TMR Game 2011 – Week 13

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 13.

We take a break this weekend as MotoGP’s Japanese round was understandably rescheduled to October, and this is one of the few weeks with no Sprint Cup action. Read on for your scores from Week 12.

Housekeeping

Each week you pick 10 entries with a maximum of 7 of those coming from a single championship. You can have any mix of races from those listed in this post, and you don’t have to use all of them.

See this page for the game rules.

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Scores

Top Tens

	Week 12	IndyCar	ALMS
	Points	Long Beach	Long Beach
1	50	Mike Conway	#6 Muscle Milk AMR (LMP1)
2	40	Ryan Briscoe	#16 Dyson (LMP1)
3	35	Dario Franchitti	#06 CORE (LMPC)
4	32	James Hinchcliffe	#89 Intersport (LMPC)
5	30	Alex Tagliani	#56 BMW (GT)
6	28	Oriol Servia	#4 Corvette (GT)
7	26	Danica Patrick	#62 Risi Ferrari (GT)
8	24	Tony Kanaan	#17 Falken Porsche (GT)
9	22	Vitor Meira	#63 Genoa (LMPC)
10	20	Will Power	#3 Corvette (GT)
		F1	NASCAR Cup
	Points	Shanghai	Talladega
1	50	Lewis Hamilton	Jimmie Johnson
2	40	Sebastian Vettel	Clint Bowyer
3	35	Mark Webber	Jeff Gordon
4	32	Jenson Button	Dale Earnhardt, Jr
5	30	Nico Rosberg	Kevin Harvick
6	28	Felipe Massa	Carl Edwards
7	26	Fernando Alonso	Greg Biffle
8	24	Michael Schumacher	Mark Martin
9	22	Vitaly Petrov	David Gilliland
10	20	Kamui Kobayashi	Joey Logano

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What great results in IndyCar and F1! Nobody could’ve predicted those with 20 laps to go. The ALMS race was as expected, an LMP sideshow with the focus in a fantastic GT battle. I missed the Cup race but it looks like the Hendrick cars took charge with a 1st, a 3rd and a 4th.

Scores This Week

Player	Formula 1	IndyCar Series	ALMS	NASCAR Cup	Week 12
Sean	211	55	90	0	356
Felipe Gana	201	55	90	0	346
The Crooked Cap	151	62	50	78	341
Pat W	133	79	125	0	337
Maverick	157	125	50	0	332
Sebastian X	201	79	50	0	330
Dylanpt24	125	54	90	45	314
Ryan	140	79	90	2	311
Jackie	157	55	90	2	304
The Speedgeek	107	59	129	0	295
RubberGoat	122	67	90	2	281
James	107	67	43	60	277
Startledbunny	108	67	68	29	272
Jay	129	79	50	2	260
No Entry Received: 80% of lowest score
Mike Rice					208

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Congratulations to Sean for another win, the third of the year! Felipe and The Crooked Cap had great scores, too. I’m pleased with my score after my gamble on CORE paid off!

Formula 1 was the focus for many players and for them that proved to be a successful strategy. We had some very high scores in the F1 split considering this was a four-event week! Maverick was the only one of the few to pick more from another series (in this case IndyCar) who was able to make it work.

Conversely, NASCAR was largely left out of the picture as you might expect from a ‘plate race. Those who did make picks weren’t really rewarded since many chose Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth, who scored two TMRG points between them. Jackie lost out when she switched from race winner Johnson to Kenseth, as a consequence of the first try entering the spam trap I feel a bit guilty about that, but both entries were rescued with time to make a correction.

Do check Sebastian’s figures here for a detailed look at your results, this week he’s also calculated efficiency of winners’ picks.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 12	Total	+
1	1	0	Sean	1886	356	2242
2	2	0	Sebastian X	1840	330	2170	72
3	5	2	Pat W	1764	337	2101	69
4	3	-1	James	1820	277	2097	4
5	4	-1	RubberGoat	1775	281	2056	41
=	8	2	Dylanpt24	1742	314	2056	0
7	7	0	Startledbunny	1744	272	2016	40
8	6	-2	Jay	1746	260	2006	10
9	9	0	Felipe Gana	1650	346	1996	10
10	11	1	The Crooked Cap	1646	341	1987	9
11	10	-1	Maverick	1650	332	1982	5
12	12	0	Jackie	1616	304	1920	62
13	13	0	The Speedgeek	1603	295	1898	22
14	14	0	Ryan	1582	311	1893	5
15	15	0	Mike Rice	1437	208	1645	248

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Sean’s lead is extended further, he’s going to take some beating now! Sebastian and I are next up, scoring well but still not enough. I overtook James and RubberGoat, who is now tied with Dylan for 6th. Dylan switched position with Jay. Felipe has now caught that group with his good score this week. Crooked Cap isn’t far behind him, after passing Maverick.

The gaps between each player aren’t very big but the overall field spread is growing. After this short break, now would be a good time to put in a string of good results.

Upcoming Races

Just one race was originally scheduled for this weekend, but understandably the Japanese MotoGP race has been rescheduled to October. Therefore we have a break in the action and we’ll pick up again one week from now with entries for IndyCar, MotoGP, Cup and the first DTM round of the year. In the meantime, keep an eye on the Le Mans Test Day and enjoy the Easter weekend!