Nah Dom, there certainly is a compromise
Yeah TimWRP sorry about the delay on the "Championship" section of the OP, just waiting on a couple more things to come together from the site and it'll be up right away.
The rooms will be solely decided by speed. What you brought up about the possibility of there being so many drivers on one team there's a lock out is very real, but I'm leaving it up to the drivers as I said, one team switch will be allowed so all I can do is hope people are self-regulating, if they see a lot of drivers already dedicated to a certain team, or rivals on one side, it'd be in their interest to jump to a less represented car.
Of course I wouldn't let things go out of hand, like 10 drivers choosing one car, but I'm really not worried about it, no one gets anything from crowding into one car, we'll all know the factors involved.
The main idea of this structure came to head because of the LMP mainly and the fact that there are only three cars. We're putting an emphasis on the team or manufacturers' championship over the drivers' championship, just a tad. So we're doing the best we can to make it as exciting and fresh of a challenge as possible for every one involved. So the compromise was, that instead of giving team points to every car on the field and having to cherry pick every one into teams to make sure it's an even match (not to mention having to deal with drop outs, driver changes, and no shows x( ) we opted for this system (which WEC actually uses now, only the top finishing car for each LMP1 team garners team points).
Here's the points break down as we're seeing it now -
This is TnJ's concept btw, and in his words:
One over-all classification table where the points scale evenly (like 2 point gap for the d1 room's first 16 and then 1 point gap for d2 16-32) and we give +10,+6,+3 bonus points for the LMP and GTE podium finishers.
Points scheme:
Code:
position points
1 48
2 46
3 44
4 42
5 40
6 38
7 36
8 34
9 32
10 30
11 28
12 26
13 24
14 22
15 20
16 18
17 16
18 15
19 14
20 13
21 12
22 11
23 10
24 9
25 8
26 7
27 6
28 5
29 4
30 3
31 2
32 1
Example race result (two rooms of 16):
Code:
car bonus total
LMP 10 58
LMP 6 52
LMP 3 47
LMP 42
GTE 10 50
GTE 6 44
LMP 36
LMP 34
GTE 3 35
GTE 30
GTE 28
GTE 26
GTE 24
GTE 22
GTE 5 20
GTE 3 18
LMP 16
LMP 15
LMP 5 14
LMP 3 13
LMP 1 12
GTE 1 11
GTE 10
GTE 9
GTE 8
GTE 7
GTE 6
GTE 5
GTE 4
GTE 3
GTE 2
LMP 1
And to give more distinction to winners of the D2 room, wins/podiums should always be rewarded. D2 podium finishers will get half of the D1 podium bonus points.
2 car classes which would fracture that into 4 schemes:
D1 LMP - D1 GTE
D2 LMP - D2 GTE
What I'm suggesting is one point scheme and we just add value to class podiums with bonus points. The D2 podium being 1/2 the value of the D1 podium.
The main thing I *love* about this for CALM is that we end up with one classification table and everyone just mixed in like it is in the real world. And if you manage a miracle and take the over-all victory in a GTE car it pays off BIG-TIME, and at the same time if an LMP driver parks it in the pits and finishes 35 laps down they are getting a big penalty on the points table since GTE cars that finished the race are getting the value of finishing in front of them.
So It's like this:
1. Everyone gets points based on "overall" finishing order ranked from 1-32 as a base score.
2. We add bonus points for class podium finishers to put the top-weighted value back in.
Now this is pretty much where we're at with the points structure.
