We're talking about setting up a NASCAR pool at work, how do you do it and how much do you put in each?

Question

Do you put in more money each week, can you change your picks once the season starts, etc...Thanks for any help.

I guess I should have called it a Fantasy League.. not just a pool.

Answer 1

I used to run a nascar pool at a bar i worked at...and would just put all the drivers names in a hat...let anyone who wanted to pick from the hat...pay 5 dollars and the winner after the race would get the pot..and if noone won...the pot would carry over to the next week..with people drawing new drivers names

Answer 2

Well what I have done and I think it works pretty good. You take anywhere from 3-5 drivers per week, then average their finishes together. Of course you put a limitation on the number of times you can use a driver. You can also separate the drivers into different pools based on levels of success. I would keep the money the same each week and just add it to a pot at the end of the season. That has worked for me in the past and I hope it helps you.

Answer 3

Group A: Harvick. It's time. RCR turned the corner last year and are clicking. Harvick was white hot. Group B: Kyle Busch. All the others have more experience, but this kid hangs around in the top ten every week. He's a year older and wiser, and is going to make some noise. Group C: Biffle. I would have picked Bowyer, but he's still a year away. Biffle struggled the first half of last season, but because of bad breaks, not bad racing. His team is really tight. Group D: B. Labonte. I would have taken Martin, but I don't think he's running a full schedule. In this group, Labonte is unspectacular, but the safest bet. Group E: Sadler. A risky pick, because of the unknown factor. He only ran a handful of races with Evernham last year, but he's got a quality team. He'll benefit from Kahne being a teammate. Group F: Vickers. The best of a really shaky group. Group G: T. Raines. He had a solid first season in the 96 car, and should be better this year.

Answer 4

What we did was make out a paper that has five categories ranging from the top five drivers to the rookies.
As the season goes by you can move drivers to different categories when they are doing better.
Have each person that is playing pick one driver from each level. Let me rephrase that, have a paper made out for each person then they pick one driver from every level.
We charged five dollars a week and at the end of the season one person won the pot.
Also you have to pick someone you trust to tally up the points. that person gets one dollar from every five dollars for doing the figuring all year.
The points system we used was from 1 to 43 if the driver finished 1st you got 43 points and if they finished last you got 1 point.
We also had it so if one of your drivers got the pole you got an extra 5 points and if that driver one the race from the pole an extra 3 points. Hope this helped.

Answer 5

theres several ways to do it , you could put numbers 0-9 in a hat have 10 participants draw 1 number thats their number for that race the winning cars last number wins the pot , example if I draw a 0 and the 0 car 10, 20 , 30 , 40 , 50, 60 70, 80, or90 car win then you get paid, its the last number of the car. and you can do as many of these as you want so you can include everyone . thats the easy way to do it , another way is set a point value for each driver such as a salary cap and let teams choose the drivers they want without going over the salary cap and the team who scores the most points wins , usally you would choose 5 drivers with a 100.00 point salary cap and the better drivers would cost more , its funner this way but its a lot to keep up with especially if you do it all season and have a champions pot at the end of the year.good luck

Answer 6

OK, I just deleted the first time I answered. Here's how we do our fantasy league. First you need to draft teams, we are doing our draft on Friday after the duel 150s, so that we know who will be racing the 500. In our league, everybody that was in the previous year gets to carryover 1 driver from last year's team. New players pick from who's left to make it even. For Pick #2 we draw numbers to see the drafting order. Lets say you draw first in this round, then you draw last in the next round (we go up and back so the same people don't draw first all the time). After going up and down you redraw and do the same as necessary (it will depend on how many players you have and how many drivers for each team). We have 7 people this year and each team will have 5 drivers but only run 4 each week. Our weekly payout is $10 for the player w/the winning driver, $7.50 for team points, $2.50 for pole winner(we just added this one) and $2.00 for Sorry Sally (last place driver of the race). We keep track of this $$ earned during the season but it is not paid out until the end of the year. You can payout several different ways but it will depend on how many people you get in. At the year end we pay out 60% of what is leftover to the overall points leader of the whole year, 35% to 2nd and 15% to 3rd. The last race of the year we pay Sorry Sally to the lowest placing driver (sometimes this builds up as often times nobody has or maybe they just don't run the last place driver of a race). We enforce the same penalties, point wise, that NASCAR does. If a driver gets a 25 point fine it will come off of next weeks points for the player that has that driver. We have everybody pay at the beginning ($180) and if you need to hold a check for awhile we say it has to be cashed by May 1. We try to make it fair and fun and allow for free trades. If someone isn't picked up by a player in our league and you think you can improve your team we say "go for it". I'm trying to find a place online that we can plug in the points and $$ every week and it keeps the weekly and year to date stats automatically. This is not the only way to run a league but we get together sometimes for races and have a lot of fun with it. I hope this helps some. In our league if you want to make any changes to your lineup for the week it has to be called in BEFORE the green flag drops to the commissioner or myself (I do the points each week). If you don't call you are running the same drivers that you ran the week before even if they don't qualify.

Answer 7

I started a fantasy league two years ago at my office. It started with a simple spreadsheet and some simple rules. Rules first, the draft will be drawn in random order, $10 entry fee, trades cost $3 per person (if two people trading drivers the total would be $6, if dropping driver to pick from free agent pool trade is $3, fines are levied against owner of driver in the amount of .01% of fine levied to driver (Driver get's fined by NASCAR, sponsor, or team owner in the amount of $50,000 then owner of that driver in the league gets fined $5, minimum fine is $1, driver penalty points are taken from owner of driver. Chase points are not honored, Points are strictly given based on finish order of race per how NASCAR assigns points per race, person with highest points total in the end is the winner. Our league pays out 1st thru 3rd, with third place getting their entry fee only back, and 1 and 2 splitting the remaining based on a percentage. Depending on the number of participants you have will regulate how many drivers your league will draft. Keep it even number ie. 2 drivers 4 drivers 6 drivers to keep the draft odds equal. Hope that helps and good luck, it's lots of fun!! Oh yeah and trash talking is a must!!! :)

Answer 8

go to yahoo fantasy sports or any other fantasy nascar league and create a mini league with only your co workers maybe say 5 bucks per entry or something

but running a fantasy league is some real time consuming work
gathering the data from the previous week entering it into the proper places and them tabulating the scores

that why i suggest you all just go to a good web based site and create a mini league there

Answer 9

that is a good idea ,,i have no idea how to run it,,maybe have people draw a drivers name out of a bag,,