The NASCAR Playoff System is Broken Who had the best season? Part II Kurk Altmann 9.9.2020
[email protected] Abstract The last paper showed that there was a flaw in the different playoff systems since the winner each season depended greatly on which playoff system was being used. With that said, it was not clear how to determine which playoff system was best and even more challenging to determine who had the best season. This paper sets out to determine which NASCAR driver between the years 1975-2019 had the best season. After establishing a way to determine who had the best season, a better understanding of which playoff system is superior becomes clearer. It will never be possible to definitively determine who was the best driver because of equipment, era and other factors but it is possible to say who had the best season and how many best seasons a diver had. The driver with the best season all time also had the second-best season of all time and the name of that driver may surprise you. Introduction If you watch any of those shows where experts debate sports, they will certainly debate who was the Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.) of a specific sport. Jordon or LeBron? Tiger or Jack? Brady or the field? What never gets discussed is Petty, Earnhardt or Johnson. Probably because NASCAR isn’t a major sport in the US with the coverage football or basketball gets. Even so, it seems that the NASCAR community is content in the number of championships determining who was the G.O.A.T.