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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 34 of 36

Total pts.________________ Chase Driver____Non-Chase Driver
134 Peoria Matt*****______Joey Logano______Ryan Newman
125 Scorehead*__________Brad Keselowski____*NP-Brian Vickers
122 Hatchetman__________AJ Allmendinger____NP-Martin Truex Jr.
120 newper**_____________Jeff Gordon______Greg Biffle
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120 City Of Fools*_________Kyle Busch________NP-Clint Bowyer
99 Gloopan Kuratz***_____Kevin Harvick_____ Jamie Mcmurray
88 donspiracy____________Kasey Kahne_____Kyle Larson
---SILLY SEASON---57th Annual Daytona 500---February 22, 2015---
159 RFDC**_____________Dale Earnhardt Jr. __*NP-Casey Mears
123 spanky______________Denny Hamlin______D-Matt Kenseth
110 K Effective*__________Aric Almirola_______NP-Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
101 Hawg Ass**_________Jimmie Johnson______Paul Menard
94 chaspopcapp_________Kurt Busch________NP-Marcos Ambrose
71 NearWSHussra*_______Carl Edwards______NP-Austin Dillon
*Dealbreaker award _______________________*2nd Pick D-Dealbreaker Pick NP-No Pick

So... A race broke out at the high school cafeteria fight... With Jeff Gordon not driving very well at the end of the race and leaving enough room for Kese to get by him, cost him about 25 points and possibly a Championship. Meanwhile, in the contest, Peoria Matt is still holding off all takers with just twooooooooooooooooo races left in the season. Another late start, with green flag dropping about 2:15 on Sunday at Phoenix. Will this turn into the shoostout at the OK Corral or will everybody play nice? Not a chance, tune in Sunday to find out. Yes, there will finally be a full-fledged RaceLog. See you then racefans!!!

This is how the Chase is going down this year, 13 get in to start. Yes, the three Chase drivers not assigned to a player are available for picking. After the 3rd race, the bottom three in points will be eliminated from title contention. Leaving 10 players left until after the 6th race, the bottom three in points will be eliminated. Leaving 7 players left until the last race, when the Top 4 will advance to the final race with everybody’s points reset to zero after each round of eliminations. Yes, this is not exactly like how Nascar is doing it, but close enough for the Rules Cabal. Have at it boys!!!!

Starting Lineup
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Quicken Loans Race For Heroes 500(k)
Phoenix International Raceway - 11/9/2014
Last Update: 11/3/2014 8:30:00 AM
Provided by NASCAR Public Relations Statistics

Starting
Position Car# Driver SponsorManu QualifyingSpeed(mph) QualifyingTime(secs)
1 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 142.113 25.332
2 2 Brad Keselowski(PC2) Ford 142.079 25.338
3 4 Kevin Harvick Chevy 141.995 25.353
4 22 Joey Logano Ford 141.794 25.389
5 20 Matt Kenseth(PC5) Toyota 141.794 25.389
6 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 141.771 25.393
7 24 Jeff Gordon(PC6) Chevy 141.665 25.412
8 42 Kyle Larson # Chevy 141.321 25.474
9 55 Brian Vickers Toyota 141.287 25.480
10 41 Kurt Busch(PC4) Chevy 141.188 25.498
11 27 Paul Menard Chevy 140.889 25.552
12 13 Casey Mears Chevy 139.746 25.761
13 99 Carl Edwards Ford 140.488 25.625
14 78 Martin Truex Jr. Chevy 140.411 25.639
15 48 Jimmie Johnson(PC1) Chevy 140.356 25.649
16 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevy 140.285 25.662
17 15 Clint Bowyer Toyota 140.192 25.679
18 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 140.187 25.680
19 1 Jamie McMurray Chevy 140.160 25.685
20 31 Ryan Newman Chevy 140.127 25.691
21 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 140.045 25.706
22 5 Kasey Kahne Chevy 139.969 25.720
23 43 Aric Almirola Ford 139.958 25.722
24 47 AJ Allmendinger Chevy 139.746 25.761
25 3 Austin Dillon # Chevy 139.697 25.770
26 33 Ty Dillon(i) Chevy 139.432 25.819
27 51 Justin Allgaier # Chevy 139.394 25.826
28 16 Greg Biffle Ford 139.340 25.836
29 14 Tony Stewart(PC3) Chevy 139.195 25.863
30 7 Michael Annett # Chevy 139.104 25.880
31 95 Michael McDowell Ford 138.873 25.923
32 10 Danica Patrick Chevy 138.851 25.927
33 36 Reed Sorenson Chevy 138.691 25.957
34 38 David Gilliland Ford 138.307 26.029
35 34 David Ragan Ford 138.281 26.034
36 98 Josh Wise Chevy 137.942 26.098
37-OP 23 Alex Bowman # Toyota 137.878 26.110
38-OP 40 Landon Cassill(i) Chevy 137.857 26.114
39-OP 37 Mike Bliss(i) Chevy 137.515 26.179
40-OP 26 Cole Whitt # Toyota 137.420 26.197
41-OP 83 JJ Yeley(i) Toyota 136.846 26.307
42-OP 32 Joey Gase(i) Ford 136.199 26.432
43-OP 66 Mike Wallace(i) Toyota 134.088 26.848
44-DNQ 75 Clay Rogers Chevy 137.310 26.218

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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Kenseth

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Menard

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10 More Wins

I get why Keselowski has the rep that he has, whether all of it is justified or not.
Not sure why Gordon isn't getting more of a bad rap in recent years.

He's had (out of car) incidents with:

Keselowski (Texas)
Bowyer (Phoenix)
Jeff Burton (Texas)
Kenseth (Bristol)

I know the Kenseth one is a few years back, but I threw that one in there because it was the 2nd one where he initiated the confrontation with his helmet on.

Has any other driver had that many confrontations with that many different drivers in that time span? Maybe Harvick?

And what Jeff Burton did to Gordon was wrong, but.......who the hell fights with him??

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Newman

Gordon is a little bitch.

McMurray

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Donald's Piracy, any word on whether these coin guys are looking to get a more full time sponsorship next year?

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I don't know if they can pony up all the DogeCoins in the world to get the Daytona 500 sponsorship. Definitely Talladega and rigging the Fan Vote for the All-Star race.

Provident Metals has stepped in to be a "real" sponsor for the #98 car. I'm sure if enough T-shirts or Doge trinkets can get sold they will put that DogeCoin on the hood.

The poor showing at the Talladega race a couple of weeks ago kinda took a cold water splash on the face reality check on the chess board of big boy Sprint Cup Nascar racin'. Know what I'm saying?

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Brad had position & Jeff turned left into him. Gordon was clearly at fault, not Kese.

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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

Biffle.

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Matt Kenseth.

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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

If anybody was wondering what would happen at a night race if the lights went out WHILE THEY WERE RACING!!!!

Turn on Fox Sports 1 now. Craziness.

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Kyle Larson

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I don't think I get to take the dealbreaker into next year, so let's go ahead and use it

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Dealbreaker for Matt Kenseth

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Oh boy!!!

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Dealbreaker:

Matt Kenseth

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Scorehead gets Brian Vickers.

Green flag!!!!!!!!!!

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I need a minute to figure all this out.

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spanky and I on the same page

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spanky- Matt Kenseth
Scorehead- Brian Vickers
RFDC- Casey Mears

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Lap 25 of 312.

Hamlin, Logano, and Harvick all nose to tail for the lead. I have to make an unscheduled pit stop of my own. BRB.

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why does spanky get Kenseth when I posted first?

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Because I posted last, before the green flag

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yeah but I used a dealbreaker. I did not think a dealbreaker pick could be taken from someone unless the nuclear option was played.

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I think a dealbreaker can be used to take anybody except the 1st place and somebody who has already had a prior guy "stolen".

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ok I guess I misunderstood what the nuclear option was about. What does it do?

Not that it really matters as my only purpose was to keep scorehead from winning this thing and hopefully you have secured that.

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