TMR Game 2011 – Week 45 & Final Scores

Hello and welcome to TMR Game Week 45.

It is over! The long season which stretched right back to the Rolex 24 at Daytona in February has finally come to an end. I don’t know about you but I could use a few weeks off before the Dakar Rally gets going.

Here are the final scores for the 2011 TMR Game.

Scores

Results

	Week 44	F1
	Points	Interlagos
1	50	Webber
2	40	Vettel
3	35	Button
4	32	Alonso
5	30	Massa
6	28	Sutil
7	26	Rosberg
8	24	di Resta
9	22	Kobayashi
10	20	Petrov

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Player Scores

Player	F1	Week 44
Sebastian X	221	221
RubberGoat	221	221
Maverick	221	221
Jackie	217	217
Sean	210	210
Startledbunny	210	210
Felipe Gana	208	208
Pat W	206	206
The Speedgeek	176	176
Dylanpt24 (80%)		141
Ryan (80%)		141
Crooked Cap (80%)		141
James (80%)		141
Jay (80%)		141
Mike Rice (80%)		141

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Well done to Sebastian, RubberGoat and Maverick for the three-way tie. The predictable safe picks won through as I think most of us expected. Worth a gamble for the rest of us though, with gearbox problems through the field it could have been a different result.

Thanks to Andy for saving my blushes and preventing me from finishing last in the final week of my own game via his strategy of not picking the eventual race winner!

A very close table as you might expect from what has been a fairly predictable F1 season.

Please see the results produced by Sebastian for the points spread.

Leaderboard

Pos	Pre	+/-	Name	Prior	Wk 44	Total	+
1	1	0	Sebastian X	11489	221	11710
2	2	0	Sean	11176	210	11386	324
3	3	0	RubberGoat	11145	221	11366	20
4	4	0	Maverick	10908	221	11129	237
5	5	0	Pat W	10903	206	11109	20
6	6	0	Felipe Gana	10766	208	10974	135
7	7	0	Jackie	10755	217	10972	2
8	8	0	The Speedgeek	10736	176	10912	60
9	9	0	Startledbunny	10471	210	10681	231
10	10	0	Dylanpt24	9723	141	9864	817
11	11	0	Ryan	9291	141	9432	432
12	12	0	The Crooked Cap	8896	141	9037	395
13	13	0	James	8417	141	8558	479
14	14	0	Jay	7948	141	8089	469
15	15	0	Mike Rice	7432	141	7573	516

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Congratulations Sebastian, two titles in two years!

Well done too to Sean for putting up a solid fight in the middle of the season, sadly falling towards the end due to some really bad luck not of his own making.

RubberGoat did a good job to spring from the midfield and claim a solid 3rd place and closed in on Sean towards the end there.

I can’t believe Mav beat me at his first attempt – pah!

Despite scoring nearly 11,000 points, Felipe and Jackie were only separated by 2 points at the end! Very good battling in the midfield all year long. And a good improvement from Jackie over last year if I may say.

I’d hoped Speedgeek and Startledbunny would be a little more competitive, especially with some good showings from time to time, not sure what happened there guys.

It was a shame so many decided to bail out, but it is a fair old commitment to come back every week I suppose.

In Closing

Thanks to everybody who took part this year and last, and also to those who helped out, not least Sebastian for his scoretable and email assistance. I hope it was fun and that it broadened horizons into different worlds of racing.

Will there be a game in 2012? I really don’t know.

I don’t want to lose it but I’d also like to do something which doesn’t have a set timetable – even if I start a written column here I might not keep it to a set day. I often have enough time pressure at work that I don’t need it in a hobby. I’m not necessarily saying it takes a lot to run, I just want to go into a Monday night knowing I’m not trapped into spending an hour or two (or three on a busy week) sorting out scores, and then having to nag and chase people at the end of the week! Mind you I input most of the results not just those which need scoring.. which is probably not necessary. But I also know I’m complaining because I’m tired now – in January I’ll want to start again!

Perhaps we’ll all have a nice break and then decide in late December / early January. Please do think about whether you’d like to volunteer to run it or help out.

Thanks again and I hope you stick around over the winter either here or on social media. I’m also on Twitter and have personal accounts on FB and now G+ so do look me up on those if you haven’t already.