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Welcome to my fantasy F1 competition. I have looked at various F1 competitions on the internet, picked what I believe are the best elements of each and put them together into my own competition.
Below should be everything you need to know.
SETTING UP A TEAM
You have an overall budget of €110m
You must purchase
4 drivers (all from DIFFERENT teams)
1 constructor
1 engine
1 team boss
The constructor, engine and team boss must be from different teams to each other, though they can be from the same teams as your drivers.
You will score points for each element of your team based on the tables below. It is not quite as straight forward as most fantasy F1 leagues but in my view this is why it can be more rewarding for those who like to do a bit of homework first.
The most important difference to most fantasy leagues is that your drivers score differently depending on where you place them in your team. This makes tactical placement of those drivers a big part of the game i.e placing Alonso as driver 1 will get you different points than putting him as driver 2.
Also note that strictly speaking you are buying the seat, not the driver. So if you buy Adrian Sutil you are actually buying the Force India #1 seat. So if for example he moves to Ferrari mid-season you will take on his replacement at Force India ('Booo' says you). Similarly if you buy an expensive driver who drops down the grid, you will get his replacement at his old team ('Yaaaay' says you).
MID-SEASON CHANGES
You do not have to make changes, you can enter the competition and walk away from it if you wish. However, you can make FIVE changes to your original team at any point in the season. Up to THREE of these changes can be transfers. The remainder can be made up of swapping the order of the existing drivers within your team.
Each transfer out is at a cost of 10%. Selling a €17m driver will free up €15.3m to buy another driver (yes the decimal is included).
The cost of the incoming element (be it driver, engine etc..) will be determined by a new price list that will be created once the first race has been completed.
The reason for the new price list is twofold
a. Last season I ran a competition that was compromised by the unknown Brawn team being hugely under-valued (who'd a thunk it?). It became a no-brainer to bring them in after race 1 and the competition became a series of identikit Brawn teams.
b. Most fantasy competitions that have transfer markets have some sort of performance-related value fluctuation. This will be ours and it will be a one-off.
If a new team enters the competition at any point in the season they will be added to the price list and can be purchased from that point onwards.
Any changes must be made before first practice of a race weekend. After that, the change becomes active for the following race. Your team must remain legal and within budget at all times (this is regarding drivers all being from different teams and engine/constructor/boss being from different teams).
To make a change, simply private message me via the forum or email me (brianofla@gmail.com) with the details of the change. I will endevour to commit the change as soon as possible. The onus is always on you to ensure your changes are legal. If I am late making a change and it turns out to be illegal and you have no time to rectify it before the race, that is your own fault.
SCORING SYSTEM
There are 6 areas where your drivers can score points. But each driver position only scores from a subset of the 6 areas.
The 6 areas are
a Laps completed (1pt per lap) - going out on lap 41 means you COMPLETED 40 laps.
b Finishing position* (pts detailed in POINTS TABLE below)
c Finishing higher than your starting position (10pts per position)
d Achieving a points finish (WDC pts x 2)
e Finish higher than team-mate (40pts)
f Starting position($) (pts detailed in POINTS TABLE below)
(* NOTE you do not need to be classified. Once you are not disqualified your finishing position counts even if you go out on lap 1. This goes for all references to 'finishing position' in the competition)
($) This is NOT qualifying position, it is the grid position when gearbox/engine changes & penalties are taken into account (pitlane starts may or may not affect starting position depending on when the decision was made by the team))
Your 4 drivers will be scored using the following entries from above
Driver
1 a, b, f
2 b, c, e
3 d, e, f
4 c, d, f
Driver 1 will be scored based on 'a' Laps completed, 'b' finishing position and 'f' his starting position.
Driver 2 will be scored based on 'b' finishing position, 'c' Moving up the grid compared to starting position and 'e' finishing higher than his team-mate and so on and so forth ...
The skill is in picking drivers suited to getting each type of points.
Your constructor, engine and team boss will score based on a subset of 5 scoring areas
These 5 areas are
g Laps completed (by BOTH engines, 1pt per lap per car)
h Finishing position (only the top finisher in the team, points are detailed in POINTS TABLE below)
i Race win (20pts)
j Both cars finish (>=90% of race laps completed, 40pts scored)
k Starting position (of both cars, points detailed in POINTS TABLE below)
Each element will score from the following
Constructor - h, i, k
Engine - g, h, j
Team boss - i, j
If a driver is disqualified from a race he will lose his race points but not his qualification points. If he is disqualified from qualifying and does not participate in the race he will obviously not get any points. All post-race penalties WILL be retrospectively fitted to the scoring. Depending on the scenario, a team's post-race disqualification may or may not result in the individual driver or drivers being disqualified. This depends on whether it is deemed the driver(s) was at fault and not the team. Any injury to a driver resulting in replacement means you take on the replacement driver.
POST RACE
The fantasy results for each race will typically be posted within 24-48 hours of the completion of the race (best endeavours). They will be in the form of an overall competition table, a form table (score based on previous 3 races) and a medal table (there's a gold, silver & bronze given out for each race).
After each race I will detail the medal winners of that race and the points they got. I will also output a table of each element (where drivers are each detailed in positions 1 to 4, their points will be in the form 1-2-3-4 where 1=the points as driver 1, 2=the points as driver 2 and so on). So it should be easy to see how you got the points that you got and where you might be lagging behind others.
POINTS TABLE
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| DRIVER PTS | CONSTRUCTOR/ |
| | ENGINE Pts |
|P Qual Fin | P Qual Fin |
|1 45 105 | 1 40 60 |
|2 40 90 | 2 35 50 |
|3 35 75 | 3 33 45 |
|4 30 65 | 4 31 40 |
|5 27 55 | 5 30 35 |
|6 25 50 | 6 29 34 |
|7 24 45 | 7 28 33 |
|8 23 40 | 8 27 32 |
|9 22 35 | 9 22 27 |
|10 21 34 | 10 21 26 |
|11 20 33 | 11 18 25 |
|12 19 32 | 12 16 24 |
|13 18 31 | 13 14 23 |
|14 17 30 | 14 12 22 |
|15 16 29 | 15 11 21 |
|16 15 28 | 16 10 20 |
|17 14 27 | 17 9 19 |
|18 13 26 | 18 8 18 |
|19 12 25 | 19 7 17 |
|20 11 24 | 20 6 16 |
|21 10 23 | 21 5 15 |
|22 9 22 | 22 4 14 |
|23 8 21 | 23 3 13 |
|24 7 20 | 24 2 12 |
|25 6 19 | 25 1 11 |
|26 5 18 | 26 0 10 |
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| DRIVER PTS | CONSTRUCTOR/ |
| | ENGINE Pts |
|P Qual Fin | P Qual Fin |
|1 45 105 | 1 40 60 |
|2 40 90 | 2 35 50 |
|3 35 75 | 3 33 45 |
|4 30 65 | 4 31 40 |
|5 27 55 | 5 30 35 |
|6 25 50 | 6 29 34 |
|7 24 45 | 7 28 33 |
|8 23 40 | 8 27 32 |
|9 22 35 | 9 22 27 |
|10 21 34 | 10 21 26 |
|11 20 33 | 11 18 25 |
|12 19 32 | 12 16 24 |
|13 18 31 | 13 14 23 |
|14 17 30 | 14 12 22 |
|15 16 29 | 15 11 21 |
|16 15 28 | 16 10 20 |
|17 14 27 | 17 9 19 |
|18 13 26 | 18 8 18 |
|19 12 25 | 19 7 17 |
|20 11 24 | 20 6 16 |
|21 10 23 | 21 5 15 |
|22 9 22 | 22 4 14 |
|23 8 21 | 23 3 13 |
|24 7 20 | 24 2 12 |
|25 6 19 | 25 1 11 |
|26 5 18 | 26 0 10 |
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So driver 1 scores from categories a, b & f.
'a' relates to laps completed. If he finishes a 70 lap race he gets 70pts.
'b' relates to finishing position. If the driver finishes 1st he will get 105pts according to the above table.
'f' relates to starting position. If he starts the race from pole position he gets 45pts.
So in total, driver 1 will have scored 70 + 100 + 45 = 215pts in that race.
Driver 4 scores from categories c, d & f.
'c' gets points for finishing higher than he started. If he started 15th and finished 5th he would have climbed 10 places x 10 = 100pts.
'd' relates to a points finish. For 5th place he would get 10 WDC points (x 2) = 20pts.
'f' is starting position. If he starts 15th he will score 16pts according to the above table.
So driver 4 would get 100 + 20 + 16 = 136pts.
It is the same story for the constructor and engine except that they use their own table above.
PRICE LIST
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|DRIVER TEAM COST | CONSTRUCTOR COST
|L.Hamilton McLaren 28 | Ferrari 16
|F.Alonso Ferrari 28 | McLaren 16
|M.Schumacher Mercedes 27 | Red Bull 16
|S.Vettel Red Bull 27 | Mercedes 15
|J.Button McLaren 26 | Sauber 10
|F.Massa Ferrari 26 | Renault 10
|N.Rosberg Mercedes 25 | Williams 9
|M.Webber Red Bull 25 | Force India 9
|R.Kubica Renault 22 | Toro Rosso 8
|R.Barrichello Williams 20 | Lotus 6
|P.de la Rosa Sauber 18 | HRT F1 5
|N.Hülkenberg Williams 18 | Virgin 5
|A.Sutil F.India 18 | ENGINE COST
|K.Kobayashi Sauber 17 | Mercedes 33
|S.Buemi T.Rosso 16 | Ferrari 32
|V.Petrov Renault 16 | Mercedes(McL) 32
|V.Liuzzi F.India 15 | Renault(RBR) 32
|J.Alguersuari T.Rosso 14 | Ferrari(Sau) 27
|J.Trulli Lotus 14 | Cosworth(Wil) 26
|H.Kovalainen Lotus 13 | Renault 25
|T.Glock Virgin 13 | Mercedes(FIF1) 23
|B.Senna HRT F1 11 | Ferrari(STR) 21
|L.di Grassi Virgin 11 | Cosworth(Lot) 20
|K.Chandhok HRT F1 10 | Cosworth(HRT) 18
| | Cosworth(Vir) 16
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|TEAM BOSS TEAM COST TEAM BOSS TEAM COST
|M.Whitmarsh McLaren 6 S.Domenicali Ferrari 6
|C.Horner Red Bull 6 R.Brawn Mercedes 6
|F.Williams Williams 5 P.Sauber Sauber 5
|E.Boullier Renault 5 V.Mallya F.India 4
|F.Tost Toro Rosso 3 T.Fernandes Lotus 2
|C.Kolles HRT F1 2 J.Booth Virgin 2
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|DRIVER TEAM COST | CONSTRUCTOR COST
|L.Hamilton McLaren 28 | Ferrari 16
|F.Alonso Ferrari 28 | McLaren 16
|M.Schumacher Mercedes 27 | Red Bull 16
|S.Vettel Red Bull 27 | Mercedes 15
|J.Button McLaren 26 | Sauber 10
|F.Massa Ferrari 26 | Renault 10
|N.Rosberg Mercedes 25 | Williams 9
|M.Webber Red Bull 25 | Force India 9
|R.Kubica Renault 22 | Toro Rosso 8
|R.Barrichello Williams 20 | Lotus 6
|P.de la Rosa Sauber 18 | HRT F1 5
|N.Hülkenberg Williams 18 | Virgin 5
|A.Sutil F.India 18 | ENGINE COST
|K.Kobayashi Sauber 17 | Mercedes 33
|S.Buemi T.Rosso 16 | Ferrari 32
|V.Petrov Renault 16 | Mercedes(McL) 32
|V.Liuzzi F.India 15 | Renault(RBR) 32
|J.Alguersuari T.Rosso 14 | Ferrari(Sau) 27
|J.Trulli Lotus 14 | Cosworth(Wil) 26
|H.Kovalainen Lotus 13 | Renault 25
|T.Glock Virgin 13 | Mercedes(FIF1) 23
|B.Senna HRT F1 11 | Ferrari(STR) 21
|L.di Grassi Virgin 11 | Cosworth(Lot) 20
|K.Chandhok HRT F1 10 | Cosworth(HRT) 18
| | Cosworth(Vir) 16
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|TEAM BOSS TEAM COST TEAM BOSS TEAM COST
|M.Whitmarsh McLaren 6 S.Domenicali Ferrari 6
|C.Horner Red Bull 6 R.Brawn Mercedes 6
|F.Williams Williams 5 P.Sauber Sauber 5
|E.Boullier Renault 5 V.Mallya F.India 4
|F.Tost Toro Rosso 3 T.Fernandes Lotus 2
|C.Kolles HRT F1 2 J.Booth Virgin 2
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ENTRY FORM
Either private message me via the forum or e-mail me (brianofla@gmail.com) the following code filled in with your choices.
Please make sure to fill in everything
The deadline for entries is the end of Wednesday March 10th @ 23:59 GMT.
CODE
Please ensure your budget is not over €110m
NO DRIVERS FROM THE SAME TEAM
NO CONSTRUCTOR/ENGINE/BOSS FROM THE SAME TEAM
Username -
Team Name -
Driver 1 -
Driver 2 -
Driver 3 -
Driver 4 -
Constructor -
Engine -
Team Boss -
Winning Abu Dhabi GP time (tiebreaker)
NO DRIVERS FROM THE SAME TEAM
NO CONSTRUCTOR/ENGINE/BOSS FROM THE SAME TEAM
Username -
Team Name -
Driver 1 -
Driver 2 -
Driver 3 -
Driver 4 -
Constructor -
Engine -
Team Boss -
Winning Abu Dhabi GP time (tiebreaker)
I'm 50th after Bahrain and can't see any transfers or swaps which could give me any benefits.
I guess Roy didn't pay the bills. Hopefully it will be resolved.