Enough Is Enough Full Season Championship.

Charlie Spencer said:
NASCAR owns Homestead. Who is the track paying, if anyone? And if it is paying someone, it seemed happy to pay them when it was in the middle of the schedule.
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I misstated the fact in my original post. Miami-Dade County is paying up for the honor, not the track.

www.newsweek.com

Miami County Preparing Attractive Financial Bid to Host NASCAR Championship

A NASCAR insider has claimed that Miami-Dade County is putting together an attractive financial package to host the championship on its turf.
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rd45usa said:
Here is one from May of this year. Sounds like Nascar might be shopping ($$$$) around the Championship race between different locations. Phoenix, per Bianchi, paid between 5 to 10 million for it.
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Nothing new about the championship being moved around. If Miami paid to get it, I hope they also understood it was a one-time deal. As to wanting the last race being for a championship, I don't care what they spent money in hopes of getting. They were fine with being the last race under the 'ten race' format. There was a time when Miami Homestead was lucky to remain on the schedule.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
If I gave the impression I was supporting the system, or maligning Denny's performance, neither of those are what I intended. I've never supported the playoffs in any form, and view the 10-race format merely as the lesser of two evils.

But just because Denny hasn't won under the format doesn't mean those who have won are mediocre. Supporting the format isn't an automatic indicator of driver mediocrity either. By that measure, opposing the playoffs is a sign of talent, right?
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I think that it is important to note that Denny considers those who like the current system in favor of mediocrity.....didn't necessarily say that those who have won it necessarily are...but I know we have a narrative, right?
 
Revman said:
I think that it is important to note that Denny considers those who like the current system in favor of mediocrity.
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Denny rattled off four drivers who he thinks favor a full season, and then said everyone else favors the playoffs.
For people like myself, William Byron, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick... I think we're all for bigger sample sizes. If I didn't list your name, of course you love a 1-race format.
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Who died and left him responsible for polling the garage?

Then he had to back track because he realized he forgot at least one driver.
There might be others, I want to be careful... Can't forget Chase Elliott,
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How many more did he overlook? He should have wanted to be careful before making statements collectively throwing everyone he forgot under the bus.

Denny the driver, Denny the owner, Denny the podcaster. Like 'Good, Fast, Cheap', pick two.
 
Are we doing a thing now where actually the majority of fans want playoffs but in lieu of actual evidence it's "all the people who haven't been polled want it"? I just want to make sure I get what's happening.
 
virtualbalboa said:
Are we doing a thing now where actually the majority of fans want playoffs but in lieu of actual evidence it's "all the people who haven't been polled want it"? I just want to make sure I get what's happening.
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The only people who want the full season are those Denny named. If Denny didn't explicitly name you personally, you want playoffs.
 
The original Chase format, or at least a modified version of it (12 drivers?), is the obvious compromise. A full season championship isn't going to fly in our world full of instant gratification.
 
If you do the original Chase then you need to increase the points spread from 1-10. The original incarnation was only 45 points (or roughly 10-12 points in the current points system). It was probably the worst system for rewarding full season performance. With the exception of the winner take all final (which would be remedied in a 3-3-4 format), the current playoffs do a better job.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Nothing has alienated NASCAR's fanbase more than the postseason.

The playoffs haven't helped ratings and increase interest. NBC giving up on NASCAR one year into a new media rights deal should've sealed the deal.
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The CoT alienated a lot of fans in my age group too.
2 Sweet said:
This year, I completely lost interest in NASCAR once the playoffs started. Sure, I still had the race on one of the TVs every week, obviously on mute. But hardly paid much attention.

Playoffs will never work in motorsports. It was a dumb experiment and the novelty has worn off.
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I felt the same way. I wasn’t looking forward to the last 10 races so I didn’t play close attention to them.
 
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