Overview

 

Get on the speedway with Fantasy Lineup’s Fantasy Nascar, a fun game that gives you the chance to manage your own team of professional drivers from the opening weekend right through the late-season cup chase. Fantasy Lineup’s Fantasy Nascar is absolutely FREE. Fantasy Lineup also gives you the opportunity to pay an entry fee at a number of different levels, with chances to win cash and prizes throughout the entire fantasy season.

 

Your goal is to get the best team on the speedway each week, since the better your driver’s perform in real-life races, the more value they bring to your fantasy team. While you sit back and watch your team progress through the season, we do all the hard work of gathering statistics, computing point totals, and updating standings.

Each week, before qualifying begins, you choose an eight-driver team from among three groupings of eligible drivers. Then, before the race, you select four starting drivers for your team.

So, the challenge is not only to pick the best team race in and race out, but also to manage your team in a way that produces the highest possible fantasy score.

 

Free Public Leagues

All free Public Leagues use default settings. ABSOLUTELY FREE.

Free Custom Leagues

All Custom Leagues are fully customizable (see customizable options below). The commissioner of the league determines the league settings. All FREE leagues have no hidden costs. ABSOLUTELY FREE.  Leagues do have the option for unlimited buy-ins. See below for buy-in regulations.

 

Entry Fees & Prize Pools

 

Fantasy Lineup has the most cash prizes for your money. Our merchant services are highly secured for your safety. The prizes you are eligible to win. Due the long Nascar season, Fantasy Lineup’s Fantasy Nascar is broken up in two halves. The first half starts with the Daytona 500 (February 17) and ends with the Lennox Industrial 300 (June 29) Winners will be awarded for the first half as noted. Fantasy Nascar members must pay your entry fee for the second half at this time again to participate in cash winnings and prizes. The second half starts with the Pepsi 400 (July 5) and runs through the Ford 400 (November 16) Entry fees on Fantasy Lineup do not determine the level of play. It only determines the amount of money and different.

 

Public League Buy-Ins: $10, $25, $50

 

$10 Buy-In League

$25 Buy-In League

$50 Buy-In League

 

 

 

1st - $150

1st - $300

1st - $600

2nd - $60

2nd - $150

2nd - $300
3rd - $30

3rd - $75

3rd - $150

 

 

 

Upon further review, prizes and cash winnings will be awarded to more teams (4th, 5th, 6th,….place) In most cases the top 10 will be awarded.

*For Fantasy Players looking for higher stakes PUBLIC Leagues, you can email Fantasy Lineup at support@fantasylineup.com. You give the price range you are looking for and we can try and set you up with what you are looking for.
 

 Weekly Prizes:

Weekly prizes will be awarded to top scoring Public* teams throughout the Fantasy Lineup community each week. Prizes will be varied and announced at the beginning of each week. There will be different prizes for different entry fees.
 *Public teams have the same settings in each league to make scoring the exact same for every individual league. Thus, giving every public team the same chance.

 

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Grand Prize winners:

 

Grand Prize winners will be awarded to the highest scoring fantasy team at the end of the season. Prizes will be announced during the Fantasy Nascar season.

 

Custom League Entry fees:

 

Custom league entry fees are determined by the league commissioner. The entry fee can be any given price from free to UNLIMITED. The prize pools will stay the same for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. When a league is set-up, anyone who signs up must complete the sign-up process to officially be placed in league. Entry Fee must be completed.

 

Fantasy Lineup holds all rights. If there are any questions or comments about any of the above information you can contact us at support@fantasylineup.com

 

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Custom & Public Leagues

 

Length of Season

 

Fantasy Lineup’s Fantasy Nascar is a weekly game that begins with the Daytona 500 on Sunday, February 17. 2008 and runs through the Ford 400, which is scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 16, 2008.

 

In addition, the season is broken down into two halves. The first half begins with the Daytona 500 (February 17) and ends with the Lennox Industrial 300 (June 29). Prizes and winnings will be awarded to the winners of the first half at this time. The second half starts with Pepsi 400 (July 5) and runs through the Ford 400 (November 16).

 

All groups have a score column for each half of the season, as well as a third that shows the overall score earned by your team.

 

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Joining Fantasy Nascar

 

You can join the game anytime between Thursday, December 20, 2007 and Wednesday, November 12, 2008.

 

The game is comprised of weekly contests that begin on Monday and conclude on Sunday, unless Monday racing is required to decide a real-life race winner.

 

The deadline to create a team for each race is 2:00 a.m. PT on the day of qualifying.

 

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Custom and Private Leagues

 

Create Custom and Private leagues and personally invite only those friends or colleagues you want to join. To join someone else's Custom League, you must get the Group ID # and Password from the group founder/commissioner.

 

The commissioner/founder has the right to:

 

1) Lock/Unlock members from using the message board

2) Delete Messages

3) Delete Members from their league

 

If you don't have a whole group of managers ready to sign up, join one of Public Leagues and join fantasy fans from around the world.

All users—regardless of group affiliation—are tracked on the overall leaderboard.

 

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Selecting Drivers for Your Teams

 

Available drivers are broken into three groups—A, B, and C—prior to the beginning of the racing season. Once in a group, a driver is not moved at any time during the season. However, additional drivers can be entered into the game at any point during the season.


To choose or edit your team, click the "Select" link on your My Team page for the appropriate driver grouping (A, B, or C List). You must choose an eight-man squad that includes two members from the A List, four from the B List, and two from the C List.


Select drivers by marking the boxes next to their names and clicking the "Submit Changes" button. You must click the "Submit Changes" button or your moves are not saved.


The deadline to make team changes for the next race is 2:00 a.m. PT on the night before qualifying. With a few exceptions, this is Thursday night at 2:00 a.m. PT.

If you don't make any changes by this deadline, your team remains the same for the next race.

 

 

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Setting Your Active Drivers

 

Before each race, you must select a squad of four starting drivers via your My Team page. This active group must include one driver from the A List, two from the B List, and one from the C List. The rest of your team members are reserves, who do not score fantasy points (except for qualifying bonus points) for your team.

 

To activate a driver, click the checkbox next to his name and then click the "Submit Changes" button.

To change / add and drop a driver you click the minus symbol (-) (to drop the driver) and the page will direct you to choose another driver to replace the one you just dropped. The symbol to add your new driver is the plus symbol (+). When click submit changes, your new driver will be in your roster. Remember, you can only start a driver for 9 races throughout the first half of the season .

 

These deadlines are based on the original race schedule and don't change even if there is a delay to the start or finish of a given race.

 

 

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Maximum Starts

 

Each driver in Fantasy Lineup’s Fantasy Nascar can be an active member of your team in no more than nine races.
For the purposes of this game, a driver must be active for a race (not during qualifying) in order to receive credit for a race started. Likewise, a driver who is on your team but stays in a reserve position during the race does not get credit for a race started.


When a driver has reached the nine-race limit, he no longer accumulates any fantasy points for your team even if he occupies an active roster spot. This limit does not change no matter when you join the game.


Your driver's start totals do not reset at that half-way point of the season. If you start your driver nine times during the first half of the season, he is not eligible to earn any fantasy points (neither qualifying nor start points) for the remainder of the season.


If you reach the nine-race limit for a driver on your current roster, you cannot release him and subsequently reacquire him. You can keep the driver on your roster, but he no longer accumulates any points.
If a driver is on your active roster for a given race but does not drive in that real-life event, he is not credited with a race started.

The number of races each driver has started for you are listed along with all of his other stats.

 

 

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Deadlines

 

The deadline for picking new drivers for the upcoming race is 2:00 a.m. PT on the morning of qualifying.
The deadline to change the status of a driver on your team from reserve to active is five minutes before the scheduled start of each race (view the complete schedule).

Please note that the scheduled race time usually differs from the actual start time of the race. Rosters are locked based on the time displayed on the Fantasy Lineup Fantasy Nascar schedule.

 

 

Scoring

 

Each driver can receive a maximum of 90 fantasy points during each race. The top 45 finishers receive points, with the winning driver getting the maximum 90, and other drivers receiving 2 fewer points for every spot they finish behind the leader (e.g., the second-place driver gets 88 points, the third-place driver gets 86).


You receive the total points earned by all active drivers on your team provided that they have not already been active in nine races.

Bonus points are awarded to each of the drivers with the 4 best starting positions after qualifying. The top qualifier receives 10 bonus points, the second receives 5, the third receives 3 and the fourth receives 1. Because qualifying for Daytona 500 is broken up over 2 days, these bonus points are not awarded for the Daytona 500.
An additional 10 bonus points are awarded to each driver who leads at least 1 lap during a race. The driver leading the most laps during a race also earns another 10 bonus points. To earn these bonus points for your fantasy team, a driver must be on your team and active during the race.

If a race is officially canceled, no fantasy team receives any points for that race. All other scoring rules stay the same. If qualifying or a race is delayed or postponed, no points are awarded until it is completed. If qualifying is canceled and the starting grid is determined by Sprint Cup points standings, no qualifying bonus points are awarded.

 

Standings

 

All applicable driver statistics are updated following qualifying and after each race.

All weekly fantasy point totals, group standings, and leaderboards are updated every Monday morning. The front page leaderboard displays the top 10 teams and has a link to a listing of the top 50. Standings on public group pages display the top 50 performing teams and show you where your team ranks.

Standings on private group pages display points for all owners in the group.

 

Manager Tools

 

Player Distribution Table

 

This tool shows you the percentage of teams that have chosen a given driver.
 
Player Performance Table
 
This tool shows you the cummulative fantasy point scoring for all drivers.
 

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Commissioner Tools

 

Lock Group Members
This tool allows you to prevent any group member from posting messages.

Remove Group Members
This tool allows you to delete any group member.

Delete Messages
This tool allows you to delete messages from the message board.

 

Update Schedule

 

All applicable driver statistics are updated following qualifying and after each race.

All weekly fantasy point totals and group standings are available on Monday mornings.

 

Questions or Comments

 

For questions when contacting us regarding stats, please include the following information in your email:

 

1. The name of the team in question.

2. Your League ID#.

3. The player(s) and statistic(s) in question.

4. Any reference point (box score, recap, news story, etc.) that might help in resolving the issue.

5. Email to: resolution@fantasylineup.com

 

 

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We encourage and appreciate all comments or suggestions. Please email us at feedback@fantasylineup.com