Posted by Tom Vanderslice.
Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.
Posted on 9/6/99 7:51 PM MST
In Reply to: try explaining rankings in tennis or golf... posted by Joe Johnson on 9/6/99 7:04 PM MST:
nascar has a wierd ranking system based on a very straightforward concept...
the point of every race is to be ahead at the end...
but the ranking system is based on how many laps you were in the lead and how many laps you actually completed
and all this other stuff...
(maybe we could look at the splits like every 30 seconds who's in the lead an you get bonus for taht....
tom