Tuesday, February 06, 2007
What's the point?
I've been reading a very interesting set of posts over at F1Fanatic. (Prizes for places, not points, Places not points revisited and The argument against championship points (III))
The gist is that Keith doesn't think that the points system helps F1. In fact more than that, he reckons it just gets in the way. His system would be to rank people by number of first places, then number of second places etc. So it wouldn't matter if you'd come second every race of the season - you would be ranked lower than a person who had come first once and never scored in any other race.
This system would, as he rightly points out make people push much more for the win. There would be no more situation where Alonso (as he did in both of the last two seasons) could simply ride out his points advantage. He would have had to have gone out and won races.
I think it's a pretty solid idea. What does everyone else think?
The gist is that Keith doesn't think that the points system helps F1. In fact more than that, he reckons it just gets in the way. His system would be to rank people by number of first places, then number of second places etc. So it wouldn't matter if you'd come second every race of the season - you would be ranked lower than a person who had come first once and never scored in any other race.
This system would, as he rightly points out make people push much more for the win. There would be no more situation where Alonso (as he did in both of the last two seasons) could simply ride out his points advantage. He would have had to have gone out and won races.
I think it's a pretty solid idea. What does everyone else think?
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I did go and read this but I wasn't sure if he meant this would be for both the driver and the constructor championships?
How about (as discussed á la pub) having two different scoring systems - drivers on the points as now; constructors on the number of wins?
You might get the odd situation whereby a driver only needs, say, third place to take the title but his team want the win for the constructors. And of course there is the second driver - would we be back to team orders whereby the potential championship winner was allowed to back off so the other less-well-placed driver could go for the (team) win?
Interesting stuff...
theNewbie
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How about (as discussed á la pub) having two different scoring systems - drivers on the points as now; constructors on the number of wins?
You might get the odd situation whereby a driver only needs, say, third place to take the title but his team want the win for the constructors. And of course there is the second driver - would we be back to team orders whereby the potential championship winner was allowed to back off so the other less-well-placed driver could go for the (team) win?
Interesting stuff...
theNewbie
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