Fantasy Racing Wreck

It seems like there is always someone out there who is trying to ruin a good thing. Every week, I make my picks and check the results on Pepsi's Fantasy Racing web site. The contest involves selecting which Nascar drivers you think will score the most points during each week's race. This week I noticed that my picks had put me in two hundred thousanth place for the week. Now, I'm not that good at picking winners, but on my best week I have placed in the top two hundred, and my worst has been the top twenty thousand.

I figure they have about 50 or 60 thousand players each week. When I looked at the top 100 this week, they have a bunch of names listed that have a series of periods before their names. Of course each extra period makes the name unique. So, it appears that someone has figured out how to automate the login and picking system. It looks like they were trying to select every combination of driver, so that they could get the best score. Despite the hacking effort, it looks like a real login won for the week, because you also have to guess the average speed. But having an extra couple hundred thousand fake players in the system, has pretty much ruined the fun for the rest of us.

Other than that, gas is still $3.98 a gallon, food prices are skyrocketing, and tornadoes are devastating the Midwest. But, I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend with some nice weather for a change.