League Points Discounting system

[ESPNSTI]

Since it seems that not everyone can be there for each race every week, or things like disconnects can happen, I think it makes sense to not count all the races.
For example, don't count the points of the lowest finished race.

I think using a percentage would be better than picking a set number of races to discount.
A percentage isn't affected by how many races there are, and if only a few races have been done, it won't distort the results as much.

I've played around with it a bit, here's what it would look like if 30% of the total number of races (rounded down) don't count. (30% is just a random number I picked):

HTML:

http://espnsti.in2hosting.org/LFS/Stats/LeagueTotals.htm
http://espnsti.in2hosting.org/LFS/Stats/LeagueResults.htm

Excel format (if you change the Discount Percent cell (in green), it will recalculate) :
http://espnsti.in2hosting.org/LFS/Stats/LFS_League_Points.xls

As you can see it hurts me and MXM the most.


Any ideas on what percentage to pick, or other ideas for a system?

 

[andyhui01]

I really don't understand :?

 

[ESPNSTI]

I really don't understand :?

Well, I suck at trying to explain things. :lol:

But basically, I was thinking at system something along the lines of "best 2 out of 3".

For example if I have 10, 8 and 6 points in 3 races, and someone else has 10, 6 and 0 points, then only the 2 highest finishes count (giving me 18 points and the other guy 16).

This is done to make an occasional bad finish or absence have less of an impact.

 

[andyhui01]

ahh... okay, but it doesn't make a diff to me cuz I finish at about the same points everytime

 

[pdanev]

^ Bit it will make up for you not being there 2 times

Well, this is the part that I really suck at and hate. Statistics . Yes I know I study economics, nevertheless I still hate it.

I will give it a thought later because right now my mind engine is idling since I woke up recently.

 

[pdanev]

Oh, how about calculating an average pecentage of misses of the "regular racers", so the 1st 6 people on the top of the table.

So something like
me -> 1/6 = ~16%
firefox same = 16% (although I just realised this system won't compensate for disconnects)
mischief 3/6 = 50%
andy same, 50%

Meh, this wont work. Figure close to 30% again. We would need some weight assign to individual players, say based on total points in order to not hurt players that much.

PS: ESPN how did they do it back in F1 Senna/Prost times?

 

[ESPNSTI]

Oh, how about calculating an average pecentage of misses of the "regular racers", so the 1st 6 people on the top of the table.

So something like
me -> 1/6 = ~16%
firefox same = 16% (although I just realised this system won't compensate for disconnects)
mischief 3/6 = 50%
andy same, 50%

Meh, this wont work. Figure close to 30% again. We would need some weight assign to individual players, say based on total points in order to not hurt players that much.

So something along the lines of people with more points don't get discounted as much?

PS: ESPN how did they do it back in F1 Senna/Prost times?

I believe it may have been a best 11 out of 16, which would have put the amount of races discounted at just above 30%.
For a pro racing series this isn't really fair (since part of the game is reliability and consistency), and I think it was immediately abandoned after Prost finished with more (non-discounted) points, but Senna was crowned world champion because of the discount system.