Fantasy F1 2014

bennett_346

Anyone doing/interested in a fantasy F1 league for the Crud this year?

Edit: I have set one up on Badger GP http://badgergp.com/. Scroll down for the details. You still have until qualifying starts tomorrow to set your teams up etc.

If you have not signed up yet you still can after the first race on Sunday, you'll just miss out on a possible 5% of the total points.

lawman

Sounds good to me!

bennett_346

Ok guys, was easier than I thought to set up, details are:

CrudCatcher - Passcode: 386271

Remember to pick your drivers and teams and choose your predictions for each upcoming race. To join the CC league just go to "Friends Leagues" when signed in then click join league and scroll down to CrudCatcher and put the passcode in.

My acc. is under my real name :P

lawman

Joined!

bennett_346

Nobody else?

The Northern Monkey

Sweet. Will get in on this now.

The Northern Monkey

Done!

bennett_346

The Northern Monkey wrote:

Done!

Ossum. For fun, how many safety cars have you got in your predictions?

I've gone for just the one, though i'm wondering if i should maybe bump it up to three!

The Northern Monkey

Gone for 2, don't remember Australia being a big one for safety cars!

Shame we can't see what each other have picked, I like to compare lol

The points system is pretty good, seems you get points for the places your driver gains, so picking a censored driver that finished 10th because of crashes/retirements etc gets a shed load of points!

bennett_346

I was thinking new cars - reliability issues plus Australia has had a safety car in over 50% of the races in the past, believe it or not! Not so sure.

There might be a way to see others' drivers and teams but I can't find it. I've gone for Hamilton, Alonso and Ericsson for drivers and Mercedes GP, Williams and Sauber for teams.

The Northern Monkey

alonso, perez & sutil

Lotus, Force India, Sauber

lawman

You'll be getting no points from Lotus or Caterham this weekend I think!! Gone for Hamilton, Hulkenberg and Bottas, stuck with their teams as well so Mercedes, Force India and Williams. I do however think Alonso could make the podium behind the two mercs. Hamilton to win and 2 safety cars. No points given but I reckon just 9 cars will finish

bennett_346

lawman wrote:

You'll be getting no points from Lotus or Caterham this weekend I think!! Gone for Hamilton, Hulkenberg and Bottas, stuck with their teams as well so Mercedes, Force India and Williams. I do however think Alonso could make the podium behind the two mercs. Hamilton to win and 2 safety cars. No points given but I reckon just 9 cars will finish

I reckon Alonso has a good chance of podium, for sure. I think Raikonnen will be in at least top 5 unless something out of his control happens.

tlw1

hollex - qualifying had started by the time I started to try and join

gt-arrowhead

matthew h wrote:

hollex - qualifying had started by the time I started to try and join

Same! Balls...

bennett_346

You can still join after this race you'll just lose out on 5% of the points.

gt-arrowhead

Ohh, thats good. Thanks

bennett_346

Results are up guys!

gt-arrowhead

Signed up and joined the league. Im Team TK.

My team should be pretty decent...

bennett_346

Currently sat in second after that race. 39/49 on my other league. Dissapointed!

Banked all my hopes on Lewis and Williams and suffered for it.

Great race though.

gt-arrowhead

You were extremely unlucky in that case.

I want to have Lewis in my team, but that would mean i would be 1 mil over the limit. :roll: So i chose someone else instead.

Its a bit weird how im routing for Ferrari (particularly Kimi), and i picked neither.

Best race ive seen a while. Really happy for Magnussen, fantastic debut. Im a big fan of his dad aswell, fantastic driver.

The Northern Monkey

Really? I couldnt even watch the replay it was that boring.

Twelly

Im in, team yerboysiesyer. Totally didnt notice the predictions page untill halfway through the race so missed out on a load of points there!

bennett_346

I did abysmally so there's plenty of time to catch up lol.

lawman

Despite a relatively poor result from my team, I'm in the lead!! Gutted for Lewis and Bottas, cost me a shed load of points, but great drives from Magnusson and Ricciardo, shame he was disqualified. Best part of the whole race? The sound of the crowd continuously booing Vettel... Priceless!

bennett_346

lawman wrote:

Despite a relatively poor result from my team, I'm in the lead!! Gutted for Lewis and Bottas, cost me a shed load of points, but great drives from Magnusson and Ricciardo, shame he was disqualified. Best part of the whole race? The sound of the crowd continuously booing Vettel... Priceless!

You're in the lead but not for long. I've made some very significant changes to reflect the race results. We will see in two weeks time

gt-arrowhead

My team is bullet proof, expect some strong competition from Team TK.

lawman

bennett_346 wrote:

lawman wrote:

Despite a relatively poor result from my team, I'm in the lead!! Gutted for Lewis and Bottas, cost me a shed load of points, but great drives from Magnusson and Ricciardo, shame he was disqualified. Best part of the whole race? The sound of the crowd continuously booing Vettel... Priceless!

You're in the lead but not for long. I've made some very significant changes to reflect the race results. We will see in two weeks time

Don't see any reason to change mine tbh Sounds cocky but had Lewis not had his engine problems and Bottas not tw@ed the wall I'd have had a huge pile of points, here's hoping they both made the finish in Malaysia! I can see Red Bull struggling in the heat there for sure.

gt-arrowhead

I got all my predictions correct apart from two. Raikkonen came 12th, not 3rd, and no safety car.

bennett_346

Yeah i got 4/6 of my predictions correct. Moved from 2500 in worldwide ranking to about 1000/3200 people.

gt-arrowhead

Nice. I got up to 2nd from last in our league. I want to join another league to see how i get on but i dont think its possible without getting a password.

I bet you got the same ones right as i did.

Lewis to win
Lewis to get Pole
Lewis to get fastest lap
Rosberg second.

Ricciardo did just not have a great day today at all. Podium denied AGAIN by a factor completely out of his control. AGAIN. Then a front wing failure. Then as if that was not enough, a 10 place grid penalty for Bahrain. Poor fella. Seems like he has picked up where Webber left off with the bad luck.

Im so glad that Massa did not move over for Bottas. The whole reason why he left Ferrari was to stop being a number 2 driver.