brnelson81

Weeks 1-3 have been rechecked with NASCAR.com's official standings. Only change from Sunday night was that Sterling Marlin went from earning 100 points to 97. This meant that BondKbond and berlyn lost 3 less points for their no chance pick.
Pos. Name  Week 3
1 Smokeinyota20     199.5
2 Great88                   127.5
3 brnelson81            116.5
4 Jtpoolplayer           109.5
5 Purduefan97         106.5
6 edwardscollins       97.5
7 Berlyn3014              90.5
8 Bondkbond              87.5
9 Frady                         69.5
10 edwardsfan99       64.5
11 Section_725          63.5
12 Ultrajer                    63.5
13 Gordon24               46
14 GoRedSox              30.5
15 mikeyfan1599        29
16 JaySaySue             19
17 madmike1975     -15.5
18 Bernsports            -48

Overall Standings

    Total
1 Great88                 519
2 Smokeinyota20   483
3 brnelson81          480.5
4 edwardsfan99     466
5 Bondkbond          451.5
6 Purduefan97       416.5
7 Berlyn3014          408.5
8 Ultrajer                 387
9 Jtpoolplayer        368
10 mikeyfan1599  354
11 Frady                  327.5
12 madmike1975  290.5
13 Bernsports        271.5
14 edwardscollins  244
15 Section_725     243.5
16 JaySaySue        221
17 Gordon24          201
18 GoRedSox        119

Hey guys and gals,

        Hope you enjoyed the off week, now we have a crap shoot week. This week every driver could just as easily finish in the bottom ten just as easily as they could finish in the top ten, who is gonna stay out of the big one? Well hopefully the answer is my Winner and Chasing the Chase Driver, and hopefully my no chancer wrecks.

Winner - I am going to go with Dale Jr., yes i dislike him, but i think it is time to break that streak. He is racing at a track that he does well at as well as the hendrick cars do well at

Chasing the Chase - Jeff Gordon, did I mention that henricks does well at Talledega?

Loser - A.J. Allmendinger, Kids making his 2008 NASCAR debut, so why not pick him.

BondKBond, I am sorry my new avatar upset you. Didn't know you were a Brew Crew man. The avatar is aimed at a few people in particular, not you. But if you feel the need for a nasty cubbie avatar bring it, thats part of the fun of the rivalry, I promise to not be offended ;-). 

remember, these results are dependent upon no penalties being issued for actions during the race, or for failing inspection, or based upon my error ;-) thanks great 88 for correcting me, I had the formula right on my spreadsheet, but in transfering this weeks score to my standings spreadsheet I typed in 105 instead of 205. However, for pulicly speaking out against the head of the league there will be a 100 point deduction ;-) just kidding. But what this means i that we have a new winner for the week, sorry edwardsfann99, but you are still in the lead overall.

For the week, the top 3 were

1) Great88 205pts.

2) Edwardsfan99 190 pts.

3) Frady 173 pts.

4) Brnelson81 155.5 pts.

and bringing up the rear this week was....

18) Edwardscollins 8 pts.

Not a great week for anyone, atleast nothing like last week where the top 6 were all over 215 points, only 1 person broke 200, and that was great 88 with 205.

Overall Standings

1) Edwardsfan99   404.5 pts

2) great88              391.5 pts       -13

3) brnelson81         364 pts.        -40.5

4) BondKBond        346 pts.        - 58.5

5) Ultrajer                 326.5 pts.    -78

6) Mikeyfan1599      325 pts.       -79.5

7) Berlyn3014          321 pts.       -83.5

8) Purduefan97       310 pts.       -94.5

9) madmike1975    306 pts.       -98.5

10) bernsports           298.5 pts.    - 106

11) Smokeinyota20 265.5 pts.    -139

12) Frady                   261 pts.       -143.5

13) Jtpoolplayer       252.5 pts.    -152

14) JaySaySue         184 pts.       -220.5

15) Section_725      183 pts.       -221.5

16) Gordon24            155 pts.      -249.5

17)edwardscollins   145 pts.     -259.5

18) goredsox               91.5 pts   -313

Notes

1. Congrats to JaySaySue, you got out of the cellar this week

2. Edwardscollins, you are in the lead for the worst week of the year, guess that is what you get when you pick Junior to do terrible, so everyone should give Edwardscollins a rough time this week ;-) just kidding

3. BondKbond, no more gloating or you this week, you have dropped 3 spots to Edwardsfan99, great88 and yours truly.

4. Edwardsfan99 pulls ahead with a healthy lead due to his second place run this week. This was his 2nd top three week, the only one of us to do so. So this week everyone give congrats to Edwardsfan99.

5. Even though Frady came in with a strong 3rd this week, he is still way behind due to his 88 point week last week. But hey, way to bounce back this week.

6. Every give props to great 88 for his win this week, and everyone take a lesson from great88, sometimes even I make mistakes. So please if you think I did your scoring wrong let me know and I will take a look at it.

7. Next week the Dark Horse label will change to Chasing the Chase. I feel this will do 2 things, A) it will no longer make it weird pick a driver that is the Caliber of Jeff Gordon, B) some people have been picking top 12 drivers, and I think this name should make it less confusing when making this pick. Come chase time this label will change to Outside the Chase. Don't feel bad if you have been one of the people who made a mistake on this pick, this is a new fantasy system and I knew there would have to be tweaks to the system so this is not me getting upset, just making necessary changes.

alright ladies and gentlemen, its time for my picks for this week.......

Winner, My gut is telling me to go with my man Ryan Newman, and well when I feel like Newman is going to win he normally has bad luck, so I can't pick Newman. Therefore after looking I once again think I am going to go with a Hendricks guy. Well naturally I won't be going Mears, and my disdain for Jr. won't allow me to pick him. So hmmm, JJ or Gordon......... hmmmmm.......hmmmm........... It is too fun rooting for Gordon to perform poorly, well I think I will go with Jimmie Johnson. Jimmie has avgeraged a top 7  finish at PMS ;-) hahahaha I know it is PIR, but it should be PMS ;-) hahahaha. But anyway not a bad idea to go with a guy who has sucess at this track, plus he has also done pretty well in the last 2 Spring races picking up a 4th and a 7th.

Dark Horse, I am sticking with my formula of a Hendricks winner and a Rousch DH's by going with Matt Kenseth. Not the best history with PMS but then who does ;-) (immature yes I know, this is just way too much fun... ooohhh oohhhhh something shiny)  ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ sorry about that, got lost. Anyway his last few trips to Phoenix have been good trips 3,5,13,3 and his last two spring races were 5th's and 3rd's.

No Chance,  hmm who to go with? Can I go with the Cubs have no chance at winning the World Series this year? :-). As a life long Cubbie fan I feel that is a safe bet. Anyway as for a driver to do terrible lets go with our friends to the north and pick Canadian driver Patrick Carpentier. Seems to be struggling this year and he qualified 43, hopefully the first man Newman puts a lap down is this Mayo loving Canadian (See the Whole Nine Yards) .