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Welcome to the fourth-annual 5AF Fantasy F1 league.

• The competition is open to all posters. Welcome aboard!

• You each have $40 million to spend on your team.

• You may select as many drivers as your budget allows. There is no advantage gained from not spending your entire budget.

• Teams do not have to be unique.

• You are selecting by driver. If a driver switches teams, your points earned will follow that driver to the new team. If a driver is replaced, you will no longer earn points for that driver.

• Each player must choose two Grand Prix weekends. This set must be unique if you have the same driver lineup as someone else. These two weekends will earn double points in the event there is a tie at the end of the season. In the event the inclusion of double points still results in a tie, the tiebreaker will follow the same pattern as the F1 drivers’ championship tiebreaker, which is the number of first-place finishes earned by all your drivers, then the number of second-place finishes, and so on.

• The points earned by your selected drivers are the same as the points earned by the F1 drivers’ championship (1st place - 25 points; 2nd -18; 3rd - 15; 4th -12; 5th - 10; 6th - 8; 7th - 6; 8th - 4; 9th - 2; 10th - 1).

Driver salaries in millions:
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28.5 - HAM - Mercedes - Lewis Hamilton
27 - BOT - Mercedes - Valtteri Bottas
17 - VET - Ferrari - Sebastian Vettel
18 - LEC - Ferrari - Charles Leclerc
17.5 - VER - Red Bull - Max Verstappen
14.5 - ALB - Red Bull - Alexander Albon
7.5 - SAI - McLaren - Carlos Sainz Jr.
6 - NOR - McLaren - Lando Norris
5.5 - RIC - Renault - Daniel Ricciardo
4.5 - OCO - Renault - Esteban Ocon
6.5 - KVY - Alpha Tauri - Daniil Kvyat
6 - GAS - Alpha Tauri - Pierre Gasly
8.5 - PER - Racing Point - Sergio Pérez
7.5 - STR - Racing Point - Lance Stroll
4 - RAI - Alfa Romeo - Kimi Räikkönen
3.5 - GIO - Alfa Romeo - Antonio Giovinazzi
2 - GRO - Haas F1 Team - Romain Grosjean
1.5 - MAG - Haas F1 Team - Kevin Magnussen
4.5 - RUS - Williams - George Russell
4 - LAT - Williams - Nicholas Latifi

The schedule (assuming more races are not canceled or delayed due to coronavirus):
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1 - Australian Grand Prix - Australia Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne - 15 March
2 - Bahrain Grand Prix - Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir - 22 March
3 - Vietnamese Grand Prix - Vietnam Hanoi Street Circuit, Hanoi - 5 April
4 - Dutch Grand Prix - Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort Zandvoort - 3 May
5 - Spanish Grand Prix - Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona - 10 May
6 - Monaco Grand Prix - Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo - 24 May
7 - Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Azerbaijan Baku City Circuit, Baku - 7 June
8 - Canadian Grand Prix - Canada Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montréal - 14 June
9 - French Grand Prix - France Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet - 28 June
10 - Austrian Grand Prix - Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg - 5 July
11 - British Grand Prix - United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone - 19 July
12 - Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród - 2 August
13 - Belgian Grand Prix - Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot - 30 August
14 - Italian Grand Prix - Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza - 6 September
15 - Singapore Grand Prix - Singapore Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore - 20 September
16 - Russian Grand Prix - Russia Sochi Autodrom, Sochi - 27 September
17 - Japanese Grand Prix - Japan Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka - 11 October
18 - United States Grand Prix - United States Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas - 25 October
19 - Mexico City Grand Prix - Mexico Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City - 1 November
20 - Brazilian Grand Prix - Brazil Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo - 15 November
21 - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - United Arab Emirates Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi - 29 November

22 - Chinese Grand Prix - China Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai - TBA


Please post your drivers and two tiebreaker races by 6:00 pm Eastern time on Thursday, March 12.

@CBear3
@Gaucho
@dodint
@tifosi77
@MR25

LEC, VER, RAI

Azerbaijan, SG

Reserve the right to change up to the cutoff on 3/12

@CBear3
@Gaucho
@MR25

Honestly I'm not sure here. The whole field looks like ****.

HAM, NOR, RIC

Monaco, French GP

TIL the board stops you if someone made a new post before you submit

VER, LEC, OCO

Austria, Brazil

VER, ALB, SAI

Monaco, Mexico

I think the values put too much faith in Ferrari's potential. They're already talking about giving up and focusing on the 2021 regs. Between that and Albon increasing point share over Gasly in the second half last year, I think RBR is undervalued.
I also think that while Stroll Family Motorsports has made gains, I'm still not expecting to them be best of the rest. Stroll got outscored nearly 3:1, it won't get better when they move a couple spots forward and the point spread between positions is larger. Does Perez score more than Sainz? Possibly, but I can't see Stroll in 8th the driver's championship.
I also think somebody was high when they thought George Russell would score more than Kimi and as much as Ocon.

I'm going with:

VER, KYV, GAS, PER, MAG

Mexico, Belgium

Paging @dodint

Yeah, I know. I'm just not feeling it this year so I haven't really put a lot of thought into it. Might just duplicate the team I chose for my other league.

I wanted to build a team around Albon but he was too expensive.

ALB
SAI
NOR
PER
GIO

Belgian, Dutch

All right everyone, I have no idea if or how many of the races might actually take place, but it looks like we're set. Best of luck to everyone.

Welp, Australia is officially canceled.

Anyone have F1 2019 and want to sim it?

I think the most recent version I have is '17. Wouldn't be opposed to picking it up now, though. What platform is everyone on? I'm PS4.

PS4 here. Not a huge fan of F1 games.

I think I misunderstood, anyway. I was thinking you meant we could do like a 5AF network league and race each other.

Wow, it's still full price. Senna/Prost edition is $70. Woof.

Sounds fun, tho:

The F1® 2019 Legends Edition celebrates the greatest rivalry in F1® history. Players get to drive as Ayrton Senna in his 1990 McLaren MP4/5B and Alain Prost in the Ferrari F1-90, and face off over 8 race challenges, as well as receiving exclusive Senna and Prost themed multiplayer car liveries.

I think I misunderstood, anyway. I was thinking you meant we could do like a 5AF network league and race each other.

Nah I meant like,start a season as a driver no one picked then just sim through with transfers off, with points doled out as if the results were the real thing.

Round 1 - Austria 1

This race:
Cbear3 - 10
dodint - 36
MR25 - 28
Shyster - 14
tifosi - 18
Gaucho - 22

Leaderboard:

1. dodint - 36
2. MR25 - 28
3. Gaucho - 22
4. tifosi - 18
5. Shyster - 14
6. Cbear3 - 10

*Results Not Typical

Round 2 - Austria 2 (Styria)

This race:
Cbear3 - 30
dodint - 33
MR25 - 39
Shyster - 24
tifosi - 15
Gaucho - 15

Leaderboard:

1. dodint - 69
2. MR25 - 67
3. Cbear3 - 40
4. Shyster - 38
5. Gaucho - 37
6. tifosi - 33

Who knew Nando was going to carry McLaren

Niiice.