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Nathan_259
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Don't feed the trolls.
Don't feed the trolls.
ToyYoda
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Hawg's a good guy, we just like to give each other crap about the chase.
SlicedBread22
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It does kinda suck watching a driver have to finish 15th or better at Homestead to win the championship.
hawg dawg
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who said clinched ?
we all knew jj had ta screw up big time ta lose it by then . pretty boring end of season those 5 yrs .
not so this yr !
betcha we have best racin we've ever had.......for last 4 races........w/ this format !
4 of 'em .....like suspenseful tony / carl finale race........not just 1 in 10 yrs.
lil nathan's a frisky one huh. already bought himself a broken troll meter ! ha!
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ted@economy
in the interest of equal time
Is there a reason that can't happen this year?
ToyYoda
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OK, guess I misread your post.
ToyYoda
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Of course not. Everyone knows the four title contenders are going to be running top-4 on the last lap at Homestead, and will come 4-wide to the checkers.
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Eh, nature of the beast. Not every championship battle is going to have a "Game 7" moment. I mean Hel, The Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII 43-8, but you don't see Roger Goodell going "Okay, for the 2015 Super Bowl, points are going to be resetted at the end of every quarter and at the end of every quarter, both teams will have to eliminate x amount of players til at the 4th quarter, each team only has the best players going all in!"
No, for all the faults that Roger Goodell has for running the NFL, *coughRayRicecough* He at least is smart enough to realize that not every championship battle need to be a Game 7 moment.
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pretty sure that if goodell starts usin "game 7 " analogies for super bowl format changes.....
............he won't be around very long ! in nfl anyway !
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JEB
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It does kinda suck watching new fans think that this points format is legit.
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JEB
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He can win it all and I'll still think this points system is a sham.
BTW, he's leading the old format, so I'm missing your point about points
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He can win it all and I'll still think this points system is a sham.
BTW, he's leading the old format, so I'm missing your point about points
if 24 wins sunday.......points are irrelevant ta him til '15 season starts.
he's only gotta beat tha other final 3 at homestead. period. due ta new chase format.
dpkimmel2001
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Haven't had time to frequent the forums as much as I'd like this week but I see that we are still trying to figure out this season under all kinds of formats. Can we do one where the Pocono winner gets a bye to Homestead?
ToyYoda
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I'm surprised Brian France didn't write that in once Junior fell out.
I'd prefer a rule where since Atlanta used to be the season finale the Atlanta winner gets credit for winning the Cup.
Blaze
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So why didn't they go to 12 the year after Jr missed it? I mean to do something because Jr missed the chase waiting 2 years is surely risky and oh jolly jeeze that didn't work for him as he missed it with 12. Didn't add any more drivers either.
My point being they didn't do it because Jr missed the chase, they did it because they wanted to just add more to it.
ToyYoda
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I think it was a combination of Jr and Gordon missing it in '05 and defending champ Tony Stewart missing it in '06.
Blaze
The Midnight Rider
THAT could make sense, pretty sure this has been said before also when I pointed it out. But people always still just want to say "CAUSE JR MISSED THE CHASE!!!" funny thing is, most of the time it's Gordon fans and he's the only driver ever to be given a new made up spot on the spot. Yeah Gordon would have probably made it if not for Clint and MWR doing the stuff they did, but hey at least Jr's never been given a new spot in the chase from missing it.
AndyMarquisLive
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Funny, isn't it? I see this thread about "the real championship" and, when I pull up the standings on NASCAR.com, it looks different than this thread.
ToyYoda
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I went to the NASCAR website and it was just a picture of Oprah Winfrey shouting to everyone, "YOU get 4,000 points! YOU get 4,000 points!"Funny, isn't it? I see this thread about "the real championship" and, when I pull up the standings on NASCAR.com, it looks different than this thread.
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ToyYoda
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I actually liked the 12 drivers in the chase, seemed about right. 10 didn't seem like enough and 16 is too many.
Blaze
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Yeah 12 is perfect, and if we got to have a chase 12 is the number it needs to be.
Question is, do we do Top 10 in points plus two wild cards, or just Top 12 in points?
ToyYoda
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Personally, I liked the top-10 in points with the two wild cards better, but both ways were good IMO.
dpkimmel2001
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We had 12 in the Chase just last week and everyone was still bitching about it.
ToyYoda
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I meant starting with 12. 16 just seems like a lot. Did Aric Almirola really need to be in the Chase? However, had he slipped through the cracks of the elimination rounds and won it all, it would have been interesting to see his rain....I mean...his reign as champion.We had 12 in the Chase just last week and everyone was still bitching about it.
Blaze
The Midnight Rider
Before they charge it again I would like to see one of the got a really lucky ass win drivers win the Championship.
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#17D500winner
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We had 12 in the Chase just last week and everyone was still bitching about it.
ToyYoda
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I know one thing...if I was one of the final four at Homestead, I would cheat the hell out of my car. If a final four driver wins Homestead and after all the celebration and fanfare that goes with it, do you really think NASCAR would take the win/championship away if they find an infraction? It'd be a PR nightmare for NASCAR if they did that, especially in the first year of this format. So it might be worth a shot.
Blaze
The Midnight Rider
Hell if all four cheat it would be even better. Would be bigger than anything cheating wise in Nascar history imo. Probably would find away to change it fast for next season.
ToyYoda
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I'm sure we'd never hear about it if that happens.
Blaze
The Midnight Rider
Haha you're probably right, it would be swept under the rug and never talked about.
Matthew2470
It's not that serious
The black helicopter thread.
SlicedBread22
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We had 12 in the Chase just last week and everyone was still bitching about it.
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ToyYoda
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I think some of us have handled the new chase format kind of like the 5 stages of death:
Denial (there's no way they'll ever do this to the chase)
Anger (they better not do this to the chase or I'm done with NASCAR!)
Bargaining (well, maybe they're just floating this idea to see what everybody thinks)
Depression (oh no, they really did this to the chase)
Acceptance (well, I guess this is what we've got, let's see how it goes)
Denial (there's no way they'll ever do this to the chase)
Anger (they better not do this to the chase or I'm done with NASCAR!)
Bargaining (well, maybe they're just floating this idea to see what everybody thinks)
Depression (oh no, they really did this to the chase)
Acceptance (well, I guess this is what we've got, let's see how it goes)
Blaze
The Midnight Rider
Pretty accurate haha.
ted@economy
in the interest of equal time
Here's a question for y'all . Was ' win and you're in ' an attempt to give Danica a chance to make the chase ? After all, she might have pulled off a Trevor Bayne at Daytona .
FLRacingFan
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I think they did it for Timmy Hill.
ToyYoda
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I think she's why they made it top-30 in points rather than top-20 or top-25.