Fifth Avenue Forum

Welcome to the second-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.
• Rule change: 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. Rule change: These two weekends will earn double points only 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).

Reply here with your driver selections and your unique set of two race weekends by 11:59pm on Friday, March 23rd . You may edit your selections up to that time.


Driver salaries in millions:
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26 Mercedes Lewis Hamilton
22 Mercedes Valtteri Bottas
21 Ferrari Sebastian Vettel
14 Ferrari Kimi Räikkönen
18 Red Bull Daniel Ricciardo
18 Red Bull Max Verstappen
2 Williams Lance Stroll
2 Williams Sergey Sirotkin
4 Force India Sergio Pérez
4 Force India Esteban Ocon
6 Renault Nico Hülkenberg
5 Renault Carlos Sainz Jr.
3 McLaren Fernando Alonso
2 McLaren Stoffel Vandoorne
2 Toro Rosso Brendon Hartley
2 Toro Rosso Pierre Gasly
3 Haas Romain Grosjean
2 Haas Kevin Magnussen
1 Sauber Marcus Ericsson
1 Sauber Charles Leclerc

The schedule:
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1 Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, 25 March
2 Bahrain Grand Prix, Bahrain International Circuit, 8 April
3 Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai International Circuit, 15 April
4 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Baku City Circuit, 29 April
5 Spanish Grand Prix, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, 13 May
6 Monaco Grand Prix, Circuit de Monaco, 27 May
7 Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, 10 June
8 French Grand Prix, Circuit Paul Ricard, 24 June
9 Austrian Grand Prix, Red Bull Ring, 1 July
10 British Grand Prix, Silverstone Circuit, 8 July
11 German Grand Prix, Hockenheimring, 22 July
12 Hungarian Grand Prix Hungary Hungaroring, 29 July
13 Belgian Grand Prix, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, 26 August
14 Italian Grand Prix, Autodromo Nazionale Monza, 2 September
15 Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay Street Circuit, 16 September
16 Russian Grand Prix, Sochi Autodrom, 30 September
17 Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka International Racing Course, 7 October
18 United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas, 21 October
19 Mexican Grand Prix, Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, 28 October
20 Brazilian Grand Prix, Autódromo José Carlos Pace, 11 November
21 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina Circuit, 25 November

Team selections:
tifosi: Verstappen, Hülkenberg, Sainz, Alonso, Grosjean, Magnussen - Australia, Abu Dhabi
MR25 : Vettel, Ricciardo, Ericsson - Bahrain, Italy
Shyster: Bottas, Ocon, Pérez, Alonso, Vandoorne, Grosjean, Magnussen – Japan, Britain
dodint: Vettel, Verstappen, Leclerc - Australia, Belgium
Gaucho: Bottas, Verstappen - Monaco, Mexico
CBear3: Hamilton, Alonso, Grosjean, Perez, Ocon - Italy, United States

Max Verstappen
Nico Hülkenberg
Carlos Sainz Jr.
Fernando Alonso
Romain Grosjean
Kevin Magnussen

Australia, Abu Dhabi

*giggle*

I see no one's "stealing" tifosi's picks this year.

bem

Vettel
Ricciardo
Ericsson

Bahrain, Monza






The answer to your question is no, I did not learn my lesson from last year.

22 Mercedes Valtteri Bottas
4 Force India Esteban Ocon
4 Force India Sergio Pérez
3 McLaren Fernando Alonso
2 McLaren Stoffel Vandoorne
3 Haas Romain Grosjean
2 Haas Kevin Magnussen
40

Japan, Britain

21 Ferrari Sebastian Vettel
18 Red Bull Max Verstappen
1 Sauber Charles Leclerc

Australian GP, Belgian GP

@Gaucho
@CBear3
@BigMck

Reminder: Teams due by the end of tomorrow.

Bottas, Verstappen

Monaco, Mexico

Looks even worse than before ...

21 Ferrari Sebastian Vettel
18 Red Bull Max Verstappen
1 Sauber Charles Leclerc

Australian GP, Belgian GP

>Vettel
>Verstappen

*queue PTSD flashback to last season*

Bottas, Verstappen

Malaysia, Mexico

The Malaysian GP is off the schedule for this year.

Bottas, Verstappen

Malaysia, Mexico

The Malaysian GP is off the schedule for this year.

Oops. Thanks.

Hamilton
Alonso
Grosjean
Perez
Ocon


Italian & US GPs

Damn, now I missed the deadline.

So I decide to focus on points rather than potential winners this year. Frst race out, 1/3 of my drivers retire because wheel guns are hard. And it was my first multiplier race.

Round 1 - Australia

This race:
Cbear3 - 28
dodint - 33
MR25 - 37
Shyster - 16
tifosi - 25
Gaucho - 12

Leaderboard:
1. MR25 - 37
2. dodint - 33
3. Cbear3 - 28
4. tifosi - 25
5. Shyster - 16
6. Gaucho - 12

I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THIS WAS MY FIRST MULTIPLIER RACE AND I FINISHED IN FOURTH FRICKIN' PLACE

It would seem that I have chosen poorly.

I thought the multipliers weren't being added unless there was a tiebreak situation

That's what's funny about it. He's worried about being tied for first at the end.

Plenty of races left in the season, so it's a little early for buyer's remorse. (That said, I didn't go with the first lineup I came up with, and if I had I'd be in second place behind MR25 with 36 points.)