You have to love the onion.com.

[pettybird]

If you want to waste a bunch of time reading fake news and satire, the Onion is your only source. 

I'm judging Jimmie by his PTTLPS score.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-super-stats,27108/

[Aero426]

That is funny!

[maxwellwedge]

 

[nascarxx29]

   How is this aero car related we are in the aero car forum .

[pettybird]

  How is this aero car related we are in the aero car forum

while I don't claim to know everyone who ever owned the super charger, or that my biggest claim to fame is selling NOS parts to Steve Juliano, or have a coronet full of magazines, I *DO* know that the link has a direct and immediate appeal to people who read this forum.  Special bonus:  The Onion is not a white supremacist site.

[nascarxx29]

All the formentioned which has wingcar context Where is the wingcar connection on the onion   

[hemigeno]

All the formentioned which has wingcar context Where is the wingcar connection on the onion   

I actually moved this thread out of the Aero section, after having only quickly checked out the link.  When I stopped for a second and considered the fact that Doug/pettybird wouldn't have posted it there without a reason, I went back and looked at it a bit further.  Sure enough... after I read the PTTLPS line, I moved it right back here.

[pettybird]

Exactly.  

I figured more people would click on the link, so I didn't bother to post the actual text.  Get about halfway down and you'll see.  It's kind of funny if you like mocking sports stats, but PTTYLPS is just awesome...


Sportsgraphic

January 20, 2012
New Super Stats

Sports is currently enjoying an era of unprecedented statistical analysis, with Moneyball having opened the floodgates for stats-oriented people to find new benchmarks in every sport. Here are some of the more notable number-crunchings:

OPSPA: On-base plus slugging plus batting average: Considered a more comprehensive measurement of batting efficiency because it adds more things to other things
   
UZR: Accounts for a player's defense by counting the happy clicks a dolphin makes while watching the play in its tank
   
PER: John Hollinger decides how much he likes a player and then makes up a number for him

RUNX2: A stat equal to the number of runs scored by a baseball player multiplied by two

PTTYLPS: Compares contemporary stock car drivers' performances to the number of laps Richard Petty would have completed under similar conditions in his 1970 Plymouth Superbird with the big-block motor and the badass wing back before NASCAR got pussified

BFEST: Estimates the likelihood a player would be your best friend assuming you and he were both totally normal guys going about their business who crossed paths and were just looking to connect with someone else

OPBICYT: A player's on-base percentage if the Red Sox had traded Carl Yastrzemski to the Tigers for Lance Parrish, Pat Underwood, and a third-round draft pick sometime before the 1978 season started

[nascarxx29]

  
before NASCAR got pussified 

Superbird song happened across another funny one

http://www.lyricsmania.com/v-8_superpussy_lyrics_kitchen_knife_conspiracy.html