Tom Haapanen's Official "First Call for Entries"--Formula One Prognosticator Pandemonium

02/14/96

                      --== F1PP ==--
               F1 Prognosticator Pandemonium

                  -- CALL FOR ENTRIES --

This posting officially announces the fifth annual F1PP competition.
The goal of F1PP is to correctly pick the top drivers and teams for the
1996 season, but unlike the F1 Pick6 competition, you make one set of
picks for the entire season to predict the top teams and drivers for
the year.

The picks are collated before the first race, and my magical set of perl
scripts recalculates the standings after each race. As a result, no
entries can be accepted after the start of practice for the first race
of the 1996 season. While it may seem advantageous to delay your entry
as long as possible, this leaves you at the mercy of Internet links and
other potential failures, which may prevent your entry from reaching us
in time. Don't delay too long!

To enter, fill in the web entry form at http://www.motorsport.com/F1PP.

If you do not have access to the web, or to a forms-capable web
browser, send an email message to f1pp@motorsport.com , with your
predictions for the top 10 of the Drivers' Championship (including the
number of wins for each driver), and the top 6 of the Constructors'
Championship. Please format the entry as follows (note spaces after
the position codes, and the colon separating the number of wins from
the driver's name). Picks with fewer or more than 10 drivers, or with
the total number of wins not equal to 16, or with fewer or more than 6
constructors, WILL BE DISCARDED.

     Name: Joe Racefan
     Scores-To: joe@race.fan.com
     Nationality: US

     D1. Rosset: 5
     D2. Panis: 4
     D3. Inoue: 3
     D4. Lamy: 2
     D5. Katayama: 1
     D6. Schumacher: 1
     D7. Alesi
     D8. Verstappen
     D9. Hakkinen
     D10. Villeneuve

     C1. Forti
     C2. Arrows
     C3. Ligier
     C4. Williams
     C5. Jordan
     C6. Minardi

We will provide WWW access to the scoring reports; check the MNI web
site for updates, scoring reports and standings. Scoring summaries will
be also posted to rec.autos.sport.info after each race.

Points are scored according to a somewhat complex formula: basically,
for each right-on pick you score 200-140-100-80-60-50-40-30-20-10 for
drivers and 200-120-80-60-40-20 for constructors, with each "off" score
being the right-on score divided by (1 + 1.5 * (# positions off)). Each
correctly predicted victory scores 25 points, down from last year's 30.
Intermediate standings (posted after every race) will have the Drivers'
and Constructors' points pro-rated for the number of races completed so
far.

If you're really keen on determining the exact scoring procedure, take a
look at the perl code (available on the web site) used to calculate the
driver and constructor points.

[Note: no points scored by substitute drivers (such as Magnussen for
Hakkinen, or Mansell for Blundell in 1995), will be added to your
primary driver's score for F1PP scoring.]

382 players took part in the 1994 competition, up strongly from the 146
in 1994, 71 in 1993 and 35 in 1992. Tim Bailer claimed the top honours
with 1560.2 points, followed by Thorwald Herbert and Dave Reed.

Here are Tim's impressive picks:

     Drivers:
     1. [ 1.] Schumacher      Wins: 11 [ 9] 200.0 + 225 points
     2. [ 2.] Hill                   2 [ 4] 145.0 +  50 
     3. [ 3.] Coulthard              1 [ 1] 110.0 +  25 
     4. [ 4.] Herbert                1 [ 2]  90.0 +  25 
     5. [ 6.] Berger                 1 [ 0]  35.0 +   0 
     6. [ 5.] Alesi                  0 [ 1]  27.5 +   0 
     7. [ 7.] Hakkinen               0 [ 0]  40.0 +   0 
     8. [ 0.] Mansell                0 [ 0]   0.0 +   0 
     9. [10.] Barrichello            0 [ 0]  10.0 +   0 
     10. [11.] Irvine                 0 [ 0]   5.0 +   0 
     Total                         325.0 + 662

     Constructors:
     1. [ 1.] Benetton                      200.0  points
     2. [ 2.] Williams                      130.0  
     3. [ 3.] Ferrari                        80.0  
     4. [ 4.] McLaren                        60.0  
     5. [ 6.] Jordan                         20.0  
     6. [ 7.] Sauber                         10.0  
     Total                         500.0 

     TOTAL: 1560.2

Tim's score is a new F1PP record, beating Gerard Ashok's score of 1472.5
points in 1993 (adjusted for the 1994-1995 scoring scheme)!

     tomh@motorsport.com (Tom Haapanen) 
     MNI - Motorsport News International 
     Wed Feb 7 21:01:04 EST 1996