How to Play

The idea

Bar-to-Bar Fantasy Racing is a free fan game. Before each race you play a short trivia round to set your salary cap, draft a small roster of real American Flat Track riders with whatever budget you earned, then score points based on how they actually finish on race day. The best season-long total wins bragging rights.

Getting started

Sign in with your email — we send a one-time magic link, so there’s no password to remember. The first time in, you’ll pick a username; that’s the name other players see on the leaderboard. After that, each event runs the same way: trivia round, then lineup, then race day.

The trivia round

Before you pick riders, you play for your budget. Every event opens with 3 questions, and you get 6 seconds on each. Wrong answers drop off the screen as the clock runs — one every 2 seconds — so the longer you wait, the easier the question gets and the more it costs you.

Everyone starts from $30,000, and every answer takes a bite out of it:

Whatever survives is your salary cap for that event. Answer all 3 correctly and quickly and you keep $29,550. Skip the round, or miss everything, and you build with $25,500.

• Nobody keeps the full $30,000. The clock always takes something — that’s the point.
• You play the round once per event, and it can’t be retaken. Two races in a weekend means two separate rounds.
• The timer runs on our side, not yours, so a slow connection won’t cost you and a fast one won’t help.
• The gap between a sharp round and a skipped one is about $4,050 — roughly a midfield rider. It decides which builds are open to you.

Building your lineup

For each event you pick 3 riders, and their combined price has to fit under the cap you earned in the trivia round — somewhere between $25,500 and $29,550. Faster, more consistent riders cost more, so the game is about balancing star power against value picks that leave you room.

• You submit one lineup per event.
• You can change your picks as often as you like until lineups lock — a set time just before the first session. After lock, your lineup is frozen for that event.
• If you’re over the cap or haven’t picked three riders, you can’t submit — the builder keeps you honest.

How scoring works

Each race weekend runs three scoring sessions: Heat 1, Heat 2, and the Main Event. Every one of your riders earns points based on where they finish in each session they run, and those points stack up across the weekend.

The field splits across the two heats, so a rider only scores in the heat they actually run — plus the Main, where everyone lines up together. Your score for the weekend is the combined points of all three of your riders across every session they raced.

The leaderboard

Your season total is the sum of your scores from every completed event. The leaderboard updates as soon as an event’s results are posted, and you can open any past round to see how everyone’s lineup did that weekend.

A note on the rider pool

Flat track fields change from round to round — riders jump in and out and don’t run every event. So the list of riders you can draft may look different week to week depending on who’s entered.

Fair play & fine print

• One lineup per person per event. Keep it fun and friendly.
• This is a free beta fan game for entertainment only — no entry fees, no wagering, no prizes. Use at your own risk; scores and data may occasionally be corrected.
• Bar-to-Bar Fantasy Racing is an independent fan project and is not affiliated with American Flat Track.
• Questions? Email info@edgesetsolutions.com. See also our Terms and Privacy Policy.