Re: FAQ (Paxton Points)

""Michael McGaha"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> He would have been if he hadn't had so many awful finishes. he failed to
> finish 7 races. 11 times he finished outside the top 20. 7 of those times
he
> was outside the top 30.
>
> Tell me this. if he'd only run 10 races for the year and won 8 of the 10
> races. but failed to even run the other 26 races, would you still be
saying
> he should be higher in the points?

No.

Work it out with PPS, he'd lose badly.

I notice that a lot of people arguing with PPS generally push the *concepts*
to extreme and argue with that.  They ask "should DNFs not count at all?" -- 
PPS does not say this.  It merely softens the blow somewhat -- with the
bonus effect of removing rolling wrecks.  People say "should winning matter
over all else?"  -- PPS does not say this either, it says winning is
important and gives a big boost.  If you can  finish second all year long
you're probably going to win the PPS championship.

What I like about the PPS is the blend it gives.  Winning counts for more,
DNF's hurt less.  Mediocre consistancey earns you less.

Read that carefully -- it does *not* say "winning counts for everything,
DNF's don't count, consitancy gets you next to nothing".  Ok?  Because
that's *not* how PPS works.  Most arguments I see are arguing with the
quoted statement above, not the accurate one above that.

Note that the final standings in PPS are close too.  If MK could have just
squeaked in another win or two he could still have won it.  Ryan's poor
finishes still hurt him.  Ryan was *not* winning it until very late in the
game, something like 5 or 6 races to go if I recall.


At the end of it all, the most significant argument why MK is champ and RN
is not, is that RN had more DNF's than MK.  This is true.  So, the current
point system crowns not the one who races the best, who wins the most, who
leads the most, but the one who has the least accidents.  He who has the
least bad days shall win.  Maybe we should get an auto insurance company to
sponsor the series instead of a Telco.  I agree that the DNF's cost Ryan the
cup and that's why MK got it.  I just don't feel good that the champion is
picked not based on how well he raced but rather how often he had a bad day.

-Russ.