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If You have not played Fantasy Thunder this page
is for you! There are many strategies for playing the contest. As time goes on most Team
Owners develop their own system. This information will help you get started. Please
contact us anytime if you have questions. Best of luck this season!
1. The single most important aspect of the contest is
to understand driver value changes. If
your team is not going up in value each race it will be hard to be competitive down the
stretch because you will lose buying power.
a)The first value change is for race 4. The values are based on finishing position from race 2. This means that when picking your team for race 3, the drivers you pick will be assigned values after the race
that will show up for race 4.
b)If a driver finished poorly in race 2 and you
pick this driver for race 3, he will definitely lose value
for race 4. If a driver had a good finish in race 2 and you pick this driver for race 3,
he will definitely go up in value for race 4.
c)This pattern will follow for the entire season with race
17 values being based on results from race 15.
d)See the driver value formula page for details on
each driver and how their values will change.
2. Be aware of where they are racing each week. There are big differences in
how drivers finish at different tracks.
3.Do not be sentimental about your favorite driver (or any driver) and keep
them if they are in a slump. This is a easy trap to fall into for first time
players.
4.How to calculate trades.
a)Add the current race dollar value for each
driver you are dropping.
b)Add any balance that you had left over from the last
race.
c)Subtract the current race dollar value for each
driver you are adding.
d)As long as the combination of a and b are higher than c
your trade is valid. (see example below)
Drop Earnhardt $2,050,000
Add Martin
$2,175,000
Jarrett
S2,200,000
Gordon $2,150,000
Saddler
$515,000
Bickle $450,000
Total Drops
$4,765,000 Total Adds
$4,775,000
Bank Balance +
$85,000
Tot. Trading Dol. $4,850,000
Total Trading Dollars $4,850,000
Less Total Adds
-- $4,775,000
Bank Balance for next race $75,000
*You do not have to worry about adding your
total team value each race if the above method is used for trading purposes.
5.Most of all
have fun! There will be some races when all the efforts to
pick the best team become futile when 2 or 3 of your drivers are caught up in early
wrecks. But remember what they say, "Thats Racing!" Besides, you get to drop your 5 lowest scores if you start in week 1.
Each Team must have 12 races at the end of the season so late entries will have less than
5 drops. |
