Official 2012 League Rules

Team Selection

1.  All NASCAR drivers will be divided into 4 groups.
2.  3 groups will be 4-5 drivers each and then one larger group.
3.  Each week, you will select 1 driver from each of the 4 groups.
4.  You then select one more driver from any of the 4 groups, or a driver not listed.
5.  Of these 5 drivers, you designate one to be your all-star for that week.
6.  You can use the same line-up each week except:
     a. At the beginning of segment, you must make a new line-up.
7.  If a new team is not submitted when the groups change at the end of a segment, your team will suffer a 50 point penalty per race that the invalid line-up remains.
8.  Team selection during the FNOL Chase are exactly the same except:
9.  You may select a particular driver as your team’s all-star only 3 times during those 10 races.
10. If you start the race with an invalid all-star during the chase, there will be a 50 point penalty for that race.
11. All picks are due 2 hours before the green flag drops.
     a. i.e. 11PM ET for most Sunday races and 530PM ET for night races.

Points

1.  Your team will earn points based on the new NASCAR scoring system (43-1).
2.  Your team’s all-star driver will earn double points for that race.
3.  Each week, the top finishers will receive bonus points.
4.  Several races are classified as “big money” races (Daytona 500, Talladega Spring, Bristol   Day, The Coke 600, Daytona Summer, Bristol Night, and all the Chase races), and their bonus points are much higher than normal.
5.  See the NASCAR schedule on home page for weekly bonus points distribution.
6.  These bonus points will be added to the team’s total points.

 Segments

1.  At the end of each segment, more bonus points will be awarded according to finish positions.  See the segments bonus point chart on the home page for totals.
2.  The segment bonus points will be added to the season total only.
3.  The top three segment finishers will win cash prizes (in 2010 we paid $30 to win, $20 for second, and $10 for third based on 40 total teams entered).

 The Chase

1.  The number of Chase teams will be determined by the number of teams playing this year.
2.  For every 10 teams entered, there will be 3 Chase teams.
     a. i.e. if we have 40 teams, there will be 12 chasers, if we have 60, there will be 18 chasers who will compete for the overall title.
3.  For each 12 teams in the Chase, two of those 12 will be “wild card” spots.  The two teams with the most weekly wins make the chase (total season points will be the tiebreaker).  If there are 12 Chase teams, spots 11 and 12 wild be wild card.  If there are 18 Chase teams, there would be 4 wild card spots (spots 15-18).
4.  If there are no non-chase teams who have won, simple season point totals will determine the final two spots.
5.  The teams not in the chase will compete for a cash prize ($TBD) to the winner of the non-chasers, and they will be competing for the segment money just like normal ($TBD).
6.  At the conclusion of the regular season, the Chaser's points will all be re-set to the same value (just like real NASCAR does), but then:
     a. 2nd place will be 5 points back, 3rd place 10 points back, and so on at 5 point increments.
     b. For each week a team wins and for each segment a team wins, +20 points will be awarded to that team at the start of the chase.
8.  Picks are made for the Chase like normal expect you can only pick the same “all-star” driver 3 times during the final 10 chase races.
9.  Prizes will be awarded to the top finishing racers overall, the top finisher of the non-chase teams, and the top three in each segment.