the new ideas sound’s also great. maybe the wre points are the best. there are more runners in the ranking than in the wc-standing.
Or else it could be like in the Fantasy JWOC, but with more steps. not only the top 15 get lower points. maybe you could give every ten runners other “points multiplier”.

But I will certainly play when there will be the old system.

@Ulis: Regarding full season – I’ll take your comment into the considerations.

@Gio: For the Fantasy JWOC I used an approach which introduces a similar aspect to the game as you suggest (which however is easier to program). Instead of having a certain amount of money to buy runners for, you got point based on how many had chosen that particular runner. But I see your point that buying for a certain amount of money might be more interesting because the element of chance is reduced while the tactical aspect is there. Do you have any suggestion about how to set the price for the runners automatically? WRE points? WC points? WoO Ranking? I’m not sure that I am able to put this aspect into the Fantasy WC as it might not be compatible with my technical setup, but I’ll consider… Still, there were big enough differences even when you could choose any runner this year.

For the next year:
i think that will be more funny (at least for me) if each runner have a different price (caluclatet with the WC result or IOF ranking) and each manager have a budget for buy 10 runners.
So you can’t buy all the best runner, beacause they are too expensive.
And so you must speculate with “not top-runner” and hope that they run a good race. (so you will know better all the runners, not only the best 10-15).

But this method will be harder to programm.

Anyway congratulation for this edition!!