steve kramer wrote:tomkirchman wrote:The current points system is poorly constructed, with non-tour majors almost totally devalued and no bonus for doing well in a large field, but even so they should have kept a hard cut off for entries based on performance for each group.
With 800+ entries, its starting to get into the territory where the lowest seeded entries will get "event wait-listed", but I doubt it will be enough to get the 91 Gen3s back down to 72.
i think a point system that takes the current points awards and adds a point for each of the "number of starters that finish behind you" is a good place to start. Since a 21st place finish in a 60 car field has the same value as a 59th place finish....but a 15th place finish in a 16 car field is rewarded with points.
I couldn't agree more. However, the only classes that had more than 20 cars in a single major or super tour were:
FF: 22@ VIR; AVG of 7
SM: 80 @ Sebering; AVG of 24
SRF: 22 @ Sebring; AVG of 7.3
SRF3: 75 @ COTA; AVG of 26.8
The average count of all other classes except for SRF & SM over the past 3 years is 5 cars per event.
Why are SRF3 & SM using the same points structure for these classes?
How do we ask the CRB for a point structure that benefits good finished in big fields but does not hurt our west coast buddies, or middle of the country who averaged far fewer cars at their majors events? Could we use Head to Head finishes?
Super Tour Participation:
Sebring - 45
NOLA - 45
WSIR - 20 - Everyone finished in the points
COTA - 75
HMR - 35
VIR - 35
BRP - 24
POIR - 20 - everyone finished in the points
MO - 34
RA - 59
WGI - 33