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07-28-2014, 04:16 PM | #31 |
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Re: Where you qualify is very important
That's just one of the reasons I always liked you, CharlieBob!
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Let's end up with 16, 32, or 64 car fields. (but I would give everyone a chance to get in, instead of sending the low qualifiers home) Let's look at the 41 car field you mentioned. (instead of sending 9 cars home, we have the bottom 18 run to get in the 32 car field) You do have the bottom 18 cars running a "Get-in or Play-in round" (just like the NCAA uses for the march madness). Those 9 winners are not credited with a rd win, but they now qualified for the final 32 along with the other faster 23 cars that did not have to run. (this will also force 23 cars to chase after the top qualifying spots to avoid the "get-in round). No one said you had to pay rd money for those that are still trying to qualify for the final 32 cars. Issue #2 - 23 singles - no need to run them (just like class eliminations, some guys run more rounds than others- no extra advantage) Myself, I wouldn't mind this method, and it's not very complicated. If you think this is complicated, go stand by a qualification sheet at the races, and 50% of the racers couldn't figure out who they had to run if there was an odd number of cars if they tried. 95% couldn't tell if they were on the short side of the ladder unless they had the ladder book or Bobby Fazio's program (plug!). ps... and honestly... I won't mind if they leave it alone... because I understand it.
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Re: Where you qualify is very important
How about best losing package in the previous round gets back in the spot of the bye run? Only laddered bye run would be first round for the #1 qualifier who would deserve the bye if there were a odd number if cars. After that best losing package racers would be put in the spot where bye a bye would normally be. Wouldn't hurt car counts, not complicated, only would cost the tracks or nhra a few bucks extra for paying a loser one round later and would give a racer who just came out in the wrong end of a good race another shot. More of a earn back than a buy back......
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its worked for this long why change it. get beat and go home. No buy backs or earn backs.
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Or no heads ups for a reinserted match up.
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Re: Where you qualify is very important
^^^^^ There ya go! Ain't gonna happen anyway.
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I really don't have any knowledge of how they made it work in later rounds. Before each round they would announce who had the bye run and that was all I cared about so I never looked into it. At the AHRA Southern Nationals in 1976 car numbers were drawn for the bye run for the first round. I ran two NSS races ( Gainesville, Atlanta) in '89 or '90 where they pulled cars for byes. This was when the NSS Association was in it's infancy but later went to the closest to index for qualifying but in Atlanta car numbers were drawn for match ups and byes; in Gainesville cars were matched by comparable ET's. After that the qualifying evolved to what it is today. JimR
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Re: Where you qualify is very important
Heyyaaaa thanks Tom! lol
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