Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33869727-20180711224222/@comment-32545704-20180712013422

That's correct, it's to do with participation. Imagine a number of people have completed some, but not all four stages. Also assume the times they did post are lower down the order.

Your individual stage results are made to look better, because those players are filling out the lower end in each stage. But when it comes to the overall result, their times are effectively removed.

In other words, if you discard all the times from those who did not complete all four stages, your individual results would be more like all Cs, rather than Bs. It's a humbling thought!

The effect was really exaggerated in the NASCAR update, I remember having all individual Bs but overall D. We really need the lower players to complete all four stages.

Hopefully that makes some sense.