After doing two error-free 16 lappers at Indy, my LPI rose by 3 or 4 from
41.something or 42.something to 45.1. After doing a 32-lapper with one spin
in lap 11 (no one else involved and I continued the race, obviously) the LPI
dropped by 4 to 41.1. Unfair!! <g>
Especially since most accidents I had in all previous races were caused by
intentional wreckers, grrrr... <g>
Achim
I understand it's an incident that would have brought out the yellow
flag (if yellow flags have been disabled in the race)
I've had about 5 pickup races and my LPI is 17.1. Every race I've been
in I've been either wrecked intentionally or collided with someone that
has been wrecked. I've even been taken out before the start.
The last race I had at Tally, last lap and leading on the last corner,
a backmarker was drafting me, went below the white line and spun me
into the wall.
I believe the LPI should be calculated if you were in the original
incident that would have caused a yellow. It's a little unfair to be
penalised if half the field has spun infront of you and you clip one
on the way through and spin.
I'm a very clean racer, but when they see my LPI they think I'm a
wrecker. Yet, I've never had a race where I've been taken out where
I wasn't the instigator. (at least a race on sierra.com)
Cheers,
Rod.
(Don't gimme NO***in E-mail)
> > I wonder how the LPI is calculated.
> > After doing two error-free 16 lappers at Indy, my LPI rose by 3 or 4
from
> > 41.something or 42.something to 45.1. After doing a 32-lapper with one
spin
> > in lap 11 (no one else involved and I continued the race, obviously) the
LPI
> > dropped by 4 to 41.1. Unfair!! <g>
> I understand it's an incident that would have brought out the yellow
> flag (if yellow flags have been disabled in the race)
> I've had about 5 pickup races and my LPI is 17.1. Every race I've been
> in I've been either wrecked intentionally or collided with someone that
> has been wrecked. I've even been taken out before the start.
> The last race I had at Tally, last lap and leading on the last corner,
> a backmarker was drafting me, went below the white line and spun me
> into the wall.
> I believe the LPI should be calculated if you were in the original
> incident that would have caused a yellow. It's a little unfair to be
> penalised if half the field has spun infront of you and you clip one
> on the way through and spin.
> I'm a very clean racer, but when they see my LPI they think I'm a
> wrecker. Yet, I've never had a race where I've been taken out where
> I wasn't the instigator. (at least a race on sierra.com)
> Cheers,
> Rod.
> > says...
> > > I wonder how the LPI is calculated.
> > > After doing two error-free 16 lappers at Indy, my LPI rose by 3 or 4
> from
> > > 41.something or 42.something to 45.1. After doing a 32-lapper with one
> spin
> > > in lap 11 (no one else involved and I continued the race, obviously)
the
> LPI
> > > dropped by 4 to 41.1. Unfair!! <g>
> > I understand it's an incident that would have brought out the yellow
> > flag (if yellow flags have been disabled in the race)
> > I've had about 5 pickup races and my LPI is 17.1. Every race I've been
> > in I've been either wrecked intentionally or collided with someone that
> > has been wrecked. I've even been taken out before the start.
> > The last race I had at Tally, last lap and leading on the last corner,
> > a backmarker was drafting me, went below the white line and spun me
> > into the wall.
> > I believe the LPI should be calculated if you were in the original
> > incident that would have caused a yellow. It's a little unfair to be
> > penalised if half the field has spun infront of you and you clip one
> > on the way through and spin.
> > I'm a very clean racer, but when they see my LPI they think I'm a
> > wrecker. Yet, I've never had a race where I've been taken out where
> > I wasn't the instigator. (at least a race on sierra.com)
> > Cheers,
> > Rod.
Achim
Alex
Hmmmm...I believe you meant "I've never had a race where I've been taken out
where I WAS the instigator"...not "wasn't".
What I really want to see is a timestamp on the incidents, and that
after so and so many laps, or weeks they get erased, since most of us
have more incidents when we started racing but fewer now.
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Olav K. Malmin
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Oops, yes. Thanks for the correction. ;)
Cheers,
Rod.
>Achim
Eldred
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Olav does make an interesting point, though. Since the ratings take
only your last 10 races or so, why shouldn't the LPI? Perhaps it
should be an average, rather than an absolute number. Theoretically,
someone could enter a server as a new driver, drive a 1/2 length race
where there are no incidents (say in a league or something) and have a
LPI of 100 or so. Whereas the average driver who has driven hundreds
of laps on pick-up servers is probably down around 20 or so.
Meaningless. With the risk of out profiles looking like the back of a
baseball card, we need more data...
It would be nice if the ratings were track-specific, too. I know if
all I do is race SS's it steadily climbs, but a few races at someplace
like Richmond or Darlington where it is really hard to find a race
ranked other than 0-10, and it steadily tanks.
Gerald
Isn't it true that your rating is also determined by your PERFORMANCE in the
races you enter? How well you finish compared to the skill levels of the other
drivers racing, or something like that? So even if I run a full-length race
and finish last, my skill rating will never go up even if I *never* hit
anything? So, I guess I have to hope it goes like on VROC - people get pissed
and disco, and I move up that way...<G>
Eldred
--
Dale Earnhardt, Sr. R.I.P. 1951-2001
Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
F1 hcp. +16.36...Monster +366.59...
Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you
with experience...
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Could be :-)
Achim
| What I really want to see is a timestamp on the incidents, and that
| after so and so many laps, or weeks they get erased, since most of us
| have more incidents when we started racing but fewer now.
| --
| Olav K. Malmin
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