The system used in Nascar is and has never been like any other sport! In the NFL it is an elimination system, best two teams go to the Superbowl. The winner of that game wins the championship!
Most other sports use the same system!
When Nascar gets to Homestead ( under the old system or the Chase system ) their are still 43 drivers that can win the race and as many of them that are close enough in points can win the Championship. It could be one or it could be a dozen.
How do those two systems compare?
You few that keep saying this know who I'm asking!
Please show me where I'm wrong!!
Thanks!
2007-10-31 06:55:30 · 13 answers · asked by Working Man 6 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ NASCAR
Just as I figured, I'm not going to get an answer to my question!
No offense takin. If I'm wrong I expect to be corrected. And I'm wrong a lot!!
Perfect people bore me!
2007-10-31 07:22:58 · update #1
As has been stated previously, the only similarity is the fact that they have a "post season" in NASCAR now. The BIG difference is that ALL the teams get to compete right up until the very end. I personally like the new system better than the old one, there's just more complaining this year because it is 2 Hendrick teams duking it out for the championship. The chase format is flawed but it has done what it set out to accomplish which is to make it exciting to the last lap of the last race.
2007-10-31 07:41:12 · answer #1 · answered by Tregosteevo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't compare and people shouldn't say that it does. The chase is NASCAR's postseason... Everyone forgets what happened during the regular season and fights it out for a championship, thats really the only way it is similar to other sports postseason. Under the old system generally only one or two guys had a realistic shot at winning the cup when it got to the last race. With 43 drivers in every race it is impossible to make a system like football and other sports have, but thats just how it is and alot of people love that about it.
2007-10-31 14:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by shaggy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the only way it compares to the NFL and other sports is that the media (more specifically ESPN/ABC/Fox NASCAR commentators) keep saying the word "playoffs" in relation to NASCAR and the chase.
I personally don't think it compares at all. In the MLB you have 162 reagular season games and the teams with the best records make it to the playoffs. In NASCAR you have an unknown number of drivers (43 per race, but those 43 change all the time, depending on who qualifies) racing in 26 races to make the Chase. Once the MLB playoffs start, each loss is detrimental (as in NASCAR with the points) BUT teams end up eliminated and no longer playing at all.
NASCAR still lets an undetermined number of drivers (again 43 but depending on who qualifies) into each race of the Chase. True playoffs (to compare to other sports) would have the last ten races of the year involve only those 10, now 12, drivers that were the best for the "regular" races. And the number of drivers for each of the last ten races would slowly dwindle and be eliminated (and therefore not out on the track) until it were the last remaining two. But that means that the end race in Homestead-Miami would only be two drivers. And why on earth would anyone watch two guys racing around the track for three hours?
I really do believe that the Chase has many problems just as I believe that it's not 'playoffs' like other sports. Perhaps for me it's semantics, but it really irritates me every time I hear a commentator remarking on "NASCAR's playoffs". Yeah whatever. No one would even use that term if the commentators weren't so intent on making us believe that the Chase is similar to other sports.
I think it's some sort of really bakwards ploy for marketing purposes. Ooh. Playoffs. Isn't that exciting. Look, Tony Stewart made the playoffs this year. Let's make sure we buy a t-shirt that says he was a contender in the 2007 Chase. cha-ching cha-ching. Sorry NASCAR, that's not going to make me buy more stuff.
2007-10-31 14:28:10 · answer #3 · answered by Amy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think NASCAR or anyone is trying to compare sports with single elimination tournaments at the end of each season to their CHASE championship. That obviously does NOT compare and is NOT even close! What NASCAR does is promote the CHASE as exciting, likening the excitment of the chase to the NFL Playoffs.
The Chase makes the final 10 races more exciting but nothing really close to the single team/elimination tournaments. Aside from having 2 cars on the track each week and eliminating them one at a time, there is no way to compare these 2 sports... Its just apples and oranges.
2007-10-31 15:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by cowboysfan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of things that are similar.
12 teams in Nascar qualify for the chase. Only one of those 12 teams can win the championship. No team 13th or below can win no matter what.
12 teams (or however many) qualify for the NFL playoffs. No team not in the playoffs can win.
Once the chase or the NFL playoffs starts previous records mean very little. In Nascar the number of wins gives you 10 to 60 or so points which isn't much in the total of points available during the chase. The NFL gives teams with the most wins a pass in the first round of eliminations.
The Nascar team with the most points during the regular season (first 26 races) gets absolutely nothing for that, the slate is wiped clean.
The NFL team with the most wins during the regular season gets nothing for all those wins once the first (wild card) round is over.
2007-10-31 17:21:44 · answer #5 · answered by beth 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I see the same answer just about from everyone but not many are willing to admit that this stupid idiotic chase will never work. you can't rightfully have a play off ending to the year which that is exactly what NA$CAR is wanting with out getting players which for you newbies would mean drivers off the playing field once again for you know who the track. Not going to work and never will. The old system needed work now this ignorant play off that completely ignores the other 31 drivers yet requires them to stay in France's little childish game to be humiliated for the final 10 races.
Makes a lot of since if your brainwashed.
2007-10-31 16:52:29 · answer #6 · answered by Ray Y 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont compare the Nascar and NFL as the same. As to your question I guess certain people do this just to have something to talk about--But they dont know what they are talking about if they think it is the same as the NFL or any other sport!!!!!
2007-10-31 17:58:20 · answer #7 · answered by Ed P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are they the same system? No.
They compare in that at the end of the season the 12 best are competing for the title of Champion.
The added excitement I think is great. 12th place could come back to win it, you never know.
2007-10-31 14:22:43 · answer #8 · answered by MASTER L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Gloria...the two are not alike at all, and its like comparing apples and oranges.. and Nascar and football two totally different sports...
2007-10-31 14:35:52 · answer #9 · answered by Go Team Penske 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like comparing apples to oranges. You can't!
Go Jr>>>>
2007-10-31 14:09:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋