Saturday, August 26, 2006
Look at the stats, take 2.
Last weeks stat picked your winner, let’s try it again. If it works again, my fat ass is on a plane to Vegas. If we use the same stat as last week to figure out a winner (% times finished on the lead lap/Active Drivers with more than 10 starts), it would go like this:
- Kevin Harvick with 72% FOLL (Finishes on Lead Lap)
- Dale Jr. with a 69% FOLL
- Matt Kenseth with 69% (Same starts and finishes on lead lap as Jr.)
- Kurt Bush (also tied with Jeff Gordon w/ 5 wins)
- Jeff Gordon; 59% with 27 starts
- Jimmie Johnson; 55%
- Tony Stewart; 53%
- Mark Martin; 51%, 39 races, and only other multi race winner
- Elliot Sadler; 50% FOLL, and another top ten qualifying effort.
The clear winner is of course Tony Stewart; no other driver shows the raw talent behind any steering wheel. Put one on the space shuttle, and we’ll have our first man on Mars.
