Big changes coming

BOWTIE GUY said:
amen.I wonder who are the people dreaming this up? this is crazy, know wonder Sunday is not planed around nascar any more.
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You said a mouthful there my friend...... at least now...... after decades of telling my wife of 40 years...... ''you know we can't go shopping or traveling or anything like that...... because there's a race on''........ We now do stuff together on Sundays...... If I listen on the radio..... that's fine... I like MRN or PRN better than the idiots on T.V. anyway...... The fan base they used to have are dropping like flies and they have no clue how to reclaim them or draw new ones.... I feel sorry for Bill SR. and Bill Jr..... they have to be spinning in their grave seeing how Brian has managed to mishandle what they worked so hard to build up.......
 
I think there should be points scored every single lap of the race for position. And the points are on a curve where the gap widens the further you move up the field. I don't feel like mapping out all 40 positions, but the idea would be that say running a lap in position 40 would only get you one point, and then position 39 would get you two points. But at the top of the field, the difference between say 9th and 10th place would be maybe a 15 point gap. And then the difference between the leader and 2nd place would be even bigger, like maybe a 40 point gap.

That would ensure that position really matters. Each one of them. Since the point spread between position is wide it means you can't just take a Sunday drive in 12th place every weekend and average your way through because the people ahead of you get weighted way more points for performaning better than you. And closer you get to the front of the pack, the harder the racing gets as the stakes for each spot increase. And because these points are awarded every single lap of the race it means absolutely zero "riding around". If you ride around you will lose way too many points to the leaders.

And then award another points bonus to the winner. Done. You'd have seriously tooth and nail racing then.
 
cheesepuffs said:
I think there should be points scored every single lap of the race for position. And the points are on a curve where the gap widens the further you move up the field. I don't feel like mapping out all 40 positions, but the idea would be that say running a lap in position 40 would only get you one point, and then position 39 would get you two points. But at the top of the field, the difference between say 9th and 10th place would be maybe a 15 point gap. And then the difference between the leader and 2nd place would be even bigger, like maybe a 40 point gap.

That would ensure that position really matters. Each one of them. Since the point spread between position is wide it means you can't just take a Sunday drive in 12th place every weekend and average your way through because the people ahead of you get weighted way more points for performaning better than you. And closer you get to the front of the pack, the harder the racing gets as the stakes for each spot increase. And because these points are awarded every single lap of the race it means absolutely zero "riding around". If you ride around you will lose way too many points to the leaders.

And then award another points bonus to the winner. Done. You'd have seriously tooth and nail racing then.
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A DNF would kill half your season
 
Acs said:
I can live with segments as long as they don't throw cautions after each one. A halfway bonus was paid in cash before, why not in points?
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One of the guys on /r/NASCAR who usually seems to be in the know said within the past hour segments will be broken up by cautions, with a timed break in between segments.

He also said some of the bigger events will remain unchanged but award double points. Maybe there was something to that graphic after all.

Anyways, if we're doing these segments with breaks in between I'd expect the TV networks to cram most of the commercials in there so we don't miss nearly as much racing as we do now.
 
Step 1. Overtime
Step 2. Playoffs
Step 3. Brackets & Final 4 Homestead Bowl
Step 4. Four quarters and halftime

JUST. F*#%. MY. ****. UP. FAM

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How do points at the end of each segment matter if a win is still all that matters? The only way it can work is if each segment counts as a win towards the Chase.
 
Cannot WAIT for Moody to try and spin this as a positive next week on the radio. This sounds confusing as hell and he's always berating people who call in with confusing ideas.
 
When I watched Nascar and they were racing at Riverside, the old Richmond and Atlanta, Wilkesboro and Rockingham I never envisioned some of the things that have come to pass and likely will come to pass. Hindsight is 20/20 but it makes you wonder how things would have turned out on a couple of fronts for Nascar if they had thought before they acted. Tracks were built and races were moved to tracks primarily for the purpose of housing fans without thought to the kind of racing they would promote. Secondly they built a car whose only purpose was to ensure the safety of the drivers which at first blush sounds perfectly reasonable however Nascar never stopped to think you could build a safe car but one that also raced well.
 
AdoubleU24 said:
Cannot WAIT for Moody to try and spin this as a positive next week on the radio. This sounds confusing as hell and he's always berating people who call in with confusing ideas.
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There will be a boatload of unintended consequences to all these changes and I am licking my chops to see them come to fruition.
 
So for these "segments" will they be parking the cars? Who in their right mind would be ok with this sh*t.
 
In order to fit the races in between the commercials, from now on all races will be one lap, with land rush starts. BF is also kicking around the idea of the last place finisher, giving himself (or herself) up to become a human sacrifice to the racing gods. He thinks back markers need more incentive, not to finish last.
 
Imagine if there were idiots running one of the major team sports who decided that teams don't have proper incentive to compete early in games, so they start awarding wins and losses in fractions.

These people are beyond help.
 
Wow, Brian has managed to come up with something worse than the caution clock. If this is true, I'll be looking for a new favorite sport come Monday.
 
It's funny how other forms of racing that don't give free laps back like they're running a charity and bunch up the field with phony cautions don't have this perceived supposed problem of drivers not racing hard enough throughout the race. I wonder why.
 
gnomesayin said:
Huh? It is in itself a caution clock, with championship deciding points (well, sort of) being given at those cautions in the middle of races.
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That's on me, i missed the post where it said the segments would be broken up by caution. I still don't think it's that bad though as it's similar to the rumored changes that came out a week ago, which a lot of people seemed to like.
 
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