Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35745775-20180602191223/@comment-35745775-20180604204551

Amrosa wrote:

Last night, running McLaren F1 GTR Championship (v6.3.1), I was running a head to head against merrygold. I wasn't paying attention and I accidentally won by a large margin. The next race I immediately got RattleSnack. I beat them, but not by a large margin, then the next event the difficulty backed off to Darknezz and StayFrosty.

I think it is good to try and reverse engineer for yourself what is going on behind the scenes, but you may not get to the root "formula" of bots. This is especially the case if FM is employing any sort of adaptive, machine learning algorithm.

I‘m not actually trying to understand the algorithm for how our ranking changes. I would assume from the behaviour I observe that is it based on some kind of weighted average, but I‘m happy to just except that better times lead to better bots and vice versa.

What I am trying to do is find a way of extracting one‘s current ranking in a series. The are fifty bots on offer. So one could assume that they cover some expected range of results from 0% to 100% in 2% spacings (though admitedly it may not be linear). I read reports here that occasionally bots are seen above Dr. Perriwinkle and the table starts from the bottem again, which suggests that 100% is only a theoretical ceiling, which the game accepts as beatable, or at least has a method for dealing with this possibility.