NASCAR considering radical changes to playoff system

SlicedBread22 said:
I'd rather see it stay the same.. but I like the 10 points for a win thing... Puts much more emphasis on winning.
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I dont see anything wrong with the 10 points for a win, its just the rest of the deal thats a joke
 
If anything, there may be less incentive for drivers to win again in the regular season after they have earned their first. They know they will likely make it in once they get a win, and can take it easy up until the chase.
 
PeopleAreStrange said:
If anything, there may be less incentive for drivers to win again in the regular season after they have earned their first. They know they will likely make it in once they get a win, and can take it easy up until the chase.
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Yeah, I don't know about that. The drivers capable of making The Chase do not show up to run 2nd.
 
big corp's like nascar don't make new rules 1 month before season starts.
new format was decided long ago.
doubt it's this one exactly as jim utter article?
16 in chase.....3rd...6th...9th race eliminations might be....not much diff from past stat #'s tho.
 
SlicedBread22 said:
I get that... Im just not going to let myself get all worked up over this... I love the championship implications of any race... I really only see this making it more exciting until Homestead when someone finds a way to use the system and steals a championship and they change the rules again next year.
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That's what irks me, every year it seems they are tinkering with the system. You dip into to the well way too many times and you are going to come up dry. Tinkering with the points system too many times is going to result with fans leaving the sport even more. Credibility comes to mind, every year there seems to be less and less in Nascar....an that is nota goood thing.
 
Mopardh9 said:
That's what irks me, every year it seems they are tinkering with the system. You dip into to the well way too many times and you are going to come up dry. Tinkering with the points system too many times is going to result with fans leaving the sport even more. Credibility comes to mind, every year there seems to be less and less in Nascar....an that is nota goood thing.
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They are trying to make this a playoff format like "stick and ball" sports, which is stupid for so many reasons. Why should I even bother to watch the first 20 or so races of the season?

So if Terry Labonte enters four races this year and luckily wins one of the plate races (a realistic possibility for anyone) he's locked in the Chase? That's like a 2-14 NFL team making the playoffs because one of their wins was against a team that won their division.

So Jimmie Johnson can dominate the whole season and the last several races of the Chase, then lose the Championship at Homestead because he gets wrecked or has a mechanical failure? That's like Peyton Manning throwing a first quarter interception in the Super Bowl and the Broncos are forced to forfeit 10 minutes into the game.

So Stewart or Hamlin can get injured again, miss a dozen races, but still make the Chase because they won once earlier in the season? Yeah that really makes a lot of sense.

This is a complete joke for all the reasons mentioned in this thread. This new format is nothing but a gimmicky crapshoot thought up by a bunch of morons desperate for ratings. They are ruining the sport, and that's the bottom line.
 
Maybe they should just crown the winner of the All-Star race as champ... I mean really whats the difference between what their suggesting and that race?... Win a race within a yr and your in and eliminate three drivers after each segment. FInal segment is a shootout.

Its such a sad time that they have to trick people into liking nascar with this "entertainment". It is possible for just about anyone to win a race throughout the season with mechanical failures, wreck roulette at RP tracks, and the overall luck that is sometimes involved in winning races (fuel mileage, etc.) Should a win alone get you in? Im not so sure.

Maybe nascar should have done all this "experimenting" in the truck or nw series first to prevent what they have done to our cup series.
 
if everything hinges essentially on one race doesn't the extra hype for that race marginalize the other races?? why even have any sort of points system?? I don't think the champion should be decided in how they perform at one race. I think drivers like hamlin and keslowski like this setup because it gives a greater likelyhood of a random champion rather than the guy who really ran best and had the best year. remember how a pit road call or even a fuel mileage race can decide the winner especially if we are only talking one race. should the championship be decided by one pit road call?? or fuel mileage in ONE race!??! I think you delegitamize the champion when you do this. I think all of us are pretty universal about our dislike for this and that its a gimmick. my other question is they thought the old points system was too boring, so we get the chase, then they tweaked the chase, now they are tweaking it again for this one race type deal. my question is when will they be satisfied?? when is enough hype enough. better yet how does this help 90% of the normal season?? how does this make more fans watch the regular season regular races that make up most of the schedule?? brian france is starting to seem kinda looney if you ask me
 
Well this is on Fox News ticker at the bottom and on ESPN so this must be a close to done deal.

You never see "rumors" get this much traction.

Disgusting.
 
Good God, don't let Brian F. see the videos of the New Zeland stock car races over in the short track forums. Who knows what would happen then.
 
France just needs to realize that he's never going to beat the NFL. I don't care if you put the four remaining drivers in a fight-to-the-death cage match at Homestead, it's still going up against Week 11 of the NFL.
 
An awful idea.. Not only that but if this came to be, it means more eplaining of a complicated system. New fans wouldnt be intrigued, they'd be confused.
 
PeopleAreStrange said:
If anything, there may be less incentive for drivers to win again in the regular season after they have earned their first. They know they will likely make it in once they get a win, and can take it easy up until the chase.
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There needs to be a decent size gap between 1st and 16th place. Where this takes value is to make sure each seed has actual value. So that there isn't much worth in settling for 16th. 16th needs to be there for the last ditch effort guys, not the Jimmie Johnson guaranteed spot. You want drivers to need the highest spot available.
 
reck said:
LOL Burton is on his way out and the Waltrip bros dont even race so their opinion should not be taken seriously. If there is anything the Waltrip duo do is kiss ass real good.
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Darrell has been a shill for years now, Michael is both an owner and a driver and is in NASCAR's doghouse after Spingate - why anyone would take their support seriously is beyond me.
 
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