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2008 Edition The purpose of Lucky Dog Racing: Truck Series is: 1. Provide an entertaining competitive league for fans of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. 2. Allow members who aren't able to get into the Cup or Nationwide Series yet, a place to play. 3. Act as a stepping stone and training ground before playing with the Nationwide & eventually Cup members. 3. Provide a database of members for the Cup & Nationwide leagues. If any team leaves the Lucky Dog Racing: Nationwide Series during the year, a Truck Series member may be called up to replace them. Members in the Nationwide Series can eventually be called up to the Cup Series. Nationwide Series call-up clause If you join Lucky Dog Racing: Truck Series, there is no guarantee that you will be called up to the Nationwide or Cup Series. It all determines on availability. 43 members are all that we allow in the Cup and Nationwide Series. If nobody leaves or is kicked out, there is no room for any Truck Series members to join. If, however there is a spot that opens up, the following factors determines who will be called up. 1. After the 5th race of the year, the highest member who is within the top 10 of the Truck standings, will be asked to join the Nationwide Series. If all members within the top 10 are already in the Nationwide Series, the first eligible member on the Nationwide Series waiting list will be called up. During the off-season, after the top 10 members are called up for openings, the waiting list will be used. Members are ranked by the date in which they join. 2. Once a member is selected, an email will go out to that individual informing them of the opening. From the date that the letter is mailed, that individual has 5 days to email it back to the President. 3. If the individual does not return the letter back in time, the next eligible player will then be asked. The first player will have to wait until the next opening is available before they will have a chance again. 4. IMPORTANT: Once a player is given the opportunity to join the Nationwide Series, and they fail to act on it... they will not be notified of any future Nationwide openings. They will only be notified if they email the President back and inform him that they wish to join again at the next opportunity. There will be no reminder emails sent to them. The team can be placed back on the waiting list, however they will be placed at the bottom. Truck Series league operation 1. The season is divided into 5 segments. You will pick one segment driver for each of the 5 segments. 1. Each week you choose 5 Truck Series drivers from 5 different classes. 2. You receive points for how well your driver does for each race. Some points will be added and some may be subtracted. See the Points breakdown below. 3. Your points from each race will determine where you finish in relation to the other members. Those points will be converted into a scoring system that NASCAR uses and will be used within the standings. Navigating the site You should be visiting the site at least once a week to see where you placed the previous week, where you are in the standings, and to submit your picks for the next week. You should also visit it to read up on any latest news or rule changes. This section will explain each link on the site's menu: Pick Your Drivers - This is where you will go each week to make your picks. Select your 5 drivers from the 4 classes and hit submit, simple as that! View Team Picks - After the deadline has passed, everyone's picks will be posted here. You can view yours and all the other members as well. Schedule/Results -This page displays the schedule for the current season. After a race has been completed, you can click on the race link to see the results. The Teams - This lists the members competing in the Truck Series league. League Standings - This shows the standings for the Truck Series League. It shows how many starts, wins, 2nd place, 3rd place, top 5's top 10's and provisionals each member has. Message Board - This is the message board for the league. Members can post whatever they like. Sometimes the President will post important messages too. It is encouraged that you visit the board often and communicate with other members there. Official Rules - The rules & regulations for the Truck Series league, where you are now! League Entry Form - This is where you can find the entry form to join any of the leagues that Lucky Dog Racing has to offer. Chat Room This is the chatroom for the league. You can meet with other members there to chat. In the future, league meetings will be held there. Truck Series Home Page - Will take you to the main page of the Truck Series league. Home Page - Will take you to the home page of the main league. The main page features the race results from the last race. Click the top of the rankings where it says race results to go the expanded version. The main page also shows the top 10 drivers in the league, latest news, and other feature columns. Choose a name for your team (Example, CheesePuff Racing). Please pick a decent sounding name, nothing vulgar. Please choose something racing related. The President of the league has the right to reject any name you choose. Please keep in mind that the team name that you choose for yourself will be used in the Nationwide and Cup league if you eventually get called up! Members are restricted to running just one team per player. Each team must have their own email. Picks must be made by that person alone. If there are 2 or more members in a household that use the same computer, please inform the President of this. If an investigation determines that one member is running 2 or more teams, those additional teams or all teams may be removed. After your team is created, it is then your responsibility to pick drivers for each race. Failure to do so can result in the removal of your team. Segment drivers The season is divided into 5 segments, each consisting of 5 races each. For each segment you must pick a new segment driver. However, you may only use a segment driver once per season! It is up to you to plan how you want to use your 5 drivers throughout the season. Once you choose that driver, you may not use him again as a segment driver, but can choose him as an additional core driver each week. Segment driver points are scored differently than your core drivers. All league members will select new segment drivers at the start of each new segment. It does not matter how many races you have used your segment driver for. If you are joining the league late in the season, you must pick a new segment driver with all other league members even if you have used that driver for just 1 or 2 races! If a member does not change their segment driver at the appropriate time, they will receive -10 points for that driver in each race until they pick a new driver. Segment drivers can not be changed under any circumstances until the next segment begins! You should check that the driver you are choosing will be running those races. Picking core drivers In addition to your segment driver, you will choose 5 core drivers each week. Drivers are divided into five different classes by the type of truck they drive. The classes will consist of the 5 highest drivers in the Truck series standings that drive Chevys, Toyotas, Ford & Dodge. The other two classes will consist of the rest of the drivers in those 4 manufacters. You will choose one driver from each of the 5 classes. All drivers that are attempting to make the race will be listed on the picks sheet. If by some reason a driver switches to a different manufacturer from what they were originally listed under, the league will use the original manufacturer from the race entry list. You can not use your segment driver as a core driver! If you choose that driver as one of your core drivers, you will receive 0 core points for that driver. However, you will still receive segment driver points for that driver. That driver will not count towards the lowest driver to be dropped. Essentially, if you pick the same driver as your segment driver, you will only have 4 core drivers that week. Usually by every Tuesday, the Truck Series race entry list is made available and the league will link right to it. Once the picks deadline has passed, everyone's picks will be displayed on the site. Weekly submission form You must submit your picks each week. Failure to do so will results in penalties, please read below. Please be careful choosing your Truck picks before the race entry list is released. Some drivers that you choose may not be attempting the next race. If a driver that appears on the picks form is not attempting the race, you will not be docked any points for that driver. Occasionally a driver might slip by the President when creating the picks form. You should make it a habit to double check the race entry list. You will be docked for a driver if you keep the same picks from the previous week and one of your drivers is not on the new entry list or picks form. Pick deadlines The deadline for each race will be posted every week and weekly letter will be emailed to the league once the picks form has been changed over. Once qualifying has begun, you may not change your picks under any circumstances. Even if qualifying is rained out or delayed, the deadline will remain the same for the league. Lateness of picks & provisionals If your picks are not received by the start of qualifying for the race, you will be considered late and will not be able to submit them afterwards. Your picks from the previous race will be used and you will be docked half the points that you earn in the race. If you are late 2 weeks in a row, you will lose all your points and be shown in the final position. You will be credited with 0 points unless a team who did hand their picks in gets a negative number. If they got -10 points, you would receive -11 points. If it happens three weeks in a row, you will automatically be removed from the league. If you are a new member signing up for the league after the start of qualifying, you won't be docked any points but you will be unable to pick the pole-sitter. Also, if you are late sending in your picks, in the case of tiebreakers with another member, you will receive the lower seed. Late picks will be considered provisionals and will be listed on the standings. If you know that you are going to be away the following week, you can submit your picks early for the next week or two. Just note which races you are submitting for. If you are going to be away for an extended period of time, please e-mail me and we can work something out. Drivers not making the field If you pick a driver and he doesn't qualify into the race you will be docked 5 points. All the drivers attempting to make the race will appear on the race entry list and on the picks form. EXCEPTIONS: 1. If a driver that appears on the entry list gets sick, injured or by some other circumstance can not race that weekend, you will get the points of the substitute driver that will drive the same truck. If the truck is not run at all that weekend (highly unlikely) you won't receive any points. In any case, if it happens before Qualifying, you have the option to trade your driver. 2. If a driver does not qualify for the field in his designated truck, but gets into the race through a driver switch after qualifying, you will NOT receive the points for that driver. Essentially you are choosing the truck #'s, not the driver. Rainouts: If qualifying is canceled due to rain or some other cause, the 5 point penalty for a driver not making the field will be waived, however you sill still lose points if the driver was never on the entry list. Scoring Scoring in the Truck Series league is done 2 different ways. There are race points and standings points. There are also different points for your core and segment driver. The points that you earn in a race are used to determine your ranking within the race. Those rankings will then be converted over to a points system that NASCAR uses. In NASCAR, the race winner receives 185 points, and goes down in different increments to 34 points for 43rd place. The league uses the same system. If you score 95 race points and are the race winner, you will receive 185 points. These points will be used in the standings for the league. Here is the scoring breakdown which is what NASCAR uses:
Listed below is the points breakdown for your core drivers that determines how you will be placed within the race
Segment Driver points use the same scoring system, however there are higher bonus points and penalty points. Here are the points that are added or subtracted to your drivers score:
Race rankings & tiebreakers After each race, the spot that each team finished in will be displayed. If two teams finish with the same amount of points, the team that has the highest finishing segment driver will get the higher spot. The next tiebreaker would be the highest finishing core driver that the other team does not have. That also goes for the winner as well. If two teams have the most amounts of points over everyone, the team with the highest finishing driver over the other one will be declared the week's winner . The other team will be ranked as second. If two team members have the exact same picks, the team that is higher in standings will get the higher spot. If a team sends their picks in late, they will be awarded the lowest seed in a tiebreaker. Race errors Occasionally there may be an error in the race results. The President is only human after all! It is stressed that you check each week that the correct drivers are posted that you picked! Do this when the starting lineup is posted to the race entry list after qualifying is completed. You should have the e-mail that I replied to after I received your picks. This is your proof for what you have picked. Send it to me if you see something wrong with your picks. Please make sure you send it to the ldemian@comcast.net address! Sometimes I may reply to you after I receive your picks from my work address, but I'm not there on the weekends! You should also check the computations after the race has been completed. Make sure your drivers were scored correctly. E-mail me ASAP if you see a mistake. There will be a 2 week grace period that any errors from a completed race can be fixed!! After 2 weeks, the results are frozen and can not be changed. Community forum policy All members have the option to read and post messages in the community forum. A member must first register a name before they can do so. Freedom of speech is always allowed on the board, however constant harassment against a member is not. Smack talk is allowed, however taking constant personal shots at a member is discouraged. If a member feels that they are being unfairly treated by another member, they have the right to bring this to the League President. This includes public posts and private messages. The President monitors the board as he sees fit. Firstly, a verbal warning will be emailed to the member to stop the personal harassment. If it continues, a suspension anywhere from a week to a month from the board will be instituted along with a month long probationary period. During the period, if the member continues the harassment against the individual, a long term suspension will be instituted. This ban could last anywhere from a month to the rest of the season depending on the severity on the harassment. A member WILL NOT be kicked out of the league for any behavior on the boards. League dismissal & re-entry prohibition The league will only dismiss a member for two reasons. If a member does not submit their picks for 3 weeks in a row they will automatically be removed from the league. If a member misses a total of 5 weeks of not submitting picks they will also be removed. A member may be allowed pack into the league the following year if space permits and they can provide a suitable explanation. If they are allowed back in and it repeats again, they will not be permanently be banned from the league. A member may also be removed from the league if they are found to be guilty of any detrimental actions that affect the league. This would include attempted sabotage of a league member's picks or trying to co-erce other members to leave the league. These actions will be discussed and voted on by the Lucky Dog Planning & Leadership Council to determine the fate of that member's status in the league. The President also has the right to deny anyone entry into the league or to re-sign the following year for whatever reason he sees fit. Only once a member is accepted into the league after the start of the season will he have the rights and privileges that all members share. Member rights Once a member is accepted into the league for the season, they have the rights and privileges of all Lucky Dog Racing members. 1. All members have the right to submit picks each week for whatever league they are in. 2. All members have the right to partake on the message board and are allowed to have their own screen name. 3. All members have the right to freedom of speech as long as it is not considered personal harassment to another individual. Members have the right to share their ideas or changes to the league. 4. All members have the right to bring a change, idea or concern to the President or any council member. That member has the right for that issue to be voted on by the council. 5. Members have the right to remain in the league without being forced out for any reason except for not submitting picks or for attempts to sabotage the league. Freedom of speech is allowed except when it is used to sway members away from the league. A member may not submit picks under another person's name in an attempt to sabotage their picks for the week. 6. All members have the right to play in a fun and safe environment. If a member is harassed by another player, they have the right to inform the President and appropriate actions will be instituted. Rule changes The president has the right to change or amend any rule during the season. Most likely any change that occurs will happen before a race and will not affect the outcome of the previous one. Rule changes for the Busch Series are usually handled by the President himself and not voted on by the council since most council members are not in the Busch Series. Any rule changes will either be posted on the site or mailed to members. |
 17 Feb 2004 |
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