Originally Posted by
BloomerHarvickFan
Another problem with racing playoffs is that it is nothing like the playoffs that they want to say they are trying to be like. Traditionally in sports, playoffs come from DIFFERENT divisions, leagues, etc. With baseball, up until interleague play you had teams play in the world series who'd never faced each other. The idea was taking the best teams from 2 different sides of the sport and playing down in an elimination format until you had the 2 'best' and they played each other to determine the overall best. In racing, they just take the same guys who've competed in the exact same events all year, and re-ordered them, and handicapped them in different ways, and said, go out and do the same thing now, the same way you've done all year, but this time, we tilt the playing field how we want, and the guy who wins, we're going to call you the champion.