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 listed.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 AOL, Yahoo!, Cox, etc.) is blocking emails from registration@menwithgutsfmfl.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@menwithgutsfmfl.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.  Nothing is saved in the game database 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 from last year, but the page refreshes and it says “The information you provided is not valid?”
Login IDs and passwords from previous seasons are not valid.  All players must re-register with a valid email addy that will accept a confirmation email from registration@menwithgutsfmfl.com. 

Why is it that I get no replies when I try to contact the game administrators?
Because your email provider won’t let our replies through.  We receive your emails, and we reply as quickly as possible, but your email provider won’t let our response emails through.

What if I Forgot to Submit my Starters?
You will score zero points.

What if an Entry or Driver isn’t Listed in the Selection Menu when I pick my Starters?
The league strives to have all available drivers/entries (for sports car racing) 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.

When is the deadline to submit starters?
You have to have ALL your starters in by 12 AM Friday MST (Arizona), which some people refer to as Thursday night, before each race weekend.  In August there's a truck race in Bristol on a Wednesday night, so ALL seven starters have to be in by 12 PM Noon MST (Arizona) on that Wednesday.  

What if I don’t understand the scoring system?
Then read the following slowly and carefully. Only the top 16 finishers can receive MenWithGuts FMFL points. The MenWithGuts FMFL 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 a finish point, 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 (or car, in the DP series) 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.  .

In Cup, Nationwide, Trucks, ALMS and DP races, the winning driver (or sports car) will automatically receive 55 bonus points for driving the highest-finishing car. The highest placing driver/entry 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.

In IndyCar races, where there is only one kind of car, mfr points are awarded in descending order to the top five finishers; i.e. race winner gets 55 pts, second place gets 44, third place receives 33, etc. 

Does the league use the official order of finish in distributing the FMFL points?
The MenWithGuts 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 MenWithGuts FMFL 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. In other words, what you see is what you get. If the cars and drivers made it through tech and qualifying and pre-race inspection, then points are awarded according to how they finished the race according to the published race results. If they cheated so blatantly that immediate action is underway upon completion of the race – i.e., the officials are aware of an impending appeals issue and have announced they are going to make an immediate decision – then the results become official AFTER the officials make a decision on the appeal issue, or announce the race results as official. But if a long-term, pay-the-lawyers appeals process is started (like in Formula 1), one that is going to last days or weeks or even months, that appeal and it’s long-after-the-race verdict are ignored. The scores will be tabulated according to the official race results issued prior to appeal. And if it comes to it, the decisions made by the MenWithGuts FMFL commissioners are final.

What if I start the winning car but I pick the wrong driver?
Unless its a Daytona Prototype or ALMS entry, you'll score as many points as the driver you picked.  In series that run race cars with only one driver (all except the DPs and ALMS cars), you are starting the driver.  For example, in the Nationwide Series one car may have many different drivers throughout the season.  It is up to the player to know which driver is in which car for which race. 

Since Daytona Prototypes and ALMS cars have more than one driver, there are no multiple listings per racecar.  The DP and ALMS races are the ONLY races where players select the car (by car number), not the driver, toward earning points.

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 MenWithGuts 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 MenWithGuts 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, no MenWithGuts FMFL 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 MenWithGuts FMFL points will be awarded to that driver unless the car that he or she started finishes in the top 16.

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, one winner will be chosen by earliest registration date.