5AF Fantasy F1 2024

[Shyster]

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

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

• You each have $50 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 (Oracle Red Bull Racing): 30
Sergio Perez (Oracle Red Bull Racing): 21
Carlos Sainz (Scuderia Ferrari): 18.5
Charles Leclerc (Scuderia Ferrari): 19
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): 19
George Russell (Mercedes): 15.5
Lando Norris (McLaren F1 Team): 23
Oscar Piastri (McLaren F1 Team): 19
Daniel Ricciardo (Visa Cash App RB F1 Team): 9
Yuki Tsunoda (Visa Cash App RB F1 Team): 8
Esteban Ocon (BWT Alpine F1 Team): 9.5
Pierre Gasly (BWT Alpine F1 Team): 8
Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team): 15.5
Lance Stroll (Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team): 10.5
Logan Sargeant (Williams Racing): 5.5
Alex Albon (Williams Racing): 7
Nico Hulkenberg (MoneyGram Haas F1 Team): 6.5
Kevin Magnussen (MoneyGram Haas F1 Team): 6
Valtteri Bottas (Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber): 8
Guanyu Zhou (Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber): 6.5

The schedule (assuming races are not canceled or delayed or another war breaks out):
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1 — Bahrain Grand Prix — Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir — 2 March
2 — Saudi Arabian Grand Prix — Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Jeddah — 9 March
3 — Australian Grand Prix — Australia Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne — 24 March
4 — Japanese Grand Prix — Japan Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka — 7 April
5 — Chinese Grand Prix — China Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai — 21 April*
6 — Miami Grand Prix — United States Miami International Autodrome, Miami Gardens, Florida — 5 May*
7 — Emilia Romagna Grand Prix — Italy Imola Circuit, Imola — 19 May
8 — Monaco Grand Prix — Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monaco — 26 May
9 — Canadian Grand Prix — Canada Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal — 9 June
10 — Spanish Grand Prix — Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló — 23 June
11 — Austrian Grand Prix — Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg — 30 June*
12 — British Grand Prix — United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone — 7 July
13 — Hungarian Grand Prix — Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród — 21 July
14 — Belgian Grand Prix — Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot — 28 July
15 — Dutch Grand Prix — Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort — 25 August
16 — Italian Grand Prix — Italy Monza Circuit, Monza — 1 September
17 — Azerbaijan Grand Prix — Azerbaijan Baku City Circuit, Baku — 15 September
18 — Singapore Grand Prix — Singapore Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore — 22 September
19 — United States Grand Prix — United States Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas — 20 October*
20 — Mexico City Grand Prix — Mexico Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City — 27 October
21 — São Paulo Grand Prix — Brazil Interlagos Circuit, São Paulo — 3 November*
22 — Las Vegas Grand Prix — United States Las Vegas Strip Circuit, Paradise, Nevada — 23 November
23 — Qatar Grand Prix — Qatar Lusail International Circuit, Lusail — 1 December*
24 — Abu Dhabi Grand Prix — United Arab Emirates Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi — 8 December

* Includes sprint qualifying.

Please post your driver lineup by 9:00 pm Eastern time on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.

@CBear3
@Gaucho
@dodint
@tifosi77
@MR25

[Shyster]

Driver salaries are again adapted from the f1.com fantasy league. I cut the overall budget right to the point where one cannot take both Verstappen and Perez at the same time.

[tifosi77]

24 races, what are they even doing..............

[tifosi77]

But seriously, thanks for organizing this again, Shyster. I think this is pretty thankless, and you take it on every season for no real reason that I can discern. But I'm glad you do.

[CBear3]

I have sworn off F1, but for Shyster I will do this.
Thanks again for the hard work of organizing this venture.

Also, that F1 fantasy league loves them some Lando

[dodint]

I haven't watched F1 since Masi made his famous radio call.

I'll pick some names out of a hat though. I can't possibly come in DFL twice.

[CBear3]

Give me Max and Charles in charge.

[dodint]

Perez, Sainz, Stroll

@mikey this is your year.

[MR25]

Definitely feels harder to get combos working at 50 mil vs the 60 or 70 we've had recently.

Norris, Hamilton, Bottas

[tifosi77]

Agree, I made my two prime picks and was left with a sum that was not enough to select one single potential (realistic) podium finisher/race winner nor two points haulers.

Charles of Monaco
Lewis Carl Hamilton
Danny Rick

I feel like you should get a credit if you select Stroll. I mean, his actual team sort of does.

[dodint]

Aston go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[MR25]

Yeah, I wanted to fit Alonso in somewhere but couldn't find any combos where I wouldn't be sacrificing the top end of my team and hoping that shitboxes like Williams would get lucky and score some points.

[Shyster]

I'm going all second fiddle. Perez, Sainz, Stroll.

[Gaucho]

Max and Charles seems like the obvious combo ... and is already taken ffs.

Ok, then. Perez, Piastri, Tsunoda.

[dodint]

Eh, it was open all weekend before anyone picked. It is a race, after all.

[Gaucho]

I'm not complaining. It's a very boring combo that only a very boring person would pick.

[dodint]

I liked it a little better when the backmarkers were only worth a few bucks so you could tack a few of them onto your team. I never won anything that way but it was fun.

[MR25]

CBear did that one year and kicked all of our asses (it was 2021, just looked)

How far the mighty have fallen

[CBear3]

I'm not complaining. It's a very boring combo that only a very boring person would pick.

I only drink Uno Equis

And I figured a couple of people would try Max + #1 driver from somewhere else. I have been proven wrong.

[CBear3]

I'm going all second fiddle. Perez, Sainz, Stroll.

dodint beat you to it.

[Shyster]

dodint beat you to it.

Well, I just failed reading comprehension.

[dodint]

I'm willing to make a trade for future draft picks.

[Shyster]

Imma go with Norris, Perez, and Sargeant

So I believe we have the following:

Cbear3 - Verstappen, Leclerc

dodint - Perez, Sainz, Stroll

MR25 - Norris, Hamilton, Bottas

Shyster - Norris, Perez, Sargeant

tifosi - Hamilton, Leclerc, Ricciardo

Gaucho - Perez, Piastri, Tsunoda

[tifosi77]

Huh, would not have predicted that only one person would build a two-driver team around Verstappen.

[Shyster]

Round 1 - Bahrain

This race:
Cbear3 - 38
dodint - 34
MR25 - 14
Shyster - 26
tifosi - 18
Gaucho - 22

Leaderboard:
1. Cbear3 - 38
2. dodint - 34
3. Shyster - 26
4. Gaucho - 22
5. tifosi - 18
6. MR25 - 14

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