Rules

Setup 19 races All predictions must be submitted at least 1 hour before race time! If you submit your picks and decide you want to change them around later you may do so. As long as it is at least 1 hour before race time. - Please submit picks in this format: Firstname Lastname Firstname Lastname Firstname Lastname Firstname Lastname Firstname Lastname Firstname Lastname Firstname Lastname Firstname Lastname - No numbers. Just names with proper capitalization. Failure to follow these instructions will result in -1 point for every incorrect spelling mistake on a single full name at the end of the deadline. - Newcomers may join the Formula 1 pool anytime during the season. Max number of participants is 22 since there are only 11 teams and 2 drivers per team. If there are more than 2 participants who want to join they will be placed on a waiting list until next season and they will take the place of whoever finishes in the last few positions from the previous season. - Waiting list If there are more than 22 participants who want to join they will be placed on a waiting list. The newcomers will be placed on top of the waiting list in that order they have expressed their desire to join the pool. After them are placed the dropped (but not disqualified) participants from previous season in that order they were placed in previous season rankings. The disqualified participants will be placed in the bottom of the waiting list according to their performance in previous F1 pools. If a participant is disqualified or wants to quit during the season, he/she will be replaced by a member of this waiting list in the order that is stated above (1. newcomers, 2. dropped participants and 3. disqualified participants) In the beginning of a new season every member in waiting list gets a place in the F1 pool and the same amount of previous season participants will be dropped to the waiting list. However TOP 12 from previous season will remain in the pool. If there are more than 12 people in the waiting list before new season new rules will be developed. - Legend: DC = Drivers Champion, CC = Constructors Champion © = Captain, ® = Rookie, NC= Newcomer, WL = Waiting List DSQ = Disqualified, RET = Retired - Penalties Participants who get disqualified in at least half of the seasons races will be disqualified and banned from the pool. If that participant wants to rejoin they will be under probation for one whole season and must not be disqualified more than 5 races or they will be banned for life. If a participant fails to submit a victory speech at least 1 hour before the next race they will be disqualified from that next race. You will have 3 days to protest an error in your stats after an update. If you notice anything wrong after the 3 day limitation you cannot do anything. This will not only promote participation and liability but also lesson the work for the administration. Suspicion of obvious copying will not be allowed. If you copy someone's picks once it will be looked at but not frowned upon the first time. If you are suspected twice of copying you will be questioned by management and possibly penalized a total of -8 points at the end of the race. If you finish the race with 4 of your drivers receiving 0 points and the other 4 combining for a total of 16 or less points you will receive 0 points for the entire race and it will be marked as if it were a car failure (Retirement). 5 0’s or more is an automatic retirement. You must submit your picks at least 1 hour before race time. However if the qualification ends and the race starts less then an hour after qualification then please submit your picks ASAP before race begins. If you fail to email me with your new predicitions for each race you will be DSQ and receive 0 pts. It is also your responsibility to make sure that I have posted the correct selections for you. Once you get a reply from me stating that I have received your picks you should visit the site and check them. If the race ends and you notice a mistake it will be to late. If you submit the same driver twice in your top 8 only the higher position will count and the second will be given 0 points. If you would like to use the same picks as the previous week or the same order as the qualifying you must still formally send an email with those picks. Just sending a message saying "please use the same picks as last week" or "use the same as the qualifying results" is not enough active participation. Therefore if you do not at least submit the same formal list as outlined by the rules and format, you will be DSQ for that race. - Race Scoring Before every race all participants will choose who they believe will finish in the top 8 in order. You can score anywhere from 0 to 64 points in one race. 8 pts for dead on predictions. - Example If you choose a driver to finish 3rd and he finishes 3rd then you receive 8 points. (Dead on prediction. 8-0=8) If you choose a driver to finish 4th and he finishes 8th you only receive 4 points. (4 places off prediction. 8-4=4) If you choose a driver to finish 7th and he finishes 2nd you only receive 3 points. (5 places off prediction. 8-5=3) If you choose a driver to finish in the top 8 and he does not finish in the top 8 or gets DSQ or RET then you receive 0 pts. - At the end of the race points will be totaled for each participant and you will receive: 1st - 10pts 2nd - 8pts 3rd - 6pts 4th - 5pts 5th - 4pts 6th - 3pts 7th - 2pts 8th - 1pts (Same point system as Formula 1) - For example 2004 British Grand Prix - Official Results: 1  Michael Schumacher 2  Kimi Räikkönen 3  Rubens Barrichello 4  Jenson Button 5  Juan Pablo Montoya 6  Giancarlo Fisichella 7  David Coulthard 8 Mark Webber - Joe's Predicitions: 1  Kimi Räikkönen (1 place off prediction. 8-1=7pts) 2  Michael Schumacher (1 place off prediction. 8-1=7pts) 3  Rubens Barrichello (Dead on prediction. 8-0=8pts) 4  Juan Pablo Montoya (1 place off prediction. 8-1=7pts) 5  David Coulthard (2 places off prediction. 8-2=6pts) 6  Mark Webber (2 places off prediction. 8-2=6pts) 7  Jenson Button (3 places off prediction. 8-3=5pts) 8   Giancarlo Fisichella (2 places off prediction. 8-2=6pts) - Joe gets a total of 52 pts for his predictions. If that is the most between all participants then he would finish 1st and receive 10pts for the race. - Drivers & Constructors Championship Not only will there be a Drivers Champion but there will also be a Constructors Title. So you can take home two gold’s if you're the best driver and if you and your team-mate are on the best team. - Team points will be accumulated by the captains all-season points from races 1-10. The team will get the points from the partner on the team on races 1-10. From races 11-19 the team will get the points from the new partner in races 11-19. - Constructors Championship Team mate selections will be based on results from the previous season. The following is a team formation example with 19 participants and rookies\newcomers. Rookies are drivers who never competed in the pool before. Newcomers are drivers who have competed before but skipped a year or more then returned. - The top 10 drivers in the standings will be teamed up as: 1st & 10th 2nd & 9th 3rd & 8th 4th & 7th 5th & 6th - Reasoning for this is to reward the elite drivers for finishing in the top 10 by giving them a legitimate team mate, making them a Captain and letting them get to choose a team name first. Also note that if you are in the top 10 but have more than 2 disqualifications you are not considered a reliable team-mate and will be excluded from the top 10. Next highest positioned driver with least amount of disqualifications will take your place.  It is not fair to pair up the 1st place champion with a last place driver or an unreliable driver who gets disqualified often. - The remaining drivers in the standings will be teamed up as: 11th & 18th 12th & 17th 13th & 16th 14th & 15th 19th & Newcomer Rookie & Rookie - Reasoning for this is that it is not fair to reward a last place driver by teaming them up with the Champion. Also Rookies and Newcomers should have to prove themselves. They should start from the bottom and work their way up, not be paired up with a good participant right off the bat. - Notes: The only Captains are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th place drivers and get to pick their team name in that order. Drivers who placed 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th get to pick their team name in that order but are not considered captains. If a rookie or newcomer enters they will be paired up with whoever is alone on a team, if no one is alone then they will pick from one of the remaining team names. If the total amount of participants is an uneven number, the last place driver of the previous season will be left alone on a team. This reduces the possibility to seek for a "wanted" team-mate. Drivers who finished last in the previous season with an uneven number of drivers are alone on a team but are not captains of that team. Rookies and newcomers cannot be captains either. If a rookie does well in the first half of the season a captain can pick him to his team after 10 races. However the rookie is still considered a rookie all season long. When a driver quits or gets disqualified from the season they will be replaced by any driver who is racing alone on a team. The replacement driver continues with his personal point total but does not carry over his team points to his new team. - Trading Team-mates Being able to trade team-mates midway through the season is interesting and could make things more exciting. We all know that drivers sometimes switch team’s midway through the season or really at anytime.  - After the first 10 races of the season the Captains have a say if they want to keep their current team-mate or trade them for someone else. You cannot pick another Captain. Captains remain captain for the entire season. Captains are captains because they did well in the previous season by finishing in the top half of the standings. So they get rewarded by staying captain of their chosen team all season. At the end of the Season captains will be reassessed according to the Final Standings. - For example: Current Teams: C=Captain Ferrari – C Silvio, Adam Mclaren – C Jimmy, Mario BAR – C Antero, Fabio Sauber – C Paul, Jussi - 10 races into the season the standings are as follows.. 1. Adam 2. C Antero 3. Fabio 4. Mario 5. C Silvio 6. C Jimmy 7. Jussi 8. C Paul 9. Frank - Adam, Fabio, Mario, Jussi and Frank would be available for a new team-mate - Antero gets first pick on these 5 drivers Silvio 2nd pick Jimmy 3rd pick Paul 4th pick - Of course you could be loyal and stick with your team-mate from the start. But this is what makes things interesting. - At the start of the new season new captains will be seated exactly how they were this season.(from previous final standings) For example: Final Standings 1. Paul 2. Antero 3. Fabio 4. Mario 5. Adam 6. Jimmy 7. Jussi 8. Silvio 9. Frank - New captains are Paul who would be paired up with Silvio Antero would be paired up with Jussi Fabio would be paired up with Jimmy Mario who would be paired up with Adam - All captains get to pick their new team name BAR, Ferrari, Jaguar, Jordon, Mclaren, Minardi, Renault, Sauber, Toyota, Williams - Race End Tie Breakers 1. Most 8pts  2. Most 7pts  3. Most 6pts  4. Most 5pts  5. Most 4pts  6. Most 3pts  7. Most 2pts  8. Most 1pt  9. Least 0pt 10. Highest placing 8pt 11. Highest placing 7pt 12. Highest placing 6pt 13. Highest placing 5pt 14. Highest placing 4pt 15. Highest placing 3pt 16. Highest placing 2pt 17. Highest placing 1p - Note: If A and B tie, then we add up the championship points for those specific positions. For example if they tie for first place we add 10 points for first and 8 points for second which is a total of 18 points. Then we divide that total with the number of tying participants, A and B are two. So in this example both participants would receive  9 points each for tying for first place. - Season End Tie Breakers 1. Most Championship Points 2. Most Grand Prix Points 3. Most Race Wins 4. Most 2nd place finishes 5. Most 3rd place finishes - http://www.formula1.com