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Confidence Picks

We did this on the old IndycarNation forums.

Here's how you play the game: For example the upcoming St. Pete race there are 25 cars. The car you have the most confidence in winning you would assign 25 points, the next car you have the most confidence in you would assign 24 points all the way down to 1 point for the car you have the least confidence in. Example 25-#9, 24-#6, 23-#12.....1-#18.

Here's the catch- Say you pick the #12 car to finish 1st and he finishes 5th you lose 4 points for the pick. 1 point for each position you were wrong. So you would get 21 points. If a driver you picked finishes higher then what you picked them you only get the points you assigned.

Example-You asigned car #19 5 points but he finishes in 10th which in this example would be worth 16 points, you only get the 5 points because you didn't have the confidence to pick him any higher.

Picks must be put in before the start of the race. NO Exceptions!!! You can forward your picks to someone else and they can post them for you but if they are not up before the start of the race then you are out of luck.

I will add up each participants points total and post them here usually on the Monday following the race.

We will use the Indycar Points system, so if you win a week you will recieve 50 pts, 2nd gets 40. Ties will the same number of points. if 2 or more people tie for 2nd they will both get 40 pts. The next highest total will recieve 35 points for 3rd.

I hope everyone gets this. There are a few on here that played this game last year. if you are confused wait until they post their picks so you can get the hang of it.

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Permalink Reply by 06rctb2zmhh7a on March 26, 2011 at 3:02pm

I'm in.

Permalink Reply by icrackedtheaces on March 26, 2011 at 6:55pm

25-#12, 24-#10, 23-#9, 22-#6, 21-#26, 20-#27, 19-#22, 18-#3, 17-#82, 16-#77, 15-#38, 14-#5, 13-#28, 12-#02, 11-#14, 10-#78, 9-#19, 8-#17, 7-#59, 6-#7, 5-#83, 4-#24, 3-#4, 2-#34, 1-#18

Permalink Reply by Josh Knight on March 27, 2011 at 1:07pm

dixon 3rd????

Marco 5th ???

Permalink Reply by 1995 on March 26, 2011 at 8:33pm

Alright first time doing this, lets see how it goes.

25-#12, 24-#10, 23-#22, 22-#3, 21-#82, 20-#9, 19-#6, 18-#38, 17-#77, 16-#27, 15-#26,

14-#19, 13-#28, 12-#02, 11-#78, 10-#14, 9-#17, 8-#7, 7-#5, 6-#24, 5-#4, 4-#59, 3-#34,

2-#18, 1-#83.

Permalink Reply by Josh Knight on March 27, 2011 at 1:07pm

dixon 2nd?????

Permalink Reply by Josh Knight on March 27, 2011 at 4:15pm

I did make my own picks and did just as bad as you did :). But this week doesn't count, I just thought it was funny that most of the top guys took each other out or got taken out. Lets hope Dixie does better next week :) .

Sorry, I didn't realize you would have a paddy about it.

Permalink Reply by Squall on March 27, 2011 at 10:50am

I decided never to play this game because it would give me a self-interest-based bias as what I want to see happen in the event, and since I grew up loving the fact that anything can truly happen in an automobile race...I wouldn't want to lose that lack of obsession-with-nothing-but-the-sport.

I'll congratulate any of you who get it right, though.

Permalink Reply by Josh Knight on March 27, 2011 at 12:04pm

I remember doing on of these somewhere else and i picked Danica to win at Motegi the year she won. I couldn't believe it

Permalink Reply by Josh Knight on March 27, 2011 at 12:03pm

My Picks

25-#22, 24-#27, 23-#10, 22-#77, 21-#3, 20-#, 19-#9, 18-#6, 17-#26, 16-#82, 15-#02, 14-#5, 13-#17, 12-#78, 11-#38, 10-#24, 9-#83, 8-#12, 7-#4, 6-#7, 5-#18, 4-#59, 3-#, 2-#28, 1-#19

I thinki used every number once ;)

Template

25-#, 24-#, 23-#, 22-#, 21-#, 20-#, 19-#, 18-#, 17-#, 16-#, 15-#, 14-#, 13-#, 12-#, 11-#, 10-#, 9-#, 8-#, 7-#, 6-#, 5-#, 4-#, 3-#, 2-#, 1-#

Permalink Reply by Josh Knight on March 27, 2011 at 12:21pm

i missed 2 out

20-# 5

3-# 14

Permalink Reply by icrackedtheaces on March 27, 2011 at 12:10pm

Anybody else going to play? You have about 30 minutes to put in your picks. If we have a low turnout we might scrap this weekend picks and start with the next race's picks.

Permalink Reply by icrackedtheaces on March 27, 2011 at 1:24pm

Since Bourdais is not on the grid and with only 4 people making picks this week, St Pete picks will not count. Hopefully we will get some more people for the next round.