Month: November 2016

Congrats to the Top 10 who made it this far. As you’ll be able to see by the picks below, I’ll likely have to rely on a tiebreaker in the event Kyle Busch wins the title. If the others win, it should be fairly clear.

Here’s how this works: If the person picked the champion correctly, they win. If multiple people picked the champion, it goes to second place as a tiebreaker, then third, fourth, etc. If it’s unclear or inconclusive, whoever’s Homestead winner pick has a higher finish will be the tiebreaker.

Good luck to all!

Twitter ID	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth	Homestead winner tiebreaker
Mhouser88	Busch	Logano	Johnson	Edwards	Busch
kimery	Busch	Logano	Johnson	Edwards	Hamlin
jrock2481	Busch	Johnson	Logano	Edwards	Larson
Kraig_Doremus	Busch	Logano	Johnson	Edwards	Kenseth
rlberryyogi	Edwards	Johnson	Busch	Logano	Edwards
l_meister	Johnson	Edwards	Logano	Busch	Harvick
jayua	Johnson	Busch	Logano	Edwards	Harvick
BurlRolett	Johnson	Logano	Busch	Edwards	Harvick
SouthernNutmeg	Logano	Busch	Johnson	Edwards	Logano
jsmith123nv	Logano	Johnson	Busch	Edwards	Harvick

As it turns out, Kevin Harvick didn’t win at Phoenix, which means a whopping EIGHT spots for the championship race were decided by points (no one picked Joey Logano to win).

After all that, we have our final 10 players. You will be getting an email shortly with instructions for Homestead. Congrats to @l_meister, @mhouser88, @SouthernNutmeg, @kimery, @jayua, @rlberryyogi, @jrock2481, @Kraig_Doremus, @BurtRolett and @jsmith123nv.

Here are the results from Round 3 (the cutoff turned out to be 109 points):

Twitter ID	Points	In/Out
l_meister	1074	Clinched
Mhouser88	1037	Clinched
SouthernNutmeg	117	8
kimery	113	4
jayua	113	4
rlberryyogi	111	2
jrock2481	111	2
Kraig_Doremus	109	0
BurlRolett	109	0
jsmith123nv	109	0
soller00	107	-2
kjfinks22champ	99	-10
22hemi13	93	-16
Caseylandrum15	93	-16
mstjohn_	91	-18
savannahpr16	83	-26
Thunder_Cat_4	78	-31
KevinRHatfield	76	-33
MFroger	76	-33
ramonmorales	76	-33
BShell00	76	-33
dallasjunebug	74	-35
Adam_Huth	74	-35
Luke_kane58	67	-42
JG24Wife	25	-84
SJRenko22	22	-87

We have a very interesting development in the Fantasy Chase.

There are 10 spots open for the final round, but only two have been clinched so far. Two people picked Jimmie Johnson at Martinsville and no one picked Carl Edwards at Texas.

So where does that leave us? It could go one of two ways.

First, Kevin Harvick could win at Phoenix. A whopping 20 of 26 people picked Harvick to win this weekend, and 18 of them aren’t locked into the championship race yet. So that could really make things interesting for Homestead.

Second, anyone but Harvick could win — and that means there would be at least half the final round spots available on points. I did NOT expect that when I came up with this year’s format (I thought Homestead would all be filled by winners from the third round), so that would be kind of wild.

Here’s how things stand as of now:

Twitter ID	Points	In/Out	Phoenix
l_meister	1037	Clinched	Harvick
Mhouser88	1000	Clinched	Harvick
SouthernNutmeg	80	10	Harvick
kjfinks22champ	78	8	Kenseth
kimery	76	6	Harvick
jayua	76	6	Harvick
rlberryyogi	74	4	Harvick
jrock2481	74	4	Harvick
jsmith123nv	72	2	Harvick
Kraig_Doremus	70	0	Busch (Kyle)
BurlRolett	70	0	Busch (Kyle)
soller00	70	0	Harvick
mstjohn_	69	-1	Edwards
22hemi13	56	-14	Harvick
Caseylandrum15	56	-14	Harvick
savannahpr16	46	-24	Harvick
Thunder_Cat_4	41	-29	Harvick
KevinRHatfield	39	-31	Harvick
MFroger	39	-31	Harvick
ramonmorales	39	-31	Harvick
BShell00	39	-31	Harvick
dallasjunebug	37	-33	Harvick
Adam_Huth	37	-33	Harvick
Luke_kane58	30	-40	Harvick
JG24Wife	21	-49	Johnson
SJRenko22	0	-70	Edwards