[Bill Gardner]

https://www.indianaopenwheel.com/IOWDC.php

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Ok... Here we go. I don't know how much we can collect but we'll go ahead and do this thing. I guess paying these guys something is better than nothing at all.

Once the numbers start rolling in I'll have a better idea of what we can pay and how many positions.

I will use Paypal to process all donations. They charge a small fee to process the money. Other than that, 100% of the money collected will go towards the point fund. No administrative fees other than Paypal.

I will not accept personal checks. I will accept company checks.

Minimum donation amount is $20. Other amounts are available just select the amount in the dropdown box.

The page is all setup to start donating... https://www.indianaopenwheel.com/IOWDC.php#pay

Now, I'm sure I haven't covered everything, so if you have questions let me know.

Thank You!
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I had an idea of creating an IOW Sprint Car Driver Championship, so I thought I put this out there for discussion.

We use the entire "Indiana" sprint car schedule. This would include every track running a weekly sprint car program along with any USAC, KISS, MSCS or whoever races nonwing sprints in the state of Indiana.

For this demostration, I've taken the Top 5 finishers at every feature race and used the following point system.

1st = 12
2nd = 10
3rd = 8
4th = 7
5th= 6


Right now, the Top 30 in points looks like this...
Rank Driver Points Pts Behind Wins Top 5
1 Dave Darland 104 0 3 11
2 Chris Windom 101 -3 4 10
3 Brady Short 99 -5 6 9
4 Jon Stanbrough 93 -11 0 11
5 Brett Burdette 68 -36 3 7
6 Coleman Gulick 56 -48 1 7
7 Shane Cottle 51 -53 1 6
8 Casey Shuman 47 -57 2 5
9 Braylon Fitzpatrick 46 -58 2 5
10 Bryan Clauson 42 -62 0 5
11 Jon Sciscoe 42 -62 1 5
12 Casey Riggs 38 -66 1 4
13 Blake Fitzpatrick 38 -66 0 4
14 Kent Christian 36 -68 0 5
15 Billy Puterbaugh Jr 33 -71 1 4
16 Chad Boespflug 32 -72 2 3
17 Shane Hollingsworth 32 -72 1 4
18 Ethan Barrow 31 -73 0 4
19 Levi Jones 30 -74 0 4
20 Andrew Elson 26 -78 0 4
21 Kevin Thomas Jr 25 -79 0 4
22 Tracy Hines 25 -79 1 3
23 Justin Grant 24 -80 0 3
24 Hunter Schuerenberg 24 -80 2 2
25 Seth Parker 23 -81 0 3
26 Ty Deckard 23 -81 0 3
27 Thomas Meseraull 22 -82 0 3
28 Critter Malone 22 -82 0 3
29 Jerry Coons Jr 20 -84 1 2
30 Chase Stockon 19 -85 1 2

I'm curious if there would be interest in the IOW "family" contributing to a point fund and then award that money to the top 10 drivers. I'm thinking around the same time the IOW awards are presented at the Indy Circle Track Expo that Craig Dori does each year.

This is only an example... If we had 300 members contribute $20 that would equal $6,000 with a payout that could look like this.

1 $1,400
2 $1,000
3 $750
4 $600
5 $500
6 $450
7 $400
8 $350
9 $300
10 $250

Now, what I want to know is what do you think about it.
Please weigh the pros and cons.

My intitial thoughts are this could be a great thing. If money is involved then we obviously need someone who is trustworthy to manage the money. We also would need a couple people who are experienced with Excel to make sure the data in the spreadsheet I've created is accurate and that the same person wasn't being scored under two different names, among other things.


I'm aware there are alot of variables involved here. I'm just interested to see what everyone thinks.

[Bill Gardner]

BTW... here is the schedule I used thus far...
4/2 Twin Cities Raceway Park
4/9 Lincoln Park Speedway
4/9 Lawrenceburg Speedway
4/29 Bloomington Speedway
4/29 Gas City i-69 Speedway
4/30 Lincoln Park Speedway
5/6 Bloomington Speedway
5/7 Lawrenceburg Speedway
5/8 Kokomo Speedway
5/14 Lincoln Park Speedway
5/20 Gas City i-69 Speedway
5/20 Bloomington Speedway
5/21 Lawrenceburg Speedway
5/21 Lincoln Park Speedway
5/21 Paragon Speedway
5/21 Paragon Speedway
5/22 Kokomo Speedway
5/28 Lawrenceburg Speedway
5/28 Lincoln Park Speedway
5/29 Kokomo Speedway
5/29 Tri-State Speedway
6/3 Bloomington Speedway
6/3 Gas City i-69 Speedway
6/4 Lincoln Park Speedway
6/4 Lawrenceburg Speedway
6/4 Tri-State Speedway
6/8 Gas City i-69 Speedway
6/9 Lincoln Park Speedway
6/10 Bloomington Speedway
6/11 Lawrenceburg Speedway
6/11 Paragon Speedway
6/11 Lincoln Park Speedway
6/12 Kokomo Speedway
6/17 Bloomington Speedway
6/17 Gas City i-69 Speedway
6/18 Lincoln Park Speedway
6/18 Paragon Speedway
6/19 Kokomo Speedway

[Dannypollock24]

Great Idea Bill your It's Idea you hold the money as we all love and can Trust you! Now we have to see how many real race fans will get involved! I will and I have no chance at winning!

Danny 24

[Bill Gardner]

Please don't use the quote... it was long enough to type.

I am willing to do this... the only issue is that my health may play a factor. That is why additional people must be involved.

[Mud Packer]

Bill,

Sounds like a great idea. Count RacinBabe and I in and let us know where to send the money.

[Bill Gardner]

Just a thought... but another possibility is to have business sponsorship.

[Charles Nungester]

20 to reward effort? Count me in.

Should number of races and level of competition come into play here? I mean someone who runs the same track 15 times and gets 6 wins, five top fives and 4 top tens against 20-25 others is easier to achieve than someone driving multiple tracks at times against 30-40 others.

Your algorithm you came up with though looks pretty damn good as far as how guys are doing. I thought for sure Windom would be top.

Or perhaps just like half a point for number of races ran?

[openwheelKT]

I like the idea and would be interested depending on the final outcome of the idea.

I am data analyst by profession so I build databases and other data tracking systems all the time. I’d be glad to build something that would take very little user interface to house and track all the data. So if I can help with that part let me know. I could build it so it does all the calculations and the front end data entry is just point click (with the use of tables, queries, reports…etc…that would eliminate the “double points” because of different names). Let me know if you want me to put something together. I don’t mind being the (or one of) data person since that’s what I do. Once it’s built, the maintenance would be every minimal. Send me a PM if so.

[Bill Gardner]

Kevin, I'm using a spreadsheet to do this... It's setup for a 154 races and can easily be increased. All that needs to be done is input the top 5 finsihers from the various races. The main problem I found is that not all the tracks use the same names. There is always misspellings... I found that the tracks using Speednetdirect are the most accurate and consistent.

I got several hours in creating this... I really have nothing better to do.

[bzneil]

I love it! Count me in. There used to be different forms of this in the 70's.