2015 5th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - Are You Ready To Make Your Picks???

[Budnicks]

Everyone was struggling except the DSR teams

Good to see Mopar P/S V.Gains do pretty well, semis loss

Good to see Mopar P/S Alan Johnson go to the finals "finally",
even if he lost to Greg Anderson

My favorite F/C driver Ron Capps did OK, but went out in the semis too

T/F Tony Schumacher was a big disappointment 1st rd loss yet again

P/S Jason Line goes out 1st rd, Anderson takes points lead away from miss piggy too...LOL

P/SM Eddy Krawiec went out early too

damn my picks sucked this week !!

 

[Gpuller]

Good qualifying Bel!
Didn't get to see any racing this weekend. Tried to watch it on ESPN2 last night but mens tennis was on?

 

[ocdart]

Here are the results and point standings following completion of the Toyota Summernationals in Englishtown, NJ.
Congratulations to '71dartswinger' (FABO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for this event with an outstanding point total of 147.5 points. He picked the class winners in Top Fuel and Funny Car, his Pro Stock pick went to the finals before losing, and his Pro Stock Motorcycle pick lost in the second round of eliminations. His point total was aided by picking up E.T. bonus points in Top Fuel.
'SSGKarg' (FABO) is the event runner-up with a very nice total of 127.0 points with class winner pick in Funny Car, his Pro Stock pick went to the finals before losing, his Pro Stock Motorcycle pick advanced through two rounds of eliminations, and his Top Fuel pick lost in the second round. He also picked up speed bonus points in Pro Stock Motorcycle.
The top FBBO player this week is 'Gpuller' with 103.0 points.

Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:

Top Fuel
E.T. - Antron Brown, 3.725 during qualifying
Speed - Shawn Langdon, 324.12 during qualifying

Funny Car
E.T. - Cruz Pedregon, 3.967 during qualifying
Speed - Tommy Johnson Jr., 315.27, during qualifying

Pro Stock
E.T. - Greg Anderson, 6.479 during qualifying
Speed - Jason Line, 215.17 while losing during Round 1 of eliminations

Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Jerry Savoie, 6.785 during Round 3 of eliminations
Speed - Hector Arana Jr., 199.37 during qualifying


Here are the game point standings after the 8th event of the 2015 season:
806.0 - OldmanRick (FABO) +2 spots in the game standings
799.5 - aslant (FBBO) no change
793.0 - bobtile (FBBO) -2
788.0 - IEduster (FABO) no change
761.0 - 71dartswinger (FABO) +6
759.0 - bvt69dart (FABO) no change
744.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) -2
741.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) -1
709.5 - Back in Time (FABO) +3
703.5 - 6pk2goDemon (FABO) -1
683.0 - GPuller (FBBO) +2
674.0 - Duster79 (FABO) -2
655.0 - memike (FABO) -5
653.5 - stroked340 (FABO) no change
640.0 - SSGKarg (FABO) +1
638.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO) -1
586.5 - cuda20 (FABO) +2
586.0 - socaldart (FABO) -1
570.5 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) -1
562.5 - johnnycuda (FABO) no change
534.5 - 67cudafb (FABO) +1
512.5 - ocdart (FABO) -1
487.0 - tqfastfish (FABO) no change
390.5 - YoungGun74 (FABO) no change


The 10th race of the 2015 season, the 3rd annual NHRA New England Nationals, is June 12-14, at New England Dragway in Epping, NH.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, June 12 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 4:30PM EDT (1:30PM PDT).
The New England Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 16 Top Fuel, 17 Funny Car and 15 Pro Stock entries, but the counts are subject to change.
Pro Stock Motorcycle sits out this event.
Keep checking http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist10.aspx for an updated entry list.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!

 

[alsant]

Nice job G!!

 

[ocdart]

Wow! How time flies. Seems like I just was on this thread posting the results of the last event!
Oh, wait, I was, just last night.
Anyway, here's your Tuesday before the event reminder to post your picks for the 3rd annual NHRA New England Nationals at New England Dragway in Epping, NH. Pro Qualifying starts at 4:30PM EDT (1:30PM PDT) next Friday, June 12th.
Your picks must be posted to this game thread before the start of Pro Qualifying. Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock will all compete at this event. No Pro Stock Motorcycle this weekend.
The NHRA website currently shows 16 Top Fuel, 17 Funny Car and 15 Pro Stock entries for Englishtown, but this could still possibly change.

Please check to verify your pick is racing at this event. Two of our players with "locked in" picks found out the hard way last weekend that their Pro Stock pick was not entered for the Englishtown event.
You can find the current event entry list at
http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist09.aspx

The current weather forecast for Epping shows temps from 76-83F with a 40% chance of rain Friday and Saturday.

Good Luck!


Please note this event is the second of 3 consecutive weekends of racing, so you may want to think about "locking in" your picks if you may have something scheduled that could keep you from posting picks for the next event.
The last of the three consecutive weekend events is:
* June 19-21 15th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, TN

 

[Nick2317]

Next races picks are

TF Brown
FC Hagan
PS Line

 

[Budnicks]

Went backwards again, that's not good...LOL

good job Gpuller

NHRA NE Nats/Epping picks

T/F - Antron Brown

F/C - Ron Capps

P/S - Greg Anderson

NO P/SM there

good luck everyone & thanks ocdart

 

[super-bee_ski]

TOP FUEL: Tony Schumacher
FUNNY CAR: John Force
PRO STOCK: Greg Anderson

 

[alsant]

TF- Antron Brown
FC- Jack Beckman
PS- Greg Anderson

Good Luck Guys!!!

 

[64BEL]

I haven't seen the race results from Englishtown yet. I did see qualifying, but my dvr didn't record eliminations. I think it may have been operator error. :eusa_eh: I'm planning to watch the recording with my daughter tomorrow night at her place. So I skipped all of the recent posts on this thread after qualifying and am picking blind (as usual) for this weekend. Here I go.

TF Antron Brown
FC Jack Beckman
PS Erica Enders

Good luck guys! I'll check back in to see how everyone did from Englishtown after I watch it.

 

[Gpuller]

TF Brown
FC Hagan
PS Line

Good luck!

 

[ocdart]

View attachment 261877


3rd annual NHRA New England Nationals qualifying leaders:

Q1
Weather: 80F, 51% relative humidity, barometer 29.73", adjusted altitude 2293', track temp 104F

16 Top Fuel, 16 Funny Car, but only 14 Pro Stocks rolled out for Round 1 of Qualifying

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.785 @ 324.28
FC: Del Worsham, 4.073; Courtney Force @ 314.17
PS: Chris McGaha, 6.542; Greg Anderson @ 212.83



Q2
No weather report for the start of Q2

16 Top Fuel, 16 Funny Car, and 15 Pro Stocks rolled out for Round 2 of Qualifying

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.742; Spencer Massey @ 327.66
FC: Tommy Johnson Jr., 4.047; Robert Hight @ 320.13
PS: Chris McGaha, 6.520; Greg Anderson @ 213.30


Q3
Weather: 82F, 41% relative humidity, barometer 29.77", adjusted altitude 2283', track temp 122F

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.742; Spencer Massey @ 327.66
FC: Tommy Johnson Jr., 4.047; Robert Hight @ 320.13
PS: Chris McGaha, 6.520; Greg Anderson @ 213.30



Q4
Weather: 85F, 36% relative humidity, barometer 29.76", adjusted altitude 2489', track temp 134F

TF: Tony Schumacher, 3.742; Spencer Massey @ 327.66
FC: Tommy Johnson Jr., 4.047; Robert Hight @ 320.13
PS: Chris McGaha, 6.520; Greg Anderson @ 213.30

 

[ocdart]

Congrats to 'super-bee_ski' (FBBO) for winning the Top Qualifier title for the 2015 NHRA New England Nationals with a nice total of 22.5 bonus points. 'super-bee_ski' picked the #1 qualifier in Top Fuel, the #3 qualifier in Funny Car and the #2 qualifier in Pro Stock.
'cuda20' (FABO) and IEduster (FABO) share the runner-up spot with 20.0 bonus points.
Great picks all!

24 players again this week and 21 different driver combos made up of:
* 4 different Top Fuel drivers with one Round 1 head-to-head matchup between #6 qualifier Antron Brown (11 picks) and #11 qualifier Larry Dixon (3 picks). No possibility of any head-to-head matchups in Round 2 of eliminations.
* 6 different Funny Car drivers with two Round 1 head-to-head matchups. One between #6 qualifier Matt Hagan (7 picks) and #11 qualifier Jack Beckman (5 picks); the other between #8 qualifier Alexis DeJoria (1 pick) and #9 qualifier Ron Capps (6 picks). There is also a possibility of one head-to-head matchup in Round 2 of eliminations.
* 5 different Pro Stock drivers picked this week (but, again, one of those picked did not enter this event). No possibility of any head-to-head matchup until the semi-final round of eliminations.

Good luck all!

 

[alsant]

Way to go ski!!!

 

[Budnicks]

great picks ski

hope my picks race better than they qualified, seemed like a 1 lane track again
rd 2 {cooler/night} qualifying doesn't really usually represent, {albeit cool to watch}
the hotter mid-day track or actual race-daytime elimination conditions...

that's my hopes...LOL

good luck guys

 

[64BEL]

Nice job this week, Ski! And nice work last week, GP!

 

[super-bee_ski]

LOL
Thanks guys...
Even a "blind Squirrel finds a nut or two"

 

[Gpuller]

Good Job Ski!
Only got to watch the finals, which none of my pics were in.

Good to see Allan Johnson in a final.
That victory speech from Force was great, I thought.

 

[Budnicks]

Both my picks T/F Brown & F/C Capps went out 1st rd
BUT my P/S pick Greg Anderson won at-least...LOL

great to see Mopar P/S Allan Johnson going rounds finally again, back to back finals

at-least it's not Miss Piggy...LOL

 

[ocdart]

Here's your next Tuesday before the event and results from the last event all rolled into one. Sorry for the delay, I started on the results when I got home from work last night, and then took a break and finished them up late in the evening but then the site wouldn't let me post them due the length of time I had the page open. So, here they are again early Tuesday morning.
Here are the results and point standings following completion of the New England Nationals in Epping, New Hampshire.
Congratulations to 'super-bee_ski' (FBBO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for this event with a truly outstanding point total of 152.5 points. He hit the "TRIFECTA" by picking the class winners in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock! His point total was also aided by picking up E.T. bonus points in Top Fuel and Speed bonus points in Pro Stock.
'67cudafb' (FABO) is the event runner-up with a very nice total of 134.5 points with class winner picks in Top Fuel and Funny Car, and his Pro Stock pick went to the finals before losing. He also picked up E.T. bonus points in Top Fuel.

Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:

Top Fuel
E.T. - Tony Schumacher, 3.742 during qualifying
Speed - Spencer Massey, 327.66 during qualifying

Funny Car
E.T. - Tommy Johnson Jr., 4.047 during qualifying
Speed - Robert Hight, 320.13, during qualifying

Pro Stock
E.T. - Erica Enders-Stevens, 6.506 during Round 2 of eliminations
Speed - Greg Anderson, 214.72 while winning the Final Round of eliminations


Here are the game point standings after the 10th event of the 2015 season:
880.0 - IEduster (FABO) +3 spots in the game standings
878.5 - OldmanRick (FABO) -1
860.5 - alsant (FBBO) -1
858.0 - bobtile (FBBO) -1
816.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO) no change
811.5 - bvt69dart (FABO) no change
806.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) no change
781.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) no change
773.5 - Back in Time (FABO) no change
765.5 - 6pk2goDemon (FABO) no change
757.0 - Duster79 (FABO) +1
743.0 - SSG Karg (FABO) +3
737.5 - stroked340 (FABO) +1
731.0 - GPuller (FBBO) -3
723.0 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) +4
696.0 - memike (FABO) -3
695.0 - johnnycuda (FABO) +3
686.5 - cuda20 (FABO) -1
686.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO) -3
669.0 - 67cudafb (FABO) +1
629.0 - socaldart (FABO) -3
580.0 - ocdart (FABO) no change
539.5 - tqfastfish (FABO) no change
445.5 - YoungGun74 (FABO) no change


The 11th race of the 2015 season, the 15th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, is next weekend, June 19-21, at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, TN.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, June 19 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 5:00PM EDT (2:00PM PDT).
The Thunder Valley Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 19 Top Fuel, 17 Funny Car and 18 Pro Stock Motorcycle entries, but the counts are subject to change.
Keep checking http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist11.aspx for an updated entry list.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!