Agreed. It's amusing to see your fellas, The Gerbils actually try to create drama for a Michael McDowell to advance out of the 1st round while we all know if you've been watching this long enough, they dont have a shot in hell of getting to Round of 8 or better.
I feel like just how Jeff Burton must feel when I respond to that thread.
And they all happen in less weekends than there are weekends with nascar races.
Maybe do it elimination style. Lowest guy in points each week who hasn’t already been eliminated is eliminated unless they win that particular race, and the win gives them a bye that week and the 2nd lowest is eliminated.
I agree.
I got into NASCAR in 2016 and I must say my interest in NASCAR has declined in the last couple of years. It used to be my #1 or 2 motorsport, now it's maybe #5 or 6.Doesn't surprise me. If you got into NASCAR since 2004, you have gotten into it with some "playoff" format and it's gonna be what you're used to. That said, you can have both the approval rate for a playoff series dramatically increase while general interest in the sport dramatically decreases.
If a guy secures the championship with 5 races to go he probably earned it
Even in stick & ball a full-season championship is the preferred option for me. Of course it sucks that Munich has won 11 championships in a row but no one is seriously making the case to introduce playoffs in soccer.
Yeah, having playoffs is not necessarily how every sport works - it's really just how American sports work because of the structure. The leagues are the teams here, whereas it's not that way in Europe and so you get the fun of promotion/relegation. Now THAT would be exciting to add to NASCAR. You finish bottom three as a charter, you're losing it and it goes to whomever finishes top 3 in Xfinity. And it would make the back of the pack a million times more exciting. Would even draw more interest to XFinity and force the back-of-the-pack teams like RWR to actually try. But it'll never happen. I could complain about why, but no one who matters will ever listen.
I agree, I think the team that does the best throughout the entire season should be regognized. I think consistency is as important as winning. My point is that I find the current playoff system entertaining and entertainment is what all sports are.If a guy secures the championship with 5 races to go he probably earned it
I have zero problems with that. A championship is supposed to crown the best driver over the course of a season, not someone who lucked into a few wins on tracks that suit him.
This, old way but it'll never happen.
I'd love that but few Xfinity teams are capable of moving up to replace the demoted Cup teams. JRM is a top performing X team but is hesitant to commit the resources to move up.
That's also because they don't have a charter which guarantees them a position in the field. Give them a guaranteed 36 races in Cup as a prize for finishing top 3 in XFinity and I bet they change their mind given the financial value of a charter these days.
It's not realistic for a lot of reasons but the incentives, as The Nature Boy put it, drive the behavior. If you could sell sponsors on being a real contender to possibly move up to Cup and buy equipment, it changes how that deal is structured at the XFinity level too. You could also base it on "regular season performance" or whatever that would mean in NASCAR terms. But again, it's all a flight of fancy. It's a lot easier and leads to less griping if you do what NASCAR had to in order to try and combat teams just putting around after locking in by creating stages and a points system that is essentially impossible to track in real time.
It's not lost on me; I fully grasp the intention of giving teams guaranteed spots in the field as an asset they can later sell rather than purely being able to divest of used chassis and a shop. The difference is that I don't care for it. Apparently neither does NASCAR these days, so maybe I'm really Jim France using a nom de plume.
If guaranteed spots were granted to 1 or more of the most successful Xfinity teams for a full season, would they be paid a full share of prize and other monies equal to what the charter teams receive? If not, the incentive is worthless. If so, who sacrifices some of their share to pay it?
I think NASCAR had to do something because of the institution of the BCS in college football. That move right there helped college football absolutely explode, so NASCAR had to counter because now the Fall was completely gone. It's the hard thing that NASCAR, MLB, NHL & NBA now have to go through is that college football & the NFL are by far the two biggest sports in America. Good luck getting viewers on the weekend from September thru January
