5AF Fantasy F1 2023

[Shyster]

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

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

• You each have $70 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.

• 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 or misses races due to injury, you will not earn points for that driver's replacement.

• Ties will be broken by looking at the points earned in each race by each fantasy participant and giving the highest point earner on a given week "first place," the next highest "second place" and so on. Ties are broken by whoever has more first-place finishes, and if necessary it goes on to second place, third place, etc. If there's still a tie, I will perform a coin flip.

• Your team must be unique. Please check what lineups have already been selected by other posters.

• 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). This includes the points earned during sprint-race qualifying
(1st place - 8 points; 2nd - 7; 3rd - 6; 4th - 5; 5th - 4; 6th - 3; 7th - 2; 8th - 1) and the point earned for fastest lap.

Driver salaries in millions:
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Max Verstappen (Red Bull): 27
Sergio Perez (Red Bull): 18
Carlos Sainz (Ferrari): 17.5
Charles Leclerc (Ferrari): 21.5
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): 24
George Russell (Mercedes): 19
Lando Norris (McLaren): 11.5
Oscar Piastri (McLaren): 7
Nyck De Vries (Alpha Tauri): 5
Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri): 5
Esteban Ocon (Alpine): 9.5
Pierre Gasly (Alpine): 8.5
Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin): 8.5
Lance Stroll (Aston Martin): 7.5
Logan Sargeant (Williams): 4
Alex Albon (Williams): 5.5
Nico Hulkenberg (Haas): 4.5
Kevin Magnussen (Haas): 7
Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo): 8
Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo): 5

The schedule (assuming races are not canceled or delayed or another war breaks out):
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1 Bahrain Grand Prix - Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir - 5 March
2 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Jeddah- 19 March
3 Australian Grand Prix - Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne- 2 April
4 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Baku City Circuit, Baku- 30 April*
5 Miami Grand Prix- Miami International Autodrome, Miami Gardens, Florida- 7 May
6 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix- Imola Circuit, Imola -21 May
7 Monaco Grand Prix - Circuit de Monaco, Monaco- 28 May
8 Spanish Grand Prix - Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló- 4 June
9 Canadian Grand Prix - Canada Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montréal- 18 June
10 Austrian Grand Prix- Red Bull Ring, Spielberg - 2 July*
11 British Grand Prix - Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone - 9 July
12 Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungaroring, Mogyoród - 23 July
13 Belgian Grand Prix - Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot - 30 July*
14 Dutch Grand Prix - Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort - 27 August
15 Italian Grand Prix - Monza Circuit, Monza - 3 September
16 Singapore Grand Prix - Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore - 17 September
17 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka - 24 September
18 Qatar Grand Prix - Lusail International Circuit, Lusail - 8 October*
19 United States Grand Prix - Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas - 22 October*
20 Mexico City Grand Prix - Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City - 29 October
21 São Paulo Grand Prix - Interlagos Circuit, São Paulo - 5 November*
22 Las Vegas Grand Prix - Las Vegas Street Circuit, Las Vegas, Nevada - 18 November
23 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi - 26 November

* Includes sprint qualifying.

Please post your driver lineup by 9:00 pm Eastern time on Friday, March 3.

@CBear3
@Gaucho
@dodint
@tifosi77
@MR25

[MR25]

$70 million? Talk about inflation!

(I'll wait to hear if this is correct before picking a team)

[Shyster]

Yeah. I got the salary numbers from the official fantasy league that formula1.com offers, and their salary numbers are higher than the source we've been using in past years. The formula1.com budget is actually $100 million, but they also have you pick two constructors with that money, so I cut the number down. I somewhat arbitrarily selected $70 million because that's not quite enough to just pick Verstappen + Hamilton + Leclerc.

[MR25]

Verstappen 27
Sainz 17.5
Leclerc 21.5
Sargeant 4

Should be 70.

[Gaucho]

Verstappen
Perez
Leclerc

[dodint]

Charles Leclerc (Ferrari): 21.5
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): 24
George Russell (Mercedes): 19
Alex Albon (Williams): 5.5

[tifosi77]

Alrighty then........


Max Verstappen (Red Bull): 27
Charles Leclerc (Ferrari): 21.5
George Russell (Mercedes): 19

I think that leaves me with a bit but not enough to book another points hauler. Let's really try to win some races, lads. Yahoo.

[dodint]

I've disengaged from F1 but figure that not competing in the FF1 league that I founded would be kind of lame. So it will kind of be like the allegory of the cave, reading results with little context.

[Shyster]

Charles Leclerc (Ferrari): 21.5
Max Verstappen (Red Bull): 27
Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo): 8
Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin): 8.5
Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri): 5

[CBear3]

Max (27)
Sergio (18)
Alonso (8.5)
Stroll (7.5)
Gasly (8.5)

(69.5)

[Shyster]

All right everyone, I've got my spreadsheet set up for everyone.

[dodint]

Thanks!

[Gaucho]

Thanks!

[tifosi77]

Thanks Shyster.

I have a bad feeling about this.

[Gaucho]

Perez ftw

[Shyster]

Round 1 - Bahrain

This race:
Cbear3 - 68
dodint - 17
MR25 - 37
Shyster - 44
tifosi - 31
Gaucho - 43

Leaderboard:
1. Cbear3 - 68
2. Shyster - 44
3. Gaucho - 43
4. MR25 - 37
5. tifosi - 31
6. dodint - 17

First-Place Finishes:
Cbear3 - 1
dodint - 0
MR25 - 0
Shyster - 0
tifosi - 0
Gaucho - 0

[dodint]

Oh, good.

[Shyster]

I was feeling good about the way that race ended until I remembered that Cbear had also taken Alonso and therefore had the entire freaking podium.

[CBear3]

Yeah, I think Red Bull will be even more dominant than last year so I opted to double up. My prediction is 1064 points for the season.

[Shyster]

Round 2 - Saudi Arabia

This race:
Cbear3 - 61
dodint - 28
MR25 - 33
Shyster - 40
tifosi - 37
Gaucho - 50

Leaderboard:
1. Cbear3 - 129
2. Gaucho - 93
3. Shyster - 84
4. MR25 - 70
5. tifosi - 68
6. dodint - 45

First-Place Finishes:
Cbear3 - 2
dodint - 0
MR25 - 0
Shyster - 0
tifosi - 0
Gaucho - 0

[Shyster]

Round 3 - Australia

This race:
Cbear3 - 63
dodint - 18
MR25 - 25
Shyster - 41
tifosi - 25
Gaucho - 36

Leaderboard:
1. Cbear3 - 192
2. Gaucho - 129
3. Shyster - 125
4. MR25 - 95
5. tifosi - 93
6. dodint - 63

First-Place Finishes:
Cbear3 - 3
dodint - 0
MR25 - 0
Shyster - 0
tifosi - 0
Gaucho - 0
[/quote]

Oof. Cbear opening up a can of whoopass on the rest of us.

[Gaucho]

hmph

[dodint]

I wouldn't have guessed it would be possible to score less than 20.

[MR25]

I did it a lot 2 years ago

[Shyster]

Round 4 - Azerbaijan

4.1 Azerbaijan Sprint:
Cbear3 - 18
dodint - 14
MR25 - 17
Shyster - 16
tifosi - 18
Gaucho - 21

4.2 Azerbaijan Race:
Cbear3 - 61
dodint - 28
MR25 - 43
Shyster - 46
tifosi - 38
Gaucho - 58

Leaderboard:
1. Cbear3 - 271
2. Gaucho - 208
3. Shyster - 187
4. MR25 - 155
5. tifosi - 149
6. dodint - 105

First-Place Finishes:
Cbear3 - 4
dodint - 0
MR25 - 0
Shyster - 0
tifosi - 0
Gaucho - 1