I have to say that i like playing fantasy sports, especially on
Yahoo!, though I'm not really good at it.
So over this Nascar Sprint Cup Series season, i noticed one thing, every driver i picked either didn't do well or they would get involved in a wreck. Out of the 33 Cup weekends so far i have only picked a driver who would go on to win only once, and when you are playing against almost a million other people, who are most likely fans of the same driver as you and doing a lot better then you that isn't something i would be bragging about. And trust me I'm not.
Well while i was making my picks for last weeks 'Dega race, and using most of the drivers that i could for the last time, i was having trouble deciding if i should use some of them, i noticed that the fantasy racing was just like real racing.
You can never know how a driver will fair on a certain weekend, unless the guy is Jimmie Johnson who almost never happens to have a bad weekend anymore, even if you are like me and pick a driver based on how they did on years past.
Yahoo! breaks their Fantasy racing picks into three groups, group A, group B, and group C.
In group A you can only pick two drivers but can only start one, in group B you can pick four drivers but can only start two, and group C you can again pick two drivers bus start only one.
I think how Yahoo! set up their fantasy racing is pretty cool, but the big draw back for me is that you are only allowed to pick a driver nine times for the whole season.
This is how i picked for last weeks race.
In Group A i picked Jeff Gordon and Greg Biffle, but i started Jeff Gordon because of how well he did at Talladega in past season. Now Gordon's 20th place finish netted me 62 points, but that ten of those points was because he led 12 laps. had i started Biffle, who had finished 4th, i would have gotten more points but i wouldn't have gotten any extra points since he didn't lead any laps.
In Group B i picked Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Martin Truex Jr, and Micheal Waltrip, however i only started Stewart and Jr. Stewart got me 32 points with 35th place finish and his one lap led, Jr got me 80 points with his 11th place finish and nine laps led. if i had replaced either one with Treux it wouldn't have done any good since he had lead only one lap and finished 31st. If i switching Waltrip with Stwart would have been good since Waltrip lead two laps and finished 7th.
In Group C i picked Marcos Ambrose and Bobby Labonte, but only started Ambrose. Ambrose got me 34 points with his 34th place finish and three laps led. but Labonte would have gotten me more in the end with his 10th place finish, even though he didn't lead any laps.
All my picks got me a race total of 208 points, the highest out of the two Talladega races this season, (and i started almost the same drivers both times), and the second highest points for all four Superspeedway races this season.
Now its easy to sit here and say what i should have done, but if i did chance my picks before race day who is to say that the drivers i decided to change and start wouldn't have done good and the drivers i changed and didn't start would have done better, which has happen to me a few times this season.
All and all Fantasy racing is just like real racing unpredictable.
