Maybe it should be called the "Controversy 600"

If you're new to this Fantasy Sports League (Who am I kidding? I'm probably one of 3 people to ever visit this site) you may not know the intricacies of our Fantasy Racing League. Allow me to tell a long story to get to the point. (What? You're not paying by the word for this blog.)

For years, SweetestTemptation Fantasy Racing was hosted by Yahoo! . (Exclamation then period? Question mark.)

Their format was as follows:
Pick 2 "A" level drivers from a list of 10 and "start" 1 each week.
Pick 4 "B" level drivers from another list and "start" 2 each week.
Pick 2 "C" level drivers from a list of former Red Lobster employees and "start" 1 of them each week.

You could only start a driver 9 times in a season, so switching them often was a necessity-if you actually cared.

As you might predict, Chuck started Hermie Sadler for the 9th and final time by the 9th race and it became apparent that he no longer had interest in the competition. Janet used up Dale Earnhardt, Jr. by the 5th race in the season. (I don't know how that's possible. She really likes Dale Earnhardt, Jr.) Next thing you know, the points lead was to be decided by only a couple of players, and most people totally lost interest.

So, out of necessity sprang invention. Digger and I laid the groundwork for an all new, never before used Fantasy Racing format, based on the tenets of Fantasy Football. We even had a 7 round draft!

I should post these rules in a separate space, but here they are:

Send in your team's 4 starters before the Green Flag drops.
For each race, the drivers will earn or lose points based on these accomplishments-

Win 50
Top 5 25
Top 10 15
Lap Lead 5
Most Laps Lead 10
DNF -20
Laps Down -1 per lap
Make Chase 35

If your drivers aren't sent in by the green flag, you will start the 4 lowest scoring drivers from the previous week.

And therein lies the rub.
Well, it's a rub with just a few players.

Our League's Fearless Commissioner is of the view "If a driver doesn't start an actual NASCAR race, he does not finish the race, therefore he shall earn negative 20 points."

For example, if Dick Trickle is on my team, you know, for the heck of it, but I don't start him, he doesn't cost me any points riding the bench. If, by the start of the next race, I haven't submitted my starting four, the lowest four point earners of the previous race become my new starters. Thus, Dick Trickle enters my starting 4. Unless a miracle happens, he's not starting an actual NASCAR race.

Should he earn zero points for not winning, finishing in the top 10, or leading a lap? Or should he earn negative 20 points because he didn't finish the race? That's one of the fundamental disagreements threatening to tear this League apart. Reminds me of Christianity.



So, Chuck was slapped with some penalties for have 2 non-starters/non finishers. He would like to keep starters starting until noted otherwise.

To keep the toilet swirling, he demanded proof that our commissioner (who has been suspected of unscrupulous behavior beforehand) has actually submitted picks to another player prior to the start of each race. I, being the receiver of said picks each week, could vouch that he has certainly done so. Instead, Digger forwarded every email of picks to every player in the league this morning, thus clearing his name. (Maybe.)

All seemed nice and quiet until, Crook, enraged by the overflow in his precious Hotmail account from 1997, sent a profanity laced clip from the film "Half Baked":





So where are we at the end of the day? Still no resolve for the Did Not Start=Did Not Finish debate. Still no resolve for the "I don't want to email my picks every week" conundrum.
But we do have a new leader...