Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35745775-20180602191223/@comment-28169398-20180602210008

I am not sure how long you have played, but most series start with a bot on this list somewhere in the mid to high twenties.

This is the bots order (from faster to slower), and their countries:

Usually it is LOLOLOL or Oddly for your first cup race, but is variable based on the size of the grid.

Slowing bots will skew this down throughout the series. Pushing harder will skew this up throughout the series.

Changes can be difficult to quantify, and the decision algorithm likely is not linear.

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 bet 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.