Requirements for a race to record rankings or virtual money

1.     Race length has to be 4% or longer.

2.    Race has to have six drivers or more. Driver's ID in race must match their RaceServers ID or the driver will not rank or receive virtual money.

3.    Race results can be affected by skipping  Qualifying and Happy Hour. Game needs time to create info for race results and by skipping either of these may cause a corrupt race file to be created. If this happens, results will not rank.

4.    Allow the game to go to the Winners Circle so that it has time to get all the drivers results, especially if you have a lot of drivers in a race. 

5.    If setting up one race after another, it is best to have everyone leave server and then re-enter once the new race is setup.

6.  Rankings from a race can be lost, remember this is the internet, also if a server was to lose internet connection after a race is finished and before it transferred the race data to the RaceServers.net ranking database, it is possible that that file could be sent later and cause others to be lost from that server.

How rankings are scored.

1.        Members do not score points off non-members. (So even if you are on a ranking server, and you are racing with non-members, you will not receive points nor have points taken away for racing against a driver that is not a member of RaceServers.net.)

2.        There are 0-15 skills, (See Pyramid Below).  The skill levels are divided up into Careers (Newbies, Rookies, Intermediate, Advance, Professional and at the top of Professional is Racing God or Deity. (Please NOTE: If you make it to 15,we will worship you from afar and avoid your bumper. J)

 Career levels are established for each track.

 
You can only advance or fall one skill level at a time within a Career level.

Once you move into a higher Career level, you can not fall below the lowest skill level in that Career level.  In other words, you can not fall into a lower Career level.

Your skill level can advance or fall within the Career level you have achieved.

To advance one skill level in Career Level One, this requires you to reach or exceed an average of 2 points within your best 8 races out of 10 races you have entered.  The average is always determined by assuming you have run eight races.  The value you receive for races you have not yet run is zero.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Two requires an average of at least 5 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Three requires an average of at least 9 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Four requires an average of at least 14 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Five requires an average of at least 18 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

Please do not confuse Career levels with Overall Rankings or with skill levels within a Career.

The rankings are set up in a way to make it hopefully fun, yet challenging enough to keep it interesting.  We are testing this particular method, so if it needs changing in the future to be either more or less challenging, we reserve that option.

Now, I will attempt to explain how this system works, so hopefully everyone will understand.  Keep in mind, the newbies and rookies will have an easier time gaining points to move up.  Think of them as ARCA, and Busch drivers.  As you move up into the other Career Levels, it will be harder to gain Careers and points, especially if you are racing drivers that are in lower career levels than yourself.  (Picture yourself as a Winston Cup driver, racing against Busch and ARCA Drivers, usually the Winston Cup guys win, because they have a lot more expertise.)  In this scoring system, a driver in a Career level of Advance and Professional has to race his/her peers to gain more points, especially if you want to become a Racing God. J

For each driver you beat that is:

Two Skill levels or more higher than you, you receive:      5 points.

One Skill level higher than you, you receive:                   4 points. 

Same Skill level as you, you receive:                             3 points.

One Skill  level lower than you, you receive:                   2 points.

Two Skill levels lower than you, you receive:                  1 point.

Three or more Skill levels lower than you, you receive:  0 point.

For each driver you lose to that is:

Two Skill levels or more higher than you, you lose:           1 point.

One Skill level higher than you, you lose:                        2 points. 

Same Skill level as you, you lose:                                  3 points.

One Skill level lower than you, you lose:                         4 points.

Two or more Skill levels lower than you, you lose:             5 points.      

Example using the minimum number (7) of drivers needed for a race to score:

Assuming all contestants are of skill level zero and you win the race, you would advance to skill level one.  You received 3 points for each of the 6 opponents you beat for a total 18 points.  Add zero for the seven races you have not yet run, which still gives you a total of 18 points.  Divided your total (18) by eight, leaves an average greater than 2, therefore you advance to skill level one.

If you had come in second in this race you would have received 12 points.  (3 x 5 opponents you beat minus 3 x 1 opponent you lost to). Add zero for the seven races you have not yet run.  Divided the total (12) by 8 gives an average of 1.5.  When you round off the average of 1.5 to a whole number, you have the average of 2 which allows you to advance one level to skill level one.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Two requires an average of at least 5 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Three requires an average of at least 9 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Four requires an average of at least 14 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

To advance one skill level in Career Level Five requires an average of at least 18 points for your best 8 out of your last 10 races.

Now to add some chaos to our drivers points:

Incidents:

For each incident     Newbies lose        1pt.

                                Rookies           2 pts.

                                Intermediate    3 pts.

                                Advance         4 pts.

                                Professional     5 pts.

If you want to become a Deity, you would have to be a skill level of 14 and beat six or more drivers with that skill, eight consecutive races.  So you have your work cut out for you. At this point all I can say is:

“Gentleman start your Engines.”