2017 7th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - Time For Your NITRO Fix! Get Ready To Make Your Picks!!!

[Budnicks]

I had a bunch of event winners last couple seasons
& lost out on a bunch of the qualifying picks 1-2-3 points,
"all them little points"
they do really add up a bunch too...
Seems I'd do seemingly well & go backwards

Not choosing, my total refusal to choose Tony Schumacher,
or lack of choosing Doug Kalitta,
he seemingly always goes out early when I pick him,
or when I pick Matt Hagan or John Force they/he goes out early too,
all that has hurt me at times...
Ron Capps, Jason Line & Eddie Kraweic have done me good, for points
& bad at times, last year anyway...
My favorite drivers are
T/F Antron Brown, F/C Ron Capps, P/S Alan Johnson, P/SM Matt Smith
but unless they look like they are doing well,
picking with your heart or your favorites/drivers is kind of dumb...

I am a bit guilty of picking with my heart too much or some is
tradition of someone running really well at a specific track too...

Or just a wild *** guess, like everyone else does

Anyways
It's all hit & miss zero or hero, depends on the raceday...

good luck everyone
Houston next week should be a "fast/quick event"
as long as weather & heat holds off

 

[Budnicks]

64Bel,
I'm going backwards I think....
Budnicks, you always do good with this.......

I cant figure this out, If you win a final does that count for big points or is it picking the #1 qualifier?
(I'm so confused)

Multiple race winners is best

 

[ocdart]

I just read on competition.com that Terry Chandler (she funds both the Infinite Warrior funny car team and the Make A Wish funny car team for DSR) had surgery Monday to remove a tumor from the front lobe of her brain. The article said she will be resting at home for the next 3 weeks before starting radiation and chemotherapy treatments.
Let's all wish her well for a quick and speedy recovery and complete healing.

 

[ocdart]

Here's your Tuesday before the event reminder to post your picks for the upcoming NHRA Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway in Bayatown, Texas - Pro qualifying starts Friday, April 21, at 5:30PM EDT (2:30PM PDT).
Post your picks for Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
The NHRA.com website currently shows 16 Top Fuel, 16 Funny Car and 13 Pro Stock entries. Pro Stock Motorcycle is not competing at this event.
Check to verify your picks are actually entered for this event.

Oh yeah, Shawn Langdon is entered in a 3rd Top Fuel entry from Kalitta Motorsports.

I'll be at MATS in Las Vegas this weekend so there won't be any last minute reminders to post your picks. Also, please have a little patience - I'll get the results posted as soon as possible. It's going to be a busy couple of days following the weekend as I leave on business travel on Wednesday, April 26 for the remainder of that week.

 

[Nick2317]

Ill go with

TF Doug Kalitta
FC Matt Hagan
PS Greg Andersen

 

[alsant]

Antrron Brown
John Force

Greg Anderson

Good luck all!!!

 

[64BEL]

TF Tony Schumacher
FC Tommy Johnson Jr
PS Greg Anderson

Good luck all!

 

[Gpuller]

TF Leah Pritchett
FC Matt Hagen
PS Jason Line

Good luck y'all

 

[Budnicks]

NHRA Baytown picks

T/F Antron Brown

F/C Ron Capps

P/S Jason Line

good luck everyone

 

[super-bee_ski]

Here we go:

Top Fuel: Doug Kalitta

Funny Car: Mat Hagan

Pro Stock: Jason Line:

 

[Budnicks]

I wonder what the weather will be like,
should be good even for fast times & MPH...
I wonder if they'll get qualifying in ?
If so how many rounds ?
last I saw only 13 P/S were entered too...
IIRC only 16 T/F & 16 F/C too...

NHRA pro classes are dying a slow death...

I checked the weather,
It says low 83*'s rain/thunderstorms Thurs. Fri. Sat.
mostly sunny Sunday 73*

 

[ocdart]

Congrats to alsant (FBBO) for grabbing Top Qualifier title of the 2017 NHRA Spring Nationals with a very nice total of 21.5 bonus points. He picked the #2 qualifier in Top Fuel and the #3 picks in both Funny Car and Pro Stock. Way to go!
cuda20 (FABO) and johnnycuda (FABO) were right behind in the #2 qualifier spot with 21.0 bonus points. More great picks!
Here are the results and point standings following completion of the 5th event of the 2017 NHRA season.

Congratulations to 'Back in Time' (FABO) for being "Top Picker Eliminator" for the Spring Nationals with a nice point total of 89.5 points. He picked the class winner in Funny Car, his Top Fuel pick lost in the final round of eliminations and his Pro Stock pick lost in the opening round of eliminations.
'SSGKarg' (FABO) was the event runner-up with 87.0 points with a class win in Pro Stock, a final round loss in Top Fuel Car and an opening round loss in Funny Car.
'71 dartswinger' was the top FABO picker with 95.0 points.


Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:

Top Fuel
E.T. - Clay Millican, 3.722 during qualifying
Speed - Brittany Force, 327.27 during qualifying

Funny Car
E.T. - Courtney Force, 3.851 during qualifying
Speed - Robert Hight, 331.77 during Round 1 of eliminations

Pro Stock
E.T. - Greg Anderson, 6.536 during Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Erica Enders-Stevens, 213.37 while losing during Round 1 of eliminations


Here are the game point standings after the 5th event of the 2017 season:
608.0 - Back in Time (FABO) no change in the game standings
527.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) +3
510.5 - GPuller (FBBO) no change
510.5 - 71dartswinger -2
489.5 - memike (FABO) -1
488.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO) no change
479.0 - stroked340 (FABO) no change
477.0 - johnnycuda (FABO) no change
468.0 - alsant (FBBO) +1
452.5 - 64BEL (FBBO) -1
445.5 - Duster79 (FABO) +1
433.5 - cuda20 (FABO) -1
433.5 - SSG Karg (FABO) no change
352.5- ocdart (FABO) no change
332.0 - fishmens67 (FBBO) no change
265.0 - super-bee_ski no change

The 6th race of the 2017 season, the 8th annual NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, is April 28-30, at zMAX Dragway in Concord, NC.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, April 28 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 4:00PM EDT (1:00PM PDT).
The Four-Wide Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 18 Top Fuel, 19 Funny Car, 17 Pro Stock and 22 Pro Stock Motorcycle entries, but the counts are subject to change. Keep checking http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist06.aspx for an updated entry list.
Get your picks posted and good luck!

 

[alsant]

Nice job Bud +3 !

 

[Gpuller]

Whoa look at Bud go...good job!
Congrats to Al too for his qualifying effort!

 

[Nick2317]

For the 4 Wide Ill go with

TF Antron Brown
FC Matt Hagan
PS Jason Line
PSM Eddie Krawiec

 

[Budnicks]

4 wide

TF Brown

FC Capps

PS Line

PSM Kraweic

 

[64BEL]

Nice work, Gentlemen!
My 4 Wide picks:
TF: Antron Brown
FC: Matt Hagan
PS: Greg Anderson
PSM: Andrew Hines

Good luck all!

 

[super-bee_ski]

My 4 wide (Gee, I hate watching this race) picks are:

Top Fuel: Leah Pritchett

Funny Car: Matt Hagan

Pro Stock: Erica Enders

Bike: Eddie Kraweic

 

[alsant]

Anton Brown
John Force
Jason Line
Edie Kreiwic


I really don't like 4 wide!!

Good luck guys!!

 

[Gpuller]

TF Leah Pritchett
FC Ron Capps
PS Jason Line
PSM Andrew Hines