Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27048832-20170313061510/@comment-30967537-20170404190843

142.217.213.99 wrote: Qucik question. how is it my time goes lower even when i have not played.

Finally first time made it to Group E This has been discussed elsewhere ...

Your overall position is NOT an average of your event positions.

Your times for the 4 events are totalled and compared against everybody else.

So, as more people complete all 4 events, your position will move up/down ... if more slower people compete you'll move up, as more faster people compete you'll move down.

And, as existing people improve, if their total is better than yours, you will go down.

For example ...

6 people have completed all 4 events and set total times of ...

... 3:00, 3:10, 3:20, 3:30, 3:40, 3:50

You complete all 4 events with a  total time of 3:45 ...

... your position is 6th and you're in the "top 80-90%" group

6 more people completed all 4 events with total times of ...

... 3:30, 3:40, 3:50, 4:00, 4:10, 4:20

... now your position is 8th and you're in the "top 60-70% group"

You've moved up a couple groups without doing anything!

Factor in 80,000+ people completing all 4 events AND people improving.

Now do you see how your position and group changes during the week?

From the above explanation I hope that people (finally) understand that being in group C in all 4 events does not mean you will be in overall group C ... throw in a short track (such as Richmond) or a long track (such as Le Mans) and everything gets thrown out ... you can do the crappiest Richmond lap and still get a good result if you do a good Le Mans lap!

Finally, don't forget that to get an overall group ranking, you need to complete all 4 events. So, if there are lot of faster players who beat you in the separate events BUT they don't complete all 4 events, you could end up in higher group than for each of the separate events!