2014 Fantasy NASCAR: Round 36 Homestead

[MustangRyan]

I usually do the points pretty quickly on Monday afternoon. I think for this race, I'm going to wait for the official race results on Tuesday before scoring it. I've never known the unofficial results to be wrong or changed, but this race was a disaster from top to bottom. Since the end of the race, Kenseth has moved from 19th to 20th, and Cassill has moved from 34th to 31st.

EDIT - here are the unofficial results, if you want to check on your drivers.
http://www.jayski.com/stats/2014/pdfs/18dis2014results.pdf

So did the random picks get the most points?

Not quite. 89 points for the random picks. 93 points for me.

 

[Adamgp]

29th, 40th, 41st.

Not surprised given how my fantasy season has been going.

 

[Spacegoat]

Well, that sucked big time. 14th, 39th & 42rd.

Lesson learnt, next time I'm going with the random number thingy.

 

[MustangRyan]

Tentatively, these would be the scores from this race. No one got the pole bonus, and no one picked the winner.

The randomly generated picks were 4 points away from doubling their score. Yes, picking drivers for plate racing is a lottery at this point.

EDIT - Imagine what you would have thought if I had told you before the race that the combo of Michael McDowell (7th), Terry Labonte (11th), and Alex Bowman (13th) would score enough (101 total points) to win this round over everyone else's picks.


EDIT #2: Cassill did lead a lap, so he gained an extra point over what I counted. The randoms should wind up with 90 total points.

 

[Anathema]

Yes.

Excellent race at Pocono, come home and see my fantasy score... what a good day.

 

[Furinkazen]

17-27-39 I think

 

[Dolph Drago]

6th/14th/19th. No complaints.

After that hot mess of a race, I feel the same way. All of our drivers still finished despite getting damage. Plus it looks we may have the most points this week (official results pending).

 

[BlacqueJacques]

12th, 14th and 17th, but at least all 3 finished

 

[MustangRyan]

at least all 3 finished

It should be possible to like this post more than once.

 

[BlacqueJacques]

They did

 

[Spacegoat]

but at least all 3 finished

Yeah, yeah. Rub it in why don't you?

J/k

 

[MustangRyan]

Round 18 Results:

Legend:
GREEN BOX = Race win - gained 1 Consecutive Pick
RED BOX = Driver failed to finish - can be used next week without using CP
(CP) = Consecutive Pick used for selection
(P10) = 10 point penalty for selection, no CP available for this pick


Notes:

No new entries are being allowed at this time, as we are more than halfway through the regular season.

The Consecutive Pick for most points scored in round 18 was won by MustangRyan and Dolph Drago, with 93 points.

No one received 2 bonus points for picking pole-winner David Gilliland before qualifying.

No one received a Consecutive Pick for picking race winner Aric Almirola.

Two Consecutive Picks were spent this week.

Every player submitted picks this week.

Carbonox became the first player to get to 20 Top-5 picks.

Not counting the random picks, no one selected Aric Almirola (1st), Brian Vickers (2nd), Kurt Busch (3rd), Casey Mears (4th), Michael McDowell (7th), Danica Patrick (8th), Marcos Ambrose (10th), Terry Labonte (11th), or Alex Bowman (13th).

Out of 21 actual entries, one person picked Austin Dillon (5th), two people selected Clint Bowyer (9th), and four people chose Denny Hamlin (6th). No entry selected more than one driver in the top 10.

The seven people that used the random selections each scored one top-5 (Vickers) and two top-10s (Vickers & Ambrose).

Only 9 of 28 entries had all three cars running at the end of the race.

This week's average score was 69 points.



Please let me know if you see any errors in anyone's score. Scoring errors will only be corrected up until the start of the next race.

 

[The Bman]

So those picks were actually for me?

Well it sure beats my original random draw of Ambrose, Biffle, and Sorenson for sure.

 

[TheBook]

For comparison's sake, I would have taken the 2/4/88 this week, had I not chosen the RNG picks. We'll see how these picks compare.

Would have gotten a total of 61 points with these picks. Definitely glad I did go RNG.

 

[BKGlover]

I'd probably have only about 50. For once, I thank the RNG.

 

[Carbonox]

Carbonox became the first player to get to 20 Top-5 picks.

*brags*

Not counting the random picks, no one selected Danica Patrick (8th)

Now THAT, is a massive surprise considering, cough cough, the views of certain players in this league.

 

[Spacegoat]

Ugh, 37 points? Knew it was going to be bad.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Ugh, 37 points? Knew it was going to be bad.

I went from almost 300 something out of the chase to 500...

 

[Adamgp]

256 points out of the chase. Need a miracle now but don't see that happening.

 

[Spacegoat]

Picks submitted.

#2 Brad Keselowski.
#20 Matt Kenseth.
#24 Jeff Gordon.

 

[TheBook]

2,18,48 for me.

 

[BKGlover]

18/31/66. Why Burton? Why not, no one else stood out.

 

[BlacqueJacques]

Yay in the Chase and only 213 points from top spot.
For New Hampshire I am going with Clint (15), Kyle (18 and Jimmy (48).

 

[MustangRyan]

Yay in the Chase and only 213 points from top spot.
For New Hampshire I am going with Clint (15), Kyle (18 and Jimmy (48).

213 points is the gap from 1st to 17th. You're only 191 out of the top spot!

 

[Chqr]

Despite the fact I need points, I'm gambling this week.

 

[ukfan758]

18th , 5th , 28th

 

[BlacqueJacques]

213 points is the gap from 1st to 17th. You're only 191 out of the top spot!

Even better

 

[Dolph Drago]

Picks (subject to change):

#2 Brad Keselowski
#18 Kyle Busch
#48 Jimmie Johnson

 

[Furinkazen]

2/24/48

 

[Spacegoat]

#2 Brad Keselowski.
#20 Matt Kenseth. #18 Kyle Busch.
#24 Jeff Gordon.

Swapping out Kenseth for Kyle.