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Everybody pick a driver each week. Nobody picks the same driver, picking is first come first served. The thread will be posted weekly. By rule, I get to pick Kasey Kahne each week if I am so compelled. Tally up the points of the driver yous pick each week and reset the field after the Richmond race. This will be a 26 week play-in to the Chase For The Cup.
This means there will only be 43 spots available in this contest. SO SIGN UP EARLY AND OFTEN(you mults yous).

Then, starting with the first Chase race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, the Top 12 posters shall be assigned to the driver corresponding in the SPRINT CUP standings. They keep this driver for the duration of the Chase. The chosen 12 will also get to pick a driver out of the Chase to make things more interesting. And rack up the points for the championship.

Confused? Good. Reward? Yes. A prize of undetermined greatness will be given out after the season.

1. If you pick someone and one of the players ahead of you in the standings want that driver, you have to pick another driver. This will go on for the rest of the season, just like NASCAR. If you don't pick another driver by the drop of the green flag you will be assigned the best available driver based on qualifying. A poster can only have their pick bumped ONCE per week. Your second pick will be protected from getting bumped a second time. Unless someone uses a Dealbreaker award on you.

*Dealbreaker award
This rule has been added to let someone who picks a race winner to be given a Dealbreaker award. It would let the poster either pick bump anyone(except the leader) ahead of them in the standings or take somebodys second pick. It can be saved and used at anytime during the regular season, even right before the drop of the green flag. The Dealbreaker award is a regular season gimmick and none will be given during the playoff season. The awards can transfer to the playoffs, but all deals must be complete by the last regular season race Week 26 at Richmond.

Any players who get their pick bumped or somebody goes and uses the Dealbreaker on them, they will be PM'ed in a timely manner as possible. Dealbreaker awards are able to be bought, sold, or bartered. Players don't have to use them every week or ever use them at all and sell them to players that would really need it late in the regular season. The Dealbreaker may be dealt for straight cash homie, or you can trade some of your points, or work out something to job a player ahead of you in the standings.

Shenanigans are endorsed and encouraged by the Rules Cabal. All trades, deals, and any other kind of brilliant schemes must be presented in the weekly thread and approved by the Rules Cabal for them to be used that week. The value of the Dealbreaker award has yet to been set. I'll leave that up to those involved in the dealings. And let anyone say a single cross word about the Rules Cabal decisions and watch what happens.

PLEASE NOTE:
A Dealbreaker Pick may be taken from you by someone else also using a Dealbreaker. This is called "nuclear option"
driver picking. Yes, this is unfair and everyone may use up their Dealbreakers going after the same driver, in the same week.

2. After the fifth race of the season driver picking priority will be based off of the 2014 standings. *** A poster can only have their pick bumped ONCE per week. Your second pick will be protected from getting bumped a second time. ***
3. Up to 43 people will be eligible for the contest during the first 26 races of the season. Once the Chase To The Cup starts, only the top 12 will advance to the playoffs.
4. You can sign up and never make a pick, you'll be assigned the best available driver based on qualifying that week.
5. Failure to abide by these rules will be dealt with the most harsh and unfair of judgements by the NASCAR Pick 'em rules cabal, err, committee.

Overall Standings
After Week 23 of 26

Total pts.________________ Driver
791 Scorehead**__________Jeff Gordon
768 RFDC****____________Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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762 newper**____________Carl Edwards
739 Hawg Ass****_________NP-Kurt Busch
724 Gloopan Kuratz***_____Brad Keselowski
718 NearWSHussra*_______Kevin Harvick
679 Peoria Matt****_______*Matt Kenseth
669 City Of Fools*_________NP-Greg Biffle
647 K Effective*__________Kasey Kahne
647 chaspopcapp*________Kyle Busch
638 spanky*_____________*Jimmie Johnson
635 sjboyd0137___________NP-Ryan Newman
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628 Dr. Ken*______________NP-Clint Bowyer
623 doug-ep***___________Marcos Ambrose
622 donspiracy____________Kyle Larson
593 Urlacher's missing neck*_Denny Hamlin
566 Hatchetman___________NP-Brian Vickers
534 Hank Scorpio**________NP-Paul Menard
510 jimmypasta___________NP-Jamie Mcmurray
---SILLY SEASON---57th Annual Daytona 500---February 22, 2015---
485 Apologist_____________Joey Logano
*Dealbreaker award _______*2nd Pick

It’s that time of year race fans! Scorehead and RFDC have clinched their spots in the Chase. Dr. Ken, being 140 points back of RFDC, cannot catch him. And sadface for Apologist being 150 points back of 12th, cannot overcome that point deficit. But he is still alive in the LCQ.
http://betterbracketmaker.com/#!/50f9d909e3f35
Here it is. The LCQ bracket. Somebody on the bottom of the standings is going to the new and improved Pick ‘em Chase. 8 players, three weeks of heads up, elimination style matchups.

Speaking of the new Chase format, it’s going to go down like this:
13 players will be assigned the driver corresponding in the Nascar Chase standings. They will keep this driver for the duration of the playoffs.

The three drivers that are in the Chase, but not assigned to a player ARE eligible to be picked. After three races, the three players with the lowest point totals will be eliminated from title contention. At the final race at Homestead, there will be four players all starting with zero points.

A couple of notes on this deal, picking a winner does NOT guarantee advancement to the next round. But it will really help, since everybody is picking a second driver. Once eliminated, players are still encouraged to pick drivers, burn up their dealbreakers to job everybody else, and remember that the final standings this year will be the driver picking priority for the first five weeks of next year.


Starting Lineup
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Irwin Night Race
Bristol Motor Speedway - 8/23/2014
Last Update: 8/14/2014 11:57:00 AM
Provided by NASCAR Public Relations Statistics

Starting
Position Car# Driver SponsorManu QualifyingSpeed(mph) QualifyingTime(secs)
1 4 Kevin Harvick Chevy 131.362 14.607
2 24 Jeff Gordon (PC5) Chevy 131.290 14.615
3 99 Carl Edwards Ford 131.209 14.624
4 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 131.057 14.641
5 22 Joey Logano Ford 131.030 14.644
6 48 Jimmie Johnson (PC1) Chevy 131.030 14.644
7 41 Kurt Busch (PC3) Chevy 130.940 14.654
8 16 Greg Biffle Ford 130.869 14.662
9 2 Brad Keselowski (PC2) Ford 130.504 14.703
10 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 130.460 14.708
11 31 Ryan Newman Chevy 130.168 14.741
12 5 Kasey Kahne Chevy 130.009 14.759
13 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 129.982 14.762
14 15 Clint Bowyer Toyota 129.894 14.772
15 55 Brian Vickers Toyota 129.877 14.774
16 20 Matt Kenseth (PC4) Toyota 129.684 14.796
17 27 Paul Menard Chevy 129.684 14.796
18 1 Jamie McMurray Chevy 129.649 14.800
19 51 Justin Allgaier # Chevy 129.561 14.810
20 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevy 129.230 14.848
21 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 129.169 14.855
22 47 A.J. Allmendinger Chevy 129.160 14.856
23 78 Martin Truex Jr. Chevy 128.848 14.892
24 10 Danica Patrick Chevy 128.753 14.903
25 14 Jeff Burton Chevy 128.477 14.935
26 3 Austin Dillon # Chevy 128.262 14.960
27 23 Alex Bowman # Toyota 127.988 14.992
28 95 Michael McDowell Ford 127.971 14.994
29 34 David Ragan Ford 127.886 15.004
30 98 Josh Wise Chevy 127.512 15.048
31 66 Brett Moffit Toyota 127.470 15.053
32 38 David Gilliland Ford 127.453 15.055
33 83 Ryan Truex # Toyota 127.436 15.057
34 26 Cole Whitt # Toyota 127.360 15.066
35 37 Dave Blaney Chevy 127.081 15.099
36 36 Reed Sorenson Chevy 127.056 15.102
37-OP 32 J.J. Yeley (i) Ford 126.370 15.184
38-OP 7 Michael Annett # Chevy 126.237 15.200
39-OP 40 Landon Cassill(i) Chevy 125.404 15.301
40-OP 42 Kyle Larson # Chevy 124.954 15.356
41-OP 33 David Stremme Chevy 123.746 15.506
42-OP 43 Aric Almirola Ford 0.000 0.000
43-OP 13 Casey Mears Chevy 0.000 0.000
PC1 = is the first past champion eligible, PC2 is the 2nd...and so on if more

# Simoco Rookie of the Year candidate

(i) = driver not running for 2014 Sprint Cup Series Championship Drivers Points

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Gordon

Kyle Busch

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Dale JR

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Kyle Bush

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Jimmie Johnson

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Kahne

Jeff Gordon

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Kenseth

I'll lock up my spot with Cousin Carl.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Marcos Ambrose

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@audioidkid

Kyle Larson

I am riding the Larson bandwagon until it breaks! Has to be better than last week, right?

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Keselowski

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Harvick

Logano

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1926-1931-1934-1942-1944-1946-1964-1967-1982-2006-2011

Hamlin

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

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HELLO! !!

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Michael Buffer doing the race intro! That is cool!!

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Green Flag!!

Competition Caution will be at lap 60.

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Lap 10 of 500.

Leader Harvick is running about a full second faster than the back of the back. Going to catch the rear of the field shortly.

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Lap 15.

Harvick has reached the back of the field. 2nd place Gordon is right behind him working their way thru the slower cars.

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Lap 30 of 500.

Harvick about to make it down to 33 cars left on the lead lap.

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Lap 40 of 500.

Harvick pinned behind Danica and Gordon takes the lead.

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LCQ matchups
Dr. Ken*______________Clint Bowyer
Apologist_____________Joey Logano

doug-ep***___________Marcos Ambrose
jimmypasta___________Jamie Mcmurray

donspiracy____________Kyle Larson
Hank Scorpio**________Paul Menard

Urlacher's missing neck*_Denny Hamlin
Hatchetman___________Brian Vickers

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Lap 52 of 500.

Kyle Busch now to second. My guy Larson needs this competition caution quickly!!!

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New leader, Kyle Busch!

Get to the yellow already.

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lap 60 of 500.

Competition Caution. My guy Kyle Larson is the Lucky Dog!! 27 cars will be on the lead lap when they go back to green.

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Kyle Busch and JJ speeding on pit road. Sadfaces for spanky and chas.

Matt Kenseth leads them off at Lap 68.

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Josh Wise goes for the spin! Caution at Lap 70.

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