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Quick Standings:

Pos	Participant	Points
1	Chris Slater	176
2	EAU ROUGE	174
3	Matt OD	170
4	BrawnGP	169
5	Pastor Maldonado	168
6	Jodicious	156
7	indocti discant	153
8	Zpeed	153
9	Jody Scheckter	152
10	IvanR	151
11	EL SLATSO	149
12	nkoan	142
13	DougSanto	139
14	DP (delongedoug)	134
15	SteveC	133
16	David D	133
17	Keven S	131
18	Reno Stack	115
19	Lisa	97
20	curley	79
21	Van	72
22	DP (vwown3d)	66
23	sperry	63
24	Croken16	43

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Upcoming Rounds:

Round 4:

Azerbaijan 28 Apr 2018, 6:00 AM PDT

Round 5:

Spain

Round 6:

Monaco

Round 7:

Canada

Round 8:

France

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Discussion Archive:

by DP (delongedoug) at 12:48 pm, Apr 19 0 firsts after 3 races. Bleh

by sperry at 10:45 am, Apr 17 Ferrari seemed primed to make it 3 wins in a row with Vettel and Raikkonen looking fastest, but a pit-stop undercut put Botas out front... until a Safety Car gave the Red Bull cars an opportunity to duck into the pits for new soft tires that the leaders couldn't duplicate. For Ricciardo, it was a wild ride to his win in China: a turbo failure in P3 meant his mechanics thrashed to get him out on track with just 2 minutes left in Q1, then it was his pit crew that got him in and out under the SC period when the leaders couldn't, and finally Daniel himself had to execute some amazing passes on track to turn his new tires into race positions. Overall, it was a brilliant team victory.

nKoan goes just 4 points short of perfect, winning the round. BrawnGP grabs 80 points and shoots up the standings 12 positions into 4th overall. Reno Stack rounds out the podium. Chris Slater's 4th moves him up into the overall lead, as SteveC's no-picks drops him dramatically. But keep in mind, the standings do not yet reflect any drops.

Speaking of drops, due to the incorrectly set deadline for this past round, we will be adding an additional drop. That means there will be a total of 3 dropped rounds, each one being applied to the scoring every 4 rounds... so that's after rounds 4, 8, and now 12. This seems to be the best compromise for giving those who relied on the incorrect deadline a mulligan, without penalizing those participants that were aware enough to make picks before qualifying started by wiping out their points. Once again, I apologize for the incorrect round deadline. Also, please note that I was able to confirm via the logs that no one attempted to modify their picks after qualifying had begun before the round was manually activated, just in case anyone was concerned about that.

by indocti discant at 10:07 am, Apr 14

haha and of course I don't choose Vet and take HAM instead. And yeah.. lol.

by DP (vwown3d) at 5:21 am, Apr 14 25% of us missed picks....I was going off the countdown and totally didn't think to check the actually race time. I vote for a scratch of 3rd drop.

edited by DP (vwown3d) at 5:08 am, Apr 14

by Jody Scheckter at 11:34 pm, Apr 13 Impressively a lot of us made picks before you activated. Since it appears everyone who didn't will be losing their first drop, maybe that's fair enough?

edited by sperry at 11:27 pm, Apr 13 Yep, crap.

The deadline was set for the 15th local time instead of the 14th. When I looked at the countdown, I just assumed it was the time difference for China that made it seem later... but I punched it in wrong by a day. Sorry for the discrepancy everyone.

I can check the logs and see if anyone made picks in the 15 min or so before I activated the round and handle it if necessary. But since the notifications never went out, maybe this round will need to be scratched. I certainly forgot to make my own picks without the notification email. But at the same time, I�d hate to effectively penalize anyone that made good picks this round.

Perhaps the remedy is adding an additional (3rd) drop for the season. It�s still not perfect, but it�s probably the best compromise.

by Jody Scheckter at 11:14 pm, Apr 13 Looks like you've set the wrong date for the Chinese GP as Saturday, when in fact picks should already be closed. Now what? Can you retroactively set them to what was entered by 11pm PDT?

by Reno Stack at 8:42 pm, Apr 13 Thanks Scott, it was my own fault for waiting until the last minute to make my picks, on the plus side I think probably half of them DNF haha. Thanks for taking the time to write the code though, you the man.

by Jody Scheckter at 7:24 pm, Apr 13 I don't think I received the 24 Hour Warning email to make picks.

by Jody Scheckter at 10:04 pm, Apr 10 Nice to win a round for the first time since R19 2016. GAS and MAG really came through for me.

by sperry at 10:35 pm, Apr 9 Round two is on the books! Vettel's first win might have been lucky, but the second win in Bahrain appears to be due to legitimate pace in the car. Great news for Ferrari, unless you're Kimi's LR tire guy.

(I read he's recovering after surgery for his leg.) Also, kudos to Gasly and Torro Rosso... you would have though their 4th place was a win with their pit-lane celebration after the race!

Jody Scheckter jumps up 10 spots with a 69 point win this round. Jodicious, David D and Matt OD also score in the 60's, moving them up into 3rd, 2nd, and 4th overall, while SteveC remains in the overall fantasy lead by tying for 5th this round.

It's a back-to-back race in China this weekend. Don't forget to make your picks!

by sperry at 10:44 pm, Apr 8 Okay, I think I got it sorted out. If you fail to login, there is now a link in the login box to the password recovery page that will show up. It will let you recover a forgotten username or password via email.

I tested it with my own account and it seems peachy, though there are some issues with emails from our server being sent to spam folders, so be aware. Hopefully that will prevent folks from missing out on picks!

edited by sperry at 4:04 pm, Apr 7

Sorry Dan. I actually wrote up the code to do forgotten password resets, but ran into an issue with it being reliable and secure. I figured it was better to force people to contact me directly than to give them a feature that wouldn�t always work and frustrate them further.

I try to be pretty responsive to email, but if it�s the middle of the night before a race or something I probably won�t see it. Password recovery is a pretty fundamental feature, so I�ll take another look at it and see if I can�t sort it out. In the meanwhile, I urge folks to put in some backup picks for the upcoming rounds �just in case�. Generally just copying the previous round is quick/easy and saves the day if you forget to update them after practice.

by Reno Stack at 9:30 am, Apr 7 Boo hiss, couldn't remember my password to log in before qualifying. There really needs to be a "forgot password" link.

by indocti discant at 8:26 am, Apr 7 darn I picked the wrong HAAS...

by indocti discant at 8:20 am, Apr 7 it is a night race. One of the few that actually could be exciting.

by EAU ROUGE at 8:10 am, Apr 2 Bahrain! Let's DO THIS. It's not a night race is it?

edited by sperry at 8:47 pm, Mar 26 And we're off!

Vettel turns his tire-saving strategy into a win when he leap-frogs from 3rd to 1st by pitting during a lucky virtual pace car period. British race fans will call it cheating, but Ferrari calls it a double podium and the initial championship lead.

Taking top honors in the fantasy points is EAU ROUGE who goes big in the first round, scoring 84 out of a possible 88 points. Rounding out the podium is IvanR and SteveC.

Up next is Bahrain, a dusty desert track that looks less than spectacular but has been the site of several great races over the last decade.

by sperry at 11:23 pm, Mar 25 Yeah, I�m not jazzed by the Sky coverage. I know some people prefer it, but Varsha/Hobbs/Matchett is my favorite broadcast team. I don�t even mind that Buxton whippersnapper, though he hasn�t quite yet achieved Peter Windsor status.

by Jody Scheckter at 1:51 pm, Mar 25 I miss the post-race coverage of past years. Too bad ESPN decided to not provide that.

by Jody Scheckter at 1:44 pm, Mar 25 I think a few players never got fully registered before the first race cut-off, but because we get two drops missing the first race can be a strategic advantage in the long run.

by indocti discant at 9:07 am, Mar 25 And... the season is off to a great start. both Haas out for the same mistake?

edited by sperry at 10:40 pm, Mar 23 There�s a paypal button on the register page to pay the fee. https://ff1.seccs.org/index.php?page=reg...

by ForzaKimi at 10:17 pm, Mar 23 Where do i pay?

by sperry at 2:21 pm, Mar 23 Wow, tons of late signups! Looks like we've got a pretty big field all of a sudden.

Just about 8 hours left before qually! Good luck everyone.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 11:44 am, Mar 23 Looks like we're getting a good crowd this year. Still time for more, and with the 2 drops, still time after that for more.

by sperry at 8:20 pm, Mar 22

Good to see MAL is involved in (fantasy) F1 again!

by sperry at 7:24 pm, Mar 21 Hey John, glad to have you!

by EAU ROUGE at 3:05 pm, Mar 21 Just joined up, based off a thread on NASIOC. I'm John (EAU ROUGE). Looking forward to getting back into F1.

by DP (delongedoug) at 9:09 am, Mar 19 Let's do this!

https://media0.giphy.com/media/ERtZ8vu1h...

by Reno Stack at 5:03 pm, Mar 18 Looking for another podium and perhaps the Championship this year.

Lots of storylines to follow already, should be a fun year!

Watch on ESPN or stream on F1?

by Jody Scheckter at 9:26 pm, Mar 17 Presto!

by sperry at 5:48 pm, Mar 17 Refresh your browser cache, I tossed together a new logo before going live last night!

by Jody Scheckter at 5:29 pm, Mar 17 Looking forward to the new season. Without a rule change that extra race is going to still add a twist to strategy. BTW, the page header graphic probably needs to be updated to 2018.

edited by sperry at 4:18 am, Mar 17 Welcome back to Fantasy Formula 1!

This season, the cars get an ugly looking halo to go with F1's ugly new logo! Let's hope the racing isn't ugly as well. We will be using the same rules as last season: 6 drivers per-round, and 9 picks per-driver for the season, with 2 drops. Please check out the FAQ/Rules page for details.

It was my intention to have a brand new website ready for 2018 with some fancy new rules, but alas, deadlines were not met, and I've booted this old friend back up. But we are running on a new server, with all sorts of new versions of background software running. So if you see something broken, let me know! I don't have an extensive suite of regression tests for this site, so I expect some things may not all be there. For the curious nerds: the new server runs NGINX instead of Apache, with mysql 5.7 on Ubuntu 16.04. I was not able to get this decade-old codebase to run on php7, so we're still on php5. The new site is shiny-new NodeJS, but like I said, it's not done.

Anyway, good luck to everyone! The season has some missing circuits returning, with France and Germany back on the schedule. Paul Ricard hasn't been raced since 1990, so that may be interesting. Also, thanks to the new events, we're looking at a longer 21 race season. Television coverage in the US has migrated to ESPN as well. So the old is definately new again.