Board Thread:Challenge Threads/@comment-27048832-20160723215215/@comment-27510501-20160727124244

RR3G&#039;hamO. wrote: Interesting how close my TSM time is to what I ran the race in, about 8s difference TSM is +1.5s / lap on best lap A friend an I did some "TSM-bot" testing by duelling the same event over and over for a large number of repetitions (dozens!). It was some time ago (I can't recall which version - at least 12 months ago), so things may have changed with the TSM algorithms. But we found no real discernible relationship with our TSM-bot's times compared to our actual times.

Literally, he would beat me, then I would beat him, then he would beat me, then I would beat him (repeat ad-nauseum), yet our TSM bot times never budged - in any direction.

Noting it was far from a scientifically rigorous test, and certainly not statistically valid, we drew the (possibly outlandish) conclusion that TSM-bot times are not allocated based on your actual event times. We speculated that they are possibly allocated based on some sort of hidden "grading" that compares your overall performances in-game to their standard offline bots. But we don't really know, of course.

I wish you luck if you start chasing the "TSM-bot Time Mystery" through your IRA team! :)