2024 15th Annual FABO NASCAR "Pick 'Em" Game - One More Time!!!

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Why, W H Y Y Y.

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Two "amazing" races in a row, but the race this week at Darlington wasn't because of anything exciting. Darlington was "amazing" because neither the race winner, #6 Brad Keselowski, nor the race runner-up, #54 Ty Gibbs, was picked by any of our NASCAR "Pick 'Em" game players. No race winner or runner-up bonus points awarded this week.

'Yunick13' (FABO) had the low net score for the week with 5.0 points

#5 Kyle Larson was the race leader at the end of Stage 1, #54 Ty Gibbs was in 2nd.
#45 Tyler Reddick was the race leader at the end of Stage 2, #6 Brad Keselowski was in 2nd.

Here are the game standings following the 2024 Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway:
Yunick13 (FABO) 69.0 P24 24 L11 6 4 74.0
cuda20 (FABO) 92.0 (no Pole pick) 11 20 4 13 100.5
LocuMob (FABO) 87.5 LP5 L9 L19 12 25 106.0
ocdart (FABO) 113.0 P5 L5 L24 (S1-2) 34 6 131.0
Alsant (FBBO) 117.5 LP24 L5 L24 (S1-2) 34 6 135.5
Back in Time (FABO) 119.0 P20 19 5 (S1-2) 25 34 146.5
fishmens67 (FABO) 140.5 LP24 5 24 (S1-2) 34 6 158.5
sublime one (FABO) 144.5 LP5 L8 L11 27 4 160.0
riverdawg (FBBO) 153.0 LP19 L19 L23 25 7 169.0
44070dart (FABO) 164.0 P45 -1 45 24 (S2-2) 180.0
memike (FABO) 189.5 P24 45 24 (S2-2) 206.5

As a reminder here's a quick explanation of what the above numbers represent:
(your score before the race) (your Pole pick car #) (Pole winner bonus point) (race pick car #) (race pick car #) (Stage 1 bonus points) (Stage 2 bonus points) (race pick finish position) (race pick finish position) (race winner/runner-up bonus points) (your score after the race)
Please let me know if I show either your Pole or Race picks incorrectly or if you have any questions.

Please post your picks for the next race and let me know if you want to "lock" them in for future weeks. I will put an "L" before either your Pole pick or your race picks to show they've been "locked".
As always, you can always make different picks each week. Your "locked" picks will always be there should you forget to post your race picks, your computer malfunctions or the site should go down temporarily.

The next races on the 2024 schedule are the 2024 All-Star Open and the 2024 All-Star Race at historic North Wilkesboro Speedway. Watch for a special post about these races.
 
Nascar is having a tournament between the drivers next year, similar to the NFL of March Madness setup:

https://www.jayski.com/2024/05/13/nascar-instituting-in-season-tournament-during-2025-cup-season/
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National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (“NASCAR”) today announced it will hold a first-of-its-kind in-season tournament for the NASCAR Cup Series™ in 2025. The seeding for the bracket-style head-to-head event across TNT Sports’ full five-race schedule will be set by results from the final three races that will air on Prime Video.
“With the launch of our new media rights partnerships in 2025, we were excited to partner with Prime Video and TNT Sports to collaborate on fan engagement concepts that drive storylines in our sport and innovation from a production perspective,” said Brian Herbst, NASCAR SVP, Media and Productions. “The idea of an in-season tournament has been discussed within the NASCAR industry and as we started to focus on adding promotional elements that drive interest throughout the season, we were excited by the opportunity to leverage the marketing weight of Amazon and TNT Sports to bring this concept to life.
“Having head-to-head driver matchups for each one of TNT’s NASCAR Cup Series races will add a compelling fan engagement element across media platforms like TNT, Bleacher Report, House of Highlights, and NASCAR digital platforms.”
All drivers are eligible for the seeding races which will take place during the final three races of Prime Video’s coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series. The top 32 drivers based on the seeding events, will become eligible for the in-season tournament competition. Bracket seeding will be established by best finish in each race over the three races with the tiebreakers determined by the next-best finish, followed by season points position.
The tournament kicks off with the first event in the TNT Sports portion of the NASCAR Cup Series season. Drivers will compete head-to-head with the higher finishing driver of each race advancing over five rounds. The winner of the tournament will receive a $1 million prize.
“It’s never been a better time to be a fan of motorsports, and this new first-ever in-season tournament will bring a new competitive dynamic to NASCAR’s summer race weekends,” said Craig Barry, Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer, TNT Sports. “TNT Sports has always been at the forefront of creativity and innovation, and NASCAR is a perfect partner to bring this vision to life across our networks and platforms.”
“We’re excited to be part of NASCAR’s first in-season tournament next season,” said Charlie Neiman, Head of Sports Partnerships, Prime Video. “This tournament will showcase the league’s ability to drive innovation and engage fans with increased competition during a key part of the NASCAR schedule.”
In November 2023, NASCAR reached new seven-year media rights agreements for the NASCAR Cup Series with four best-in-class distribution partners – FOX Sports, NBC Sports, Amazon’s Prime Video and TNT Sports, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery – to deliver live coverage of all 38 NASCAR Cup Series races, beginning in 2025 and extending through the 2031 season.
Prime Video and TNT Sports will evenly split a series of 10 midseason races. Both also own the exclusive rights to select practice and qualifying sessions for the NASCAR Cup Series schedule through 2031.
NASCAR’s first fully direct-to-consumer partner, Prime Video will stream practice and qualifying live for the first half of the season through their last race of the midseason series with the exceptions of the Busch Light Clash, DAYTONA 500® and NASCAR All-Star Race™, which remain on FOX Sports.
TNT Sports will initiate its coverage with the next five midseason races, all part of the NASCAR Cup Series in-season tournament, simultaneously broadcast live on TNT and streaming on the B/R Sports Add-On on Max. Practice and qualifying for the remainder of the season will stream on Max and air on truTV.
 
Just like past years, we're going to treat the 2024 NASCAR All-Star Race next Sunday (May 19) just like a normal weekend NASCAR race, but with less bonus point availability due to the simpler format of the 2023 All-Star event.

All picks for the All-Star Open and the All-Star race events must be posted before 5:00PM EDT (2:00PM PDT) Sunday, May 19, before the television coverage of both races starts on Fox Sports 1.


Here's the weekend schedule:
* No game bonus point for qualifying at this event

* Sunday, May 19, 5:30PM EDT (2:30PM PDT) the NASCAR All-Star Open, a 100-lap qualifying race for all drivers not automatically eligible to drive in the All-Star race. There will be a "competition break" on or around lap 50. The top 2 race finishers will transfer to the All-Star race. A fan vote winner will also advance to the All-Star race. No bonus points will be awarded for the All-Star Open.

* The 2023 All-Star Race is scheduled to be a 200-lap race with two "competition breaks", one on or around lap 100, and the other on or around lap 150.

So, how are points going to work? Pick two drivers as always - driver picks can be from both the All-Star Open and the already-qualified drivers for the All-Star Race. You are picking drivers for only the All-Star Race, not the All-Star Open.
All game scoring will be based on All Star Race stage and finish position only.
But you can pick a driver that is driving in the All-Star Open if you think they will be one of the three drivers from either the All-Star Open stage winners, or will be the fan vote winner, and advance to the All Star Race.
Pick any driver not that is driving in the All-Star Open and double any bonus points earned by that driver. You could get -10 points for an event win, -6 points for an event runner-up, -2 points for leading at the the "competition breaks" of the All-Star Race.
Not interested in any driver except for those already locked in, you say? Any of the drivers racing in the All-Star Open could easily win either the All-Star Open or the Fan Vote on Friday night. Pick a non-qualified driver and possibly earn double bonus points.
So, do you feel lucky? Well, do you?

If your driver wins the All Star Race you'll get a -5 bonus, 2nd-place driver pick will get a -3 point bonus. Also, the driver pick leading at the "competition breaks" of the All Star Race will get a -1 point bonus.
As always, finishing positions from the All Star Race for your driver picks will be averaged. But not all current drivers will be starting the 200-lap All-Star race.
Only 20 drivers will start the All-Star race event, including the Fan Vote Winner and the top two finishers from the All-Star Open preliminary race.
If you pick a driver that doesn't make it out of the All-Star Open, you'll get an 20th-place finish for that driver.

No picks at all will be counted as 20 points since only 20 cars will be starting the All-Star Race.

The list of the 17 drivers guaranteed entry to the All-Star Race can be found in post #272 of this thread. They'll be joined by the Fan Vote Winner and the top two finishers of the All-Star Open.

Good luck!
 
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So, are you still thinking that only the 17 drivers currently guaranteed entry into the All-Star Race are your best chance at points?
Here are a few names that have to race their way in via the All-Star Open...
* #3 Austin Dillon
* #4 Josh Berry (2023 All-Star Open race winner)
* #23 Bubba Wallace
* #48 Alex Bowman
* #54 Ty Gibbs (finished 2nd in the 2023 All-Star Open race)

The above names plus an additional 12 weekly drivers will probably all be trying to advance out of the All-Star Open.
Making them one (or both) of your All-Star Race picks could double your bonus points.
How lucky do you feel?
 
Television coverage of qualifying for the 2024 NASCAR All-Star Open will be on FS1 today starting at 3:30pm EDT (12:30pm PDT).
 
ocdart said:
Television coverage of qualifying for the 2024 NASCAR All-Star Open will be on FS1 today starting at 3:30pm EDT (12:30pm PDT).
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#3 Austin Dillon was fastest around North Wilkesboro qualifying for the All-Star Open, but a light rain caused cancellation of the qualifying.
Because of the cancellation, qualifying was done by points and #54 Ty Gibbs and #48 Alex Bowman will be on the front row for the All-Star Open race.
The All-Star Open race winner and runner-up will transfer to the All-Star Race.
 
...and just in case you may be interested, Kyle Larson was 2nd fastest at Indianapolis Motor Speedway today on "Fast Friday" at 234.271 mph. He was second only to Colton Herta who turned a best lap speed average of 234.974 mph.
Way to go Kyle!
 
Back to my Penske drivers here, yep, Joey Lagono and Ryan Blainy

22 and the 12 car
 
ocdart said:
...and just in case you may be interested, Kyle Larson was 2nd fastest at Indianapolis Motor Speedway today on "Fast Friday" at 234.271 mph. He was second only to Colton Herta who turned a best lap speed average of 234.974 mph.
Way to go Kyle!
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Update: Kyle Larson is part of the "Fast Twelve" following qualifying earlier today. He'll be part of the group tomorrow that will try to advance to the "Fast Six" to potentially sit on the Pole for the 2024 Indy 500.
 
I wasn't able to either watch or record the All-Star Race today.
I've found the race final results online but cannot find accurate information about what drivers were either leading or in second place at each of the three scheduled 'competition cautions' in the race. Can someone please advise who was leading and who was in second place at each of the cautions so I can finish the "Pick 'Em" game scoring?
Thanks in advance!
 
Unconventional said:
Stenhouse and Busch went to Fist City in the infield last night :rofl: Unfortunately Busch survived :BangHead::rofl:
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I must admit, when Stenehouse popped him good it made my day.
Black flag needed to come out on Bush, he hit the wall and bounced into Stonehouse turn earlier, bush went to high and Stenehouse made a good pass putting them 3 wide, can't wait to see them next week .

:thankyou: Stenehouse
 
Congratulations to 'memike' (FABO) for being the only player to correctly pick #22 Joey Logano to win the 2024 NASCAR All-Star Race. He picked up -5 bonus points.
Congrats also to 'cuda20' (FABO), 'Sublime one' (FABO) and 'Yunick13' (FABO) for correctly picking race runner-up #11 Denny Hamlin. The each picked up -3 bonus points.

'memike' (FABO) had the low net score for the week with -7.0 points

There were only two 'competition cautions' in this race, not three as I previously stated.
#22 Joey Logano was the race leader at the end of the first, #17 Chris Buescher was in 2nd.
#22 Joey Logano was the race leader at the end of second, #12 Ryan Blaney was in 2nd.

Here are the game standings following the 2024 All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway:
Yunick13 (FABO) 74.0 (no Pole) L5 L11 4 2 -3 74.0
cuda20 (FABO) 100.5 (no Pole) 5 11 4 2 -3 100.5
LocuMob (FABO) 106.0 (no Pole) L9 L19 8 12 116.0
ocdart (FABO) 131.0 (no Pole) L5 L24 4 19 142.5
Alsant (FBBO) 135.5 (no Pole) L5 L24 4 19 147.0
Back in Time (FABO) 146.5 (no Pole) 5 45 4 14 155.5
Sublime one (FABO) 160.0 (no Pole) L8 L11 10 2 -3 163.0
fishmens67 (FABO) 158.5 (no Pole) 9 24 8 19 172.0
riverdawg (FBBO) 169.0 (no Pole) L19 L23 12 6 178.0
44070dart (FABO) 180.0 (no Pole) L9 8 8 10 184.0
memike (FABO) 206.5 (no Pole) 22 12 (S1-2)(S2-3) 1 5 -5 199.5

As a reminder here's a quick explanation of what the above numbers represent:
(your score before the race) (your Pole pick car #) (Pole winner bonus point) (race pick car #) (race pick car #) (Stage 1 bonus points) (Stage 2 bonus points) (race pick finish position) (race pick finish position) (race winner/runner-up bonus points) (your score after the race)
Please let me know if I show either your Pole or Race picks incorrectly or if you have any questions.

Please post your picks for the next race and let me know if you want to "lock" them in for future weeks. I will put an "L" before either your Pole pick or your race picks to show they've been "locked".
As always, you can always make different picks each week. Your "locked" picks will always be there should you forget to post your race picks, your computer malfunctions or the site should go down temporarily.

Don't forget to get your picks for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway posted before the green flag drops at approximately 6:15 PM EDT (3:15 PM PDT) on Sunday, May 26. Any race picks or changes to previously posted race picks for this race posted after 6:15PM EDT (3:15PM PDT) will not be recognized.

Your Pole Pick for Charlotte will need to be posted before qualifying starts at 5:50PM EDT (2:50PM PDT) on Saturday, May 25. Any qualifying picks or changes to previously posted qualifying picks for this race posted after 5:50PM EDT (2:50PM PDT) will not be recognized.
Qualifying will immediately follow Cup Series practice as shown on the Charlotte race schedule on nascar.com.
 
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