*RESULTS POSTED* 2018 Can-Am 500(k) at ISM Raceway Pick' Em (ROUND OF 8)

2018 Can-Am 500(k) Busch Pole: Joey Logano

[CWTS] 2018 Lucas Oil 150 at ISM Raceway Winner: Todd Gilliland

[NXS] 2018 Whelen Trusted To Perform 200 at ISM Raceway Winner: Christopher Bell

2018 Can-Am 500(k) at ISM Raceway Winner: Kevin Harvick
2. Joey Logano
3. Kyle Busch
4. Chase Elliott
5. Erik Jones

 

2018 Can-Am 500(k) at ISM Raceway Winner: Kevin Harvick
2. Kyle Busch
3. Joey Logano
4. Chase Elliott
5. Brad Keselowski

 

2018 Can-Am 500(k) Busch Pole: #4 Kevin Harvick

[CWTS] 2018 Lucas Oil 150 at ISM Raceway Winner: #8 John Hunter Nemechek (29)

[NXS] 2018 Whelen Trusted To Perform 200 at ISM Raceway Winner: #7 Justin Allgaier (24)

2018 Can-Am 500(k) at ISM Raceway Winner:
1. #4 Kevin Harvick (5)
2. #78 Martin Truex Jr. (14)
3. #20 Erik Jones (17)
4. #22 Joey Logano (37)
5. #9 Chase Elliott (23)

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Thirty-three members of the SimRacing Design community stepped forward in the valley of the sun and submitted picks for the big triple-header NASCAR race weekend at the newly reconfigured ISM Raceway (formerly known as Phoenix International Raceway). Scores for this round were all over the board, from our low score of 107 points all the way to our winning score of 228 points. Of our thirty-three entrants, just twenty of them managed to score more than 170 points. From those twenty members still standing, only ten of them managed to surpass the 200 point mark. From those final ten contenders, only seven of them ended up with totals higher than 210 points. Here are our seven finalists who will gather at high noon in the diamond in the desert and battle it out for win at ISM Raceway (in A-Z order):

BobbyRicky62
db512
Hendrick4life
HJimenez42 (R)
MonkeyWrenCh
Tim2488
XxTeam48LowesXx

All seven of our finalists had put down some fantastic picks for the big race weekend in the desert, with pretty much all of their drivers having great finishes in the events they submitted picks for. However, only one of them would be able to hoist the hardware and take home the hard-fought win in the desert. Our winner this week picks up his first career SRD Pick' Em victory and becomes our third rookie contender to pick up a win in the 2018 Pick' Em season. With a winning score of 228 points, please join me in congratulating @HJimenez42 on taking home the win in our 2018 Can-Am 500(k) at ISM Raceway SRD Pick' Em event! @db512 takes home second with 220 points, @XxTeam48LowesXx ends up in third with 218 points, @BobbyRicky62 walks away in fourth with 216 points, and @Hendrick4life rounds out our Top-Five finishers with a score of 215 points. @MonkeyWrenCh takes home sixth with 212 points, and @Tim2488 ends up in seventh place with a final score of 211 points.



2018 Can-Am 500(k) at ISM Raceway Full Results (Credit to @MattSRD28 for crunching the numbers):


With this win at ISM Raceway, Hjimenez42 takes home ten Bonus Points but will not take home any Playoff Points since he is not in our Championship Playoffs (did not make it in on points). In the heated battle for the "Best of the Rest" honors at seventeenth place, Tim2488 holds a 39 point margin over XxTeam48LowesXx, a 70 point margin over @2448fan4life, and a 87 point lead over our very own SRD Pick' Em Series Commissioner MattSRD28 with just one race to go.

Here are the Championship Standings at the conclusion of the Round of Eight:


Here are the final Round of Eight standings for our Championship Playoff contenders:


Low scores to beat (non-Championship Members):


Low scores to beat (Eliminated Championship Members):


@John Gregorio ends up with the overall points lead after ISM Raceway with 9,909 points. @Saan Anguish takes home second with 9,876 points (-33 points), 2014 SRD Pick' Em Series Champion @Fishtail walks away in third with 9,870 points (-39 points), and @Ryan597 secures the final spot in the Championship Four at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a final score of 9,866 points (-43 points). Two-time SRD Pick' Em Series Champion @DannyM misses the cut with 9,854 points (-12 below cutoff), @Ryan81398 sits in sixth with 9,826 points (-40 below cutoff), @ahspencer01 ends up in seventh with 9,818 points (-48 below cutoff), and @matheus357 brings up the rear of our eight semi-finalists with a final score of 9,699 points (-167 below cutoff).

Please join me in congratulating our Championship Four finalists who will duke it out between themselves for the right to be our 2018 SRD Pick' Em Series Champion!

Here are the Championship Standings (After Points Reset) for the final race weekend of the season:


Here is the Championship Playoffs graphic (which I had neglected after the Round of 16), now updated with our finalists:


On the rookie front, HJimenez42 takes home the honors of being our highest-finishing rookie contender with his win at ISM Raceway! After thirty-five hard fought race weekends, @Brandon Miller (by virtue of having a lead of over 300 points going into Homestead-Miami Speedway), has officially clinched the 2018 SimRacing Design Rookie of the Year honors! Please join me in congratulating him on a fantastic season in which his consistency each and every week propelled him to being our latest Rookie of the Year winner! @Bradfan4ever remains in second place with 5,794 points (-592 points), and our winner HJimenez42 holds station in third place with 5,603 points (-693 points).



2018 SimRacing Design Rookie of the Year Standings (After Race #35 of 36):


The Pick' Em and Race Weekend thread for the 2018 Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway will be up tomorrow night (by midnight PST, 3AM EST Friday morning). Be sure to get your picks in for each of our final events of the 2018 NASCAR season!