2018 8th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - Time For Your NITRO Fix! Here We Go Again!!!

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Arizona Nationals picks:
TF - Tony Schumacher
FC - Robert Hight
PS - Jason Line
 
TF - Tony Schumacher
FC - Robert Hight
PS - Jason Line
 
33rd annual Arizona Nationals qualifying leaders:

Q1
Weather: 69F, 25% relative humidity, barometer 28.79, adjusted altitude 2333', track temp 103F

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.649 @ 334.65
FC: Courtney Force, 3.845; Matt Hagan @ 330.88
PS: Chris McGaha, 6.549; Greg Anderson @ 211.13


Q2
Weather: 65F, 25% relative humidity, barometer 28.76, adjusted altitude 2046', track temp 85F

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.649 @ 336.57 (New National Speed Record)
FC: Courtney Force and Jack Beckman, 3.845; Cruz Pedregon @ 333.25
PS: Alex Laughlin, 6.537; Greg Anderson @ 211.13


Q3

Weather: 61F, 26% relative humidity, barometer 28.96, adjusted altitude 1586', track temp 105F

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.649 @ 336.57 (New National Speed Record)
FC: Courtney Force and Jack Beckman, 3.845; Cruz Pedregon @ 333.25
PS: Alex Laughlin, 6.529; Greg Anderson @ 211.66

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Congratulations to 'Back in Time' (FABO) for winning the Top Qualifier title of the 2018 Arizona Nationals with a very nice total of 19.5 bonus points. He picked the #4 qualifier in Top Fuel, the #2 qualifier in Funny Car and the #6 qualifier in Pro Stock. Way to go!
'Stroked 340' (FABO) was in the #2 qualifier spot with 18.5 bonus points. More great picks!
Good luck all in eliminations tomorrow!

We have 14 players this week with 11 different driver combos made up of:
* 5 different Top Fuel drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There could be one head-to-head matchup in the 2nd round of eliminations if they both survive the opening round.
* 4 different Funny Car drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups and no possible head-to-head matchups in Round 2. The first potential head-to-head matchup may be in Round 2 of eliminations.
* 45 different Pro Stock drivers picked this week. No Round 1 head-to-head matchups and a possibility of one head-to-head matchup in the 2nd round of eliminations.

Good luck all!
 
Here are the results and point standings following completion of the wild and wacky Arizona Nationals, the second event of the 2018 NHRA season.

How wacky was it?
Well, 'SSG Karg' (FABO), 'memike' (FABO) and 'ocdart' (FABO) shared the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the Arizona Nationals with a mediocre point total of 67.0 points each - and 'SSG Karg' only had one pick that was eliminated in the first round of eliminations! 'SSG Karg' picked the class winner in Top Fuel, his Funny Car pick lost in the 2nd round of eliminations and his Pro Stock pick lost in the first round of eliminations. 'memike' and 'ocdart' had the same picks. Both of their Top Fuel and Funny Car picks lost in the opening round of eliminations and their Pro Stock pick lost in the final round of eliminations. What saved them were ET bonus points and the bonus points associated with a new National Speed Record by their Top Fuel pick.
'64BEL' was the top FBBO picker with 47.5 points. Both of his Top Fuel and Pro Stock picks lost in the opening round of eliminations and his Funny Car pick lost in the 2nd round of eliminations. He was also helped by the ET and new National Speed Record bonus points of his Top Fuel pick.


Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:

Top Fuel
E.T. - Tony Schumacher, 3.649 during qualifying
Speed - Tony Schumacher, 336.57 (new National Record) during qualifying

Funny Car
E.T. - Courtney Force, 3.826 during qualifying
Speed - Courtney Force, 337.16 while winning in the final round of eliminations

Pro Stock
E.T. - Deric Kramer, 6.522 during qualifying
Speed - Chris McGaha, 211.93 during Round 2 of eliminations


Here are the game point standings after the 2nd event of the 2018 season:

156.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO) no change is game standings
155.5 - Duster79 (FABO) +1
155.5 - alsant (FBBO) -1
151.5 - ocdart (FABO) +3
149.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO) -1
142.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) no change
135.5 - Back in Time (FABO) -2
132.0 - stroked340 (FABO) no change
115.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) no change
112.5 - cuda20 (FABO) no change
106.5 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) no change
105.0 - SSG Karg (FABO) no change
67.0 - memike (FABO)
54.5 - johnnycuda (FABO)


The 3rd race of the 2018 season, the 49th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, is March 15-18, at Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, FL.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, March 16 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 1:15PM EDT (10:15 AM PDT).
The Gatornationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 13 Top Fuel, 16 Funny Car, 12 Pro Stock entries and 11 Pro Stock Motorcycle entries, but the counts are subject to change. Keep checking http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist03.aspx for an updated entry list.
Don't forget to post your Pro Stock Motorcycle pick for the initial event of the 2018 season where PSM will run.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!
 
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Here's your "Tuesday-before-the-event" reminder for the 49th annual Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals that starts Friday, March 16th.
The entry list currently shows:
16 Top Fuel
18 Funny Car
16 Pro Stock
20 Pro Stock Motorcycle

The current forecast calls for a high temps of 72F on Friday, 77F on Saturday and 80F on Sunday with 40% chance of rain sometime both Saturday and Sunday.
The current entry list shows:
19 Top Fuel
17 Funny Car
17 Pro Stock

Get your picks posted!
 
Gators picks:
TF - Doug Kalitta
FC - Matt Hagan
PS - Jason Line
PSM - Jerry Savoie
 
TF Doug Kalitta
FC Hight
PS Anderson
PSM Krawiec
 
49th annual Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals qualifying leaders:

Q1
Weather: 73F, 36% relative humidity, barometer 29.88, adjusted altitude 1405', track temp 103F

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.785 @ 329.67
FC: Jack Beckman, 3.958 @ 325.61
PS: Greg Anderson, 6.522; Chris McGaha @ 213.03
PSM: Joey Gladstone, 6.793; Eddie Krawiec @ 198.93


Q2
Weather: 78F, 27% relative humidity, barometer 29.81, adjusted altitude 1771', track temp 106F

TF: Clay Millican, 3.708; Tony Schumacher @ 329.67
FC: Tommy Johnson Jr., 3.933 @ 327.27
PS: Greg Anderson, 6.522; Chris McGaha @ 213.27
PSM: Eddie Krawiec, 6.785; Hector Arana Jr. @ 200.23 (New National Record)


Q3
Weather: 76F, 37% relative humidity, barometer 29.85, adjusted altitude 1706', track temp 106F

TF: Clay Millican, 3.708; Tony Schumacher @ 329.67
FC: Jack Beckman, 3.911; Robert Hight @ 333.66
PS: Greg Anderson, 6.522; Chris McGaha @ 213.27
PSM: Andrew Hines, 6.773; Hector Arana Jr. @ 200.23 (New National Record)


Q4
Weather: 80F, 32% relative humidity, barometer 29.76 adjusted altitude 2053', track temp 125F

TF: Clay Millican, 3.708; Tony Schumacher @ 329.67
FC: Jack Beckman, 3.911; Robert Hight @ 333.66
PS: Greg Anderson, 6.522; Chris McGaha @ 213.27
PSM: Andrew Hines, 6.773; Hector Arana Jr. @ 200.23 (New National Record)


I'll post qualifying points results after the NHRA broadcast later tonight.

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Congratulations to both 'SSG_Karg' (FABO) and 'cuda20' (FABO) for sharing the Top Qualifier title of the 2018 Gatornationals with very nice totals of 29.5 bonus points each. They took different roads to get to the same place. 'SSG_Karg' picked the #1 qualifier in both Top Fuel and Funny Car, the #2 qualifier in Pro Stock Motorcycle and the #5 qualifier in Pro Stock. 'cuda20' picked the #1 qualifier in Pro Stock, the #2 qualifier in Pro Stock Motorcycle and the #3 qualifier in both Top Fuel and Funny Car. Way to go!
'super-bee_ski' was the top qualifier from FBBO with 26.5 bonus points. More great picks!
Good luck all in eliminations tomorrow!

We have 14 players again this week with 13 different driver combos made up of:
* 6 different Top Fuel drivers with one Round 1 head-to-head matchup between #4 qualifier Tony Schumacher and #13 qualifier Brittany Force. There could be one head-to-head matchup in the 2nd round of eliminations if they both survive the opening round.
* 6 different Funny Car drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups and two possible head-to-head matchups in Round 2.
* 4 different Pro Stock drivers picked this week. No Round 1 head-to-head matchups but a possibility of two head-to-head matchups in the 2nd round of eliminations since all four picked drivers qualified on the top half of the Pro Stock ladder.
* 3 different Pro Stock Motorcycle drivers picked this week with one Round 1 head-to-head matchup between #2 qualifier Eddie Krawiec and #15 qualifier L.E. Tonglet. All three picks qualified on the bottom half of the Pro Stock Motorcycle ladder so there is a possibility of one head-to-head matchup in Round 2 of eliminations.

Good luck all!
 
The Gatornationals results will be posted in a day or two.
Thankfully we've had a bit of badly needed rain here in SoCal but the timing of it has been unfortunate since I haven't been able to get a lawnmower over my lawn in a couple of weeks. I've got to get it mowed tonight - or buy a goat - while it's dry enough to mow. We've got another storm due in later in the week.

I will give y'all this little tidbit to chew on...only 4 pickers escaped this week without having one of their picks get beat in the opening round of eliminations.
And I wasn't one of the lucky four. Three of my four picks went down in the first round. OUCH!
 
Here are the results and point standings following completion of the Gatornationals, the third event of the 2018 NHRA season.

Congratulations to 'SSG Karg' (FABO) for winning "Top Picker Eliminator" title with a very nice point total of 169.5 points. He picked the class winner in both Funny Car and Pro Stock Motorcycle, his Pro Stock pick lost in the final round of eliminations and his Top Fuel pick lost in the semi-finals. He was helped with ET bonus points in both Top Fuel and Funny Car.
Congrats also to Duster79 who was the event runner-up with 133.0 points.
'super-bee_ski' was the top FBBO picker with 116.5 points.


Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:

Top Fuel
E.T. - Clay Millican, 3.708 during qualifying
Speed - Tony Schumacher, 329.67 during qualifying

Funny Car
E.T. - Jack Beckman, 3.911 during qualifying
Speed - Robert Hight, 333.66 while winning in the final round of eliminations

Pro Stock
E.T. - Greg Anderson, 6.522 during qualifying
Speed - Jason Line and Chris McGaha, 213.03 during qualifying

Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Andrew Hines, 6.773 during qualifying
Speed - Hector Arana Jr., 200.23 (New National Record) during qualifying



Here are the game point standings after the 3rd event of the 2018 season:
288.5 - Duster79 (FABO) +2 in the game standings
274.5 - SSG_Karg (FABO) +10
272.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO) -2
266.0 - alsant (FBBO) no change
263.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO) no change
254.5 - stroked340 (FABO) +2
231.5 - Budnicks (FBBO) +2
227.0 - cuda20 (FABO) +2
223.0 - super-bee_ski (FBBO)_ +2
221.0 - Back in Time (FABO) -3
214.0 - ocdart (FABO) -9
194.5 - 64BEL (FBBO) -6
164.5 - memike (FABO) no change
128.0 - johnnycuda (FABO) no change


The 4th race of the 2018 season, the 19th annual Denso Spark Plug NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, is April 6-8, at The Strip in Las Vegas, NV.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, April 6 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 3:30PM EDT (12:30 AM PDT).
The Las Vegas 4-Wide entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 14 Top Fuel, 19 Funny Car and 13 Pro Stock entries, but the counts are subject to change. Keep checking http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist04.aspx for an updated entry list.
Pro Stock Motorcycle will not compete at this event.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!

 
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Gotta post this a little earlier this year since there are now two 4-Wide events on the NHRA schedule and the first one is the next event. The 4-Wides are scored differently. We're using the same scoring this year as previously used and, again, this scoring is only for the 4-Wide events, both Las Vegas and Carolina.

Points change for 4-Wide events ONLY!!!
Same rules as the past several years:

These events only have 3 rounds of eliminations. Event scoring will be similar to the NHRA points scoring.

Qualifying position bonus points are the same as always

Each pro elimination round is run with 4 cars per race rather than 2, and 2 cars advance from each of the first 2 rounds of eliminations.

First round: Four races of four cars each. The 1st car of each race to cross the finish line will get 10 points, the 2nd car will get 5 points. Eight cars advance to the second round of eliminations.

Second round: Two races of four cars each. Same scoring as the first round. Four cars advance to the final round of eliminations.

Final round: One race of four cars. 1st Place finisher will get 10 points, 2nd Place will get 5 points, 3rd Place will get 3 points, 4th Place will get 1 point.

Same scoring for quickest e.t. and fastest speed for the event and for any national record set at this event.

Again, this scoring will be for the 4-Wide events only.

 
ocdart said:
Gotta post this a little earlier this year since there are now two 4-Wide events on the NHRA schedule and the first one is the next event. The 4-Wides are scored differently. We're using the same scoring this year as previously used and, again, this scoring is only for the 4-Wide events, both Las Vegas and Carolina.

Points change for 4-Wide events ONLY!!!
Same rules as the past several years:

These events only have 3 rounds of eliminations. Event scoring will be similar to the NHRA points scoring.

Qualifying position bonus points are the same as always

Each pro elimination round is run with 4 cars per race rather than 2, and 2 cars advance from each of the first 2 rounds of eliminations.

First round: Four races of four cars each. The 1st car of each race to cross the finish line will get 10 points, the 2nd car will get 5 points. Eight cars advance to the second round of eliminations.

Second round: Two races of four cars each. Same scoring as the first round. Four cars advance to the final round of eliminations.

Final round: One race of four cars. 1st Place finisher will get 10 points, 2nd Place will get 5 points, 3rd Place will get 3 points, 4th Place will get 1 point.

Same scoring for quickest e.t. and fastest speed for the event and for any national record set at this event.

Again, this scoring will be for the 4-Wide events only.
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I'll post my picks but will not watch the Dog n Pony show called 4 wide racing. :)
 
Las Vegas 4-Wide picks:

TF Clay Millican
FC Matt Hagan
PS Bo Butner
 
Here's your "Tuesday-before-the-event" reminder for the 19th annual Denso Spark Plug NHRA 4-Wide Nationals that starts Friday, April 6th.
The entry list currently shows:
16 Top Fuel
20 Funny Car
16 Pro Stock

Pro Stock Motorcycle will not compete at this event.

The current forecast calls for a high temps of 82F on Friday, 84F on Saturday with 10% chance of some rain, and 77F on Sunday.

Get your picks posted if you haven't already!

 
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