Hi!
There is a quite annoying thing about current MPR data, which makes it hard to process the mpr automatically for league races. Namely, the DNF racers are simply excluded from the results, thus it is impossible (or very hard
) to decide the order among DNF racers.
This leads, if we don't want considerable extra work to be done after every race, to the very unfair rule as to give the same points to every DNF racer. No matter if one simply left on the first lap and the other runs out of fuel at the very end of the race, so that he stops one corner before the finish line after struggling for 70 minutes for a better position, they get the same amount of points.
A more annoying thing about this is that, what if we'd like to decide race order based on travelled distance? I mean, let's say, there is a racer three laps behind the leader (let's call him A). He gets the checkered flag as he crosses the finish line (final place undecided yet). Let's say there is another racer (B), who is fighting for second position, but unfortunately he loses connection on the final lap, so he cannot cross the finish line. He also lapped A twice. The result should be that, B gets a better position than A since he's done more laps, but currently B gets simply DNF (not even noted in the results), which is not good, imo.
(also there is a bug in the mpr data, because it does not indicate autoclutch correctly - but this better goes to the bug reports section)
There is a quite annoying thing about current MPR data, which makes it hard to process the mpr automatically for league races. Namely, the DNF racers are simply excluded from the results, thus it is impossible (or very hard
) to decide the order among DNF racers. This leads, if we don't want considerable extra work to be done after every race, to the very unfair rule as to give the same points to every DNF racer. No matter if one simply left on the first lap and the other runs out of fuel at the very end of the race, so that he stops one corner before the finish line after struggling for 70 minutes for a better position, they get the same amount of points.
A more annoying thing about this is that, what if we'd like to decide race order based on travelled distance? I mean, let's say, there is a racer three laps behind the leader (let's call him A). He gets the checkered flag as he crosses the finish line (final place undecided yet). Let's say there is another racer (B), who is fighting for second position, but unfortunately he loses connection on the final lap, so he cannot cross the finish line. He also lapped A twice. The result should be that, B gets a better position than A since he's done more laps, but currently B gets simply DNF (not even noted in the results), which is not good, imo.
(also there is a bug in the mpr data, because it does not indicate autoclutch correctly - but this better goes to the bug reports section)
