2007 Nextel Cup Fantasy Championship *Open For Entries!*

[StuiE]

Here we go, Now we're ready to take entries for the inaugural NASCAR Nextel Cup Fantasy Series..






For those who haven't been a part of something like this before, it's fairly simple, You have a team, and a budget, and make the team of your choice, providing you don't go over budget. You can have a PR person to issue press statements, make liveries make car numbers, sponsers, whatever, it's all good fun.


Here's the not overly large rulebook:

Your Budget: $1,700,000
You can hire up to 4 drivers for your cars.

Driver Values:

$900,000
#48 Jimmy Johnson
#17 Matt Kenseth
#20 Tony Stewart


$800,000
#29 Kevin Harvick


$750,000
#31 Jeff Burton
#8 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
#24 Jeff Gordon
#9 Kasey Kahne


$700,000
#16 Greg Biffle
#2 Kurt Busch
#5 Kyle Busch
#99 Carl Edwards
#11 Denny Hamlin


$600,000
#07 Clint Bowyer
#43 Bobby Labonte
#25 Casey Mears
#12 Ryan Newman
#19 Elliott Sadler
#88 Dale Jarrett


$500,000
#7 Robby Gordon
#66 Jeff Green
#26 Jamie McMurray
#10 Scott Riggs
#28 Ricky Rudd
#1 Martin Truex Jr.
#83 Brian Vickers
#22 Dave Blaney


$400,000
#38 David Gilliland
#36 Jeremy Mayfield
#45 KylePetty
#41 Reed Sorenson
#18 J.J. Yeley


$300,000
#14 Sterling Marlin
#13 Joe Nemechek
#96 Tony Raines
#60 Boris Said
#40 David Stremme
#55 Michael Waltrip


$250,000
#4 Ward Burton
#42 Juan Montoya
#6 David Ragan


$200,000
#49 Mike Bliss
#15 Paul Menard
#70 Johnny Sauter


$150,000
#84 A.J Allmendinger
#00 David Reutimann


$100,000
#61 Chad Chaffin
#74 Derrick Cope
#78 Wallace K.
#72 Brandon Whitt


All of these drivers should be running the full season, (which is why Mark Martin/Regan Smith and Ken Shrader/Jon Wood are not listed) if you want to change a driver, for poor results, doesn't enter races, or otherwise, you can make 2 changes throughout the season.


Points:
Points are the same as the real series. Whatever a driver scores at each round in real life is what that driver will receive here, including penalties. The 'Chase' will not be used. If you notice that your team hasn't scored as many points as you think they should have (or more than they should have ), let me know and I'll look into it.

Team Ownership, and you
- You don’t have to use all $1.7 million, but DO NOT GO OVER BUDGET!!! You will be disqualified from the round if I discover any creative bookkeeping.
- A driver can be chosen by more than one team - these guys are consummate professionals and are able to drive any amount of cars at once.
- Points are the same as the real series. If things don't seem to add up, feel free to query my maths ability.
- Round results and championship standings will be posted here following the conclusion of each round. (if you hadn't noticed, alot of this is just copied from the V8 series, wonder if anyone will notice, just like this I'm writing)
- After the results have been posted, you can write press releases on your team’s performance (or lack of). Show us how good you are at distributing propaganda.


Team Announcements

Once you’ve picked your driving line-up, give your team a name, announce some sponsors, racing numbers, liveries, grid girls (pictures please! ), mascots, overseas technical partners and any other stuff you can think of, and of course your manufacturer of choice (though your manufacturer doesn't affect you points), then post here giving a detailed description of the copious quantities of hide your team will kick in the forthcoming season.

To make it easy for me, could you please condense the propaganda into this sort of form following your press release:

NAME:Joe Bloggs Racing
SPONSOR(S): Intel, Coca-Cola
DRIVERS:
#12 Dale Earnhardt Jr
#87 Joe Nemechek
#33 Juan Montoya
MANUFACTURER: Ford

(your choice of car numbers and Manufacturer doesn't actually affect anything, is just for fun, and people can make up their own liveries based upon that)


Posting Images and Liveries

Originally Posted by FAQ
Keep the image to a reasonable physical and data size. Remember, not everyone has a fast internet connection! As a guideline, pictures shouldn't be much more than 400 x 400 or thereabouts. Any picture that distorts the forum display is too large! Image links that are considered to be too large may be removed by the Moderators. If in doubt, ask!

Half of the fun of this is creating and posting your own liveries. While everybody likes to show infinite detail at super-high-resolution, not everybody’s screen can take it. While I can handle going over 400x400 (given there are warnings about large images), it's a bit rough posting images wider than a regular screen. I refer you to the piece highlighted in red - 800x600 is probably the largest you should go.

I know there are some real good livery makers here, so get into it (however, I am totally useless at it)


Other
For those of you not so knowledgeable about NASCAR, in the Nextel Cup series, only the top 35 cars in owner (not driver) points is guaranteed a starting stop in the field of 43, the 7 fastest of the rest get in, often there is more than 43 cars competing to even get into the race, hence driver values for drivers in cars out of the top 35 may seem a little low. Rookies and new teams especially will have a hard time, also the top 35 from 2006 is locked in for the first 5 or so races of 2007.

http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2006...ngs_owner.html
(look for the real life car number, there is driver names there may not neccesarily be the driver of that car)
Prizes

Maybe? Maybe not, I really don't know, but you shouldn't be doing it for the prizes anyway



So get you entries in people, you can change your team as many times as you like 'till Daytona (before the 1st Duel, 15th Feb), if you enter later than that you'll just score from the 1st round that you start. (schedule here: http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2007/data/schedule.html)

Any questions/issues etc post here or PM me


Good luck
Stu