Chase for NASCAR Sprint Cup S2 Champs: RFLX_Niop, Hendrick, Chevy

[DrifterJoe]

Most of my laps led were the road courses.

I've finished most of the spreadsheet. I need to test a couple of things on road courses to make of their settings, and I need to make a new Daytona setup. After that I'll have to come up with stuff for the new Nationwide tracks and the created Darlington for sprint cup.

To stop teams sharing around my settings I think I'll keep the spreadsheet to myself, but send the settings race by race via PM as normal.

 

[kenkwilinski]

Alright guys, the final standings are updated and finally posted, back on page 1. Once the Sprints winners are announced, we will close up shop here, and move on to the season three thread. Expect the season three thread to open next Sunday, as we begin the week of the Budweiser Shootout.

Can you list who lead how many laps? So I don't have to go back and subtract every drivers laps lead total to figure out the difference to add to my stats spreadsheet. Thanks

 

[MustangRyan]

Can you list who lead how many laps? So I don't have to go back and subtract every drivers laps lead total to figure out the difference to add to my stats spreadsheet. Thanks

The Indy results post is linked from the season schedule. 👍

 

[MustangRyan]

Let's not forget about the prizes for the top 3 finishers in the chase.


From the OP:

The prize payout is as follows:

1st place: Receive any 5 items** from my trading thread
2nd place: Receive any 3 items from my trading thread
3rd place: Receive any 1 item from my trading thread

**1 item is defined as any ONE of the following:
1 ticket
1 car
5 paint chips
1 set of 30 helmets
1 set of 30 racing suits

I am going to be updating my trading thread later today so you guys know what options you have to choose from. 👍

And done.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=186201

RFLX, pick 5
Joe, pick 3
Homeslice, pick 1

EDIT - I can't guarantee that all of the standard cars I have listed are under the $1M trade limit. If you aren't sure, you can verify the cars you want here (http://www.mygranturismo.net/index.php) to make sure I will be able to send them.

 

[Knelly]

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=245465

Another Daytona 500, this Friday at 19:00 GMT. I'll race if I'm free but not sure yet.

 

[Knelly]

Special Performances Recognised In NASCAR’s Top Series​

Welcome to the Inaugural, and 1st Annual SPRINTS. Now that Season 2 is over and we have our Champion (congratulations to Niop), we now look to celebrate those parts of the Season that really stood out, became talking points, and just basically impressed. We will honour those drivers who have accomplished greatness in Season 2, through a number of categories that we all have the opportunity to vote for. Categories that will be in this Seasons SPRINTS are:

Race Comeback of the Season

This will be awarded by vote to the driver who achieved the best comeback in any single race throughout the Season. This does not necessarily require the driver winning the race but making up a large number of places throughout. The Nominees are:

Niop's drive at Monza, following an early incident and finding himself in last place, working through the field to then become a contender for the race win.

Knelly's drive back from being span out on first lap after the straight at Sarthe, in a field of 14, to finish up 7th and closing down Niop.

Furi at Sarthe, finding himself in 10th on Lap 1 and working back to a podium finish with his 'differing' pit strategy.

Chase 4 Daytona, the second pack after the pit stop of Knelly, Crazy, Stall, Mudd and Carbon, chasing down a 20 second gap over 20 laps to catch Joe, Home and Dowhat, demonstrating great pack work around Daytona.

Race Battle of the Season

This will be awarded by vote to the drivers who were involved in the most entertaining fight for position, whether it be at the start, middle or end of a race. To be eligible for this SPRINT, the battle has to last a minimum of 3 laps on a Road Course, or 5 on an Oval.

Niop v Stall at Monza. After Niop worked his way from last to second, then preceded to battle over at least three laps with Stall for the win, resulting in an astonishing finish with neither really wanting to cross the line due to the incident.

Joe v Mustard at Sarthe. These two battled all the way through the contest in first and second position, with pit strategy finally winning out on this one.

Knelly v Drop in Chase 1 Daytona. After the first pit and a couple of lag incidents, both were fighting each other for laps lead, until Knelly pump faked a pit to throw Drop off, and allow an easy victory.

Mustard v Mudd in the preseason Daytona, battling hard for position over 10 or so laps, before they both get a bit hot headed and take each other out.

Joe v Home Chase 5 Indy, battling the last stint fighting for second place in the Championship, with all at stake.

ACDC and Niop v The Field Chase 2 Indy, with all trying to take their 1, 2 position and lead the race. ACDC not budging off Niop throughout to stay out in front.

Most Improved Driver of the Season

This award will only be eligible to those drivers who participated in Season 1, for more than 2 races. Anyone can vote, whether new or not, but must give good reasons as to why they feel the Improvement Award is justified. The Nominees to vote are:

RFLX_Niop
Knelly
Droptop
Crazy Bassist
Homeslice
Joe
ACDC

Rookie of the Season

This award is eligible for any driver who has participated in 5 or more races in Season 2, and did not compete in any more than 2 races in Season 1. Good reasons as to why you feel the Rookie Award is justified. The Nominees to vote are:

MStall
Furinkazen
Dowhat
Mudd
Jakob

Unluckiest Driver of the Season

This award goes out to driver who is deemed by vote to have had the most misfortune throughout the Season. Reasons require justification.

Chqr - 2 incidents, four drive throughs and a DC in the first Daytona race.

Mudd - Got caught up in at least 5 incidents throughout the season that we not his doing, resulting in lower results than expected.

Knelly - 3 times being pushed back into contention to lead pack, the pusher in all three occasions was DC'd taking him out of potential race win contention. Plus three non fault spins at HSR everytime he pulled back to taking positions.

Joe - multiple DC's early on in Season, plus being taken out of contention at Chase 2 by a lapped car, on last lap battling for win.

Stall - Sarthe DC on lap 4 from a strong position, plus two Chase lag incidents.

Furi, multiple DC's throughout the season.

Driver Rivalry of the Season

This award is honoured for the two (or three) drivers who have had the biggest rivalry throughout the Season, again by vote.

Niop / Mstall
Niop / Furi
ACDC / Furi
Crazy / Hendrick
Hendrick / Ford
Hendrick / Toyota
Gibbs / Ford
Toyota / Ford

These six prestigious SPRINTS will be awarded at the end of the Season during the Inaugural Ceremony. Voting for all categories will start now and will cease Midnight 9 March EST before the Ceremony on 10 February 2012.

On behalf of Drop and myself, we would love this to become a Seasonal Award Ceremony, and look forward to your reminders of those nominations deserving of a SPRINT.

Please remember that all votes are to be by PM to myself, by anyone who has raced even one event within the season.

Good luck to all the Nominees.

Knelly

Just brining this back to the top 👍

 

[kenkwilinski]

I need some more data.....I need the fastest lap in race at Chase Race #4 (Daytona - I believe it was Mudd with 46.251 at lap ??) and Chase Race #3 (High Speed Ring)

 

[MustangRyan]

I need some more data.....I need the fastest lap in race at Chase Race #4 (Daytona - I believe it was Mudd with 46.251 at lap ??) and Chase Race #3 (High Speed Ring)

You need to start saving replays.

 

[kenkwilinski]

You need to start saving replays.

I have the replays except for the last race. Ill look over HSR tonite, idk if I still have the daytona race. My ps3 died sometime during our season and I bought a new system thus wiping all replays.

 

[MustangRyan]

When Crazy_Bassist_83 introduced his Driver Rating system as a means for evaluating drivers, I got inspired. I went and started up a spreadsheet to track average finish stats for all drivers over their career, and then made more specific stats for average finish on certain tracks, and track types. Now that season two is over, we're going to unveil a new chart every weekday in our offseason. For day one, we're going to look at career average finish on road courses, where I don't think you'll find too many surprises.

Obviously, when you collect data, you sometimes deal with small sample sizes. When you have small sample sizes, you can see where one outlier result can greatly skew data, so there are three groups represented for every chart.

Group 1 is the "regulars." These are the guys with a high number of starts, usually equal to one full season or more of participation.
Group 2 is the "part-timers." These guys have more than one start, but not usually more than what would amount to a partial season.
Group 3 are one-time only drivers. They have one start, and nothing more. Their results are basically thrown away, and not compared at all to drivers with multiple starts.


Group 1:

Group 2:

Group 3:

Stay tuned for the rest of the week to see the rest of our stats charts published:
Monday: Career average finish on road courses - POSTED
Tuesday: Career average finish at Indy
Wednesday: Career average finish at Daytona
Thursday: Career average finish on oval courses
Friday: Career average finish in all races

 

[Knelly]

Like it Drop, great work. Now I can see where I expect to finish and what I need to do to improve stats.

My best should be Daytona so let's see what the next two bring up 👍

 

[DrifterJoe]

As you said Drop, no surprises for the road course table.

I've been busy for the past couple of days and haven't been on GT5, so I've not done any work on setups yet.

I'll let you know which prizes I'd like tomorrow. 👍

 

[MustangRyan]

As you said Drop, no surprises for the road course table.

I've been busy for the past couple of days and haven't been on GT5, so I've not done any work on setups yet.

I'll let you know which prizes I'd like tomorrow. 👍

You've got four more days, while I send RFLX the balance of his prizes. 👍

 

[Niop]

I love stats, nice work Drop.

 

[DrifterJoe]

Since I'll probably ask for helmets/suits, I have a couple of questions.

You have a set of them listed at a set of 30, when there are 34 in a set after they added some more. Will you change it to 34? My second question is whether we have to take a full set or if we can pick from different ones, e.g I need 24 suits to complete a set, but can I get the other 10 suits from a different set or does it have to be the 10 I already have and the 24 I don't?

 

[MustangRyan]

I only have 1-30 of what I have listed. I don't have 31-34 of anything, so 30 helmets or 30 suits are complete sets as far as I'm concerned right now. I would prefer to give out 1-30 of a distinct set, but I will break down one item set of 30 in to 30 individual pieces if you really prefer it.

 

[kenkwilinski]

Here is some Career Totals broken down into Totals (all races S1 & S2), Regular (all S1 & S2 non-chase races, excludes exhibition races), and Chase (all S1 & S2 Chase Races). Graph also shows Rating. Which is: ((Wins+Top 3's+Top 5's+Top 10's)/# of Starts)=Rating. Graph is sorted from highest Total Rating. Highest Rating obtainable is 4.00

 

[DrifterJoe]

My profile picture on GT5 displays Ford's new strategy nicely, just add in a second car behind it for bumpdrafting.

 

[Knelly]

My profile picture on GT5 displays Ford's new strategy nicely, just add in a second car behind it for bumpdrafting.

Mine is just a big fat #42 Target

 

[Akmuq]

Here is some Career Totals broken down into Totals (all races S1 & S2), Regular (all S1 & S2 non-chase races, excludes exhibition races), and Chase (all S1 & S2 Chase Races). Graph also shows Rating. Which is: ((Wins+Top 3's+Top 5's+Top 10's)/# of Starts)=Rating. Graph is sorted from highest Total Rating. Highest Rating obtainable is 4.00

I'm liking that on the side of the Chase.

 

[DrifterJoe]

Mine is just a big fat #42 Target

Now all we have to do is treat the #42 driver like we would Montoya.

Crazy- my stats would be better if I hadn't had all those disconnects. (3 in the S1 chase, I think maybe 1 in S1 regular season, and around 3 in the S2 regular season)

 

[kenkwilinski]

Crazy- my stats would be better if I hadn't had all those disconnects. (3 in the S1 chase, I think maybe 1 in S1 regular season, and around 3 in the S2 regular season)

You must be a perfectionist because your numbers look really good 👍 dispite being disconnected. Are you saying that you are going to claim the title for S3?

 

[DrifterJoe]

You must be a perfectionist because your numbers look really good 👍 dispite being disconnected. Are you saying that you are going to claim the title for S3?

That's the plan. 👍

 

[Knelly]

Now all we have to do is treat the #42 driver like we would Montoya.

Crazy- my stats would be better if I hadn't had all those disconnects. (3 in the S1 chase, I think maybe 1 in S1 regular season, and around 3 in the S2 regular season)

We'll call those mechanical failures. You just didn't have a reliable car to start with.

And why would I be expected to be treated any different.

Out of #18 into #42. From bad to worse hey lol

 

[SUfan21]

Has there been any consideration into keep track of car owner's points for S3. Ya know, just for fun?

 

[kenkwilinski]

Has there been any consideration into keep track of car owner's points for S3. Ya know, just for fun?

Now I like that idea but I would like to expand off of it. I had suggested an idea (to Droptop) to implement into going into S4. My suggestion was to let the winning owner from S3 stay seated as owner of that same team in S4. This rewards the winning team and also gives the Owner's Championship some meaning. And if we were to do this, I would then track Owner's Points. As then it would actually matter.

 

[SUfan21]

I think you could implement it in some cool ways, its worth taking a look at

 

[MustangRyan]

I had suggested an idea (to Droptop) to implement into going into S4. My suggestion was to let the winning owner from S3 stay seated as owner of that same team in S4. This rewards the winning team and also gives the Owner's Championship some meaning.

What happens when the winning owner doesn't want to keep their current team (RFLX) or doesn't even want to remain an owner at all (Knelly, Mudd)?

I like the current ownership system the way it works now. Plus, I don't want to change the rules after the new owners have made their decisions for this season. A change like that needed to go in place before the new owners made their decisions for this season. All the current owners made their decisions with the understanding that a driver's championship unlocked all possibilities for them for next season. It seems unfair to take that away, especially since the winning driver went and claimed the smallest team. We'll stick with it the way it is for one more season, and discuss it again around the time of the next draft.

 

[kenkwilinski]

What happens when the winning owner doesn't want to keep their current team (RFLX) or doesn't even want to remain an owner at all (Knelly, Mudd)?

Yes that makes things a bit complicated. Cross that idea of the list then. Keep it simple, there's a good chance I will not care to be an owner next series. It's more work organizing your team than one would imagine. And if it doesn't pay off two seasons in a row for me then I will be done managing a team for next season.

I just thought it would reward an owner who's team has great success. As this doesn't always nessecarily mean that the driver's champion will be on the winning team.

 

[MustangRyan]

When Crazy_Bassist_83 introduced his Driver Rating system as a means for evaluating drivers, I got inspired. I went and started up a spreadsheet to track average finish stats for all drivers over their career, and then made more specific stats for average finish on certain tracks, and track types. Now that season two is over, we're going to unveil a new chart every weekday in our offseason. For day two, we're going to look at career average finish at Indy Oval.

Obviously, when you collect data, you sometimes deal with small sample sizes. When you have small sample sizes, you can see where one outlier result can greatly skew data, so there are three groups represented for every chart.

Group 1 is the "regulars." These are the guys with a high number of starts, usually equal to one full season or more of participation.
Group 2 is the "part-timers." These guys have more than one start, but not usually more than what would amount to a partial season.
Group 3 are one-time only drivers. They have one start, and nothing more. Their results are basically thrown away, and not compared at all to drivers with multiple starts.


Group 1:

Group 2:

Group 3:

Stay tuned for the rest of the week to see the rest of our stats charts published:
Monday: Career average finish on road courses - POSTED
Tuesday: Career average finish at Indy - POSTED
Wednesday: Career average finish at Daytona
Thursday: Career average finish on oval courses
Friday: Career average finish in all races