Pit Picks : Season Wrap up
The long and grueling Sprint Cup season has finally come to an end, and my weekends seem a little empty now. I was talking to a friend on Saturday night and he posed the question, “What do we do tomorrow with no race?” I hadn’t really even considered it until then. I guess I watch football, or play some Nascar 09 on the PS3, or maybe even get a head start on getting the site prepped for 2010. Before that, I best recap the season that was for my ‘Redneck This’ team on Yahoo Fantasy Sports.
It was easily my best season in Yahoo Fantasy Nascar. Those of you that followed along in the early season, saw I had my team rolling and was in the 99th percentile and hovering around the top 1000. Amazingly enough, I was able to do that without buring out any of my driver allotments. At the end of the Spring Segment I had a 260 point lead on second place. In the summer I kept cruising, besting the next highest competitor in my pool by 378. The fall was another story but I still managed to take over the top spot on the last week by 18 points. In the end I won my second straight title in that league by a comfortable 715 point margin.
In the grande scheme of the yahoo overall, the team finished in the 99th percentile, besting my 98th from the prior season, and was 467th overall. Had I avoided Dale Jr all season, I probably would have finished higher still.
Speaking of Junior, he killed me in my money league. It was a straight box type pool, that you select at the start of the season. Trades are available under certain circumstances, but if you need a trade, you don’t have a shot to win anyways. Needless to say, poor performance by Junior was the only reason this league was even close, and I ended up losing by a whopping 3 points (basically 3 positions on the track). Marcos Ambrose cutting a tire while leading at Miami didn’t exactly help the cause either. Ah well…I’m happy with second place (out of over 175). It was a nice little improvement on the 5th or 6th from the previous year. Hopefully I can keep this little run of ‘luck’ going into 2010.
All in all it was a fun and profitable season, and I’m definitely looking forward to February and doing it all over again. Over the off-season, I’m going to make some changes to the way I do pit picks, possibly making it a bit more general (not specific to the yahoo format), and covering multiple races at a time. I hope all of you did well in your respective leagues, and I look forward to hearing from some of you again soon! Have a great holiday and see you all in Feb!!
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