March Madness and Fantasy Track

We are getting in the spirit of the times here on the blog and we are hoping you will join us. First off, it is March, and that means it's March Madness time! I'll be pulling out the brackets while I'm at school and scoring all the College Basketball Action, but it doesn't mean we can't have some fun here on the blog.

What I will be doing is collecting the 32 best distance races from the past two years (Outdoor Track 2011 to Winter Track 2013) and will put them together into a bracket to be voted on by you, the fans, and we will determine  a winner based on the votes.

What I need from you is some ideas for the bracket! The races should highlight PA talent on the distance side, but the races don't have to be all PA races or even HS races as long as they show off that PA don't play. Some of the top nominees already coming to mind are: XC States 2012, Footlocker Regionals 2012, NBIN 4xMile, PTFCA 3000m and the AAA Outdoor States 1600m in 2011. Post up nominees as comments and I will have the bracket made up, ideally, by selection Sunday at 6pm on March 17th.

I also wanted to introduce a new fantasy track system that I would like to put in place. This will be a season long event that should be a lot of fun. Here is how it works.

Your team consists of 12 runners of your choosing. There will be a draft on a chosen night to determine who gets each runner, similar to other fantasy drafts done in the other sports and in the past through the blog. The goal is to draft the fastest team. The question is, how do we decide which squad is fastest? Well, I'll tell you. Using only open times through the season at Invitational meets with results posted online, we will create a total time for each team. Each team is scored using the following:
2 3200m
3 1600m
4 800m
1 4x800m
Each individual runner can only account for one event. As you can see you will have 2 "bench" runners as extras. The standings are updated throughout the season. The team with the fastest time after the STATE MEET wins. No other post season marks will be counted. You can chose which runner's you would like to count for each event and you can change which runner counts for each event throughout the season as many times as you'd like. For example if Tom Coyle opens up the season in 1:53 he can count for your 800m, but then if he later runs 4:15 or 9:02 you may want to switch him around. If you don't specifically tell me where you want each runner to count I will do my best to give you the fastest possible combination of your runners.

If you have any other questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, blah, blah, technical stuff feel free to comment it up here or hit me up on facebook. If you want to join the league, send me a facebook message. My name is Jarrett Felix for those of you who don't know. Tell your friends and get involved! I'll update the standings weekly and post up results on the blog so everyone can get a feel for how the fantasy season is going.

The draft will most likely take place online on March 27th so I need all entries by then.

Send feedback on the fantasy draft and on the bracket below! I'm hoping to work with Forrest and make some cool videos to help promote this stuff as well! Hope you guys are as excited as I am about this outdoor season.

Peace.