The Sportsman Cup Series takes place on Wednesday nights using the N2003 software by Papyrus along with the NWS2011 mod by SimRacing Design.  Servers are up 24/7 to allow drivers to practice on the actual servers.  For the scheduled event, official practice begins at 7:15pm EST with qualifying to take place at 8:45pm EST.  The Cup series runs a 33 event schedule with American and Canadian holidays marked off.  Using fixed setups, drivers will compete with the 2012 Sprint Cup points system and for the "Chase for the Sportsman Cup".  Those drivers outside the "Chase" will compete for the "OOC Championship".  The two top drivers in the Chase, and the OOC winner are awarded at season end at the Awards Ceremony that takes place in December.

The Cup Series also included the "Good Hands Award" which recognizes the driver with the least amount of incidents to promote safe and courteous racing as well as "Pole Position" for the driver who takes the most poles in the season.

The Sportsman Cup runs with a race length equal to 45% of the actual Nationwide Series races and moderate damage.  Tire and fuel settings are set at 2X making pit stragedies essential.