03-19-2021, 06:05 PM
I have a suggestion - I think the championship scoring would benefit from having the worst result dropped for the following reasons:
1) We are mostly adults here with various responsibilities in life and cannot always attend every race.
2) It's too easy to have a bad result from either being punted or having a technical problem (disconnect or game crash)
3) I think would generally put more emphasis on wins
There are probably some downsides, such as making the math a bit complicated. There's a Chain Bear video on this.
Also I agree with removing the 3pt deduction for incidents. There needs to be a deterrent for having incidents, and I'm not sure what that would look like exactly. But incidents shouldn't end up being a deciding factor in a championship. The people who have a lot of incidents generally don't care about the points anyway.
An example of both of the above points played out in the PSR Porsche championship:
James and I went into the last round with him 1 point ahead. In the race, we had two minor contacts, both of which were my fault. My game didn't register any incidents, whereas his registered two. I crossed the finish line behind him expecting that he won the championship, only to find out later that I had won because I outscored him despite finishing behind... because of a glitch really. That doesn't seem right.
Also, I was put at a disadvantage from a disconnect in round 2 which cost me 2 laps and led to a poor result. If I was able to drop my worst result it wouldn't have been as damaging.
That series was fantastic racing and a ton of fun, but the championship scoring didn't feel quite right.
Another example I have is that I won a championship in the last round just because the championship leader didn't show up (it was Christmas Eve and he probably had some family event or something). Again that didn't seem fair - he would have won if he could have dropped the last round.
1) We are mostly adults here with various responsibilities in life and cannot always attend every race.
2) It's too easy to have a bad result from either being punted or having a technical problem (disconnect or game crash)
3) I think would generally put more emphasis on wins
There are probably some downsides, such as making the math a bit complicated. There's a Chain Bear video on this.
Also I agree with removing the 3pt deduction for incidents. There needs to be a deterrent for having incidents, and I'm not sure what that would look like exactly. But incidents shouldn't end up being a deciding factor in a championship. The people who have a lot of incidents generally don't care about the points anyway.
An example of both of the above points played out in the PSR Porsche championship:
James and I went into the last round with him 1 point ahead. In the race, we had two minor contacts, both of which were my fault. My game didn't register any incidents, whereas his registered two. I crossed the finish line behind him expecting that he won the championship, only to find out later that I had won because I outscored him despite finishing behind... because of a glitch really. That doesn't seem right.
Also, I was put at a disadvantage from a disconnect in round 2 which cost me 2 laps and led to a poor result. If I was able to drop my worst result it wouldn't have been as damaging.
That series was fantastic racing and a ton of fun, but the championship scoring didn't feel quite right.
Another example I have is that I won a championship in the last round just because the championship leader didn't show up (it was Christmas Eve and he probably had some family event or something). Again that didn't seem fair - he would have won if he could have dropped the last round.