Thanks to everyone participating in the RaceLog last night. Especially my co-host, The Huge Stool himself, Keeping Score. I was on the water getting drunk, not able to follow the race. Sounded like an extra crashy good time. Next weeks race is Sunday in New Hampshire. Here are the updated standings with 8 races left until the playoffs.
Overall Standings/Race Results
After Week 18
Total Pts._______________Fin.-Pts. Driver
746 Terry's Peeps***______33rd-12 Matt Kenseth*
622 Gloopan Kuratz**_____8th-36 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
611 Keeping Score***_____1st-48 Jimmie Johnson
592 Dr. Ken_____________3rd-41 Kevin Harvick
576 Apologist*___________4th-40 Clint Bowyer*
564 newper_____________29th-15 Carl Edwards*
561 Urlacher's missing neck**_17th-27 Greg Biffle*
552 Peoria Matt** ________21st-23 Brad Keselowski*
535 Hatchetman__________2nd-42 Tony Stewart
500 Hawg Ass****_______11th-33 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.*
500 chaspoppcap________16th-29 Jeff Burton
492 Otunga's Coffee Mug*** _41st-3 Martin Truex Jr.*
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488 Free Ajent__________14th-30 Danica Patrick
480 SHARK_____________6th-38 Kurt Busch
477 K Effective*__________43rd-1 Paul Menard
447 Scorehead___________34th-10 Jeff Gordon
444 spanky_____________ 39th-5 Juan Pablo Montoya
438 RFDC_______________32nd-12 Kasey Kahne
437 City Of Fools__________9th-35 Casey Mears*
431 Hank Scorpio*________10th-34 Ryan Newman
431 sjboyd0137__________40th-4 Joey Logano*
422 donspiracy___________12th-33 Kyle Busch*
419 mcbrides*___________20th-24 Trevor Bayne*
415 doug-ep***_________5th-39 Michael Waltrip*
367 jimmypasta*__________36th-9 Denny Hamlin*
314 Boilermaker Rick*______26th-18 Marcos Ambrose*
*Dealbreaker award ______*Illegal roof spacers
Yup. The Sprint Cup season is half over. 8 races until the playoffs. Even if Speeps picked the last place driver until the playoffs, he would still finish ahead of jimmypasta and BoilerRick. The max points differential is 368. That means all of us riding around in the back of the standings 70-80 points back of the 12th transfer spot can make up the distance with Top 10 finishes.
BREAKING NEWS: The following memo has been released from the Nascar Rules Cabal PR Office.
LCQ for a thirteenth playoff spot announced. That's Last Chance Qualifier for those that don't know. There will be a 16 seed head to head tournament for a 13th playoff spot the last four weeks of the regular season. There are 14 players on the outside looking in of the playoffs. There have been many sadfaces and hurt feelings over the first half of the Nascar calendar. "That asswipe stole my Top 5 finish", "Dammit, why do they still let Juan Montoya on the track??", or "How they only got one paved road in Arkansas, but Mark Martin gets at least 30 points every week he races!?!?" These cries and gnashing of teeth have been heard for ages. SO we will have a single elimination bracket style tournament to get one more player in the, errr, playoffs. The 13th and 14th positions will be the Top and 2nd seeds. Confused? Good! Here is a mockup if the tourney started this week:
http://betterbracketmaker.com/#!/e64153e70ad15"But Rules Cabal, what if I move up or down in the standings in the last four weeks, how will that affect my position?" Great question! We are going with Standard Staffordshire Relagation Ruleset on this deal. In English, seeding is only changed for those coming and going from the Top 12. There will be lots of swindlin' and
swerve-in the last four weeks, but in the end, 13 will advance to the playoffs. Feel free to ask any questions and file complaints and grievances up front.
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