Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31668816-20180321192204

Okay, these are rather notepad calculations and the figures are obviously in a state of flux...

At Hockenheim I'm 9,351st overall, 6,907th in B, therefore 2,444 in group A, total players: 2,444,000

At Daytona I'm 21,751st overall, 909th in E, therefore 20,842 in groups D to A (top 20%), total players 104,210

At The RBR I'm 3,556th overall, 2,365th in B, therefore 1,191 in group A, total players 1,191,000

At Le Mans I'm 2,905th overall, 2,198th in B, therefore 707 in group A, total players 707,000

I would think more 'casual' players will pitch up to Le Mans over the weekend, but it would appear that the decision to (initially) limit the cars at Daytona has had an ongoing detrimental affect on the number of participants. Whether this was an error in judgement by FM (One assumes they want to sell advertising 'space' based on the number of players) or deliberate (they wanted to reduce Gold payouts for a few weeks) I'll leave open to discussion...

(and assuming my maths is correct) 