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- Boise, ID
- GTP_EDK
Later this week, we'll have an initial registry posted, and that should help make things a bit clearer.Sorry to ask such a noobie question, but what’s the handicap thing & how does it work?
It may be just because I’ve been at work since 9 this morning but I can’t get my head around it, could someone please explain it to me or share a link to a thread that does (I had a quick look but couldn’t find anything)
This is the old registry (GT6 registry). https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/official-gtp_registry-gt6.297257/
You can see that each driver has a handicap listed next to them.
Some have two numbers.
GTP_Twissy / Twissy / U.K (0.536 / 0.646)
The first number above is the current handicap, while the second is the original handicap for that driver.
In the case of GT6, we ran a qualifier to determine initial placement. But partway through the game, we abandoned it and moved to a system in which 3 event results would determine your division placement.
Each week, we use the overall results for the event to determine a handicap placement for each driver.
In turn, we compare that to your existing handicap. Your existing handicap will be the average of your already completed events (until you have three completed events).
Once you have 3 completed events, we continue to average your performance over a larger cross section of events, to assure we have you placed based on consistent performance.
Using myself as an example, my result this week was a 2.103 handciap, which is good for D2 gold. That was 0.192 better than my current handicap, meaning my current handicap is 2.295.
11--1'22.955---GTP_EDK r=2.103 (d2/-0.192)
Using you as an example, you have a 4.277 this week, which is good for D4 gold. This is 0.042 worse than your current handicap, which means that is at 4.235.
47--1'26.165---Nerazzurri_Outla r=4.277 (d4/0.042)
This stuff at the end is just showing a ranking of drivers and how they compare to their current handicap, in order. This will only show up for drivers who completed 3 events, which is why only 20 of 53 drivers are there.
1---1'23.094---(-0.62332)---routergod24
2---1'23.873---(-0.19157)---GTP_EDK
3---1'23.903---(-0.17482)---Never2fast1
4---1'24.067---(-0.08387)---iMires
5---1'24.096---(-0.06786)---racer_xis
6---1'24.187---(-0.01730)---Espial_
7---1'24.205---(-0.00732)---GTP_Argon
8---1'24.217---(-0.00091)---GTP_NielsG2
9---1'24.289---(0.03917)---GTP_Mini_Stiggy
10--1'24.294---(0.04177)---Nerazzurri_Outla
11--1'24.442---(0.12412)---Need4Speed685
12--1'24.546---(0.18128)---GTP_REMO
13--1'24.660---(0.24488)---GTP_RikWrx
14--1'24.683---(0.25722)---nolucktoday
15--1'24.746---(0.29224)---GTP_Sjaak
16--1'24.896---(0.37581)---GTP_Speedy6543
17--1'25.104---(0.49113)---shoenboggie
18--1'25.353---(0.62907)---mtbmik50
19--1'25.487---(0.70294)---Dougill
20--1'25.504---(0.71277)---crft555