2010 RMFN - Final Figures

Average race score (teams that completed season): 263

Average season score (teams that completed season): 9497

300+ scores: 344

200- scores: 154

Best score: Golden Boy 48, 370, Dover, Sept. 25

Lowest (with four drivers activated): Blessed, 111, Taladega, Oct. 31

10+ 300 scores during the season: Turn Right Once In Awhile (15); BLOWINSMOKE (14); CLOWN CAR RACING (12); SNAPPY LOBSTA, #3 Dale Earnhardt Sr (11); Stone Cold, Sunday Money 10, ALL EIGHT RACING, Hoosier (10)

Race with most 300+ scores: Watkins Glen, Aug. 8, 19

Race with the fewest 200- scores: Dover, May 16, 0

Highest average race score: Dover, May 16, 290

Race with the fewest 300+ scores: Michigan, Aug. 15, 1

Race with the most 200- scores: Martinsville, Oct. 24 and Taladega, Oct. 31; 11

Lowest average race score: Taladega, Oct. 31, 222

Number of teams that won or tied for first in at least one race: 30

Most race wins: Rolling Thunder, Damn Sunday Drivers, Bassman Racing, Monster, 09 Dodge Caravan Driver, Roughriders (2)

Most consecutive 300+ races: CLOWN CAR RACING, FordFucusRacing, LT4SS, SNAPPY LOBSTA, Dale Earnhardt's Neck (4)

Number of 2010 RMFN teams finishing at or above the 90th Yahoo percentile: 10

Number of 2010 RMFN teams who finished at or above the 90th Yahoo percentile in 2000: 13

Number of 2010 RMFN teams finishing in the 99th Yahoo percentile: 2 - BLOWINSMOKE and Turn Right Once In Awhile

Number of 2010 RMFN teams who finished in the 99th Yahoo percentile in 2009: 2 - Monster and Bassman Racing

WC -

BLOWINSMOKE, the No. 4 seed in the bracket phase, beat Al Briggs Racing, 14th, by 17 points in the World Cup final. Turn Right Once In Awhile dominated paulmotors10 for third.

The final was the second-closest matchup of the bracket phase - Sunday Money 10 topped 09 Dodge Caravan Driver by one point in the Round of 16.

The two group phases followed by the bracket phases allows for some comeback stories, and this year was no different.

ABR and Rolling Thunder finished third in the groups in the first phase (only the top three from each group were guaranteed spots in the next round. ABR also advanced to the bracket phase by winning a tiebreaker for second place in its group in the second group phase (first place went to BLOWINSMOKE).

TROIA had a longer road, finishing as the best fourth-place finisher in the first group phase to advance (p10 won that group).

In terms of finish in the Overall:
1 (overall) BLOWINSMOKE 1 (WC)
2 TROIA 3
3 Damn Sunday Drivers 5
4 Stone Cold 23
5 Bassman Racing 27
6 CLOWN CAR RACING 12
7 Rolling Thunder 6
8 Sunday Money 8
9 Tony is the Man 11
10 Monster 42

DEH - Intimidator finishes strong

#3 Dale Earnhardt Sr, the No. 37 seed, dominated the second of two matchups versus No. 11 Turn Right Once In Awhile to claim the Double Elimination Heat title by 102 points. #3's run was highlighted by a series of close advancing finishes in the winners' heat - 52 in the first round, 17 in the second round, 22 in the third round, 36 in the fourth round, 24 in the sixth round and six in the seventh round.

No. 35 Damn Sunday Drivers was the next lowest seed with the most success, finishing fourth.

BLOWINSMOKE was the last remaining top 10 seed, bowing out in the seventh round and finishing seventh. Four top 10 seeds were eliminated in the third round.

The top 10 finishers in the Overall were near the front in the DEH.
In addition to TROIA (second overall), BLOWIN (first), and DSD (third):
Bassman Racing (fifth overall; third in DEH)
Rolling Thunder (seventh overall; fifth DEH)
Sunday Money 10 (eighth otherall; sixth DEH)
Tony is the Man (ninth overall; eighth DEH)
Monster (10th overall; 10th DEH)

SEH - Rolling to another trophy

Rolling Thunder posted the top scores in the final three rounds to claim the Single Elimination Heat title. It nipped paulmotors10 in the semifinals by one point before routing p10 by nearly 100 in the championship. p10 entered as the No. 50 team; RT as No. 5.

p10 was scheduled to be eliminated after the quarterfinals but 3 Virgins dropped out of RMFN after that round, allowing p10 to advance to the semifinals.

The top 10 seeds struggled mightily in SEH. RT was the only finisher among the top eight and only two others advanced to the final 16.

Among the top 10 in the final Overall standings, only RT, BLOWINSMOKE, Turn Right Once In Awhile and Tony is the Man finished among the top 10 in the SEH.

DEB - All about the quack

Fifth-seeded yduck beat No. 1 seed BLOWINSMOKE in the second of two lopsided matchups to claim the Double Elimination Bracket title.

yduck won four matchups prior to the final by 62 points or less, including a 10-point win in its first competing round (round two) over Al Briggs Racing.

No. 32 Gotta Love Jr was the highest seeded team with the best finish (fifth).

The theme of strong runs equals Overall contention applied here, as well. Rolling Thunder, which finished seventh in the Overall, was 43rd in the DEB.

SEB - Bassman returns to the top

Bassman Racing entered as the top seed and, for the most part, dominated the Single Elimination Bracket field. BR's closest matchups were in the semifinals (35 points over Rolling Thunder) and in the final (47 points over Damn Sunday Drivers).

Five top 10 seeds were eliminated in the second round (their first round of competing in the competition); two more in the second round. BR and RT (seeded fifth) were the only T10 seeds to compete on the final weekend.

Advancing out of the first round was crucial to contending for the Overall title. Sunday Money 10 finished eighth overall and 22nd in SEB - the best among the first 33 teams eliminated.
Among eliminations in the first round, #3 Dale Earnhardt Sr finished 13th overall and 39th in SEB.

'SMOKE in the Chase

BLOWINSMOKE bettered CLOWN CAR RACING by 42 points to claim the Chase title. BLOWINSMOKE was dominant in the first nine races with five 300+ races; the team posted a season-low 152 at Miami and still won comfortably.

CCR had the most impressive non-race-winning run of the competition. It entered the Chase as the 12th out of 13 teams, didn't win a race at any point in the competition and still finished second.
Third place Turn Right Once In Awhile was 98 points behind CCR. 13th place Tony is the Man finished more than 400 points behind BLOWINSMOKE.

09 Dodge Caravan Driver entered the Leftovers pool in 15th and jumped one spot to claim the top spot in the group by 44 points over FordFucusRacing. FFR jumped 12 spots to claim 15th.

OVERALL - Up in 'SMOKE

BLOWINSMOKE was the only team with top-10 finishes in all 12 competitions. Despite that, its average of 3.4 was just one point better than second place Turn Right Once In Awhile. TROIA's only non-T10 ws in the Yahoo Fall; with a first-place finish there, TROIA would have won the title.

The win by BLOWINSMOKE isn's all that surprising, given that the team entered RMFN 2010 with top overall seed with seven finishes in the Yahoo 90th percentile or better since 2002.

Here's a look at how teams finished in relation to their overall seed:

BLOWINSMOKE 0
Turn Right Once in Awhile +9
Damn Sunday Drivers +32
Stone Cold +5
Bassman Racing +15
CLOWN CAR RACING +1
Rolling Thunder +19
Sunday Money '10 +2
Tony is the Man +5
Monster -7

LT4SS +7
SNAPPY LOBSTA +16
#3 Dale Earnhardt Sr +24
yduck -9
09 Dodge Caravan Driver +8
GoSlowTurnRight -1
Hoosier +10
Revalusions -1
Al Briggs Racing +17
paulmotors10 +30

billys boys 9 -15
Oysters Lug Nutz -14
3 Virgins +11
Go Daddy +7
~~Gotta Love Jr~~ -7
FordFucusRacing -13
ALL EIGHT RACING -11
SMOKE -6
ShoeString Racing +19
No right turns -26

Team Lester +8
Gonzo Racing +8
~~Abbie Knows~~ 0
DaleEarnhardt3 +4
FC Newman -23
djs -11
Roughriders +5
Dale Earnhardt's Neck +6
Cooter88 -37
Seattle Spunk -21

Anyone but Jimmie -11
Golden Boy 48 +4
BURNINRUBBER -2
Rowdy Racing 18 +3
Black Train -16
Sqworls Racing -3
Blessed -26
Shake and Bake -3
RING OF FIRE -24
JR. Nation 88 -1

First-round pairings

Based on the seeds, the pairings for the first round of the various competitions are in the excel document below.

I'm going to chip away at the baseball/head-to-head format throughout the season in hopes we can add another team to the list of RMFN winners. Right now, I've tucked those documents at the end of the other items - which we will certainly complete this year.

Update from Daytona no later than before the next race.




Nascar10.Preseason

About the players

50 Players in the 2010 Rocky Mountain Fantasy NASCAR league.


211 Seasons of fantasy NASCAR played the 2010 RMFN players heading into 2010.


4.3 Average number of fantasy NASCAR seasons played by 2010 RMFN players.


1 Rookie in the 2010 RMFN field - paulmotors10.


90 90th-percentile finishes by the 2010 RMFN players in past seasons - 43 percent of the time.


6 90th-percentile finishes by BLOWINSMOKE and Cooter88 in their Yahoo fanstay NASCAR histories, most in 2010 RMFN. Neither did it in 2009.


13 2010 RMFN players finished in the 90th-percentile in 2009, led by Bassman Racing and Monster at 99.


25 Players back from the 2009 season.


10 Players (at least) back from from the 2008 and 2007 seasons.


8 Players with ALL CAPS in their team names.


11 Teams with numbers in their team names.


11 Teams (at least) with references to drivers in their team names.


5 Games/titles won by Bassman Racing (including the overall Yahoo crown) in 2009; that team finished second in the overall standings.

We have 50 players, 50 seeds

The lists below outline the seeds for the competitions. I'll post an updated spreadsheet just before or during Sunday's race (maybe today, but doubtful) for matchups in the different competitions.

Ties for the 2009-seeded competitions were broken by when the player registered for the league; ties for the overall seeds were broken by 2009 finish, 2008 finish and so on.

Again, we'll use the 2009 seeds for the single-elimination competitions and the overall seeds for the other games.

Good luck!

2009

1	Bassman Racing	99
2	Monster	99
3	~~Gotta Love Jr~~	98
4	~~Abbie Knows~~	96
5	Rolling Thunder	94
6	yduck	94
7	CLOWN CAR RACING	94
8	Black Train	92
9	No right turns	91
10	Al Briggs Racing	91
11	SNAPPY LOBSTA	91
12	Anyone but Jimmie	90
13	Sunday Money '10	90
14	Golden Boy 48	89
15	#3 Dale Earnhardt Sr	88
16	Revalusions	87
17	LT4SS	86
18	ALL EIGHT RACING	86
19	Oysters Lug Nutz	86
20	Mr Sunday	86
21	Stone Cold	84
22	Tony is the Man	83
23	BLOWINSMOKE	82
24	Go Daddy	82
25	Turn Right Once in Awhile	80
26	Team Lester	79
27	djs	78
28	Hoosier	77
29	Seattle Spunk	77
30	FC Newman	73
31	09 Dodge Caravan Driver	73
32	Cooter88	73
33	Rowdy Racing 18	73
34	billys boys 9	71
35	3 Virgins	71
36	DaleEarnhardt3	69
37	Roughriders	68
38	GoSlowTurnRight	66
39	Gonzo Racing	56
40	RING OF FIRE	55
41	Dale Earnhardt's Neck	54
42	FordFucusRacing	52
43	BURNINRUBBER	51
44	Blessed	51
45	SMOKE	46
46	Sqworls Racing	41
47	JR. Nation 88	30
48	Shake and Bake	5
49	ShoeString Racing	0
50	paulmotors10	0

Overall

1	BLOWINSMOKE	490.9
2	Cooter88	485
3	Monster	477.3
4	No right turns	474.8
5	yduck	445.4
6	billys boys 9	443.3
7	CLOWN CAR RACING	436.4
8	Oysters Lug Nutz	434.2
9	Stone Cold	393.8
10	Sunday Money '10	375.5
11	Turn Right Once in Awhile	367.6
12	FC Newman	367.6
13	FordFucusRacing	358.8
14	Tony is the Man	342.5
15	GoSlowTurnRight	320.9
16	ALL EIGHT RACING	317.1
17	Revalusions	314.8
18	LT4SS	314
19	Seattle Spunk	310.5
20	Bassman Racing	305.2
21	Blessed	299.6
22	SMOKE	295.9
23	09 Dodge Caravan Driver	289.1
24	djs	287.6
25	RING OF FIRE	275.1
26	Rolling Thunder	257.9
27	Hoosier	244.1
28	SNAPPY LOBSTA	242.1
29	Black Train	239.7
30	Anyone but Jimmie	226.5
31	Go Daddy	211
32	~~Gotta Love Jr~~	207.5
33	~~Abbie Knows~~	205.4
34	3 Virgins	199.7
35	Mr Sunday	174.2
36	Al Briggs Racing	171.1
37	#3 Dale Earnhardt Sr	170.8
38	DaleEarnhardt3	168.4
39	Team Lester	167.2
40	Gonzo Racing	158.1
41	BURNINRUBBER	147.7
42	Roughriders	124.7
43	Sqworls Racing	116.6
44	Dale Earnhardt's Neck	97.2
45	Shake and Bake	96.2
46	Golden Boy 48	89
47	Rowdy Racing 18	73
48	ShoeString Racing	40.2
49	JR. Nation 88	30
50	paulmotors10	0

Seeds/Update

No dice on the baseball competition again this season. Ran out of time, and I don't want to start it without knowing how much time I'll need to devote to it. Maybe in 2011 ...

A breakdown of how the seeding works can be found by clicking here. The only changes will be the ratings multipliers (e.g. 100 percent for 2009, 90 percent for 2008, and so on). Here's an update on the seeding for the other competitions (as of 7 p.m., MST, 2/4):

OVERALL
BLOWINSMOKE 491
Cooter88 485
No right turns 479
yduck 445
FC Newman 367
FordFucusRacing 359
Tony is the Man 343
Revalusions 315
LT4SS 314
Dodge Caravan Driver 305
Bassman Racing 305
Rolling Thunder 257
Hoosier 244
Black Train 240
Anyone but Jimmie 227
Gotta Love Jr 208
Abbie Knows 205
#3 Dale Earnhardt St 171
DaleEarnhardt3 168
Gonzo Racing 158
BURNINRUBBER 148
Roughriders 125
Dale Earnhardt's Neck 97
Shake and Bake 96

2009 (ties are broke by signup)
Bassman Racing 99
Gotta Love Jr 98
Abbie Knows 96
Rolling Thunder 94
yduck 94
Black Train 92
No right turns 91
Anyone but Jimmie 90
#3 Dale Earnhardt St 88
Revalusions 87
LT4SS 86
Tony is the Man 83
BLOWINSMOKE 82
Hoosier 77
FC Newman 73
Dodge Caravan Driver 73
Cooter88 73
DaleEarnhardt3 69
Roughridrs 68
Gonzo Racing 56
Dale Earnhardt's Neck 54
FordFucusRacing 52
BURNINRUBBER 51
Shake and Bake 5

Welcome to 2010

The country is inching out of the recession so, just one league this year (that and two leagues were a bit much in '09).

Group ID: 349
Password: 987654

If you're new, search around here for past season results and formats

As we get closer to the season:
* I'll also post an overview and rules breakdown.
* (once the field is full at 50), I'll post the preseason slate with seeds and matchups for the various competitions.

Good luck (you'll need it)!

2010 Registration

Recession Proof Drivers was a one-year deal, so there will be just one league with all of these formats (and I'll hopefully get back to the baseball format, as well).

Reply with a comment below if you want to be added to the list of invites (I would guess we'll top at 50 again):

1. F.C. Newman
2. BlessedWyoMom
3. W-Y-O Racing
4. FordFucusRacing
5. Gonzo Racing
6. Bassman Racing
7. Team Lester
8. Rolling Thunder
9. Hoosier
10. yduck
11. Dale Earnhardt's Neck