Scoring System Explained
1. How does the scoring system work?
Our system uses a few key metrics that allow us to accurately reflect the performance of a driver. The major components are average delta to the world best time, Driver Rating (DR), Safety Rating (SR), and number of events completed.
2. What is the Average Delta to the World Best Time?
It gauges how your times compare to the world leader's times. This statistic takes into account your leaderboard position and the average difference, or delta, between your times and the best times worldwide. This will help give an understanding of what the real performance level is like compared to the very best drivers.
3. How do DR and SR factor into the scoring?
Driver Rating (DR) and Safety Rating (SR) are there to give us a comprehensive idea of a driver's skill and consistency. DR reflects your overall driving skill, while SR measures how safely you drive. Adding these metrics prevents drivers from developing secondary accounts just to have better leaderboard positions.
4. Why do you track the number of events completed?
Keeping an eye on how many events a driver participates in allows for us to spot and prevent the development of secondary accounts, in essence, aimed at boosting up scores. Accounts that have fewer events completed will have a slightly dropped score so that we are rewarding only consistent participation and performance.
5. How does the average delta make an accurate simulation of real driver capability?
By using the average delta, we get a proper gauge on how capable the driver is. For example, if you score 100th in one event and 1000th in the other, we wouldn't just average these positions; rather, we are looking at the average delta of your times compared with the best times. This would imply how close times can be among some events while giving a better judgement of your performance.
6. Will a single lap count toward my score?
Yes, one completed lap is counted in. The scoring system we use makes sure that every time recorded contributes to an overall evaluation of driving capabilities.
7. Why average delta versus rank positions?
Using average delta, one eliminates variability that can be found between different events. Since times can be very close, especially in competitive fields, the average delta provides a more nuanced and accurate picture of your true driving skill.
8. How can I improve my score in this new system?
To improve your score, focus on reducing the average delta to the world best time by consistently performing well in events. In addition, participation in events on a regular basis and driving safely is good for maintaining a high DR and SR, which will bring up your overall score.
Updating Scores - Frequency
Frequent Intervals: We update scores frequently, fetching data up to 5000 times in short, regular intervals to ensure real-time accuracy.
Daily Updates: Daily updates can take up to 30 minutes to complete due to the volume of data being processed.
TT Events: For Time Trial (TT) events, data fetching can take up to 2 hours, depending on the number of live TT events. The more TT events happening simultaneously, the longer it takes to process and update all the data.
I Can't Find My Time on the Boards
Not Refreshed: If you can't find your time on the leaderboard, it might be because the scores haven't been refreshed since you last updated your time. Please wait for the next refresh cycle.
Outside Top 5000: If your time is not within the top 5000, it won't be tracked on the boards. We only monitor and display the top 5000 times to ensure manageability and relevance.
All Event Data
Post-Event Data Fetching: All event data is fetched and processed once the event is over. This ensures that we have the complete data set for accurate results and reporting. Once the event is over, we update our scoring system.
