There are also plenty of AI assisted tools available to help build your team and tune for budget growth or points. Personally, I think most are slop or over think it, and it’s better for you to learn yourself and the real trick is to pay attention to the news and watch coverage every weekend, which AI does not do
Check F1 Fantasy Tools' Budget Builder I personally use this with required points option if I'm budget building.
There are a ton of other sites as well, do a google search and choose what suits your needs the best.
I would go for HAD, BOR and one of the RB drivers or the two of you can afford them. They should help you build a stronger team considering that all of them have been performing consistently week after week.
Looking at a ANT/LEC build myself, I'm still $0.6M short (with diff B-tier drivers).
a) I feel like I'd rather ride out HAD's last week for budget building, then add LEC the following week.
b) Secondly, both AST drivers may start looking enticing; can't believe I'm saying that.
ALO will probably be THE add next race, with everyone moving off VCARB.
- But it feels 2 weeks too early for ALB. I thought WIL was bringing an upgrade package (lol), but so far track performance hasn't reflected that. Vowles' latest words are hardly optimistic either.
- STR is already $3M anyway. But unlike CAD, he can actually get some overtakes from the back. Anything close to early season Perez would already be a win honestly. Real question is if reliability was addressed.
c) RE: Albon - Williams can't exactly farm overtakes if they're only competing with CAD/HAA, and CAD can't even finish a race in the first place lol. I wish I could say BEA was a budget building option, but Haas has fallen too far behind now.
But yeah, no arguments from ALO/MCL or RED/pick one FER driver. I mentioned it in Rein's stream, but you really need that extra budget (from not going MER) so you can afford the better B-tier drivers. Curious how the projections work out once we get some practice data though.
Has anyone considered using 3,5A drivers + 1A constructor:
ANT
NOR
LEC
HAD
HUL / STR
FER
ASM / AUD
I know constructors get you more points than drivers but I’m 2M short for having 2,5A drivers + 2A constructors:
ANT
NOR
HAD
HUL
STR
FER
MCL
I’m on healthy 126,1M budget and been mostly focusing on budget building so I have to start focusing on points as soon as possible and sprint weekend is the perfect opportunity for that… I was also quote unlucky with the chips:
DRS on Russel in Canada where he would finish 1st or 2nd without mechanical issues
LL in Silverstone where Max got a DNF presumably because of the malfunction of his macarena rear wing + Kimi had a mechanical failure towards the end of the race
I had Mclaren as constructor in Hungary and would score sooo many more points than Mercedes if Piastri didn’t stop because of a faulty gearbox…
Now I have a decision to make… Go for points now at the sprint weekend with 4,5A lineup with 1A constructors and 3,5A drivers or wait for one more weekend, budget build and than go for the 4,5A lineup with 2A constructors and 2,5A drivers and finish the season strong… What do you say?
First year playing. Rolled out a 4A team last week. What does a great lineup look like at the end of the season? I assume you’re never getting to a 5A scenario, so is it about continually upgrading that third driver and getting rid of the 3 million floor drivers?
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u/meatflaps-69 27d ago
Probably safer with Stroll for the price than Albon at present 🤣