After another exciting weekend of racing we are back with another round of rankings. Now last week there were a lot of emotions displayed and that's what these are for. However, this week we are going to explain once and for all how these are formulated. Mind you there is no exact perfect science to this but we are going to explain once and for all how people are ranked.
How points are awarded/earned: There are four areas of which points are awarded: car count, top three in heats, consi (if there is one), and feature results. We want to have strength of field added in but that's not feasible at this time.
The rolling three week power ranking average: Simply put, drivers are accumulating points for three week spans. The total of the three adjusted totals is then divided by 3. Once a fourth week is reached then the first week falls off. So it looks like this: 1,2,3. Once week four ends the three rolling average looks at these weeks: 2,3,4.
1 race vs. multiple races in a week: We wanted to reward/balance out the weekly totals and we also didn't want to punish the drivers who only raced once. So to balance it out your week total for points gets divided by the number of races raced. If you raced multiple races, we didn't want to punish those drivers for a bad performance or lack of car count. So we added a multiplier to each number of races possible in a week. These multipliers balance out where the drivers weekly score should be.
That's it. There's no personal bias put into it and we simply let the numbers talk. The two big issues that have come up is winning and not being ranked #1 and people taking weeks off. The first issue is one that we need to relook at and maybe adjust next year but winning a race against 11 cars vs. getting third in a race with 22 cars is something that comes up often. The other issue is when people miss a week of racing. This issue is a more straight forward issue and how it is handled is pretty straight forward as well. If you don't race you get a 0 for the week and that affects your score for three weeks until it falls off. Simply put, the driver who gets last or DNF's had a better chance of winning than the driver who wasn't at the track at all. No hard feelings, it's just how it works.
So there you have it. That's how this works and to be honest it's a lot of time to sacrifice to get the rankings. So if you don't agree with the rankings, that's alright. However, we want to challenge you to leave comment on the site or Facebook page with your rankings and explanation for the class that you disagree with. This is a more positive way to express your opinion instead of complaining about something that is free.
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