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I like how hard it is to earn a point in AMA motocross.
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Not really... It's just like changing 40 year old underwear, one leg at a time.
Keep it the way it is!
If any changes made my suggestion would be.
put a zero point in front of the same scoringscale from 21 and down.
Ex:
21 place 0,25 p
22 place 0,22 p
23 place 0,20 p
24 place 0,19 p
25 place 0,18 p
etc...
then u can earn a whole national point after some weekends.
Just missed out on points? Good motivation to come back next week.
1 - 1 Finish = 2 points
1 - 10 Finish = 11 points
5 - 5 Finish = 10 points
The current system would have 1/1 finish placing 1st with 50 points , the 1/10 finish placed 2nd with 36points and the 5/5 finish placed 3rd with 32 points. We all grew up racing all our lives knowing a 5/5 finish (10 points) beats a 1/10 finish (11 points).
If you look at this past weekend you will see examples over and over wear a rider finishes 11th first moto and 30th the second moto (total 41 points) and beats a guy who finishes 19th and 15th (total 34 points) The rider who went 11/30 scored 10 points and the rider who went 19/15 scored 8 points.
I would add first and second motos together (like we always have and understand) and low man wins!! lowest combined points wins 1st, next wins 2nd, next wins 3rd and so on. Then award points accordingly... 25 for 1st, 24 for 2nd, 23 for 3rd.. and so on, then you could use all points (right now we do not use 24,23,21,19, or 17) and give points for the top 25.
I would also say I agree with all 40 riders receiving points, I have seen first hand riders out of the top 20 just give up knowing you do not score anything below 20th. This would also keep the points chase closer if a top rider went down and was out of the top 20 he would not loose as many points fighting for the championship.
26th-29th 1/2(.50) point.
30th-40th 1/4(.25) point.
or something like this.
Do you want to start awarding points to everybody that qualifies into the heats in Supercross too? That's the same scenario there, top 40 get a chance to earn points over 2 (or 3) races, and top 20 earn points
Or we could change to Olympic scoring for both individual races and the overall championship and the title would go to the rider with the lowest score (24 points for a perfect season). But IMO then it would make MX seem too much like golf, and the last thing I want is for MX to seem like golf...
In MX it is the same way. It's just that while in Supercross you only get one main chance for 8 laps to place 1-9 and EARN your way into the top 20 so you can earn points (and another chance for 6 laps to make it into the top 2, which is even harder), whereas in MX you get 2 chances at 35 minutes each to earn points. Much more opportunity to gain points in MX, and therefore even that much more justifiable why only the top 20 earn points.
If everybody below the top 20 earned 1 or 2 points, what would be the incentive to increase your position in the race?
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I like the idea of adding more points to the championship. Holeshot is a good one, maybe fastest lap of the race? Dont get carried away with it, but there are some things you could do to kinda of make the series more interesting as it gets later in the series.
40 years is a long time to go without changing the points, if there is a better way. Worth exploring anyway
Timed qualifying and the number system are higher up on my list though than changing scoring.
Oh and the overall could be worth a few extra points as well, we all talk about who got the overall, but you really dont get anything for it.
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