Welcome to Fantasy Nascar

You will choose your drivers based on the drivers' finishing order from last season's points standings. Your team will consist of 5 drivers. You can choose up to 3 drivers from the top 10, but no more than 2 drivers from the top 5. You must choose at least 1 driver between 11th place and 20th place and must choose at least 1 driver from 21st place through last place in the drivers’ finishing order from last season.
Please be advised that the order you place your drivers in is important. In case teams tie, their first driver’s individual points will be compared, the second, and so on, until the tie is broken.
You will only get the points your drivers earn themselves, regardless of what car they are driving. You will not receive points for the car if your driver does not start the race in it. Take this into consideration when choosing your drivers.

Your drivers will earn the same points that they earn from Nascar for each race. In addition, your driver will earn your team points if it qualifies in the top 12. We will not adjust the points of the drivers in “the Chase” as Nascar does. Points earned are as follows:

Championship race points pos points pos points 1 40 23 14 2 35 24 13 3 34 25 12 4 33 26 11 5 32 27 10 6 31 28 9 7 30 29 8 8 29 30 7 9 28 31 6 10 27 32 5 11 26 33 4 12 25 34 3 13 24 35 2 14 23 36 1 15 22 37 1 16 21 38 1 17 20 39 1 18 19 40 1 19 18 20 17 21 16 22 15

Stage 1 & 2 winners pos points 1 10 2 9 3 8 4 7 5 6 6 5 7 4 8 3 9 2 10 1

Qualifying points pos points 1 16 2 15 3 14 4 13 5 12 6 11 7 10 8 9 9 8 10 7 11 6 12 5 13-40 0

The regular season will end after Race 26. At this time, the team in 1st place in the overall season standings will be crowned the "Regular Season Champion" and that team will earn a payout. The playoffs will take place during the final 10 races, races 27 through 36.
Who makes the playoffs: Daytona Early Bird winner, the highest scoring team from each week, races 2 through 26, then as many teams with the highest total season points that it takes to fill out 50 total teams.
Then, those 50 teams will be ranked by their total season points and placed in positions 1 through 50, with 1 being the highest scoring team down to 50 being the lowest scoring team among the 50 playoff contenders.
Those 50 teams will then all have their season totals bumped up to an equal amount. Then, the 1st ranked team will have 100 points added to that total. The 2nd ranked team will have 98 points added, 3rd ranked will have 96 points added, and so on down the ranking order, 2 points less for each position down to the 50th ranked team adding 2 points to it's total. These point totals will be what each team begins the playoffs with. Points will then accumulate as usual for each race until the end of the season, race 36.
What happens to the teams that do not make the playoffs: The rest of the teams will continue earning points as usual throughout the racing season to race 36. Among those teams, the team with the highest point total at the end of race 36 will earn 51st place and earn a payout.

- Payouts -
The final payouts of the teams that make the playoffs will be determined by the total number of entries received for the season. In addition, there will be payouts for the following:

Daytona Early Bird Bonus:	$50
Weekly highest scoring team, races 2 through 36:	$20
Regular Season Champion:	$100
51st place finisher:	$51