Mike Joy just said "Ryan Newman finished just one point behind Kevin Harvick for the championship last year" and for reasons beyond comprehension no one who heard this news suffered the instant brain aneurysm it should have given all of us.
I think it's numbing acclimatization to all the rule and points changes over the past 10 years. And knowing they may come up with something next year that makes the present system look reasonable, as has happened with the original chase.
Talk about carrying a team, after Harvick' s streak of top 2s you have the rest of Stewart Haas....