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Ok, I loved the triple crown this weekend, but it has come up before that people mail it in for the last moto, so my suggestion is;
What if each moto scored points towards the whole series
1st - 9pts maximum 27 points
2nd - 7pts maximum 21 pts
3rd - 6pts
4th - 5pts
... and so on, yes only the top 9 in each moto will score points but you can sure as hell bet that a guy will not just cruise around in 10th
People can still have a bad moto but score ok points for the night.. what do you think?
What if each moto scored points towards the whole series
1st - 9pts maximum 27 points
2nd - 7pts maximum 21 pts
3rd - 6pts
4th - 5pts
... and so on, yes only the top 9 in each moto will score points but you can sure as hell bet that a guy will not just cruise around in 10th
People can still have a bad moto but score ok points for the night.. what do you think?
Tomac - 21 points
Webb - 19 points
Reed - 12 points
Kenny - 11 points
Baggett - 12 points - due to his higher finishes in moto 1&3
A few suggestions I have. Any of these would be an improvement over what we have today.
A. Pay a big points bonus if you sweep the three mains. Say 10 points. No way you mail it in in the last main if your 1-1 going in.
B. Pay a points bonus to the overall winner. Instead of 26 points, give the overall winner 30 points. This wouldn’t stop the rider in a winning position cruising in the last main though.
C. Bonus points for each individual main. Let’s say 3,2,1 points bonus for the top three in each main event. That way, no way you want to cruise the last main even if you’re going to win the overall anyway. So up to a potential maximum 9 bonus points if you go 1-1-1.
I think extra points for triple crown is the way to go. The riders are doing a lot more laps here than a regular event. The guys who excel deserve to be rewarded. It would also keep the points more exciting late in the season, if they scheduled more triple crown events closer to Vegas. Riders will still be in championship contention longer if there are more points potentially available.
I wouldn't mind the idea if they were triple points but still only counted as one race win...
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That means there is totalt 12 points extra on the line for Triple Crowns, but only 4 per race.
You cant give out to many points in one single event. Forkner for example would have gotten 4 points extra this weekend and would have been 17 ahead instead of 13 now.
Small adjustments works best.
I dont know how youd balance it with normal races but it should be done.
I agree that all that work should net you more than the tradition championship points.
I don't have the time at the moment to figure it out but what would the points look like from this weekend under that structure?
Just seems like Eli killed em in two, did three starts and 51 laps, barely eaked the win and made 3 points.... When you compare his first two mains which he handily won, and did 17 laps in each, it seems a bit rough not paying them more towards the title.
If you do the math, it looks like this:
ET - 55
CW - 54
KR - 47
MM - 46
In this scenario, ET would have only made up 1 point on Cooper but maybe that would have incentivised him to keep charging at the end of moto 3. If he got up to 3rd, he would have made up 4 points. KR loses 7 to Coop and MM loses 8. That sounds about right based on the night they all had. You might think it's not fair for ET to win and only gain 1 but again, he had a poor showing in moto 3.
You could raise each SX to give 78p for win, and then splitt it 26+26+26 for when it is triple crown.
I only see two solutions. Give out bonus points and leave current point system as is. Or up the numbers so you can still give 1 point+ for every position from 22 and up to 4th.
It's hard too because it depends how you view SX. Confidence plays such a big role that we often have runaways even when the main competition is perhaps a win away from their own streak... so you can view and justify bigger/smaller points gaps good or bad quite easily.
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