Race Out: Zalaegerszeg, Fluency, Hutspot and ZCT73

Race In: Paks, Ossobuco and The Arenas

Highlights

- No change of positions for first nine drivers but remarkable variations about gaps between some of them. Only 1 point from CTG (2nd, -4 Total Points) and Dottore (3rd, +2 TP) who has now 10 points on Chulk (4th, -2 TP); the argentinian driver has also to watch for the rise of Duplode (5th, +4 TP) by now at 0,5 point from him. Navras (7th, +3TP) approaches Argammon (6th, +1 TP due to a reducted number of races kept in count): only 1,5 TP between them; TP increased even for AbuRaf70 (+4) and Krys TOFF (+1);

- Absolute new entry in TOP10 for Zweigelt (10th, +4 TP) relieving Zak McKracken, fallen in 14th position (-10 TP, only 4 races in list);

- SuperBrian (11th) and Paleke (12th) overtake Zak McKracken and also Werda (13th);

- Bonzai Joe increases a lot his score (+12,5 TP) reaching the 15th place;

- ADPunk, Edx, Kub and Youri are disappeared from SWR (no results in last 8 months);

Next update: 5 January 2008

Race Out: Vac, Mastery, and ZCT72

Race In: Ozd, Emocion and Funny

Highlights

- No new entry in Top10 but many changes of position, except for Mark L. Rivers (1st), CTG (2nd) and Duplode (5th);

- Dottore overtakes Chulk gaining the 3rd place increasing a lot his score (almost 8 points) thanks to a better Average Race Points (+2,5 points) and very high number of Quality Points got (+4,6 points);

- Argammon prosecutes his climb (+9 points) and now he's 6th overtaking Navras (7th) even if the hungarian driver increases his score (+4 points);

- AbuRaf70 (+3 points) and Krys TOFF (+6 points) overtake Zak McKracken (10th);

- SuperBrian (13th) reduces his gap from Werda (11th) and Zweigelt (12th): just 0,194 points between Werda and the danish driver.

- Bonzai Joe (20th) remains in list thanks to his participation at OZD (unique result in last 8 months at the moment);

- Ayrton and M. Schumacher are disappeared from SWR (no results in last 8 months);

- Absolute new entry for Felix (Ger) in 33rd position.

Next update: 3rd Dicember 2007

Race Out: Tata, CTrack 2006-E, and ZCT71

Race In: Pizza, Mako and Cuts

Highlights

- CTG more and more near to Mark L. Rivers, about 2 points between them; both increased the vantage on all others except for Navras and Argammon;

- Gap quite constant between Chulk (3rd) and Dottore (4th) even if both increased remarkably their Total Points;

- Overtaking AbuRaf70 and Zak McKracken, Navras conquers the 6th place;

- TOP10 entry for Argammon (7th, +5 positions), prosecuting a very strong escalate thanks also to many Quality Race Points gained;

- Top Drivers' falling: Bonzai Joe is 18th (-8 positions, 2 results in list) and Ayrton 21th (-6 positions, 1 result in list);

- Three positions gained for Sergio Baro who occupies now the 16th place;

- Mislav, MPK, Phoxetis and ...angelito... are disappeared from SWR (no results in last 8 months);

Next update: 5th November 2007.

New feature: SWR includes now the names of the races reported in list.

Race Out: Szombathely, HotRod, Fangio and ZCT70

Race In: Parana, Komarom, Gate and ZCT78

Highlights

- CTG (2nd) reduces his gap from Mark L. Rivers, only 3,5 points between them;

- Dottore (4th) reduces his gap from Chulk, only 5 points between them;

- Duplode conquers the 5th place overtaking Zak McKracken;

- TOP10 entry for Navras (8th, +3 positions);

- Strong climbing for Argammon, now 12th, very near to entry in TOP10;

- Continuous falling for inactive Top Drivers still in list: Bonzai Joe is 10th (-3 positions) and Ayrton 15 (-5 positions);

- Gutix, Leo Ramone, Nikko and Renato Biker are disappeared from SWR (no results in last 8 months);

Next update: 5th October 2007.

SWR has been recalculated after it has been individuated a little error occurred in last update. After the revision, the unique change of position concerns Duplode who is correctly 6th instead 8th overtaking Bonzai Joe and AbuRaf70.

Race Out: Szeged, Freedom, Di Palma and ZCT69

Race In: CTrack 2007-B, Kassa, Drive and ZCT77

Highlights

- Mark L. Rivers increases his vantage on CTG. This is their score in last 4 races: Mark L. Rivers = 210 Race Points; +2,8 Quality Points; -0,6 Stand Points. CTG = 126 Race Points; +2,7 Quality Points; -0,6 Stand Points. It could seem that DRIVE (where CTG missed) made the large gap, but it's not so. Without DRIVE's score, Mark L. Rivers would have only one point less than he has now. The increased gap between the two drivers is due to a larger decreasing of Average Race Points for CTG (-2,8 for him against -1,4 for Mark L. Rivers). Moreover, Participation's Rate is lightly increased for Mark L. Rivers (+0,065) and lightly decreased for CTG (-0,032);

- Continuous falling for inactive Top Drivers: Ayrton is 10th, Gutix 12th, Renato Biker 26th, Bonzai Joe resists at 6th place, but, without new results, at next update he will have only 5 results (instead of actual 7) and so he probably will fall in a lower position;

- TOP10 entry for AbuRaf70 (7th, +5 positions) and Duplode (8th, +3 positions);

- TOP10 exit for Navras (11th, -2 positions);

- Very small gaps from 6th place to 11th place, new changes in Top 10 are predictable at next update;

- Alain, Dark Chaser, Vamologocomisso and Thugbone are disappeared from SWR (no results in last 8 months);

- After a quite long absence, Argammon re-enters in classification at 23th place, very high position for a “new” entry minding his Participation’s Rate (1/32 that is 0,032), the lowest.

- Absolute new entry for IMG (Ger) in 32nd position;

- Not racing in ZCT77, for the first time since SWR has been created, AbuRaf70 have a Participation’s Rate lower then 1,000;

Next update: 5th September 2007.

Race Out: CTrack-D, Pozsony, Control, Sprinter, Reuttmann and ZCT68

Race In: GyonGyos, Tetris, ZCT76 and Gazpacho

Highlights

- Mark L. Rivers keeps the lead even if CTG is more and more near to re-take the 1st position thanks again to a very high number of Quality race Points gained;

- Not racing, Ayrton slides in 10th position (Renato Biker even in 14th) and this arouses some changes in TOP 10: Dottore is now 4th (+1), Krys TOFF re-enters at 7th place (+4) and Navras conquers the 9th place (+1);

- Another big jump ahead for Duplode who overtakes Paleke, SuperBrian, Werda and AbuRaf70 getting the 11th place;

- Very small gaps from 5th place to 12th place, new changes in Top 10 are predictable at next update.

- Five positions gained by Sergio baro who rises from 26th to 21th place;

Next update: 5th August 2007.

Race Out: Mohacs, Acrobat, Traverso and ZCT67

Race In: Brasso, CTrackA - 2007, X-change, Acacia Avenue and ZCT75

Highlights

- Overtaking Ayrton (now 4th with a very low Participation Rate) CTG is now 2nd, increasing is score almost 5 points (thanks also to very high number of Quality race Points gained) and reducing consistently his gap from the vertex;

- Big jump in advance for Chulk who passes from 8th to 3rd place;

- Top 10 entry for Navras (exchange positions with Krys TOFF);

- Very small gap from 6th place to 10th place, new changes in Top 10 are predictable at next update.

- Top 20 entry for Duplode who passes from 29th to 16th place;

- Absolute new entry for Boussini (36th), Jey (29th), Lukey07 (43th), Matty D (41st), Viktor (39th) and Williard (42th).

Next update: 5th July 2007.

Race Out: Kazinbarcika, Shuss, Raies, Nach1, and ZCT66

Race In: Ajka, Geometry, Mesclum and ZCT74

Highlights

Smoothed from some continuous absences (Ayrton, Bonzai Joe, Gutix, Renato Biker), some changes have happened in TOP10:

Mark L. Rivers overtakes Ayrton gaining the 1st place;

Zak McKracken gains the 6th place;

very small gaps from 5th place to 9th place, new changes at next update are predictable.

Others highlights:

Chulk climbs two positions and now he's 8th;

Werda (13th) overtakes SuperBrian (14th) but AbuRaf70 overtakes both gaining the 12th place;

TOP15 entry for Paleke (15th)

absolute new entry for Duplode (29th).

Next update: 5th June 2007.

Two consistent modifies has been applied at SWR to make it more balanced!

1) New exponential score (Race Points)

2) Quality Race Index

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1) NEW EXPONENTIAL SCORE (Race Points)

Last months races has showed a more OMOGENEO number of participants at the official races. The new exponential score attributed to every single race of every contest will permit:

A) a more suitable and balanced score

B) a specific number of points for the first 15 drivers of every race (differently from actual score where some drivers, for example 4th, 5th and 6th, get the same number of points)

So, Race Points of last 8 months (also Stand Points attributed yet) have been recalculated in this way:

60 points at 1st

50 points at 2nd

40 points at 3rd

32 points at 4th

26 points at 5th

22 points at 6th

18 points at 7th

15 points at 8th

12 points at 9th

10 points at 10th

  9 points at 11th

  8 points at 12th

  7 points at 13th

  6 points at 14th

  5 points at 15th

  2 points from 16th to 20th

  1 point from 21st to the last

A single Stand Point changes from actual 0,1 point to 0,3 point.

In the following tables you can see the percentage of Race Points gained by drivers placed from 2nd to the last comparing with Race Points gained by the winner. The comparison table includes new SWR score, previous SWR score and the score of active contests.

2) QUALITY RACE INDEX

Beginning from this update a new factor has been introduced.

As it has been said when SWR was created it doesn't seem correct to attribute different scores to the active contests.

What really makes a contest more difficult than other one, it's not the number of participants in absolute (in some races, the number of participants is enlarged by some occasional driver which would occupy the same positions in every contest), and it's not the quality of the tracks (the level is high everywhere). This is the reason to lead to say that a race is equal to other one, independently in which contest it's competed.

Anyway, it’s true that, attributing a unique score to every race, in some races it’s easier to get a high score than others because the quality of the participation is not very high. For example, the victory at HUTSPOT (and contextual 60 points gained) has not the same value of the victory at ZALAEGERSZEG. 

So a new factor has been introduced in the criteria of calculation of SWR, keeping in count the quality of the race, that is the rank of the drivers that take part at the race.

Please, read the following args.

Every SWR update determines a new rank. To the first 25 drivers is attributed a specific position value in this way:

1st = 10

2nd = 9

3rd = 8

4th = 7

5th–7th = 6

8th–10th = 5

11th–15th =4

16th–20th =2

21st–25th =1

For every race it’s calculated an index of the quality of the race, that is:

Sum of the position values of each participant - 30

For example, drivers in ZALAEGERSZEG (finished the 14th mar 07) were:

Mark L. Rivers (4th in last SWR update, 5th Mar 2007, value 7)

Dottore (5th in last SWR update - value 6)

CTG (2nd in last SWR update - value 9)

Werda (15th in last SWR update - value 4)

Navras (11th in last SWR update - value 4)

Krys TOFF (8h in last SWR update - value 5)

Kub (24th in last SWR update - value 1)

Zweigelt (21st in last SWR update - value 1)

SuperBrian (14th in last SWR update - value 4)

Diesel Joe (22th in last SWR update - value 1)

AbuRaf70 (13th in last SWR update - value 4)

Youri (43th in last SWR update - no value)

Sergio Baro (28th in last SWR update - no value)

So the quality race index is:  46 - 30 = 16

Quality Race Points is attributed to the drivers in this way:

1st Mark L. Rivers – Quality Race Points = 16/10/1 = 1,6

2nd Dottore              QRP = 16/10/2 = 0,8

3rd CTG                   QRP = 16/10/3 = 0,5

4th Werda                QRP = 16/10/4 = 0,4

5th Navras               QRP = 16/10/5 = 0,5

6th Krys TOFF         QRP = 16/10/6 = 0,4

7th Kub                    QRP = 16/10/7 = 0,3

8th Zweigelt             QRP = 16/10/8 = 0,3

9th SuperBrian         QRP = 16/10/9 = 0,2

10th Diesel Joe        QRP = 16/10/10 = 0,2

11th AbuRaf70         QRP = 16/10/11 = 0,2

12th Youri                QRP = 16/10/12 = 0,2

13th Sergio Baro      QRP = 16/10/13 = 0,1

Other example for HUTSPOT (finished the 28th Mar 07):

Mark L. Rivers (4th in last SWR update, 5th Mar 2007, value 7)

Krys TOFF (8h in last SWR update - value 5)

AbuRaf70 (13th in last SWR update - value 4)

Paleke (20th in last SWR update - value 2)

Hek (16th in last SWR update - value 2)

So the quality race index is:  20 - 30 = -10

Quality Race Points are attributed to the drivers in this way:

1st Mark L. Rivers – Quality Race Points = -10/10/1 = -1,0

2nd Krys TOFF       QRP = -10/10/2 = -0,5

3rd AbuRaf70         QRP = -10/10/3 = -0,3

4th Youri                 QRP = -10/10/4 = -0,3

5th Sergio Baro      QRP = -10/10/5 = -0,2

As you can see, Quality Race Points can be positive or negative.

How QRP works in SWR criteria?

SWR criteria was calculated until last update in this way:

Base Points = Average Race Points + Stand Points

Coefficient = Log12(Participation Rate) – 1,5

Total Points = Base Points x Coefficient

Beginning from this update, Base Points is calculated summing Quality Race Points too, so:

Base Points = Average Race Points + Stand Points + Quality Race Points

Calculation of Coefficient and Total Points remains the same.

So:

Quality Race Points doesn’t affect on Score gained (it remains the same for every contest), but

Quality Race Points affects sensibly Base Points decreasing the value to multiply the Coefficient.

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Definitely, the criteria to determine how much a victory have to be rewarded is not

1) Number of participants (QRP is affected very marginally from some occasional participants) or

2) Prestige and historicity of a contest (even if there’s sure a particular pleasant to win a race in one of them),

but is the Quality Race Index, an index which can be high in a whatever race of a whatever contest.

To make more transparent the change, this month in SWR list page you can see, beside the previous Rank (reference Rank for Stand Points and Quality Race Points), the new Rank without new changes and the new rank with new Exponential Score and new factor of calculation: Quality Race Points.

SWR update 

Race Out: Hatvan, Timer, Gonzalez, 4AM and ZCT64

Race In: Vac, Mastery and ZC72

Next update: 5th April 2007.

Highlights:

CTG (2nd) ahead Gutix (3rd);

Mark L. Rivers (4th) and Dottore (5th) ahead Renato Biker;

Top 10 entry for Zak McKracken (10th) which climbs 3 positions;

Top 15 entry for Werda (15th) which climbs 4 positions.

3 positions gained by Zweigelt (21th)

SWR update!

Race Out: CTrackB, Choices, Cabalen, C63 and Gyula.

Race In: Tata, CTrackE and C71.

Next update: 5th March 2007.

First update after the introduction of new criteria!
To make more clear the new system, above all Stand Points, some details about new ranking after the update are indicated below.

Start data is SWR after the conversion to the new system, that is SWR at 30 Dec 2006.
After this date, three races are finished (HotRod and Fangio in WSC and C70 in ZAK) with these results:


---HOTROD---

Gutix
Mark L. Rivers
Krys TOFF
AbuRaf70
Paleke
Hek



---FANGIO---

Ayrton
Krys TOFF
Gutix
Mark L. Rivers
CTG
AbuRaf70
Hek
Paleke
ADPunk
Nikko



---C70---

Gutix
Bonzai Joe
CTG
Renato Biker
Zak McKracken
AbuRaf70
SuperBrian
KrysTOFF
Hek
Leo Ramone
JTK



Positions reached by drivers engaged in races finished after 30 dec 2006 have been compared with their respective position in reference rank (SWR at 30 Dec 2006).

These are so Stand Points calculated, for example, for Krys TOFF:

HotRod  = 0,0 All drivers ahead him in the race were ahead him in reference rank; all drivers behind him in the race were behind him in reference rank.
Fangio = +0,3 He has arrived ahead CTG, Gutix and Mark L. Rivers which were ahead him in reference rank (+0,3); all drivers behind him in the race were beghind him in reference rank.
C70 = -0,3      He has arrived behind Zak McKracken, AbuRaf70 and SuperBrian which were behind him in reference rank (-0,3); all drivers behind him in the race were behind him in reference rank.

So this update attributes to Krys TOFF 0,0 Stand Points (0,0 +0,3 -0,3). Total points for him are so (Average Race Points x Coefficient).


Another example for CTG:

HotRod =      not raced
Fangio = -0,3 He has arrived behind Gutix, Mark L. Rivers and Krys TOFF which were behind him in reference rank (-0,3); all drivers behind him in the race were behind him in reference rank.
C70 = -0,1     He has arrived behind Gutix which was behind him in reference rank (-0,1); all drivers behind him in the race were behind him in reference rank.

So this update attributes to CTG -0,4 Stand Points (-0,3 -0,1). Total points for him are so ((Average Race Points - 0,4) x Coefficient).


A last example for Gutix:

HotRod = 0,0  No drivers ahead him in the race; all drivers behind him in the race were behind him in reference rank.
Fangio =  0,0  He has arrived behind Krys TOFF which was behind him in reference rank (-0,1); he has arrived ahead CTG which was ahead him in reference rank (+0,1).
C70 = +0,1     No drivers ahead him in the race; he has arrived ahead CTG which was ahead him in reference rank (+0,1)

So this update attributes to Gutix +0,1 Stand Points (0,0  0,0 +0,1). Total points for him are so ((Average Race Points + 0,1) x Coefficient).


The new rank (SWR at 05 Jan 2007, that is actual rank) will be the reference rank at next update (05 Feb 2007) where, obviously, Races Database will change. CtrackB, Choices, Cabalen, C63 and Gyula will be excluded, while CtrackE and Tata (and other races which eventually will finish within 5 Feb 2007) will be included. Stand Points will be calculated for the race which will finish within 05 Feb 2007.

SWR page now include previous rank, that is reference rank respect Stand Points attributed.

New system of calculation is active! Read below the new features and check SWR page to see re-calculated SWR:

1) NEW RACES DATABASE

Races Database to calculate SWR will be reducted and it will include only final results of official races finished in last 8 months. SWR will be normally update the 5th day of every month. For every update, a new range of dates will be calculated to individuate which races constitute the official Races Database. Start date of every range will be the 5th day of the 8th previous month. For example, when SWR will be update the 5th March 2007, Races Database will include only official races finished after 5th July 2006. The list of official races included will be published in SWR page with all SWR re-calculated score.

2) STAND POINTS

Beginning from 1st January 2007, Stand Points will be calculated comparing:

1) result of every single driver with results of other drivers which have participated with him at the same race, and 

2) respective positions in current SWR.

0,1 points will be assigned (+ 0,1 point) to a driver for every driver which will result behind him in race classification and ahead him in SWR.

0,1 points will be leaved (- 0,1 point) to a driver for every driver which will result ahead him in race classification and behind him in SWR.

An example to see how this concept works:

Driver            Driver                                                             Stand Points

01) A             01) D    +0,3 (ahead C-A-B)       0                                   +0,3

02) B             02) C    +0,2 (ahead A-B)        -0,1 (behind D)                      +0,1

03) C             03) A     0 -0,2 (behind D-C)    -0,2

04) D             04) B     0 -0,2 (behind D-C)    -0,2

05) E             05) L    +0,5 (ahead G-H-F-I-E)   0                                   +0,5

06) F             06) G    +0,2 (ahead F-E)        -0,1 (behind L)                      +0,1

07) G             07) H    +0,2 (ahead F-E)        -0,1 (behind L)                      +0,1

08) H             08) F    +0,1 (ahead E)          -0,3 (behind L-G-H)                  -0,2

09) I             09) I    +0,1 (ahead E)          -0,1 (behind L)

10) L             10) E     0                      -0,5 (behind L-G-H-F-I)              -0,5

3) NEW SYSTEM OF CALCULATION

For every monthly update it will be considered three data:

1) Average Race Points

2) Stand Points

3) Participation's Rate

Total Points will be calculated multiplying Base Points (Avg Race Points + Stand Points) with a new coefficient.

This is the formule of new coefficient: (Log12(Participation’s Rate) + 1,5)

With New coefficient (see graphical trend in SWR Criteria page) a Participation’s Rate lower than 1/3 (0,33) is very penalizing for a driver. So even if he reaches great results in 4 of 5 races in last 8 months, he correctly wouldn’t reach an high position on SWR. But going on, the Coefficient’s curve decreases logarithmically his gradient, and this means that a very high Participation’s Rate doesn’t affect on Total Points too much respect a medium Participation’s Rate, as it happened with previous criteria.

3) DRIVER'S NAMES

SWR won't include driver's names which contain direct references to political or religious elements and anyway driver's names which result expressly offensive towards anyone.

Beginning from 1st January 2007 actual rank will be re-calculated after the introduction of 3 important changes:

1) New calculation system will be introduct to avoid that low or high rates of participation affect abnormally the rank.

2) SWR will be calculated considering only final results of races (listed in SWR page) finished in last 8 months. Update becomes monthly.

3) For every driver, score got will be integrated with additional points comparing 1) his result with results of other drivers which have participated with him at the same race, and 2) respective positions in current SWR.

A full description of new SWR criteria will be published next week in the forum and contextually in SWR News page.

Meanwhile:

SWR update after final result of Szombathely (USC). Some highlights:

- Chulk overtakes again AbuRaf70 re-taking 9th position;

- Total Points increase for Bonzai Joe, Chulk, Dottore, Krys TOFF and Mark L. Rivers;

- Total Points decrease for AbuRaf70, Ayrton, CTG, Gutix and Renato Biker;

- TOP10 - New entry: no one - Egressed: no one.

- TOP30 - New entry: no one - Egressed: no one.