Door No.?

[Norrin Radd]

OK I've been let to believe that door No. is related to your rank in the race so No. 1 is the best and No. 7 is the 7th best, now apart from the fact it might not do well telling someone with 7000 points from someone with 800 points it should work fairly well. The thing is I was door 3 in a race with 5 B rated drivers and I was C with about 7000 points. Also I came 9th and gained about 300 points so I must have been ranked higher than 10th. It all just doesn't seem to make any sense and I was using it to gauge how I was doing, but if it doesn't work I would have to check every player out to see if I was doing good or bad in a race.

 

[Famine]

OK I've been let to believe that door No. is related to your rank in the race so No. 1 is the best and No. 7 is the 7th best,

Yes. But no.

It's the rank of your DR score compared to everyone else in the lobby... by reverse alphabetical sorting, not numerical. That means that someone with a DR of 9 will have a better door number than someone with a DR of 100,000. When you get mixed DR grade grids, like this...

The thing is I was door 3 in a race with 5 B rated drivers and I was C with about 7000 points.

... it's all but meaningless.

Also I came 9th and gained about 300 points so I must have been ranked higher than 10th. It all just doesn't seem to make any sense and I was using it to gauge how I was doing

No, that doesn't work like that either.

You gain points from every driver you finish ahead of, and lose points to every driver you finish behind. If you finish in 9th in a 20-car race, there's more people behind you to gain points from than ahead of you to lose points to... but...

... the amount of points you gain or lose depends on the difference of your DR scores. You gain more by beating higher-rated people and lose less by losing to higher-rated people. You gain less by beating lower-rated people and lose more by losing to lower-rated people.

 

[Norrin Radd]

Yes. But no.

It's the rank of your DR score compared to everyone else in the lobby... by reverse alphabetical sorting, not numerical. That means that someone with a DR of 9 will have a better door number than someone with a DR of 100,000. When you get mixed DR grade grids, like this...

... it's all but meaningless.

No, that doesn't work like that either.

You gain points from every driver you finish ahead of, and lose points to every driver you finish behind. If you finish in 9th in a 20-car race, there's more people behind you to gain points from than ahead of you to lose points to... but...

... the amount of points you gain or lose depends on the difference of your DR scores. You gain more by beating higher-rated people and lose less by losing to higher-rated people. You gain less by beating lower-rated people and lose more by losing to lower-rated people.

OK, read the post and think I have it now. Basically though it just doesn't work, good to know. Thanks

 

[Famine]

OK, read the post and think I have it now. Basically though it just doesn't work, good to know. Thanks

It does and it doesn't. Once you get under 10,000 DR - which is basically B, C, and D (and of course E, but that's just the first five races), it's all over the place. Above 10,000 DR it's perfectly fine because everyone's DR is five digits long, and with the same number of digits alphabetical and numerical sorting are identical.

Except for the people with 100,000 DR, who'll be ranked above 10,000 but below 10,001, but then top A+ will very rarely match with bottom B.

 

[OutsiderC]

Off topic, sorry. Why the hell PD doesn't fix that incorrect sort?