Welcome to Week 5 of the Too Much Racing Game!
This post contains a quick-start summary for entries to Week 5, the results from Week 4, and a few notes about Week 5’s racing.
Quick-Start
There is only one race this week and that’s NASCAR Sprint Cup at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. All you have to do is pick 7 Cup drivers in a reply to this post. The deadline is Friday 26th February at 11.59pm GMT (that’s 6.59pm US Eastern). I’m hoping to attract a few more entries when the F1 and IndyCar seasons start in a fortnight, so get an entry in now to get a head-start even if you don’t know anything about Cup!
For the full results from Week 4, read on.
New?
If you are new to the game, it is simply this: Make a weekly pick of up to 10 drivers from a mix of racing series.
You might be a specialist in one championship and know nothing about the others – it doesn’t matter, just pick some names you’ve heard of and use your specialism wisely.
You might know a small amount about lots of series – it doesn’t matter, hopefully this game will help you learn more.
Don’t worry if you didn’t enter the first few weeks – there can be big differences in scoring from week to week so you have the chance to catch up, or how about just playing for fun?
How To Enter
1. Reply to this post.
2. List up to 10 drivers, with no more than 7 from a single event. In weeks with only one event you may pick a total of 7 drivers.
3. Send your entry before the stated deadline, usually some time on a Friday. You can make as many changes as you like until the closing point, I’ll take your last entry.
Good luck!
Further information can be found on the game sub-page.
Scores from Week 4
Top Ten Finishers
Pos. | Points | NASCAR Cup – Fontana |
1 | 50 | Jimmie Johnson |
2 | 40 | Kevin Harvick |
3 | 35 | Jeff Burton |
4 | 32 | Mark Martin |
5 | 30 | Joey Logano |
6 | 28 | Kurt Busch |
7 | 26 | Matt Kenseth |
8 | 24 | Clint Bowyer |
9 | 22 | Tony Stewart |
10 | 20 | Greg Biffle |
Jimmie Johnson is back on top after a poor opener at Daytona, and this seems to be something of a more representative finishing order generally – of course anything can happen in NASCAR. I plan to include the top finishers every week and I hope this’ll make the scoring a little clearer when you compare it to your entry – we can’t all check the results of every series included in the game!
Points Awarded This Week
Player | NASCAR | Week 4 | |
1 | James | 178 | 178 |
2 | The Speedgeek | 170 | 170 |
3 | Sebastian | 164 | 164 |
4 | Sean | 162 | 162 |
5 | Pat W | 132 | 132 |
6 | Dank | 110 | 110 |
7 | Burwellian | 89 | 89 |
8 | RG | 85 | 85 |
9 | Jon Waldock | 85 | 85 |
10 | Jackie | 55 | 55 |
11 | Startledbunny | 3 | 3 |
Well done James! Our ‘resident’ NASCAR experts are up top this week as you might expect, while perhaps the rest of us are just trying to hang on until the other series start!
Overall Standings
Pos | Pre | +/- | Name | Prior | Wk 4 | Total |
1 | 2 | 1 | James | 381 | 178 | 559 |
2 | 4 | 2 | The Speedgeek | 366 | 170 | 536 |
3 | 1 | -2 | RG | 444 | 85 | 529 |
4 | 3 | -1 | Dank | 375 | 110 | 485 |
5 | 5 | 0 | Pat W | 342 | 132 | 474 |
6 | 6 | 0 | Burwellian | 338 | 89 | 427 |
7 | 8 | 1 | Sebastian | 239 | 164 | 403 |
8 | 9 | 1 | Sean | 227 | 162 | 389 |
9 | 7 | -2 | Jon Waldock | 291 | 85 | 376 |
10 | 11 | 1 | Jackie | 119 | 55 | 174 |
11 | 10 | -1 | Startledbunny | 142 | 3 | 145 |
We have a new leader as this week’s winner also takes the overall lead, chased by Speedgeek who knocks RG into 3rd. Sebastian and Sean are making serious progress now, very nearly scoring twice the points of their immediate competition. Startledbunny was the only non-entrant this week and his carryover entries only netted 3 points (it would be worth entering an all-NASCAR team to pick up more carryover points!).
You can see the difference between a good score and a bad score, and this is just with a single race, so there’s definitely hope for anyone still wishing to enter who hasn’t yet done so. Join us! Finally, a huge thank you to those who have entered so far, I really think the strategic element is yet to come and I hope you enjoy it.
Week 5
This is another NASCAR-only week for the game, as the Cup series visits Las Vegas Motor Speedway. While the entry list is here you may prefer to look at the points table or the results of the last race for pointers to current form – or you may want to try a different strategy to set yourself apart from the pack.
Looking further ahead, Week 6 will see the return of the WRC alongside NASCAR, and Week 7 is the one I’m really looking forward to with the first F1 and IndyCar rounds of the year (and Cup takes a week off). Week 8 has Sebring. Check the Game page for the full schedule. Exciting times lay ahead!
Okay, last week I overestimated Roush and underestimated Childress. I’ll correct that.
Jimmie Johnson
Mark Martin
Kurt Busch
Kyle Busch
Matt Kenseth
Jeff Burton
Clint Bowyer
LikeLike
Hi Pat,
Yay I got some points 🙂
Here’s this weeks’ selection:
Juan Pablo Montoya
Kurt Busch
Jimmie Johnson
Brian Vickers
Joey Logano
Mark Martin
Jamie McMurray
Thank you.
LikeLike
6th… I’m happy with 6th. Will be tough to keep it if Seb & Sean keep racking up points though.
So, to try and consolidate this week, my picks;
Kevin Harvick
Clint Bowyer
Greg Biffle
Juan Pablo Montoya
Scott Speed
Jamie McMurray
Matt Kenseth
LikeLike
Right, I think I’m getting to grips with who’s fast.. or who’s supposed to be fast 🙂
Jimmie Johnson
Jeff Gordon
Mark Martin
Greg Biffle
Kevin Harvick
Kyle Busch
Juan Pablo Montoya
Now watch as they all crash out!
LikeLike
Crimony – I have a reputation to protect now!
This week’s 7
Kyle Busch
Jeff Burton
Jimmie Johnson
Mark Martin
Kasey Kahne
Jeff Gordon
Brian Vickers
LikeLike
Isn’t Jackie polite? It reminds me that I have thought how much adding up and double-checking and preparing info for uploading Pat must have to do for all this so I add my own thank you.
I have worked out that with missing the first week, my deficit to James is 156, which with 39 weeks left to score is exactly 4 points to make up per week. Unfortunately, James has outscored me in both the weeks I have entered so far. Drat.
My choices:
NASCAR:
Jimmie Johnson
Jeff Gordon
Mark Martin
Kurt Busch
Denny Hamlin
Tony Stewart
Greg Biffle
LikeLike
Ooooh
Jamie McMurray
Jeff Gordon
Kurt Busch
JP Montoya
Matt Kenseth
Jimmie Johnson
Denny Hamlin
Right, I’m not going to settle for third, no matter how early in the competition it is.
LikeLike
A bit of a mixed bag, but here goes.
Jimmie Johnson
Tony Stewart
Jeff Gordon
Kevin Harvick
Dale Earnhardt Jr
Scott Speed
Greg Biffle
LikeLike
Heheh, its no bother, I enjoy it.
I keep forgetting to upload the file to Google Docs as someone requested the other week. I’ll do that when I’m less drunk.
I was thinking about having a dropped-score rule. 43 weeks, maybe we drop the 3 worst scores. Is that a good or a bad idea?
LikeLike
I’ll carry over from last week:
Jimmie Johnson
Tony Stewart
Greg Biffle
Clint Bowyer
Jeff Burton
Brian Vickers
Juan Pablo Montoya
Thanks!
LikeLike
My reservation about dropped scores is they make the standings table so difficult to follow. Following a racing series that has dropped scores, the permutations at the end of the season become myriad. One driver will get less points for a higher finish than another will for a lower finish. You would have to include later in the season what an entrant’s score is, what it would be in brackets with their worst three scores so far dropped, and what score was highest of those three that they need to improve on to increase their final score, for the points table to be representative, and even then not easily so. Also, if a competitor never misses a week, their worst three scores are most likely to be amongst the six single-event weeks, particularly the more unpredictable NASCAR-only weeks.
I still favour a minimum points score (although the suggestion of 80 points was too high, especially for a single event weekend) but I made the suggestion to the group and accept no one liked it enough to support it.
Almost all of us are likely to forget or be unable to submit for one reason or another at some point in the season. Of the eleven players, three have missed one week and one two weeks (assuming The Speedgeek and Dank are happy to carry over this time – my selection is the same as last week). We might be down to three or four regulars by the end of the season since like evening classes, miss two or three and people do not come back.
One suggestion is you do the weekly post earlier. It would be good to see the latest scores sooner rather than later and with the late post on Wednesday, if someone is working full-time and goes out on a Friday night after work, then that only leaves Thursday evening to remember to submit.
LikeLike