FANTASY MUSHING IDITAROD 2019

[tanglefoot]

picked, joined, ready to rock! lol

have a mackey and two reddingtons.... going old school with the heritage. some french dude, some norwegian lad and a local

[JeanieB]

42 in our pack with 2 more hours to go! I got one in for me and one form my DH, "BuckHorne"
Seemed harder than ever to get 7. I see some folks are choosing only 5 or 6, so they can get higher ranked teams. That might be a smart more. We will need to watch to see how they fare.

[Heidi]

This was WAY harder than I recall, but I'm in! 46 in our pack when I logged out.

[Moose]

I thought 7 teams were required. No?

[Heidi]

I see some folks are choosing only 5 or 6, so they can get higher ranked teams. That might be a smart move. We will need to watch to see how they fare.

I thought 7 teams were required. No?

I asked the guy who runs Fantasy Mushing about this and he replied:

In an effort to get as many signups as possible we do not remove any teams from the list no matter how few picks they make.

As for taking 6 instead of 7 it has been proven that the missing musher will greatly lower your score. While there might be a perfect combination of 6 mushers. All teams with less than 7 end up further down in the list. This is because mushers scores are summed and not averaged.

In a large scoring race like the Iditarod you will need 7 mushers to have a good score.

In the future we might need to look at giving points for each pick to penalize teams with less than 7 and encourage 7 picks which is how the game is meant to be played.

Hope this helps.

He also added:

Thanks for playing and supporting Fantasy Mushing. If you have any ideas how we can improve the site there is a new tickets page help -> Tickets. Entering an idea here makes sure we don't miss or forget about it.

[fladogfan]

Thanks for that info Heidi, good news to know.

[Moose]

Well, dang. I'm pretty sure on the "dashboard" it said players must pick 7 teams. Was that MY fantasy? I had a heck of a time picking 7. Deleted, added, deleted, added, deleted. . .again and again. Never had such a hard time picking 7 teams. I would have been very happy with my main 6, without coming up with a 7th to fall within the money quota. Oh, well. It's still great fun and I wouldn't miss it for the world. Carry on, group.

[RAIMIS2]

yeah, would have been easier if there were a batch of $50 mushers, but there aren't .

[MelanieGouldFanBrian]

I couldn't get 7 no matter what I did. So I ended up with 5.

[txbennett]

Iditabuds.com pack is doing great through the Iditarod checkpoint. With 46 teams in our pack, out of 2300 total entries we have 4 teams in the top 100 (32, 61, 68 and 78) and 4 more in the next 100 (top 200) (103, 113, 136 and 193)