2022 Race Results

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And we're off!


Justin finished dead last, which hurt most of us.

Two participants eclipsed 40 points. Mod11Racer is out to a one point lead over JustWinBaby.

All but 3 got pole points by trusting Big Money's pole prowess.

Results are below.

ALSO - some exciting news will be published prior to next race!

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The deviation was less for this race - albeit not by much. Stevie took the W for the week with 35 points. There were 2 34's and a 33 nipping at the heels.

Regretfully for Scott and myself - we each scored 23 points.

We are now in "drop land", where the lowest of the 2 races is dropped. It makes the standing wonky at least through the next race.

Stevie and JustWinBaby have the most race points, with 70. But only one of those races count, and it excludes pole points. Three of our participants are 2 for 2 already this year on poles.

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Now we sit for almost 6 weeks...and then we have back to back to back.

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And - to make this a little sweeter this year...

we have had an anonymous donor step up to the plate.

This person has allocated the following funds for the podium finishers:
1ST $250
2ND $100
3RD $50

In addition, there may be some for those further back. This will be worked out as the season progresses. (The donor was presuming we would have 12 entrants, but looks like we will have 10 - so the rest needs to be worked out).

Thank you for playing!!!

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Where did Stafford go?

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Where did Stafford go?

If I had more foresight I would have included it. I think it would have been fun to have that race as part of the schedule

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Riverhead is always one of the most unique for our contest, as "locals" play a part in it. (I expect we will see the same at Wall). This was true with 5 of the 15 points paying positions coming from that group.

Also, being that it is the 3rd race, which means the drop is more reasonably used - tends to shake up the order.

Nobody got pole points. (With that preface though I will add going forward - if qualifying is rained out, and the order is set on practice, i am still going to award pole points).

The overall order saw some changes as per the above comments regarding the drop. It almost exclusively follows the results from this race - as those who scored well...almost singularly scored their highest scores to date.
TourMods has a 1 point lead over bobgabes, with RBH 2 behind that. JustWinBaby has the most points overall, but is lacking in the pole points column.
The top 7 are all within 7 points. We'll see if it stays that way with 2 more races in the next 2 weeks.
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Man oh man - this race gave me a workout. I think more people used alternates in this race than altogether before combined. 5 people used them, as noted by a dash.

With a short field, and every picked driver finishing in the top 10, our scores were very tight. In fact, the lone outlier was myself - who forgot to update his picks and ended up with 2 drivers who didn't run (thus getting a 0 for one spot). If you take away mine, the standard deviation goes down to 2.1!

The top 7 are separated by 8 points...we'll see what comes out of Jennerstown.

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Well that was scary for a few days as the website went down. Thank goodness it occurred after the race and during a lull between races.

IF that happens again - e-mail me your picks. It is my screenname for this board with the domain @hotmail.com

As to the Jennerstown results. It was close - and we were bad. (Not surprising given the top 5 results)

Out of the 50 picks only two got into double digits.

JustWinBaby took the win and vaulted from 4th to the overall lead. His average is 2.4 points per race higher than the nearest competitor.

Going into this race the top 7 were separated by 8 points. And that is still the case. But the top 6 are separated by 5 points!

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Well that was an exciting race.

Big difference in our results if Matt held on versus Justin.

Either way, very consistent picks - all of us within 8 points.

RBH and Scott tied for the most points with 48.

Another short week - back to the island this coming weekend.
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My how this contest can be fickle sometimes.

The first Riverhead race we collectively averaged 33.5. Round 2 found our lowest score to be 34. The standard deviation was less than half (and was the 2nd race in a row where it was under 4).

This week’s scoring was (generally speaking) influenced by whether you had Coby winning. Because 1st place is weighted the heaviest, his 10th place finish only netted 6 points. The other choice (Bonsignore) netted 14 points.

Bobgabes kept his perch up top. But there was a lot of battling right behind that to get within 5 points, TourMods and Stevie used high scores for the week to do so. Stevie was also one of only 3 players to get any points for pole this week.

The top 4 of the contest are averaging within 0.1 points of each other for the season. JustWinBaby actually has the highest average, but the pole gap continues to be a challenge. He got 3 points this week for that to at least shave some of the impediment.

Have a great 4th and then talk to you from the Jersey Shore!
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Man oh man - the last time the Tour visited Wall it was a disaster for us. Chaos reigned.

This time it was the opposite - for the most part it followed chalk.
- it was by far the highest average for the season (by almost 2.5 points). Only 4 picks (out of 50) scored zero.
- 2nd lowest standard deviation for the season
- Mod11Racer took the week with the highest score so far this year (by 5 points). This catapulted him into 2nd place. The top 5 are split by 9 points.
- probably the only thing we did poorly? Pole points - only 2 people got any points...and that was for 2nd place. One of them was JustWinBaby who no longer is in the basement in that category.

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We were bad. In fact, we were the worst we have been all season. Our average eclipsed Jennerstown as the lowest. We were also consistently bad, with one of the lowest standard deviations of the season to date.

Scott took the win. A number of the rest of us had lowest score season to date, which meant some adjusting with regard to drops.

Four people got pole points, which also helped to do some shuffling. It pushed bobgabes to a bit further lead - let's see if it's too far out and we can draft up to catch him!
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Overall the group did pretty well. Part might be due to the short field, but I'll instead chalk it up to expert level picking. All (save for myself) scored 38 or more. In fact, if you excluded my score it would have been the 2nd lowest standard deviation of the season.

Mod11Racer and RBH led the week with 46 points. Each of those were important.

It brought RBH into a 3-way tie for 4th, only 2 points out of 3rd.
Mod11Racer clawed to within 3 points of bobgabes. Bob once again managed to get pole points, which kept the lead safe…for this week. Speaking of 3 points, Bobgabes min score is 31. Mod11’s is 28. This could be relevant down the stretch in case a “min score” gets supplanted.
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Enjoy the break…it’s back hot and heavy after that!

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What crazy scoring from this race.

6 people tied for the low score (31).
2 people tied for the high score (41).

Further, those in positions 3,4,5 were the only ones to get pole points for the race. This tightened the top of the rankings. The top 6 are separated by 15 points.

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Only 19 cars were entered - which is often a sign of high scores. This was especially true here as all 50 of our picks scored points. (This includes those of you that ended up having the alternate be scored with the late Emerling withdrawal).

Further - 8 of the 10 of us got pole points.

This was the highest average of the season (by a full 2 points). The lowest score would have been the highest in 4 races this year.

Bobgabes took the high score for the week AND got 5 points for correctly picking the pole. This took the lead back to 11 points. The top 5 order shifted some, but that isn't all that relevant at this juncture as 2nd through 5th are separated by 3 points. RBH lost a wee bit of ground to the top 5 and likely can't lose any more if wants to keep pace. Another race this Saturday - will we see any ROC interlopers...?

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I chortled when I saw the entry list for Oswego. I sensed there would be the potential for some disparate picks, and I was right.

This bore itself out in the results. It was the 2nd highest standard deviation of the year. We had just as many folks under 30 as we did above 40.

Our previous top 2 (Bobgabes and Mod11Racer) both scored their lowest of the season to date. This dropped Mod11 to 4th place, with the top 4 being separated by 12 points.

Of note as well is that 6 people scored max pole points by picking the 60. Bobgabes got 3 and JustWinBaby got 0. This is something to watch as we come down the stretch (five of the ten of us actually have within 2 points (or better) of our drop just from pole points)


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Riverhead always has the potential to “upset” some things in the standings. For the most part this week was chalk, which resulted in some high scores. 6 of us got above 45 – and was the third highest average score for the season.

Scott took high score for the 2nd week in a row. That catapulted him right into the mix for third place overall. There are 5 players within 6 points. Unfortunately one of those is JustWinBaby who had a tough week and plummeted to 5th in the standings.

With 2 races to go it is all but a 2 horse race. Bobgabes and Stevie Goodyear are separated by 5 points – and then have an 11 point lead on the next contenders. Bob and Stevie scored the same this week, but Stevie gained 5 points by picking the 51 to get the pole. Interestingly they also have the same score being dropped (29).

See y’all in a few weeks when Thompson will be posted.
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Well this was a peculiar week.

- We had one of our members forget to send in picks.
- The Saturday practice caught 2 people off guard and resulted in 10 point deductions
- One member submitted 2 sets of picks
- Only one member scored pole points – but then proceeded to score his lowest point total of the season
- Oh, and the race results were peculiar with some heavy hitters barely scoring points, to the point that SEVEN of us used this race as our drop week. If the 2 penalties were removed the race becomes the 2nd lowest scoring average for the season.

Because of the above, the results are still being audited by the governing committee. Here are the current standings.
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As it currently stands looks like will be a 2 horse race going in to Martinsville.