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Pos	Participant	Points
1	DP (delongedoug)	908
2	EAU ROUGE	888
3	Jodicious	888
4	Jody Scheckter	879
5	DP (vwown3d)	876
6	EL SLATSO	869
7	Zpeed	868
8	Reno Stack	863
9	Lisa	855
10	Pastor Maldonado	851
11	David D	850
12	Chris Slater	835
13	IvanR	827
14	curley	822
15	SteveC	809
16	Van	798
17	nkoan	787
18	indocti discant	765
19	BrawnGP	763
20	sperry	759
21	DougSanto	732
22	Matt OD	587
23	Keven S	279
24	Croken16	68

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by EAU ROUGE at 8:14 pm, Dec 6 Thanks to the moderators of the site! Thanks for the lesson in fantasy pics DP! I'm in for next year if you'll allow. Merry Christmas all! Peace out!

by Jody Scheckter at 7:22 pm, Dec 4 I'm happy to see Kubica back in F1, but I fear the Williams cars are going to be way off the pace and that he may not score a point. Doing so would be a major accomplishment given his handicap.

by DP (vwown3d) at 8:35 am, Dec 4 Thanks for everything guys (and gals).... I'm counting down the days until 2019 and my first KUB pick!!!

by Jody Scheckter at 12:55 am, Dec 4 Hey Scott, glad to help out. Hopefully folks can get the word out to friends, family and forums to get a bigger crowd to join in the fun next year as I think the basic format here provides more week to week excitement than most other fantasy F1 sites, that limit choices by locking you into rigid budget based team, car or driver selections. Looking forward to 2019!

by sperry at 12:05 am, Dec 3 Thanks again everyone! The winners should have their money in their PayPal accounts! Congrats!

Also, a big thanks to Jody Scheckter for stepping into an admin role this season, filling in for me when I was unavailable for a few weeks this year, as well as adding his own insights into the season's stats.

edited by sperry at 11:58 pm, Dec 2 Hamilton rounds out the season with one more win, taking Abu Dhabi without breaking much of a sweat. Mercedes cements themselves as the team of the turbo-hybrid era with yet another dominant season, and Hamilton inches his name that much closer to the label of greatest of all time. Of course, eras inevitably come to an end... how much time does Mercedes have at the top? Will 2019 be the inflection point? We'll just have to wait until Melbourne to find out!

Wrapping up an immense 2018 Fantasy F1 Championship, DP (delongedoug) completes the divebomb pass for the win in the last round, coming from 17th place in Round 15 to take the overall championship in Abu Dhabi. Cautious management of his driver pick count, and strategic use of the season's 3 drops, means that without even winning a single individual round, DP never-the-less is the only driver to score over a 50 points-per-round average, and wins the 2018 SECCS Fantasy Championship. For the win, DP will take home $240, congratulations!

In an unprecedented points tie, EAU ROUGE edges out Jodicious for 2nd overall based on picking just one more round winner in the tie break (9 to 8). EAU ROUGE ran an impressive season, staying in the top 8 the entire season while simultaneously peaking late in the season leading the pack for rounds 18-20, getting pipped only in the last round. For 2nd place overall, EAU ROUGE earns $144, nice work!

Taking the final money paying podium position is Jodicious in 3rd overall. Jodicious languished near the bottom of the standing for the middle half of the season, but gathered momentum late on the backs of long-saved big-name drivers. A perfect round in Japan was the jewel in a late drive to the top where the tie-breaker had to be invoked to land in 3rd place. Jodicious will earn $96 for, great job!

A huge thank you to all the participants this season. It was perhaps the craziest season in the 12 years we've been running the league, with a lot position changes and surprises in the standings. Was it was the 3 drops that helped scramble the results throughout the season, or perhaps it was just the nature of the races themselves this year? Either way, I'm looking forward to next season and hope many of you will return to play again in 2019. Plenty of driver/team shakeups appear to be afoot, so who know how next year will shake out!

Thanks again everyone!

by sperry at 9:50 pm, Nov 28 Sorry for the delay in the season wrap up everyone... I�m in Vegas for the AWS re:Invent convention and just finally got around to watching the last race over dinner (thanks YouTube TV!). I will wrap the season and send out prizes as soon as I�m able to get a secure enough network connection to use PayPal.

by DP (delongedoug) at 5:49 am, Nov 27 I did the same thing thinking Hamilton often slumps after winning the championship and Bottas could snag a few late wins so I saved some of his picks for the final rounds but it never happened.

Thanks to all for another fun and well run season! Appreciate all the work behind the scenes. Happy holidays y pura vida!

by Jody Scheckter at 7:58 pm, Nov 26 Yes, it was a fun scramble at the end. I only just realized that Bottas also did me no favors by coming 5th each of the last three races when I had saved his picks thinking he'd perform like he did last year to end the year (with a 2nd, 2nd, 1st). I guess Hamilton has figured out he needs to keep winning while he can if he wants to catch Schumacher!

Hopefully folks will be back next year with more players.

Here are a few more stats from this year:
- Most winners picked: indocti discant (11), Pastor Maldonado and David D (10).
- Most point scoring picks: DP (delongedoug) 84, Jody Scheckter and EL SLATSO 80.
- Most rounds won or tied: nkoan (5), EL SLATSO (4).
- Most rounds with 6 scoring picks: EL SLATSO (5), Reno Stack and nkoan (4).
- Perfect rounds (88 points): EL SLATSO (2), EAU ROUGE, Jodicious, Chris Slater and nkoan (1)

Here is the final rankings chart: http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ff1-2018-r21.png

by DP (delongedoug) at 6:04 pm, Nov 26 "The sloth always beats the hare."

Great season and what a final few races! From 14th with 3 races to go to my second championship. I'm gonna miss second guessing my picks, changing them and ruing not sticking with my gut every other weekend.

Next year should be crazy with the silliest silly season in history. Tell your friends about the league... so I can win their money, too. Hahahaha

by David D at 11:16 am, Nov 26 That was fun guys! Enjoyed my first year too! I think the play is to skip a few races to save selections for the remaining races in the season. It took me a number of races into the season to realize that the lowest 3 races would be dropped!

The limit of 9 really made things interesting. Keep it up guys! I'll be back next season. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

David Debono

by EL SLATSO at 4:29 am, Nov 26 Really enjoyed my first year in this pool! I like the setup, and you do a great job of updating things quickly after the races. Will be studying the winning strategy a bit and will be back next year to try to improve on 6th! Cheers, and congrats to those in the money!

by Zpeed at 5:53 pm, Nov 25 Thank you Scott. Ready for 2019 season?

edited by Jody Scheckter at 7:56 pm, Nov 26 Once again 4th, and if I'd just played VET this race instead of the last I'd be 2nd by 1 point! Congrats to the winners - the margins are thin, and luck plays as much a part as strategy, but it sure made for a close finish.

by Jody Scheckter at 6:25 pm, Nov 23 10 hours and 35 mins left to make picks for the final race. Not sure the reminder email went out.

by sperry at 10:29 am, Nov 19 The penultimate round from Sao Paulo is on the books and Hamilton finally wins the round after clinching a championship, though it took some terrible luck on the behalf of Verstappen, losing the lead in an incident with a lapped car. The win for Mercedes puts them over the top for the Constructors' Championship, once again.

Doug Santo nabs the top spot in Brazil, ahead of Jody Scheckter and DP (delongedoug), the latter scooping up enough points to jump up 7 places into 2nd overall. Jodicious also makes a late push up the charts, 4th place in Brazil is enough to move into 4th overall, just 5 points out of the money.

With just the final round in Abu Dhabi to go, 16 participants are mathematically alive for the top spot in the fantasy championship! Of course many folks have used up all their big-name drivers, making an 88 point perfect round highly unlikely. The top 9 though are all within 41 points of the lead, so there are lots of changes for a last-round reshuffling of the top 3. Good luck to everyone in Abu Dhabi!

by Jody Scheckter at 7:03 pm, Nov 13 Yeah, I could use a HAM, VET and RAI carambolage in Abu Dhabi!

by EL SLATSO at 11:47 am, Nov 13 I've never rooted for a collision amongst the top drivers until I joined this pool - thanks for making me a terrible person! :P

by Jody Scheckter at 9:48 pm, Nov 11 I've updated the rankings chart following this penultimate round: http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ff1-2018-r20.png - keep in mind that with each change in the rounds that are dropped, the entire season gets re-adjusted.

For my part I'm ruing OCO's shunt with VER and that VET had such a terrible race. That might just mean I miss the podium by a few points yet again. Grrrr!

by EAU ROUGE at 3:18 pm, Nov 11 It does seem like a good strategy to skip 3 rounds and take the zero, thus saving the big guns for more races. Interesting, and being a first timer to this league, should be fun next year. good stuff.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 11:25 pm, Nov 8 Verstappen earns a solid win in Mexico, with Vettel and Raikkonen filling out the podium for Ferrari, but it is too little too late as Lewis Hamilton's fourth place is enough to win him his fifth driver's championship title. Congratulations Lewis!

Meanwhile, things are getting very interesting here as we head into the final two races of the season.

DougSanto and sperry get first and second in Mexico, but at this point it is small consolation as they stay well behind overall. However, up and coming Jodicious leaps six more places by tying for third in the round with Jody Scheckter.

DP (delongedoug) has become a real threat in the overall standings now, and with Lisa also makes a big leap this round, while the current leaders are running on fumes hoping they can hold on to their earlier gains!

As we head into Brazil the big question will be whether the late push by some will be enough to dislodge the current top three of EAU ROUGE, EL SLATSO and Reno Stack. The potential remains for some major shake-ups yet!

by Jody Scheckter at 12:51 am, Nov 2 Here's an interesting chart of the current FF1 season so far: http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ff1-2018-r19.png

by DP (delongedoug) at 7:44 am, Oct 31 Yep, those last 2 absolutely killed me.

by Jody Scheckter at 10:43 pm, Oct 29 RIC! You're killing me with your DNFs - that's 4 DNFs out of 7 times picking you mate!

by sperry at 2:01 am, Oct 24 Kimi breaks through after 113 races without a win, taking the US GP victory! His win for Ferrari, and Verstappen's 2nd place finish, pushes Hamilton down to third and Vettel to 4th, which means Vettel stays mathematically alive for the next round!

DP (vwown3d) wins the round, but it's EAU ROUGE's 2nd place finish that moves him up four spots into the overall lead. Jodicious rounds out the podium in Austin. Reno Stack drops one overall position from the lead into 2nd, similarly EL SLATSO dips down to 3rd overall.

We're getting down to the wire now, time to pull out all the stops with just 3 rounds remaining in 2018. Mexico is next before heading to Sao Paulo and eventually Abu Dhabi. Make those final picks!

by Jody Scheckter at 10:15 pm, Oct 22 BTW, news flash: OCO and MAG were disqualified after the USPG, so the results have been corrected. As an indication of how close things are getting DP (delongedoug) jumps from 10th overall to 8th as a result of scoring 3 more points, and IvanR and nkoan both scoring a mere 1 point less. A few other positions flipped, and Jodicious pips me for 3rd this round.

by Jody Scheckter at 10:10 pm, Oct 22 Zpeed - this was in the Seattle area (KOMO TV). I didn't realize the race was not live, and even worse, they "joined the program already in progress" at the "scheduled" time, joining 11 laps in.

by Zpeed at 8:05 pm, Oct 22 JODY, I watch ABC from the start?

by DP (delongedoug) at 6:12 am, Oct 22 Relying on US broadcasting for F1 is a torturous endeavor. You can usually find a decent stream on r/motorsportsstreams but I prefer to stay spoiler-free and simply download it and watch it at my leisure.

Also, KIMI!!!!

edited by Jody Scheckter at 12:51 am, Oct 22 Gotta love local ABC/ESPN coverage of the USGP starting 20 minutes (11 laps) into the race. Missed a ton of relevant action and already 3 of my drivers were out.

by sperry at 1:51 am, Oct 15 It's another Hamilton and Mercedes dominated race in Japan. Ferrari seems to have lost a step, and Vettel makes errors in the Spoon curves during qualifying and the race to eliminate his chances of making up any ground on Hamilton's overall lead.

EL SLATSO and Jodicious tie for the perfect round in Suzuka, with EL SLATSO jumping up 5 spots into 2nd overall. curley nabs the 3rd step of the podium. Reno Stack holds the overall lead, while Chris Slater drops one spot to 3rd overall.

The US round is up next! Hamilton can clinch the championship at one of his favorite tracks if Vettel has yet another poor race.

edited by Jody Scheckter at 11:26 pm, Oct 4 Another race, another Hamilton win, and now a 50 point lead over Vettel. Insurmountable? Well it is going to take a lot now to catch the Mercedes driver. Bottas was a hard-luck teammate in Sochi, letting his team leader past in a race he could have otherwise won. An unfortunate aspect of F1 being a team sport first and foremost.

EL SLATSO wins the round and catapults 5 places to 6th. sperry finally picks up some good points, but he's so far behind he doesn't make a move in the standings, while EAU ROUGE scores third best and jumps to 5th. The top 4 struggled to score points and so things continue to tighten up as we enter the last races.

The legendary Suzuka circuit is next, and be aware of the atypical pick cutoff time due to it being a Far East location.

by sperry at 1:00 pm, Sep 25 Hamilton's win in Singapore really puts him up on Vettel in the F1 drivers' championship. It will take some good luck for the Ferrari driver, and more importantly, some bad luck for Mercedes if Vettel will be able to turn the deficit around.

Capitalizing on Hamilton's win is Jodicious, who takes the round win with 59 points. But it's Reno Stack's 2nd place in Singapore that vaults him into the overall lead. Tied overall in points with Chris Slater in 2nd, Reno Stack gets the benefit of having made more 1st place picks. nKoan drops down to 3rd overall, as he (like many others) run out of drivers to select.

Russia's street course at the Sochi Olympic village is up next!

by Pastor Maldonado at 7:25 pm, Sep 5 PASTOR bout to do some late braking into the lead! Watch YA MIRRORS!!! SKKRRRrrrrrr......

edited by Jody Scheckter at 10:49 pm, Sep 4 Monza becomes the site of the fastest-ever Formula 1 race, as the 2018 spec cars obliterate the 2004 track records. Kimi's pole position lap becomes the fastest ever F1 lap, with a blistering 1:19.119 time making for a 163.78 mph average speed. Unfortunately for Ferrari, the front-row lockout wasn't enough to give them a home-track win. Lap 1 contact between Hamilton and Vettel shunts Vettel to the rear of the field, allowing Mercedes to double-team Raikkonen and put Hamilton on the top step of the podium.

Scoring the most in Monza's fantasy race is SteveC whose 72 points moves him into 3rd overall. Zpeed and Pastor Maldonado round out the fantasy podium. nkoan's overall lead is cut to just 7 points as the lack of big-name drivers severely hampers his ability to score points.

The night race in Singapore is up next in two weeks time.

[Addendum] Following the race the FIA disqualified Romain Grosjean, who loses his 6th place finish for running with an illegal floor. That gives Williams a rare double-Top Ten finish, and slightly juggles the Fantasy F1 points, giving vwown3d 3rd for the race. nkoan also benefits, picking up 6 points on Chris Slater.

by sperry at 1:52 pm, Sep 4 I thought VER's defense was overzealous, and he deserved the penalty. But it wasn't terribly dirty... it was just risky to defend so hard, and he came out on the losing side of taking that risk.

by EAU ROUGE at 9:17 pm, Sep 3 Starting to even out with everybody at the top using racers 9 times. Going to get TIGHT!!!

by Jody Scheckter at 3:10 pm, Sep 3 It was interesting how determined he was to not give up the position to make a point.

by SteveC at 6:27 pm, Sep 2 Verstappen- heroic, hardcore racer or dirty driving rule breaker??

by sperry at 2:56 pm, Aug 30 We're back in action after the summer break, returning to the spectacular Spa-Francorchamps circuit. A wet Q3 shakes up the starting field, and gives Hamilton the pole advantage over Vettel's superior Ferrari power-plant. But that advantage didn't last past the first run down the Kemmel straight where Vettel was able to take the lead and never give it back, despite a lap 1 safety car for a Grosjean-like wreck at la Source. Vettel's win tightens Hamilton's championship lead, and perhaps puts Mercedes on its back-foot in terms of performance parity for the remainder of the season.

Making the best, and I mean *the best* of the Belgian round is Chris Slater, who grabs an improbable perfect 88 points, moving up 3 positions into 2nd overall. Reno Stack scores 70, good to slide up to 3rd overall. nKoan holds on to the overall lead, despite placing last this round, but his lead is drastically cut by only scoring 18 points.

From here on out, it will be interesting to see if nKoan's massive lead can be defended with clever use of mid-pack drivers, or if the more slow and steady picks of the pack behind him will prevail. It's a short turn-around, with Monza this weekend. Ferrari's apparent power advantage should make their home venue a likely win, but Mercedes may have their own ace up the sleeve having taken a penalty in Spa for Bottas, giving him a fresh engine for one of the fasted tracks of the season.

by Jody Scheckter at 9:40 pm, Aug 27 Gotta hand it to Chris Slater: a perfect score is increasingly rare as the season goes on, and required picking both Force India drivers. Necessity is the mother of invention! Sliced 68 points off nkoan's lead in one race!

by Pastor Maldonado at 8:00 am, Aug 27 Pastor making MOVES!!! Watch YA MIRRORS!

edited by Jody Scheckter at 7:44 am, Jul 31 We're heading into the summer break, but we have some action to catch up with before we do.

Lewis Hamilton was the big winner of the past three races, winning the past two, while Sebastian Vettel was unable to turn a potentially faster car into more points, and now finds himself 24 points adrift. Meanwhile Kimi Raikkonen has three solid third place finishes in a row. Valtteri Bottas' bad luck continues but he has still scored some useful points for Mercedes and played the perfect teammate, while Red Bull's drivers have failed to score too many times to stay with Ferrari.

The big mover of the past few races in Fantasy F1 is undoubtedly curley, taking top honors at Silverstone and Germany, after sharing them in Austria. As a result curley has jumped to 12th from 20th in just three races. Well done!

Staying with the biggest scorers of the past three races, BrawnGP and Reno Stack were only slightly off the torrid pace set by curley, picking up a podium finish each, with BrawnGP jumping eight positions to 7th, and Reno Stack jumping up five positions to 5th overall.

Pastor Maldonado claimed top honors at the Hungaroring, where wet qualifying and pit strategy combined to shake things up just a little. Add to that the fact that picks are now starting to get more limited resulting in slightly lower top scores.

Also on the podium during the past three races were nkoan, Chris Slater, EAU ROUGE and vwown3d.

Overall nkoan remains in first place, but the lead is down 17 points from the high of two races ago as the third, and last, dropped race has now kicked in for all competitors. SteveC has registered good results to jump into 2nd from 6th, while EAU ROUGE has bounced around slightly only to remain in 3rd at the end of the recent run of races.

So we head into the break with nine races to go, but will the leaders of today be able to hold onto their leads, and how many points will each participant be able to wring out of each driver? Expect the standings to tighten up!

by Jody Scheckter at 12:30 am, Jul 20 FYI - The 24 Hour notice for the German Grand Prix was erroneously sent out 6 hours early. You should receive the correct notice at 6am Friday.

by Jody Scheckter at 10:33 pm, Jul 8 That was a great British Grand Prix - and now we all start reeling nkoan back in.

by sperry at 7:06 am, Jul 6 The brutal RedBull Ring punishes both Mercedes into a rare double-DNF, opening the door for a double Ferrari podium and a lead change back to Ferrari and Vettel in both the drivers� and constructors� championships. But it�s Verstappen that capitalizes the most, winning at his team�s one track.

curley and sperry tie for the round win, but nkoan maintains his overall lead with another podium. SteveC moves up to 3rd overall with a 4th place round.

The triple-header wraps up in Silverstone, UK this weekend!

by sperry at 4:31 pm, Jun 26 The return to France is underwhelming. Pirelli brought tires that just seemed to last and last and Paul Ricard's geometry made for a parade of cars once the opening lap shenanigans were over. Hamilton finally received the engine upgrades he wished he had been running last time in Canada, as he was able to win from pole. Verstappen and Raikkonen rounded out the podium, making it another 3 manufacturer top 3. Vettel came in 5th, conceding the overall championship lead back to Hamilton.

In our fantasy championship, it's yet another 3-way tie for the round, as Chris Slater, nkoan, and Pastor Maldonado pull in 86 points on big-name driver picks. nkoan maintains the overall lead, with Chris Slater jumping up into 2nd place overall.

We head off to the 2nd round of our current 3-week European triple-header, Austria is this weekend!

by sperry at 4:23 pm, Jun 26 Yeah, I'm having the same sort of luck... in fact Lisa pointed out the other day, her drop round points are higher than my best round.

by Jody Scheckter at 9:30 pm, Jun 24 What a disaster: in the past two races I picked about the exact opposite drivers than I should have, costing me 52 points and 7 positions in the standings.

by sperry at 6:20 pm, Jun 16 Vettel shows that Ferrari has the best package for the long straights of Canada, winning in dominating manner. Bottas nabs 2nd in front of Verstappen in 3rd, making it a 3 constructor podium. With Hamilton languishing in 5th, Vettel takes back the championship lead by 1 point.

In a first-ever 3-way perfect round tie, nkoan, EAU ROUGE, and EL SLATSO, max out the points in Canada, putting them into the top 3 spots overall. Seriously, you guys? Seriously.

F1 returns to French soil, hallowed racing ground, for the first time in a decade. Round 8 is next, as we begin the summer swing through Europe!

by sperry at 3:50 pm, Jun 3 Monaco is another amazing parade, with incredible displays of man and machinery millimeters from the barriers, and no passing. Ricciardo gets redemption from his 2016 pit-stop fiasco, grabbing the win from pole ahead of Vettel and Hamilton on the podium.

The the fantasy championship, on identical pics, EL SLATSO, nKoan, and Reno Stack all tie for the round win scoring a near-perfect 82 points each. nKoan remains in the overall lead, with Reno Stack moving up to 3rd overall, and EL SLATSO into 5th overall on the backs of their Monaco points.

From the slowest race to the fastest race, the next round of the championship is in Canada at the high-speed Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve!

by sperry at 11:51 am, May 18 In Spain, Hamilton finally jumps back into his old dominant ways, winning from pole. Track position rules supreme as others fail to pull off sneaky strategies, leaving a Mercedes 1-2 at the front, and Verstappen rounding out the podium.

nkoan and Chris Slater tie for the round win, moving them into the overall 1-2 spots. indocti discant takes 3rd and moved up 9 spots into 4th overall.

The fantastic Monaco GP is up next, the lead-off event of the greatest motorsports day of the year!

by indocti discant at 6:57 am, May 14 It usually does not for a lot of us.

Darn gross jeans. I do however love how Sirotkin tried to show him up later on in the race with his ballet moves.

by EAU ROUGE at 6:55 am, May 14 That first lap did NOT go good for me specifically.

by EAU ROUGE at 7:26 pm, Apr 30 Roger that, thanks!

by sperry at 4:07 pm, Apr 30 I think any impartial observer would agree that Verstappen was probably over-agressive when it came to defending his own teammate.

And any Ricciardo fan (like me) is PISSED that Verstappen would double-move and cause a double-DNF when Daniel had clearly out-smarted him into the braking zone.

by sperry at 4:02 pm, Apr 30 The race in Baku might have been the most entertaining of the season, unless you're a RedBull fan. With RedBull's demise, Vettel's all-or-nothing shot at the win, and Bottas' incredible bad luck with a puncture from the lead, Hamilton picks up his first win of the season and the drivers' championship lead.

Van takes the round win with 61 points and the good fortune of having picked neither of the RedBull drivers. EAU ROUGE and nKoan round out the podium in a tie for 2nd place, moving them both up 7 spots into a points tie for the overall lead (though nKoan is ahead based on pick quality).

The F1 season heads to Barcelona for the first race of the year in Europe. Mercedes was fastest at the Catalunya test, so it will be a true test to see if Ferrari's advantage so far this season is universal or just a result of a track configurations over the first 4 rounds. Spain is next in just 2 weeks time!

by sperry at 3:50 pm, Apr 30 @EAU ROUGE, the site doesn't protect you from picking a driver too many times... at one point when I was developing it, it did, but then near the end of the season, it became impossible to move picks around without deleting and re-adding them.

What it does do is highlight picks when you have 1, 0, or negative picks left, so it should be pretty obvious on the picks page when you're trying to go over.

by EAU ROUGE at 12:34 pm, Apr 30 I can also tell who's been here and done that before, as I have way more picks of the top drivers than some. I see your strategy forming LOL. dammit.

by EAU ROUGE at 12:33 pm, Apr 30 Regarding the 9 pick limit by driver... does the website restrict me from picking a guy a 10th time? Or do we simply need to pay attention to that? thx

by Jody Scheckter at 12:53 am, Apr 30 Mad race. Mad result. Mad season.

by EAU ROUGE at 7:32 pm, Apr 29 "racing incident" that's what red bull are calling it. LOL I also had a bunch of eggs in one basket there.

by indocti discant at 6:27 pm, Apr 29 what a disaster of a round.. lost 2 picks in SIR and OCO on the first lap, and then of course RIC, and yeah VET. .

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.