First, a quick update on the fantasy football side. Thanks to the input of you, the Internet, the People's Pigskin finished the NFL Fantasy Playoff Challenge with 477 points. The most valuable player on our team was also the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLIV: Drew Brees, who scored 57 points. The Pigskin ended up tied for 55,478th overall and in 18th place in the 9beersfantasysportstavern league. And we have you to thank.
With the fantasy football completed for the time being, it's time to shift gears (pardon the pun) to fantasy NASCAR. And once again, it's time for you, the Internet, to speak up.
The People's Pigskin will be running the People's Pitstop team in Yahoo! Fantasy Sports Auto Racing. We'll be part of the Fans of From the Marbles league. Our goal: to win by picking a lineup via Internet polling.
Here are some of the rules. (You can learn more by clicking here.) Each week the fantasy players pick a roster of eight drivers for that week's NASCAR Sprint Cup race. It's sort of like a Chinese menu. You can have two drivers from the A List (basically the top 10 drivers from the last season), four drivers from the B List (the 16 next-best drivers in NASCAR), and two drivers from the C List (everyone else). From those drivers, we pick four starters (one from the A List, two from the B List, and one from the C List). The starting drivers score points for the fantasy team according to how well they do in that week's race.
Oh, and one more thing: No driver can start more than nine races for a fantasy team. Once a driver has started his ninth race, he (yes, for the time being, that's still the correct pronoun) is off limits.
In future weeks, there will be points for qualifying well for that week's race. However, this week's race is the Daytona 500, and qualifying for that race -- well, it's complicated. They had a typical qualifying session this past weekend, but only for the front two positions. They went to Mark Martin (one of the drivers on the A List) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (one of the drivers on the B List). On Thursday, NASCAR will hold a pair of 125-mile races to determine the rest of the grid for Sunday's version of the "Great American Race."
Got it? Good. Cause now it's your turn to vote. The polls are now open. You're voting for two drivers in the first poll, four drivers in the second poll, and two drivers in the third poll. The drivers with the most votes will get the spots in the People's Pitstop lineup. If you want to learn more about the race, you can click here for a Yahoo-written PDF or click here for a RotoSports.com preview. Because I will be on the road Sunday for a Chinese New Year dinner (again, it's complicated), the polls will close on Saturday night. Please vote now. We'll be back later with some more thoughts on the NASCAR season.
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