How To Play

OVERVIEW:

NASCAR Fantasy Live is the only NASCAR fantasy game to offer live scoring! Players manage a team of five Sprint Cup Series drivers against a $100 salary cap while picking drivers with the best chance at scoring the most points each week. Players are scored across five statistical categories in all 36 races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule. Bonus points can be earned by picking the winning car manufacturer and top pit crew for that week. Players can join or create a league at any time throughout the season. Prizes will be awarded weekly with a Grand Prizewinner at the end of the season.

  1. Creating an Entry and Managing Your Team(s):

    • Registration/Creating a Team: To enter, participants must log on and register with NASCAR.COM, then access the Fantasy Games homepage for NASCAR Fantasy Live located at http://fantasygames.nascar.com/live. To participate, follow the instructions to create and manage a team of five (5) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers against a $100 dollar salary cap while picking drivers with the best chance at scoring the most points each week.

    • Setting your Team: Participants will select five (5) drivers to make up a team in that week’s Race. The team must be selected/changed prior to five (5) minutes before each Race’s official start time. A driver’s value will rise and fall throughout the Season based on performance but once a driver is on a team, their value stays locked in at the time of purchase until they are dropped from the roster. Players can add or remove drivers at their discretion as long the total roster value stays under the $100 cap for each Race (selections are locked during the Race window). A player will earn points each week as described below based on the performance of the drivers on their team for that week. Once a participant has selected his/her Team Roster, it will carry over week-to-week unless the participant elects to change his/her Team Roster. Participants can create up to five (5) teams; however they must all compete in separate leagues.

    • Setting your Pit Crew and Car Manufacturer: For bonus points, participants will need to select their Pit Crew and Car Manufacturer predictions each week. Failure to do so will not result in a penalty, but no additional bonus points will be earned. PICKS FOR CAR MANUFACTURER AND PIT CREW DO NOT CARRY OVER WEEK TO WEEK.

  2. Join or Create a League: Leagues can be established by anyone at any time throughout the Season. Follow the instructions for creating a League at http://fantasygames.nascar.com/live You can also search for and join any public League. There is no minimum number of teams that may participate in a given League, but a League will only be “prize-eligible” if it contains sixteen (16) or more teams. The League maximum is 43 teams. Any registered participant can have up to five (5) active teams in up to five (5) different Leagues, but once a player joins a League, the player cannot remove his or her team from that League.

  3. Scoring Format:

    • Weekly Scoring: All 36 Races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule will be scored according to the categories below. Players can earn points toward the Chase for the Sprint Cup during the first 26 Races, but each Race will be scored individually, including the ten Chase Races.

    • Laps Led: Total number of laps led divided by 2.

    • Fastest Laps: Total number of fastest laps divided by 2.

    • Quality Passes: Total number of quality passes in Race divided by 2.

    • Place Differential: Starting position (based on official qualifying order) minus finish position, +/- 1 point for each driver’s place differential

    • Finishing Position: 1st place gets 47 points, 2nd place gets 42, 3rd place gets 41, 4th place gets 40 points and so on in decrements of one point per position, with 43rd place earning 1 point.

    • Bonus Points:

      • Car Manufacturer: 10-point bonus for picking the winning car manufacturer for that week.

      • Pit Crew: 10-point bonus for picking a Top-5 pit crew (based on positions gained/lost on pit road) for that week.

    • League and Chase Points: Once finishing positions are set for the Week based on Weekly Race Points, League Points are then assigned to each team based on where that team finished relative to the other teams in their League (similar to the NASCAR point structure for Race winners: 47 points for 1st place, 42 points for 2nd place, etc.). The Weekly League Points for that Race are added to the player’s prior Weekly League Points for that team. Weekly Race Points are only relevant for purposes of determining the standing of each team in its League each Week. Weekly Race Points reset to zero (0) at the beginning of each Weekly Period (once the Weekly League Points are awarded). The weekly League winner will also receive Chase bonus points similar to the manner in which the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rewards its drivers for winning a Race. At the beginning of the Chase, every team’s total League points are reset to zero, Chase bonus points are added in, then the same weekly scoring structure from the Regular Season continues for the 10-Race Chase.

    WEEKLY SCORING

    Player Weekly Race Points Earned Translation To Weekly League Points Bonus Points Received For Chase
    Team A 380 47 3
    Team B 290 42 0
    Team C 210 41 0
    Team D 100 40 0

    CHASE POINTS RESET

    Player Total Weekly League Points ( At End Of Regular Season) Total # Of Weekly League Wins (During Regular Season) Total Points At Start Of Chase*
    Team A 1,100 8 24
    Team B 980 10 30
    Team C 725 6 18
    Team D 520 0 0
    *Methodology: Every league team is reset to 0 – add +3 Chase bonus points for each weekly league win.

  4. Prizes (for complete details on prizes and how to win, see the Official Rules)

    • Grand Prize: Grand Prize Winner will receive a trip for the winner and one (1) guest to attend a fan event at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champions Week in Las Vegas, plus $1,000 cash.

    • Weekly Prizes: One winner for each of the thirty-six (36) race weeks will receive $100 to the NASCAR.com SuperStore. That one (1) Weekly Winner will be selected at random from among all the winners of the prize-eligible Leagues for that week.