2023 WERA MotoGP Fantasy League

Results from the Thailand round are up, and redtailracing took home the win with an impressive score of 114.

Still a battle at the top.
Race winners

1. vfrket
2. Chino
3. vfrket
4. DaveWolfe/jksoft (tie)
5. Gixxer1100
6. SuddenBraking
7. Chino52405
8. motorkas16.
9. HPPT
10. Chino52405
11. BigBird
12. HPPT
13. DanDubeau
14 HPPT
15. motorkas
16. ironcactus
17. redtailracing

Leaderboard
#1 HPPT 1618
#2 vfrket 1612
#3 chino52405 1596
#4 redtailracing 1595
#5 ironcactus 1564
#6 gixxer1100 1556
#7 dandubeau 1542
#8 bigbird 1505
#9 dsapsis 1475
#10 72westie 1445

Chino still has room to make a play up with 3 rounds to go. I am going to whup BigBird, so you can get +30 too. Bring on Malaysia in 2 weeks.

 

About time lol. I’ve been hanging around the top 5 most of the season without an actual win. Unfortunately I think papas just a little too far out of reach for me to have a serious chance with only 3 rounds to go. Looking like it’s down to him and vfrket.

 

Also about to fall off the podium at the same time!

Congrats @redtailracing

 

Fun Fact: I didn't make picks this week Didn't see both races until Sunday evening

 

Damn, I had a good round, but tied the guys ahead of me I was chasing to try and sniff a podium spot lol. Nice round redtail.

 

I wonder how many times we have picked the same podium in the same order. That has to be the majority of the races.

 

@dsapsis @jksoft , Bautista joins the festivities this weekend.

 

AB19 added and Malaysia now open for pick selection. Will he score higher than the current gold standard for wildcards (DP26)? Can he win like Bayliss in 2006? Will he bowlingball a bunch of riders like we was want to do during his GP career? Answers this weekend.

 

This race is a tough pick, seemed to have a few with more juice in the second half of the sprint....

 

I almost picked
Beast
Jorge
Alex
Pecco

but thought Beast would help the team directly again so I picked
Jorge
Alex
Pecco
Beast

Just looked like Beast had the steam in the sprint. Need to actually watch the race now.

 

I had Alex, Enea, Jorge, Pecco. I thought there was no way Enea let Pecco get ahead at the start because it would doom him to play teammate again like the sprint.

I also thought Pecco would play it safe but going around the outside of Martin may have been a championship winning statement.

 

Race didn't play out like I thought it would. I didn't score myself yet, I don't want to know.

 

I am really wanted to do that but I decided to play it safe since I still had a shot at winning the season. I chose that over winning the race. Turned out to be the wrong choice and it looks like it's going to hurt.

 

I hope you picked him to win....

 

Self score 106. Ugh.

 

Nice round Chino, That put a lot of nice distance between you and 4th and tightened up that podium. I think the money spots are all but sewn up, just a matter of who gets what.

 

Wow @Chino52405 !!!!

 

Damn. That was unexpected. I thought for sure we'd all score similar around the top 4 spots then figured I screwed it after that with Binder out and Fabio so far up.

Shout out to @BigBird who knew I could pull something like this off even when I had quit believing in myself. This one's for you champ!

 

He can't hear you down there below me in the standings.

 

Results through 18 rounds, with two to play, and Chino making a power play. Strong 116 score mate.
Race winners:
1. vfrket
2. Chino
3. vfrket
4. DaveWolfe/jksoft (tie)
5. Gixxer1100
6. SuddenBraking
7. Chino52405
8. motorkas16.
9. HPPT
10. Chino52405
11. BigBird
12. HPPT
13. DanDubeau
14 HPPT
15. motorkas
16. ironcactus
17. redtailracing
18. Chino52405

Overall Standings


Player Name Season Points
#1 HPPT 1719
#2 vfrket 1717
#3 chino52405 1712
#4 redtailracing 1691
#5 gixxer1100 1645
#6 ironcactus 1642
#7 dandubeau 1638
#8 bigbird 1579
#9 dsapsis 1573


The takeaway from this is that its a 3-way dogfight at the top and Aviana Grande is going down!
On the Qatar which being moved to the end of the season will make it a passable venue. I just don't like the track, don't like that there are 300 people in the stands, and it all seems a little surreal given boatloads of petro-bucks. A good battle will make all that moot. Bring it.