RULES

AND REGULATIONS FOR THE

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SEASON OF THE NASCAR PICK-6

Welcome to the 2003 season of the NASCAR Pick-6. There is a chance that some rules pertaining to situations that may develop throughout the year may not get discussed. If you’re thinking about joining the Pick-6, and some of the things explained in here don’t seem clear, don’t let that deter you from joining. I’ll be glad to answer any questions or discuss any issues with you that you may have after reading this. You can call me at (608)-243-1842 and leave a message stating what time is convenient for me to call you back, or you can e-mail me at [email protected]. I’ll be happy to explain any questions that you might have about the Pick-6.

The Object of the Game

Each team will turn in any 2 qualifiers, any 6 finishers, and 2 longshots (to be explained later)

For every Winston Cup points race. The closer the actual finishes and qualifying positions of the drivers are to the predicted finish and qualifying position of the drivers, the more “event” points are earned. The number of event points received by each team will determine their finishing position in the “Pick-6 race”. The finish of each team in the “Pick-6 race” will determine the number of “championship” points earned for each race. The team with the most championship points at the end of the season wins the championship.

The turning in of picks

Picks are due at the beginning of qualifying for each race. Picks can be turned in one of three ways. You can just hand them to me on a sheet of paper, you can call them in to me on my voice mail by calling 243-1842, or you can send them to me via e-mail at [email protected]. These are the only ways that picks will be accepted, even if you just wish to take the same picks that were taken last week, you must tell me so using one of the three methods above. You cannot just tell me as you’re passing me in the hallway at work. If I don’t have some recordable evidence of your picks, I can guarantee that at some point I will forget them. Then I’ll be ticked because I have to redo the scoring, and you’ll be ticked because you didn’t get the score you thought you were gonna get. If qualifying gets delayed such that the field starts via championship points, all qualifying points will be nulled for all teams. Only driver names or nicknames that you’re sure that I know will be allowed. Using this method or turning in “same picks as last week” will be considered valid picks. Each team’s picks should take the form of:

Qualifying

Finish

Longshots

Also, for the first race, I’d like to have your phone number and/or e-mail address so that I can keep you up to date on developments throughout the year.

Event Scoring

All event points will be awarded according to the following chart:

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| || Driver's Finishing Position |

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|Predictions || 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th |

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|Start 1st || 20 15 11 8 6 5 |

| 2nd || 14 19 14 10 7 5 |

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|Finish 1st || 24 19 15 12 10 9 |

| 2nd || 18 23 18 14 11 9 |

| 3rd || 13 17 22 17 13 10 |

| 4th || 9 12 16 21 16 12 |

| 5th || 6 8 11 15 20 15 |

| 6th || 4 5 7 10 14 19 |

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|Longshot #1 || 44 40 36 32 28 24 |

| #2 || 40 36 32 28 24 20 |

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To help you understand this chart, let’s say that you picked a driver to qualify 1^st, and he actually qualified 4^th, then you would receive 8 event points for that driver. If you picked a driver to qualify 2^nd and he actually qualified 4^th, then you would receive 10 event points for that driver. If you picked a driver to finish 4^th, and he finished 2^nd, then you would get 12 event points, but if you picked a driver to finish 2^nd, and he finished 4^th, you would get 14 points. The longshot scoring works the same way.

Championship scoring

Not including bonus points, this is how the championship scoring would work based on # of teams in the pick-6. Basically, it’s just interpolations based on the actual NASCAR points system based on the number of teams.

# of teams à	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1^st	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵	¹⁷⁵
2^nd	⁴³	¹⁰³	¹²¹	¹³⁴	¹⁴²	¹⁴⁶	¹⁵⁰	¹⁵⁵	¹⁶¹	¹⁶⁰
3^rd		⁴³	⁷⁹	¹⁰³	¹¹⁵	¹²¹	¹²⁷	¹³⁴	¹⁴⁷	¹⁴²
4^th			⁴³	⁷³	⁹¹	¹⁰⁰	¹⁰⁹	¹¹⁸	¹³³	¹²⁷
5^th				⁴³	⁶⁷	⁷⁹	⁹¹	¹⁰³	¹¹⁹	¹¹⁵
6^th					⁴³	⁵⁸	⁷³	⁸⁸	¹⁰⁵	¹⁰³
7^th						⁴³	⁵⁵	⁷³	⁹¹	⁹¹
8^th							⁴³	⁵⁸	⁷⁷	⁷⁹
9^th								⁴³	⁵⁵	⁶⁷
10^th									⁴³	⁵⁵
11^th										⁴³

Much like Winston Cup teams leading laps for bonus points, the Pick-6 also has bonus points. One pick on position will earn you 5 bonus points. Having the most picks on position will earn you 10 bonus points, with the tie-breaker going to the highest scoring pick on position, then 2^nd highest, and so on. After that, tie-breakers would go the same way as finishing tie-breakers in the Pick-6.

Longshots

A longshot is a driver that has failed to finish in the top 6 twice for a whole year. If a driver is a longshot and finishes in the top 6 twice in one year, he is taken off the longshot list. If a driver is not a longshot and goes a whole year without finishing in the top 6, he is put on the longshot list. A list of “NON-LONGSHOTS” is provided and updated throughout the year. A non-longshot list is provided instead of a “longshot” list because the list of longshot eligible drivers is infinitely larger than the list of drivers not eligible as a longshot. Following is a list of drivers currently on the “non-longshot” list. Remember, these drivers CANNOT be taken as a longshot, but any other driver you can think of is eligible.

Non-longshot list updated November 18, 2002

Rusty Wallace Mark Martin Ricky Rudd

Jeremy Mayfield Bobby Labonte Tony Stewart

Ward Burton Jimmy Spencer Jeff Gordon

Sterling Marlin Joe Nemechek Dale Jarrett

Bill Elliott Jeff Burton Matt Kenseth

Johnny Benson Dale Earnhardt Jr. Michael Waltrip

Kurt Bush Kevin Harvick Ricky Craven

Robby Gordon Elliott Sadler Todd Bodine

Ryan Newman Jimmie Johnson Terry Labonte

Jeff Green

Rollover Picks

Anytime a team fails to turn in picks before qualifying is scheduled to begin for that weekend’s race, “Rollover Picks” will be given to that team. Rollover Picks are just the picks that were taken the week before. This proves to be very costly when NASCAR goes from a suerspeedway to a road course or vice versa. Any team given rollover picks will automatically receive a 100 event point deduction.

Tie Breakers

In the event that two or more teams receive the same event points, and thus would finish in the same place, the tie would be broken in this order:

1. Most picks on position.

2. Highest individual event points awarded.

3. Highest finish by non-scoring pick (1^st in finish section, 2^nd in longshot section, finally in qualifying section)

A detailed description of each of these situations would be quite lengthy and in the essence of brevity will be left out. If you have any questions about these tie-breakers, I would be happy to explain and give examples of how each of them work. Simply contact me at the phone number or e-mail address given at the beginning of the document.

Fees and payouts

The fee to enter this year’s Pick-6 is $50. This fee will be due by qualifying for the Daytona 500. (Sunday, Feb. 9^th 12:00 pm CST) Failure to pay the fee by the beginning of qualifying will result in a fine of $5. Feel free to pay the fee early to avoid a last minute rush to pay it just before qualifying. If picks continue to be turned in for subsequent races with no entry fee and fines being paid, additional fines of $5 will be assessed. This will continue until the 4^th race without being paid up in full. After qualifying for the 4^th race with out being paid up, the offending team will be eliminated from the Pick-6.

Anyone can join the Pick-6 at any time during the season after the first race. Teams that join after the first race will start one point behind the last place team. If the new team is joining at the 4^th race of the year or further back, fees will be due before picks will be accepted. Failure to pay fees will result in the same fine schedule as mentioned above. Those teams eliminated for failure to pay dues on time will not be allowed to re-join the pick-6 until after 2 races. At which point they will join the Pick-6 one point behind the last place team. Just like the championship points, the pay out is also determined by the number of teams currently entered in the Pick-6. Also, the Pick-6 is also paying out individual race winners, these payouts are also determined by the number of teams currently involved. Any team that wins a race with rollover picks on a race that is paying out race winnings cannot claim those race winnings. The race winnings will go to the highest finishing team that has turned in picks. If a team joins after some races have been paid out, the next few races may have a buck or so added on to the winnings to equalize the rest of the payout fund. Six teams must enter the beginning of the season or else that season will be canceled and monies refunded. If by the fourth race the field falls below 6 teams, there will be a vote on whether to continue the season. Below is a chart showing the payouts that each team number would produce:

# of payout payout

races with of 1^st of final

# of teams 1^st 2^nd 3^rd payout race races

6 $120 $81 $54 9 $5 $5

7 $140 $94 $63 11 $3 $5

8 $160 $108 $72 12 $5 $5

9 $180 $121 $81 14 $3 $5

10 $200 $135 $90 15 $5 $5

11 $220 $148 $99 16 $5 $5 (last 3 races pay $6)

12 $240 $162 $108 16 $5 $5 (last 10 races pay $6)

13 $260 $175 $117 16 $6 $6 (last 2 races pay $7)

14 $280 $189 $126 16 $6 $6 (last 9 races pay $7)

15 $300 $202 $135 16 $7 $7 (last race pays $8)

16 $320 $216 $144 16 $7 $7 (last 8 races pay $8)

17 $340 $229 $153 16 $8 $8

18 $360 $243 $162 16 $8 $8 (last 7 races pay $9)

19 $380 $256 $171 16 $8 $8 (last 15 races pay $9)

20 $400 $270 $180 16 $9 $9 (last 6 races pay $10)

As an example, let’s say there are 14 teams involved in the Pick-6. Then at the end of the year, 1^st place would receive $280, 2^nd place would get $189, 3^rd place $126. The last 16 race winners of the year would receive payouts. The first race winner of those last 16 would get $6, the winners of the next 6 races would also get $6 each. Finally, the winners of the last 9 races would get $7 each for their race win.

The reason the idea of getting individual race winnings was introduced was to help keep people toward the end of the season who were becoming eliminated from the championship or payout positions from giving up and letting their picks rollover every week. This has been a problem most years in the Pick-6. Previously, this was dealt with by trying to put peer pressure on the slacking teams, mostly unsuccessfully. Therefore, we felt an incentive was needed to keep teams interested in putting forth an effort every week……..MORE MONEY.

Extra-curricular activities

Just as NASCAR finds a way to give all the fines incurred during the course of the season back to the teams, so will this. All monies received from fines will go into a pool. If a team wins a chance to take money from the pool and the minimum amount is not there for the team, The league president will provide the needed money out of his own pocket. So now, how do teams get a crack at this pool of money?:

The Winston

The amount of money for any event will never be lower than $5. If the fine pool is less than $5, the remaining money will come out of the president’s pocket. If the fine pool goes above $15, the money will be split between The Winston pool, the 2004 Bud Shootout pool, and the No Bull 5 pool. With the No Bull 5 pool getting the least of the remainder. So if there is $20 in the fine pool, The Winston pool will be at $7, the 2004 Bud Shootout pool will be at $7, and The No Bull 5 pool will be at $6.

Dan Jauch has already placed himself into The Winston by winning at least 7 races last year since the 2002 Winston. Many other teams are close to that 7 win threshold. Wins are not transferable from team to team. If a team has 6 wins since The Winston from last year and doesn’t want to compete in 2003, they can’t transfer their wins to their buddy who would like to join the league this year.

All competing teams who have not yet won 7 races by the time of the 2003 Winston can still get into The Winston via The Winston Open. The winner of the Winston Open will transfer into The Winston and have a chance at The Winston pool.

The 2004 Bud Shootout

The 2003 Bud Shootout will still be run like all the non-points races from the previous years since we haven’t been keeping track of poles in 2002. But I think all the teams from previous years are familiar with how qualifying tie breakers are set up since from week to week I would announce the Pick-6 pole winner and if it was a tie, how that tie was broken. A team only needs 5 poles during the 2003 season. Less than the 7 wins needed in The Winston for 2 reasons. The first is that there is no longer a pre-Bud Shootout as in some previous years for a team to transfer into the Bud Shootout. The second is that some teams have a decided advantage over others in qualifying based on their schedule of internet usage. Basically, those who get to view practice results before qualifying vs. those who don’t. Although it sounds like SPEED will be carrying some qualifying practice this year, if you don’t have access to the internet during that time, you probably don’t have access to cable TV.

The No Bull 5

There are rumors that NASCAR may change the current system of The No Bull 5. If they do I’ll probably change the Pick-6 version to something very similar. But as it stands now, the winner of the first No Bull 5 race of the year will get the chance to win the No Bull 5 pool if that team wins the next No Bull 5 race. If not, the money stays there until someone wins it. The winner of the last No Bull 5 race of the year can win the No Bull 5 pool for the first No Bull 5 race of the next year if that team decides to stay with the league. The only word I have found so far as to what is going on this year with the No Bull 5 if from Jayski’s web page. In which, as of Jan. 3, he has no idea as to what is going on. If the entire program is nixed by NASCAR, then the money from the No Bull 5 pool will go into the other two pools.

All of these numbers are subject to change based on the number of players involved in the Pick-6.

The future of the Pick-6

The Pick-6 is the only competition I know of in existence that has over a 100% payout. 100% of this year’s money is paid back in this year’s winnings. Plus, in January of 2004, a meeting will be held to shape the rules for the 2004 Pick-6 season. This meeting will probably take place at a restaurant or bar. All teams that were involved in the 2003 Pick-6 will be given a $5 discount towards their meal/drinks at this meeting. Anyone will be allowed to attend this meeting and offer input, however, only teams in the 2003 Pick-6 will be allowed to have a vote at this meeting. Those teams that attend the meeting in addition to those teams who notify me well in advance that they will not be able to make the meeting will be given more voting power than those teams who cancel on shorter notice. Details of this arrangement can be obtained by contacting me by the phone number given or by e-mail. They will also be explained later in the year. At the 2004 meeting a $100 raffle will take place at the end of the meeting for all those in attendance (even virtually, but only if you live outside of a 100 mile radius to Madison). A team name will be chosen randomly. If that team is in attendance at the meeting, they will win $100. If that team is not in attendance, no money is won. Those teams that cannot make the decided upon meeting can request an absentee ballot before the meeting takes place. After ideas have been proposed and voted on. Those teams that requested an absentee ballot will be given one, and will be given a deadline to return it. After that deadline, the rules for the 2004 season will be created and distributed.

This is everything I can think of pertaining to the rules of the Pick-6. I’m sure in haste I have left out some situations or rules. Again, if you have any questions regarding the Pick-6, feel free to contact me and I will be happy to answer any concerns or questions you may have.