What if I never received a confirmation email?
When you register, and click the ‘Submit Registration’ button at the bottom of the page, you are automatically sending the confirmation email to the email address you entered -- exactly as entered. If you don’t receive the email with the link that completes the registration process, either you input the wrong email address or your service provider (like Earthlink, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo!, Cox, etc.) is blocking emails from registration@thunderboltfmfl.com.
You can re-register using a different email address, or you can check your spam, bulk mail and junk mail folders. Finally, you can contact your service provider and instruct them to allow emails from registration@thunderboltfmfl.com.
What if I want another email confirmation sent?
After you are sure you have taken the necessary steps to receive our email, simply re-register with the same information and another confirmation email will be sent to the provided email address.
If I re-register with a different email address, can I use the same team name and password that I submitted the first time?
Yes. Your registration is not confirmed until you click on the confirmation link that is sent when you click the ‘Submit Registration’ button.
What if I get a new email address?
Go to the Edit Profile page, scroll down to the bottom and enter your new email addy. You'll have to submit your old password to make the change, and you can also change your password there.
What if I type in my login ID and password, but the page refreshes and says “The information you provided is not valid?”
That means you haven't confirmed your regsitration. All players must enter a valid email address that will accept a confirmation email from registration@thunderboltfmfl.com. Your computer also has to accept cookies and have java running. It can take an hour or more to receive our emails during peak times, depending upon your location, browser and the time of day -- but the email with the registration link is sent as soon as you click the submit button. If you get the confirmation email but can't click on the link, try to cut it and paste it into your browser's address bar. Try logging in using a different computer or browser, like Firefox.
Why is it that I get no replies when I try to contact the game administrators?
Either your email provider won’t let our replies through or the response is addressed in the FAQ and Contact Us pages. Or, we're busy watching the races.
What if I Forgot to Submit my Starters?
You will score zero points.
What if a Driver isn’t Listed in the Driver Selection Menu when I pick my Starters?
The league strives to have all available drivers per series listed on the driver selection menu. Occasionally, last-minute or late driver changes will occur and the league will make its best effort to add those new drivers as soon as that information becomes available.
What if a race is postponed?
If a race is postponed, the scores from that driver or drivers will not be calculated until the race is finally run. This means that the round will not close or be completed until the postponed race is completed. When the postponed race is run, players are not allowed to re-select their starting drivers. The postponed race is not counted as one of the races for the round in which it has been rescheduled.
What if a race is cancelled?
If a race is cancelled, never to be completed, then each player’s driver picks for that particular race will receive no scores, and the round will be considered complete.
I don't understand the flexible deadline to submit starters!
It's actually pretty simple. Every weekend there are one or more races, and you have to have ALL your starters in by 9:00 AM MST (Arizona) before the start of the first race of each weekend. In August there's a truck race in Bristol on a Wednesday night, so ALL seven starters have to be in by 9:00 AM MST on Wednesday. If the first race of the weekend is on Thursday evening, the deadline for ALL seven starters is 9:00 AM MST on Thursday.
What if I don’t understand the scoring system?
Then read the following slowly and carefully. Only the top 16 finishers can receive Thunderbolt Raceway FMFL points. The game awards points for finishing performance, qualifying performance, leading a lap, leading the most laps, and being the first finisher among all drivers at the wheel of a similar kind of race car. But only if the car or driver finishes in the top 16.
For instance: Finish points are awarded to the top 16 drivers only. First place gets 160 pts, 2nd gets 150, 3rd gets 140, etc., etc., etc. If a driver earns finish points, he is eligible to get bonus points for qualifying, leading a lap, and driving a particular type of race car.
The five fastest qualifiers are eligible for starting position points. Polesitter gets 55, outside pole gets 44, 3rd fastest gets 33, 4th fastest gets 22 and the 5th fastest qualifier can earn 11 bonus qualifying points as long as he or she finishes in the top 16.
Any driver who finishes in the top 16 and leads a lap during the race will receive 22 bonus points. If the driver leads the most laps, an additional 22 points will be awarded.
The highest-finishing driver for each different manufacturer, up to five, will also receive bonus points . The winning driver will automatically receive 55 bonus points for driving the highest-finishing car. The highest placing driver of the next different car will receive 44 mfr points, and the highest placing driver of the next different car in the finishing order will receive 33 points. The highest placing driver of the 4th different kind of car will receive 22 pts and the highest placing driver with the 5th different type of race car will receive 11 bonus pts -- if he or she finishes in the top 16.
Does the league use the official order of finish in distributing the FMFL points?
Yes. The Thunderbolt Raceway FMFL uses the first official release of race results to assign driver points.
What if the results change after the first official release of the finishing order? Like if a car is disqualified? Or a team or driver is penalized or suspended or fined in some way that also changes the final, official race results?
The Thunderbolt Raceway FMFL scoring guidelines are as follows: Points are awarded based on the actual order of finish at the end of each race, according to the sanctioning body's official results. Results are not official until each race's sanctioning body declares them official, which may take a couple of days, so game results are usually unofficial before Tuesday. Finally, the decisions made by the Thunderbolt Raceway FMFL commissioners are final.
What if my driver qualifies the car but doesn’t start the race?
That driver will get no points. The only way a driver can get Thunderbolt Raceway FMFL points is by starting the race and having his car finish the race.
What if my driver qualifies the car, starts the race, but has a substitute driver finish the race for him?
Your starting driver will receive Thunderbolt Raceway FMFL points. (The sub gets squat.)
What if my driver doesn’t qualify and doesn’t start the race, but takes over the car during the race and finishes in the top 16?
Sorry, but no points will be awarded to the driver who finishes, but they will be awarded to the driver who starts the race. (The sub gets squat)
What if my driver qualifies one car but finishes in someone else's car, in the top 16?
Sorry, no Thunderbolt Raceway FMFL points will be awarded to that driver unless the car that he or she started finishes in the top 16. And that's enough questions about driver changes.
What’s the tiebreaker?
The tiebreaker system is based on each team’s score for the previous week or round. The team that scored the higher number of points for the previous round is selected as the prize winner.
Example: Let’s say it’s Monday morning after RD#7. Six teams are tied for Top Dawg with the same number of points, the most among all teams in the league. The tiebreaker checks each of those team’s weekly score for RD#6 – the previous round – and awards the Top Dawg prize to the team with the highest score for the week before. If a tie still exists, the tiebreaker moves back to the week or round previous to that; and so on, and so on. If the tiebreaker procedure runs out of weeks or rounds and still can’t determine a winner, winner and/or team rank will be determined by earliest date of game registration.
