Confused about driver points...
- Thread starter jrbabbitt
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This is a good place to start.
https://www.gtplanet.net/unravelling-mysteries-gt-sports-driver-rating-system-improve/
Briefly speaking, you gain DR for every person you finish ahead of, and lose DR for every person you finish behind. The amount you gain or lose depends on the difference between your driver ratings. So if you finish behind someone with a lower rating than you, you lose more DR than if you finish behind someone with a higher DR than you.
Finish in the top half of the field and you should increase your DR.
The article I linked to explains that in a much better way than I just did.
https://www.gtplanet.net/unravelling-mysteries-gt-sports-driver-rating-system-improve/
Briefly speaking, you gain DR for every person you finish ahead of, and lose DR for every person you finish behind. The amount you gain or lose depends on the difference between your driver ratings. So if you finish behind someone with a lower rating than you, you lose more DR than if you finish behind someone with a higher DR than you.
Finish in the top half of the field and you should increase your DR.
The article I linked to explains that in a much better way than I just did.
Pigems
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This thread explains it pretty well.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/dr-point-calculations.393762/
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- GTP_Famine
What's the issue? You've lost points through poor finishes.
You need to beat other drivers to gain points. The more you beat and the higher their DR, the more you gain. If you're being beaten by other drivers, you're losing points, and the more who beat you and the lower their DR, the more you lose.
As a rule of thumb, finishing just above halfway will likely gain you a small amount of points, and finishing in the top quarter will gain you more, while finishing below halfway will likely see you lose a small amount of points, and more if you're towards the rear.
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- MonyB
Dude, you gotta stop obsessing about your DR and focus on racing. Yes, the points are a nice way to gauge progress but focusing on them is only going to make things worse, not better.
Like someone else said, there's plenty of resources to help you get faster. Use them and focus on your craft rather than your points. Tidgeny's driving school is great. Mistah_MCA's race guides are, as well. (Both are on YT.) There plenty of streamers that offer great advice during their streams and prepared videos. Watch, listen and learn.
Pick a race combo you enjoy and try to figure out where you're losing time to your competitors. Save one of your replays and jot down sector times, your speed through corners - both on the apex and on the exit, where you're braking, where you're turning in, what gear you're using, etc. Seriously, every little detail. Then compare that to a top 10 or streamer replay and get an understanding of where and how you're losing time.
Focus on the racecraft and the results will come.
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- 976
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- tmsheehan
- ToroSports
This probably the best advice you are going to get, and you gave it to yourself.
The racers in the earlier posts are all great racers, the advice is worth listening to. Watch the videos, practice, and try posting some of your practice sessions asking for more specific assistance.
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- stpatty
With the best will in the world, if you're a DR D driver you really shouldn't be looking at your number, much less worrying about it. You're almost always going to be racing against the same people whether your DR is 1 or 1000 so it doesn't make any difference.
If you want to race against good and clean drivers then the only thing to do is be a good and clean driver yourself. Put more time into practicing and qualifying, you'll start further up the grid (whether in daily or FIA races) and you'll deal less with people who are intentionally or otherwise disruptive.
Remember, the skill level is lower at DR D and people will make mistakes. Not everyone who hits you will be doing it deliberately. Not everyone who's fighting for position, 1st or 10th, will have the temperament to be able to hold their lines and always be sure they're giving others enough space. Contact happens.
For the most part you can tell who hits other cars deliberately and who does it accidentally. When you're near the former, look out for it and react to it. If you see someone ramming off people who get near them, are you going to be surprised if you catch up to them and they then try to hit you off? Are you going to be angry at them for hitting you, or angry at yourself for knowing it was coming and putting yourself in that position anyway? When you're still learning how to race and drive yourself you have to factor this in - the field around you is always different, and requires different responses for different situations.
Pretty much everyone on here who isn't an alien has reached the level they have by spending time with the game, cars, tracks and learning from their own experiences and the accounts of others, whether it's people putting clips up here and asking for feedback or watching people like Super GT and Tidgney on youtube who race in high splits and explain how they race - why their car is where it is at various points, how they react to other drivers on track, what their strategies are, that sort of thing.
Focus on your own driving. If you do that, you'll drive better. If your race is disrupted by other people, that's their problem, not yours. Learn from it, avoid situations like that in the future and keep focusing on your own driving.
If you want to race against good and clean drivers then the only thing to do is be a good and clean driver yourself. Put more time into practicing and qualifying, you'll start further up the grid (whether in daily or FIA races) and you'll deal less with people who are intentionally or otherwise disruptive.
Remember, the skill level is lower at DR D and people will make mistakes. Not everyone who hits you will be doing it deliberately. Not everyone who's fighting for position, 1st or 10th, will have the temperament to be able to hold their lines and always be sure they're giving others enough space. Contact happens.
For the most part you can tell who hits other cars deliberately and who does it accidentally. When you're near the former, look out for it and react to it. If you see someone ramming off people who get near them, are you going to be surprised if you catch up to them and they then try to hit you off? Are you going to be angry at them for hitting you, or angry at yourself for knowing it was coming and putting yourself in that position anyway? When you're still learning how to race and drive yourself you have to factor this in - the field around you is always different, and requires different responses for different situations.
Pretty much everyone on here who isn't an alien has reached the level they have by spending time with the game, cars, tracks and learning from their own experiences and the accounts of others, whether it's people putting clips up here and asking for feedback or watching people like Super GT and Tidgney on youtube who race in high splits and explain how they race - why their car is where it is at various points, how they react to other drivers on track, what their strategies are, that sort of thing.
Focus on your own driving. If you do that, you'll drive better. If your race is disrupted by other people, that's their problem, not yours. Learn from it, avoid situations like that in the future and keep focusing on your own driving.
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- TPCDangerSashimi
DR is really more of a long term rating. Points these days are pretty random.
After a while everyone settles in at comfortable speed/level which determines the level of opponents. If you find opponents are too hard it may mean you're beyond a comfortable speed. And this will make it very difficult to compete let alone win. And impossible to improve.
So increasing points is one goal. But increasing experience and skill are as well. Focusing only on points each race makes for desperate racing and no skill gained. It's also very, very not fun.
My tips. Race as natural as possible. Let the rating fall where it may. Enjoy yourself.
After a while everyone settles in at comfortable speed/level which determines the level of opponents. If you find opponents are too hard it may mean you're beyond a comfortable speed. And this will make it very difficult to compete let alone win. And impossible to improve.
So increasing points is one goal. But increasing experience and skill are as well. Focusing only on points each race makes for desperate racing and no skill gained. It's also very, very not fun.
My tips. Race as natural as possible. Let the rating fall where it may. Enjoy yourself.
jrbabbitt
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Okay, thank you one and all for this great advice, I have been watching and using Tidgney's videos and it's is helping.
But most of all I do need to apologize for sounding like a whiney brat, I need not to take it too seriously.
Again many thanks to all you great guys
But most of all I do need to apologize for sounding like a whiney brat, I need not to take it too seriously.
Again many thanks to all you great guys
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- tmsheehan
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- MonyB
I think that's just from all the sangria...
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