Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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May be, but it's better than a lot of what gets posted on here anymore.

Right on!  Just using my livelihood to produce an analytical debate using data. Data is the driving force in todays world in how decisions are made.  i figured providing data was a better angle than opinion.  Hopefully, the board appreciates the approach vs being subjective and  opinionated.  Maybe I went too far with it??  If I can figure out the data points I would happily put together the analysis around $s earned per new right rear  � Sadly, I believe the data will say there  is no value for in putter on a new RR cuz everyone is putting a new one on .  So it's probably how much do you lose if you don't?

Cheers, lets grab a beer at the next race.

I appreciate the cost per mile analysis. I think many businesses need to have a similar compare point to understand profit or loss.

Who wouldnt prefer $35 to $5 per mile? A huge income isnt the story, the profit is and less expenses make bigger profit. It's a siber and honest look at the season many only speculate on.

Even though I may not know you, I 
care what most of you think!

Ok, I skipped to the last page. I don't think anyone has mentioned tee shirt sales ? That's part of the kicks when your a platinum member.  These teams are making a lot of money selling merchandise.  Nobody, other than wrg because they have there merchandise trailer, really knows the profits teams make from year to year. WRG has all the numbers, and they also know what teams are going to lose if they drop from being a platinum member.  4 races isn't enough, especially when you toss in the nights before points races. Myself I feel if your racing Saturday night and the next points race is not until Friday of the following week you should be able to run where you choose to. If something occurs,  wreck or injury, and your team is a no show. You dock them X Amount of pts for every race they miss. If you miss 3 shows then for the next 3 shows you can leave your merchandise trailer sit too. That combo is a big hit in the wallet for teams.  The way wrg handles it presently is bull. 

It's a nice data point but fairly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things because fuel/travel costs are not the big drivers of a sprint car teams costs. The fact that Marks raced 11 more times than the WoO guys likely eat into any travel advantage he had over them. I question the whole "it costs $10k every time you drop the rig door" idea, but even if that number is $5k for someone like Marks, that's an extra $55k he spent to race those additional 11 times. 

The metric is really to understand if they are efficient when they travel.  It tells you that some teams are pretty inefficient when they travel and some are efficient.  When you look at the WoO guys,  the top teams seem to be in the $14/mile window. 

So you can use that as a benchmark for WoO teams. When Zearfoss is at $5/mile it tells you they aren't very efficent compared to the benchmark of other teams touring.

To your point, it does tell a story of performance and the health of the team and thats what metrics are meant to do.  Not sure anyone has ever thought of this type of metric, but its very interesting and tells a quick story about the team and their success without alot of conjecture.