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All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of The Teardown.

This is usually the Coast Race podcast here on the Athletic, but there's no races to talk about right now.

So we are here to talk about some off-season stuff, such as the 2010s, the best of the 2010s, and specifically the playoff

format that existed in that decade that just wrapped up for NASCAR.

There were three sort of different playoff formats that happened during this decade,

and we're going to go through them and talk about what worked, what didn't, and what

our favorite ones.

And Jordan Bianchi and I just sat down and Homestead when we were there in person.

We didn't want to have to do this remotely.

So we had a chance to sit down and talk about this on championship weekend when it was fresh

on our minds.

Here's our conversation about the best playoff systems of the 2010s.

Jordan, this was an interesting decade for NASCAR because there was three different playoff systems, essentially.

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