Sorry spy, your replay is all wrong.
There's only one file in there and there should be like five.
Zip the entire replay folder, not only the one named 'REPLAY0'
2---1'10.289---GTP_spyrrari1
Amazing how you D1 guys can hold the cornerspeed so high.
Clean lap 👍
haven't managed to understand these for weeks... someone explain?
I'm curious too!
I'll have a go. It's pretty simple. This is how I understand the system to work but it may not be 100% correct. Feel free to put me right.
If you take the results and plot the distribution on a graph, you get a curve. The Squeeze and Scoot values are adjustments that are then made to the distribution to bring the curve closer to the Normal Distribution, or bell curve.
You can then give a score to any time based on it's position on the curve. This is the r number in the results. The first digit in this number gives you the division that your time falls in. This is how the divisions are assigned from the qualifier.
So my time of 1'11.494 gives a score of 3.298. The Par time given for each division is the top range, if you get a time faster that the Par time for Division 1 you are in alien territory. My time is between 1'11.319 and 1'11.515 so it is a Division 3 Gold time. Hence d3 in the brackets next to my score.
The next number gives the difference between your handicap and your score for the week. My handicap is 3.732, so 3.298-3.732 is -0.434. So anyone with a negative value here did better than expected, positive numbers are not so good.
These are then used to determine the Handicapped Results, with the lowest numbers getting the best times.
Finally, periodically Vaxen will use the scores to adjust the handicaps, this is where the weighting comes in. The qualifier counts double whereas most weeks are 1. Every now and then a week may be given a lower weighting and so would count less when the handicaps are adjusted. This happened in week 1 when an update changed the physics half way through the week.
The handicap system is one of my favourite aspects of the WRS as it gives me something to aim at even if I'm low down on the leaderboard.
Hope that makes sense.
6---1'11.711---GTP_Hasslemoff
Good clean lap
The final time is not calculated by subtracting the handicap from you time, this is another metric. It's rather beging calculated based on the handicap.
So basically what Wilco already explained, your handicap is 'your position in the ladder', if you will.
If you perform better than your handicap/position, you get a negative score (which is good) and you move up the ladder. As you can see http://wrs.gtplanet.net/divisions/ the lowest handicap is 0.619 by Timpaq. So the lower you get, the better you performed.
As you can see in the promotions thread: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=5884314#post5884314 guys who get promoted have a corrected handicap. There your handicap was corrected with -0.36895. Which is a good thing.
You'll probably understand by now that promotions are also based on this handicaps, perform consistently better than your handicap and you're on your way to be promoted.
The handicaps is a great way to see how will you performed that week, my aim is to always get a negative handicap for the week, as that's an indication I've improved as a driver.
So this week you've (relatively to your own level) performed the best of all drivers that competed, congrats on that
Joost, one question - my qualifier handicap is 2.394 and my week 36 perfromance gave me [r=2.137 (d2/-0.248)], so I wonder is this (2.394 - 0.248) counted as my current handicap or does my handicap stay 2.394?
To clear this up let's say this:
My qualifier handicap is 2.394;
I got -0.248 on week 36;
If I get, let's say -0.674 next week is it counted as:
r=1.463 (d1/-0.674)
or
r=1.720 (d1/-0.674)
?
I know I got r wrong, all I want to ask is - is all your perfromance related handicap added to your overall handicap or is the qualifier handicap always in place? So then, let's say in case 1 - if i maintain that handicap (as stated in r) I would get D1S promotion and in case 2 I would get D1B promotion, right?
Sorry for off-topicness, I just would like to know how do promotions and this whole system works so I can know how to improve my position.
Player_id: 599 User: Energizerrr PSN: GTP_Energizer Div: 2 Sub: 1 Rating: 2.302329 Weight: 3.000000 Events: 2 DQS: 0 VERI: 1 Country: Serbia
Qual: Status: F Rating: 2.384866 Weight: 2.000000
History: Week: 36 Status: F Rating: 2.137255 Weight: 1.000000 DISQ: VERIFIED
Usual Suspect couldnt be happier to see you get on the podium this time. Again wish we were fighting for the gold not the bronze.
I am curious which LSD setting you all used? I tried the very low one that Kevin had in his tune but that did not work at all for me. I ended up with default LSD settings and a very backwards suspension setting with 1/10, 1/10 and 1/7 springs, 2.0/0.0 camber and -0.40/-0.30 toe. Default 5/5 brake balance as well.