08-31-2019, 03:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2019, 03:28 AM by Martin Smith.)
What I've noticed is after enough races (30? 50? 100?) your rating seems to be factored based on your points for that race relative to your rating, by a factor of 10. So if you have a rating of 800, you need to have at least 80 points in the race to gain rating. Or if your rating is 500, you need at least 50 points to gain rating.
It's not perfectly accurate every time, so other things factor into it, but that seems to be the major calculation.
But new drivers I think are factored more on incident points, so it's more important for new drivers to keep it clean than to finish well.
Auto manufacturers do this with safety and emissions regs all the time, and it necessarily results in cars that are LESS safe and LESS efficient. It's the inevitable consequence because they make cars to suit the tests, and the tests can never perfectly reproduce real-world outcomes.
If you want worse racing, then by all means reverse engineer the ratings system and share with everybody. But make no mistake, it will make things worse.
It's not perfectly accurate every time, so other things factor into it, but that seems to be the major calculation.
But new drivers I think are factored more on incident points, so it's more important for new drivers to keep it clean than to finish well.
(08-24-2019, 05:57 PM)Russell Sobie Wrote: Knowing exactly what the math is and adjusting your behavior to optimize point gain would only be gaining points at a higher rate because you are doing what the algorithm wants from you (i.e. the points you "deserve"). Not knowing what the math is means you are GUESSING at what your behavior should be to gain points. Are you arguing that those that are guessing correctly "deserve" more points than those that are simply guessing incorrectly?Knowing the evaluation system and adjusting for it is called 'gaming the system'. It doesn't produce better drivers or races, it just changes their focus away from what it should be; the racing.
Obviously "coming in first without hitting anyone and doing that as often as possible" is probably a pretty good guess... The only thing I could see that might fly in the face of that is if you actually DON'T want to race as often as you can. If that behavior actually netted you more points overall, that'd be kind of dumb in my mind. So if that were the case, I can see why he'd be keeping it all a secret.
Auto manufacturers do this with safety and emissions regs all the time, and it necessarily results in cars that are LESS safe and LESS efficient. It's the inevitable consequence because they make cars to suit the tests, and the tests can never perfectly reproduce real-world outcomes.
If you want worse racing, then by all means reverse engineer the ratings system and share with everybody. But make no mistake, it will make things worse.