Now, Where Were We?

The people who bring you this fine blog could be spending their time waiting for the National Football League owners and players to finally get their collective act together and reach an agreement. But that's turning out to be as fruitful and productive as this.
Instead, we can turn our attention back to fantasy NASCAR.
After a (mostly) uneventful week off, the Sprint Cup drivers are getting back into their cars next weekend at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And the People's Pitstop needs your help picking the drivers who will represent us there.
For those of you just joining us, here's a quick rundown of how this little experiment in fantasy democracy works.
Yahoo Sports makes its fantasy players select eight drivers each week. Two must come from the A List, which are the top 10 drivers from last season. Four must come from the B List, which are the next 15 drivers from last season. Two must come from the C List, which is made up of everyone else who gets into a NASCAR vehicle. We select these eight drivers before the qualifying session. After qualifying, we pick one of our A List drivers, two of our B List drivers and one of our C List drivers to start. We get points if a driver qualifies in the top four. We get points if our drivers lead at least one lap during the race, and we get points for how well our drivers finish. The longer our drivers can keep from doing something like this on the track, the better our odds of scoring well.
How do we pick the drivers who will represent us each week? We don't. You do.
You will see three polls on the right side of this Web page. You, the Internet, vote in those polls. We compile the results, and the drivers with the most points get picked for our roster each week (using driver points to serve as a tiebreaker). The drivers on our roster who qualify the best start for us each race.
As you can see, our team's fate is up to you. Our goal is to win the competitive 9beersfantasysportstavern league. The People's Pitstop currently sits in second place. With your help, we can leap back into first. So feel free to start voting now, and tell your friends to do the same. Thanks.
Hopefully, we'll be back with some football news.
P.S. If you look at the second poll, you'll see the words "LAST TIME" after Ryan Newman's name. That's because Yahoo allows us to start a certain driver only nine times over the course of a season. Newman has started eight times for us so far, including last week, which went particularly well. If we start him this week, he's unavailable to us the rest of the season.