a lot faster than it looks. Then again those big gocarts she's used to driving don't seem to stop on the track as soon when they crash so it may have come up on her faster than expected.
 
bionicarm

bionicarm

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Glad Patrick isn't in the 500 today. I was getting rather tired of the 'Danica Update' every 5 minutes when she was on the track. They had her slide to the back because she wasn't comfortable with the handling, and they still kept panning a camera on her. Wallace's daughter/neice (whoever she is) was in the race, and they hardly said anything about her, except when she got wrecked on the third lap.
They interviewed Patrick after the wreck and it seemed kinda funny to me -"When that first wreck happened, I stayed in the middle, and got through OK. But when the second one happened, I stayed in the middle, and got wrecked."

They also said the spotter told her to stay in the middle during the second melee because she couldn't drop down low, since there were too many other cars on her left trying to avoid the wreck.
 
t316

t316

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I hope the testosterone has been building during their little "break", so they can give the fans something to see here.
 
kjr_trig

kjr_trig

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Daytona and Talledega can be entertaining, but kind of annoying racing too. All about being in the right place at the right time. Seems the even the field, allowing the mediocre drivers to win there quite often.
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Originally Posted by kjr_trig
http:///forum/post/3229067
Daytona and Talledega can be entertaining, but kind of annoying racing too. All about being in the right place at the right time. Seems the even the field, allowing the mediocre drivers to win there quite often.
Yes and No... If you mean there's a significant amount of luck involved, avoiding the big one, having people work with you, definitely. Just look, the fastest car in the race, by a wide margin finished 7th. But no in the sense that, besides Jr. and Reutimann, who were mid-pack all day, everyone who finished inside the top 10 deserved to win, they were at the front all day. I don't think Daytona or Talledega mean a mediocre driver has a real chance of winning, it's that Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch have always been bad at super speedways.
I certainly prefer the last-lap win, anyone's game, to the usually finish of 1.5 mile D-shaped tracks. Were you've watching all race, and it's been mild to boring, only to have the top 5 cars finish the same way they were running with 20 to go.
 
t316

t316

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Seems something is wrong with the point system. I did pretty well, but I did not have the "Win" as it indicates, so I should not be in the lead. Rather Keith48 had the win and should be slightly ahead. Give it until tomorrow and see if it works itself out.
And Aqua, just because you run in the middle of the pack all day at Daytona, or Talledaga, is no indication of that driver deserving to win or not. These two tracks are completely different beasts from everything else on the circuit. Many teams plan to run mid pack, or even at the back, during these two races. It's not very fun for the fans of those drivers, as everyone is wondering "what is wrong with his car", but just wanted to point out that there was a lot of strategy put into those last 10 laps of the race.
I'll also add that although the race itself was boring as hell, it was obvious near the end that the new changes does/will allow these cars to get out of that train line and do something on these superspeedways. It's just that the races are so long, nobody wants to play (run the risk of tearing up their car) until the last minute.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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minus the fact that it started at noon, and didn't finish till after 6:30, I liked it, lots of different lead changes. The thing is, they weren't bunched as much as they usually are at the super speedway. Which I didn't mind so much.
 
bionicarm

bionicarm

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My local paper said the 'pothole incident' added an extra 2 hrs. and 42 minutes to the race. I can't believe the track officials didn't catch this problem before the race even started. I find it hard to believe the asphalt would just break up out of nowhere. There had to be some cracks or something that would've indicated a potential failure.
Little E comes from 10th to 2nd in the last couple of laps, and the guy still wasn't happy at the end of the race. I wonder if one of the reasons he was upset was because McMurray drives for his stepmother.
 
t316

t316

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Okay, I have an email in to Scott (he's our administrator, even though he's not playing) to check on the "win" error. Some of the rest of you look at the scoring and see if you can tell what I'm missing. I don't see where they got that extra 10 pts. on my card from.
And did anyone else get their "email notifcation" to change your drivers? I remember checking off that I did want this, but never got an email alert.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3229302
My local paper said the 'pothole incident' added an extra 2 hrs. and 42 minutes to the race. I can't believe the track officials didn't catch this problem before the race even started. I find it hard to believe the asphalt would just break up out of nowhere. There had to be some cracks or something that would've indicated a potential failure.
Little E comes from 10th to 2nd in the last couple of laps, and the guy still wasn't happy at the end of the race. I wonder if one of the reasons he was upset was because McMurray drives for his stepmother.

Well 3000 pounds of car, 200 mph, gotta be pretty dang hard on the the pavement. If you had a close up look at a lot of those tracks, they aren't as pretty as they look on tv, they're pretty beat up.
 
t316

t316

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I think I got it.....My extra 10 pts was from most laps led driver. And apparently the "wins" "top 5's" and "top 10's" is not referring to your picks, but rather how you did within our group. I never knew this in previous seasons. I always thought when you saw someone had, say (8) wins, that meant they had picked the race winner 8 times. But it must mean they have won 8 weeks within our group
 
bionicarm

bionicarm

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3229440
Well 3000 pounds of car, 200 mph, gotta be pretty dang hard on the the pavement. If you had a close up look at a lot of those tracks, they aren't as pretty as they look on tv, they're pretty beat up.
Yea, but considering this was the 'Super Bowl' for NASCAR, you think they'd go over that track with a fine tooth comb after the Truck Race on Saturday. You had two Duel's, another ShootOut, not sure how many practices and qualifiers, the ARCA race, The Nationwide Race, and the Truck Race all before the Sprint Cup Race on Sunday. The track had a 30 degree or more temperature swing during the last week, plus a heavy rain on Friday. I just find it hard to believe this pothole just popped up out of nowhere on Sunday after all the traffic that went over it earlier in the week.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3229477
Yea, but considering this was the 'Super Bowl' for NASCAR, you think they'd go over that track with a fine tooth comb after the Truck Race on Saturday. You had two Duel's, another ShootOut, not sure how many practices and qualifiers, the ARCA race, The Nationwide Race, and the Truck Race all before the Sprint Cup Race on Sunday. The track had a 30 degree or more temperature swing during the last week, plus a heavy rain on Friday. I just find it hard to believe this pothole just popped up out of nowhere on Sunday after all the traffic that went over it earlier in the week.
Don't forget the 24 hour race. Judging from your list, it wasn't from no where. That is a lot of traffic...
 
bionicarm

bionicarm

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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3229502
Don't forget the 24 hour race. Judging from your list, it wasn't from no where. That is a lot of traffic...
That's my point. Will all that traffic running on that track in such a short period of time, I'm surprised there was only one pot hole. I'd be willing to bet that section of the track had cracks or other indicators the asphalt was stressed WAY before the start of the race on Sunday.
 
stdreb27

stdreb27

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Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3229533
That's my point. Will all that traffic running on that track in such a short period of time, I'm surprised there was only one pot hole. I'd be willing to bet that section of the track had cracks or other indicators the asphalt was stressed WAY before the start of the race on Sunday.
I don't think there was negligence on the tracks part. There is just no way you can predict what is gonna fall apart. And the more you screw with the pavement, the more you change the characteristics of the tracks. You really think they're gonna start tearing up asphalt and have giant epoxy patches, where it might maybe have come up?
 
scotts

scotts

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D, you are right. Here is the reply I got from yahoo.
Weekly Finishes are based on Fantasy Racing team finishes, not based on
actual driver finishes.
The group member with the highest weekly total score will be given a
Win, Top 5 and Top 10 finish. The group members who finished 2nd through
5th will be given Top 5 and Top 10 finishes. The group members who
finished 6th through 10th will be given Top 10 finishes. The group
members who finished 11th or lower are not eligible for a Weekly Finish.
Considering there are less than 10 teams in the group, well you all are guaranteed a top ten each week.
 
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