Panther_99FS
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Will sleeper Ryan Newman finish what he almost did last year?
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The Chase....
- Thread starter Panther_99FS
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Bet if Go Daddy threatened to pull their money out of NASCAR you would it happen.
Hey All,
The old ways are not the best. They were proven tried and untrue.
Nobody wants to watch somebody win with the margins of RP long ago.
In addition NASCAR wants ratings - every sport does.
I think there are large numbers of sport fans who really just check into different sports at playoff and championship time. Who has the time to follow more than one or two sports all year?
There are not enough loyal NASCAR fans for NASCAR to compete in todays cost world using old rules - they must work to attract new and short term viewers. Playoff systems do that.
The world has fundamentally changed and we are never going back.
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The old ways are not the best. They were proven tried and untrue.
Nobody wants to watch somebody win with the margins of RP long ago.
In addition NASCAR wants ratings - every sport does.
I think there are large numbers of sport fans who really just check into different sports at playoff and championship time. Who has the time to follow more than one or two sports all year?
There are not enough loyal NASCAR fans for NASCAR to compete in todays cost world using old rules - they must work to attract new and short term viewers. Playoff systems do that.
The world has fundamentally changed and we are never going back.
-Ed-
Panther_99FS
Retired SOH Administrator
You know....I think that it was the success of the #48 team that in part, drove NASCAR to create "The Chase"...
wombat666
Administrator
And The Poison Dwarf's 'Double Points' in F1 were almost as stupid.
NASCAR could really dumb it down and run just one 'Championship' race per year, save all that expense and pesky races for a year, and the so called fans could only need to focus once.
NASCAR are just Nuckin Futs.
NASCAR could really dumb it down and run just one 'Championship' race per year, save all that expense and pesky races for a year, and the so called fans could only need to focus once.
NASCAR are just Nuckin Futs.
After his third championship in a row, I started to refer to the Sprint Cup Series (or whatever it was called at the time) as "The Jimmie Johnson Show". I'm not bashing the 48 team so keep your knickers on, but the 48 team found a formula for success and the system at the time allowed that formula to work perfectly. My problem with the elimination style Chase is that you can have a team that just barely makes the Chase on points, squeaks by in each Chase race and perhaps win the last race to be crowned the champion. With this system, Wombat makes a good point. One race and crown whoever wins that race as this year's champion and be done with it. There must be a better way.