More like a cubic zirconia. We're not saying much we haven't said repeatedly over the last decade. Until NBC and NASCAR (in that order) have a reason to change the system, little will. Since they've left it alone for a several years now, it appears they're content with the current process.This thread is a gem
For the record I hate the nascar playoffs, but reverting back to a full 36 race point season will not happen.
There are many good reasons why there isn't. Who wants to swallow the possibility that the best car/team doesn't win the championship in a 4 car lottery last race? That isn't a championship, that's made up nonsense.
The difference in those other sports, sometimes the team that beat you, you might not have played, or maybe they beat you already when you did play them. You don’t have all the teams playing each other every game. NASCAR everyone has the same opportunity each week to beat every other driver. Whoever is the best driver over those 36 races should be the champion, because all the losers had the same amount of chances against the champion.
WWE pit stops?
I’m sold, let’s get this idea to NASCAR.
With or without helmets?
No point covering a $2 head with an expensive helmet.
Yeah, not to mention some of those paint jobs!
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Move it to the rear decklid.
Not even close. 2027 initiatives include cruise control at pack races and training wheels at the road courses.
I agree. Not sure if I qualify at the average fan level (banging my own drum, maybe a step up), but I can pretty much guarantee that I couldn't fully and correctly explain the entire points system through the championship round.
I didn't know until the other day that not only does the winner of the regular season get 15 extra playoff points (I knew that ) But they count down with the next one 2nd place getting 10 Boo Boo points, 3rd place 9 on down the line.
Until your post, I would have sworn I understood the entire points system. Now my psychologist will have to get out the dolls again...
Except there is ZERO evidence that it has had a real positive effect on viewership or public interest as a whole. The playoffs are only a big deal to the people that dreamed it up. To the rest of the world it's a collective Yaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnn.
I don’t think it helps that they don’t present the playoff grid with those prospective regular season championship points factored in at the end of each race. You effectively need to look at two different sets of points and put them together on your own to get the full picture of what the grid would look like if the playoffs started today. I think there’s a user who makes his own graphics on Reddit that makes things more clear - but it shouldn’t have to work that way.
Yeah, the race being the crown jewel Southern 500 had nothing to do with it at all ...
To think that Nascar drivers wouldn't race as hard for a less gimmicky point system is a disrespect for the drivers and crews who put the show on and fans alike. Now it's time to fudge up the points even more and shut out the rest of the field, never mind that some might possibly make late season runs, it's 17th or worse for you. Don't do better than that and mess our whole fantasy up.
This is exactly the "cinderella" stories that they were looking for with the "win and you are in" nonsense. Burton last week and now Briscoe a week later. Neither of these cars are anywhere close to top 16 cars. It was one heck of a race, I enjoyed it. But all of the fake fudged up points we are expected to swallow? Now we get the gerbils pointing out the incessantly detracting cut off line talk over the broadcasts. Oh they will have a word or two about the winner advancing, but most of the focus will be on the losers.
WRONG. I can't stand the "rest of us" stuff. This is not a board of five or six people. I freaking love the Playoffs and the format. I couldn't be more jacked.Except there is ZERO evidence that it has had a real positive effect on viewership or public interest as a whole. The playoffs are only a big deal to the people that dreamed it up. To the rest of the world it's a collective Yaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnn.
Understandable. How could you understand the system when you have spent all of your time bitching about it?