Our personal F1 Fantasy game so far…

In honor of summer break finally ending! I thought I would share the fantasy league that myself and five friends have been playing, and how it’s working out so far.

A little back story, there are six of us that work together at a fire station, and we are huge fans of F1, but everyone’s knowledge of the details varies. I wanted to come up with a fantasy game that gave everyone a good chance of points each weekend. So here it is.

First I made a board along with everyone’s names attached to some Velcro. In order to determine picking order, each week we race the PS4 game at the designated track. This also helps when watching the race because you feel like you really know the track. None of us are huge gamers so it’s sort of the great equalizer. Occasionally we have people gone on vacation or we were too busy at work to accomplish practice and qualifying sessions. In those cases we draw names from a hat and do a running pick either via text or FaceTime.

Once quali has determined picking order, everyone gets to choose ONE team and TWO drivers. The number one pick chooses EITHER one team, or one driver. Then the second person goes and so on. Once the 6th person picks their first pick, they pick again, then picking goes in reverse order, and back down again. (Ex: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2…6)

Picking first is obviously a big advantage, but it does not necessarily mean you will have the best combined score for the weekend. Everyone’s points for the weekend are added up at the end and we get to look forward to the next race on the calendar.

The game has been a big success. It’s relatively still close at the summer break. We also added a race on the calendar where you’ll see Andretti on the calendar. This is a karting facility nearby where we physically went together and raced for points. Each weekend you end up cheering for new drivers and teams which keeps it exciting. This format has worked out so much better than I planned, and it’s really given us a whole new level of enjoyment this season. Hope you enjoy our shenanigans. Glad break is over. Lights out and away we go!

Pictures: the board pre-picks, the board mostly through picking, the total points so far, 4 of the 6 of us in Vegas the first year.