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ルールは。。。
...OK, I'll stop. (If you just see a bunch of boxes, don't worry-all you missed is my weird sense of humor.)
1. I will divide the ICS field into four groups, ordered (from best to worst) A, B, C, and D (and E and F for Indianapolis only). These groups will be determined by a combination of points, subjective observations, questionable analysis, shaky conclusions, and random guessing. They may (and will) change throughout the season as drivers do, but I will not attempt to separate oval and road course performance and groups.
2. Everyone who wants to play must select one driver per group per race (well, you don't have to do every race, or every group for that matter, but both are highly recommended!). The only restriction is that you cannot choose the same driver for two consecutive races. This applies even if I switch the groups around and you end up quite restricted in one group.
3. Points are quite simple: your points are the same as the combined ICS points for all four of your drivers. Highest at the end of the season may win a small prize.
4. Any tie will be broken in the favor of the competitor who scored the most points out of everyone in the most races. If that is also tied, the tiebreaker will be for the competitor with the most 2nds, 3rds, etc. If that is somehow also tied, the competitor with the highest single-race score will prevail.
5. Picks are due when qualifying starts. However, each competitor may, once during the season, submit their picks late (any time before the start of the pace laps). This will be tracked and can be found along with the results.
6. Rules are subject to change without notice!
Pools...
Group A
D. Patrick
H. Castroneves
R. Briscoe
D. Franchitti
S. Dixon
Group B
G. Rahal
M. Andretti
T. Kanaan
D. Wheldon
J. Wilson
H. Mutoh
Group C
E. Carpenter
M. Moraes
M. Conway
R. Matos
R. Hunter-Reay
O. Servia
Group D
R. Yasukawa
T. Scheckter
K. Matsuura
R. Doornbos
E. Viso
S. Barrett
And finally, the championship. With two races to go, based off a maximum score of 160 and minimum of 48 (by comparison: the highest score so far this season is 138 and the lowest with four drivers picked is 55), here are the people that are still mathematically in it...
L 1 EarlofSpeed .........1618
L 2 bmw_williams_13 1577 (-41)
...3 smuff76 ...............1517 (-101)
L 4 HighPlainsDrifter .1479 (-139)
...5 gnome .................1462 (-156)
...6 jes_ .....................1450 (-168)
L 7 Merlin1976 .........1435 (-183)
An L indicates the players that do have an allowed late pick available. This means that they can also change their picks after qualifying starts (once).
Anyway... given prior trends, I think that smuff76 could easily make up 40 points in the last two races. Everyone else, though, is probably going to have to make some daring picks and hope for a miracle... if they're still planning on winning, that is. You don't want to go for broke and end up dropping 4 spots...
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