I've very briefly read through this so far, but the whole concept of points throughout a race is very confusing to me actually. And I'm decent at math.
Why not just award 40 points to the winner, 35 for 2nd, etc, 1 for 36-40. Then 1 for leading a lap, 1 for leading the most, and then 5 playoff points for winning a race, the regular season bonus points, then having those carrying over all the way to Homestead.
Shorten some of these races. Okay, they want these races to mean something early? Then why not shorten some of these longer drawn out races? Possible good races to shorten are tracks with multiple dates. Dover could be cut back to two 300 lap races, Phoenix could host a 250 lap spring race, Texas I'd like to see only have 1 date, but the spring race should be 300-400 miles.
Schedule changes I think are a major underlying problem, not sure what's realistic on the schedule changes. I'd like to see Gateway on the schedule in place of Kansas in the fall, and then Road America in place of Michigan, a weeknight Martinsville race, a Charlotte road course race.