Brilliant, with one flaw...
After reading about the changes to The Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, I've got to say that I'm impressed. NASCAR, I'm sure, put countless hours of thought and discussion about the changes and, for my money, came up with a pretty good solution. Race winners should be rewarded for their excellence, and they did so with a change in the points during the regular season. It's possible now for a race winner to receive up to 25 more points than the second-place finisher. That should make the winners a lot happier. The 400-point cutoff was done away with, and I also believe that's a good thing. The only flaw I see is that they're allowing 12 in the Chase instead of keeping it at 10. I could go through the whole deal about how the playoffs in each of the big four sports have too many teams, but it's all been said before. That's still my stance, however, and 10 is a great number for the Chase. Guess we don't want to leave out the Tony Stewarts or the Greg Biffles of the series. But, if they're not good enough to make the top 10, then they shouldn't be in. Again, good job, NASCAR, with one glaring exception.
Posted: 1/23/2007 11:27:00 AM
Comments:
I'm not as impressed. I could agree that winning races should have a higher reward, but then also having the number of wins "seed" the Chase seems way over the top to me. A driver could be number one in points through consistency and end up in the bottom five because he hasn't won a race. That seems unfair to me.

As we have seen throughout NASCAR history, consistency is probably the hardest goal to attain as a race team as Kasey Kahne found out last year. Shouldn't we measure champions to the highest standard?

Plus, in a way, I see this as another way to separate the "bad" teams from the top teams. The lower budget teams are going to have a much tougher fight to the top, I think. So the good get better and the guys in the middle get screwed, again.

Overall, I think these rule changes reflect the current overall American culture that winning is everything. As I agree winning should be rewarded, but the new rules go way to far.

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Posted On: 1/23/2007 11:27:00 AM

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