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S4:R2 Driver Power Rankings
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Driver Analytics S4:R2
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Qualifying Performance
Race Performance
Scoring
Penalties
Qualifying Performance
Race Performance
Scoring
Penalties
CRL S4:R2 Recap – Deja Vu a Le Castellet?
By ghost_726
With the first week of season 4 of the CRL completed, the F1 grid headed to the Paul Ricard Circuit outside of Marseille, France for the second race of the season. After the rookies dominated the streets of Monaco, would the veterans return to form in France?
Qualifying did little to answer this question, with the rookies and veterans almost perfectly alternating slots on the grid. The_562KING grabbed his second pole position in a row with a lightning fast time of 1:29.737. Ghost_726 put together a phenomenal lap late to grab the second slot on the grid as the only other driver to get into the 1:29s. Ellleventy11 put his Ferrari into P3, matching his qualifying performance from Monaco. P4 went to JurdiS09, narrowly beating PCC-Godly by .002 seconds. HAL9100 posted his best qualifying performance of season 4 in P6, while isiboy23 put his Aston Martin into P7. xJRACx put a second Ferrari in the top 10 by qualifying P8, while xINCIDENTx qualified P9, but was relegated to P14 due to minor contact with a Red Bull while both were in the run off area. KENNYHITMANHART grabbed the last spot in the top 10, giving the McLaren team a strong chance to grab points.
The battles in France were tight, but the results were largely the same. Through two races only 12 drivers have finished inside the top 10, and only four drivers have seen the podium. The_562KING claimed his second victory of the season, again going pole to P1. Meanwhile, PCC-Godly made another charge through the pack to finish P2 again, this time only 2.3 seconds behind the race winner. Ghost_726 and isiboy23 swapped positions from Monaco, with ghost_726 grabbing the final spot on the podium by holding off isiboy23 by .400 seconds, who put together a strong drive to rise from P7 to P4. JurdiS09 enjoyed a strong season 4 debut by taking the last spot in the top 5.
Team Mercedes put together another strong team performance, with HAL9100 finishing P6, while jmtitan10 put together an amazing drive to finish P7 after starting P10. Ellleventy11 salvaged points for Ferrari by finishing P8. But Ferrari will surely leave France disheartened as another solid qualifying performance of P3/P8 was squandered, with Ellleventy11 dropping 5 positions, and xJRACx failing to finish. KENNYHITMANHART capped a solid day for team McLaren by grabbing two points in P9, despite early wing damage. And the final spot in the top 10 went to xINCIDENTx, who put together a strong recovery drive from P14 and early wing damage to grab a point for the Haas team.
While we don’t normally comment too much on the battles outside the top 10, we had to take note of juzzzyb’s performance for Alfa Romeo. After qualifying P20, juzzzyb enjoyed a strong start, and a consistent race to rise all the way to P11, improving his position by 9 spots, and missing out on points by a mere 4 seconds.
With The_562KING again finishing P1, and PCC-Godly again finishing P2, they saw their point totals rise to 50 and 36, respectively. Isiboy23 and ghost_726 appear locked in an early battle, with both sitting on 27 points.
But the surprise of the season so far has to be the performance of jmtitan10. With a P6 and P7 finish to his name so far, he sits P5 in the standings and seems poised to lead the midfield battle. xINCIDENTx and ellleventy11 pulled even on 11 points after finishing P10 and P8 respectively, while HAL9100’s P6 and jurdiS09’s P5, leave them both a mere point behind. Meanwhile KENNYHITMANHART found his point scoring form in France to pull himself into P11.
On the team side, The_562KING’s win again gave Alpine the team win, and ensured that Alpine stayed top of the points with an impressive 50 points through 2 races. McLaren’s double points finish netted them 20 points, and catapulted them from P4 into a tie for P2 with Haas. Aston Martin remains in P4 after isiboy23 delivered 12 points for the team, while Mercedes double points finished saw them pick up 2 points on Aston Martin team to cut their gap to 7 points.
AlphaTauri’s 10 point finish got them on the board, but Ferrari’s 4 points were just enough to hold onto P6 with a 1 one point lead. Williams, Alfa Romeo and Red Bull all sit joint P8, yet to score their first points of the season.
Race at a Glance
Podium – The_562KING, PCC-Godly, ghost_726
Team Win – Alpine (25 points)
Pole Position – The_562KING (1:29.737)
Fastest Lap – guitarhero1234 (1:31.164)
Most Positions Gained – juzzzyb (P20 -> P11)
Driver of the Day – juzzzyb (10/19 votes) – After my worst qualifying to date saw me start in P20, I knew there was some work to do if there was any chance of points. When the lights went out, I got off the line super fast and gained 5 positions by turn 1 to put me into P15 and then picked up another 3 by the end of the first lap. From there I just tried to race as clean as possible for the rest of the race, and if not for a track limits penalty, I was very close to the points this race.
Season 4 Race 1 Team Rankings
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Season 4 Race 1 Driver Rankings
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Season 4 Driver Analytics Explained
By ghost_726
As mentioned in the final edition of the CRL magazine, the media team has made the decision to retire the Driver Rating System for season 4 due to a lack of clarity around how the ratings were calculated, and the generation of minimal insights from the data. Instead, this season we will be piloting a series of driver analytics that will attempt to quantify how well CRL drivers perform during qualifying and races. These analytics have been broken into four categories; qualifying performance, race performance, scoring and penalties.
Please note these analytics are by no means final. We will continue to add and modify these as we move through the season to try to get to the most insightful statistics.
Qualifying Performance
Race Performance
Scoring
Penalties
Qualifying Performance
Qualifying performance includes the best, worst and average qualifying positions a driver has obtained throughout the season. The more interesting statistic though is ‘qualifying pace’. Qualifying pace is how much faster or slower your best qualifying lap was for a given race, compared to the league average lap time for that race. A positive number indicates that you were that percentage faster than average, a negative number indicates that you were slower than average. For example, if a driver posted a qualifying lap of 70 seconds, and the league average was 77 seconds, their qualifying pace would be 9.09% ([77-70]/77), indicating they were 9.09% faster than the league average. Best, worst and average qualifying pace are all presented.
Race Performance
The race performance stats capture a driver’s best, worst and average finishing positions. Additionally, it captures how many positions they’ve gained or lost from grid to final classification over the season, and a new metric called ‘overtaking ratio’. Overtaking ratio is an attempt to quantify how many positions a driver gains or loses out of the most possible positions they could have gained or lost. This gives a more total view of a driver’s overtaking performance than positions gained/lost alone, as it captures how difficult it is to gain positions at the front of the grid, and the fact they are fewer positions to be gained if you qualify well. This ratio is calculated differently depending on whether you gain or lose positions:
- If you gained positions, overtaking ratio = positions gained / (grid position – 1)
- Ex. If you start P18 and finish P3, your ratio would be 15 / (18 – 1) = 15 / 17 = .882
- If you lost positions, overtaking ratio = -positions lost / (20 – grid position)
- Ex. If you start P3 and finish P10, your ratio would be, -7 / (20 – 3) = -7 / 17 = -.411
- If you did not gain or lose positions, your overtaking ratio = 0.
To get to the full season overtaking ratio, the total positions gained/lost is calculated over the total season, as well as the maximum potential positions gained/lost.
The final stat in race performance is “+/- ratio”. This is similar to the plus/minus calculation in hockey, where a player receives a plus every time a goal is scored by their team while they’re on the ice, and receives a minus every time their team is scored against while they’re on the ice. For every race a driver improves from their grid position, regardless if it’s one position or nineteen, they receive a plus. For every race a driver loses positions from the grid, they receive a minus. For example, if a driver enters four races and gains positions in 2 of them, loses positions in 1 of them, and stays in the same position in 1, their plus minus ration would be 1.
Scoring
For scoring, we track four metrics. The first two are total points scored, and the percentage of points scored out of the maximum possible points (26 per race; 25 for a win and 1 for fastest lap). The second two statistics are how many races in which the driver scored, and what percentage of races they scored in.
For example, if a driver scored 25, 15, 1 and 0 points in four races, their points scored percentage would be 39.42% ([25+15+1] / [26 x 4]), and their point scoring percentage would be 75% (3 / 4).
For example, if a driver scored 25, 15, 1 and 0 points in four races, their points scored percentage would be 39.42% ([25+15+1] / [26 x 4]), and their point scoring percentage would be 75% (3 / 4).
Penalties
Penalties are pretty straight forward; we track in game penalties (minus any penalties removed by the stewards), post-race incidents filed against the driver, penalties awarded to the driver by the stewards, no decisions (when the stewards do not award a penalty, but also do not find the driver free from fault) and penalties per race (inclusive of in-game and post-race penalties).
CRL S4:R1 Recap – Rookies Rule the Streets of Monaco
By ghost_726
For the first time in league history, the CRL took to the grid on the streets of Monaco for the Monaco Grand Prix. Eighteen drivers were in attendance for the first race of season four, and for many, the results it yielded were unexpected.
While this writer expected a bloodbath, qualifying went relatively smoothly, with only one documented case of blocking, one DNF and one disqualification. Surprisingly, two of the title contenders fell victim to the streets of Monaco, with both xJRACx and HAL9100 failing to have a time recorded, and starting P17 and P18, respectively. Three newcomers would take advantage of their absence, with The_562KING, isiboy23 and ellleventy11 qualifying P1, P2 and P3, as the only drivers to register times in the 1:10s.
P4 and P5 on the grid went to the Haas driver pair of ghost_726 and xINCIDENTx, who positioned themselves well to start their title defense. Two more rookies, PCC-Godly and guitarhero1234, picked up P6 and P7 on the grid, with CEO and god-king jmtitan10 putting together one of his best qualifying laps to start P8. ChrisKYU62, the lone driver for AlphaTauri, qualified P9, while another rookie, ArabKid50, took the last spot in the top 10.
20 laps around the famous Monaco circuit proved difficult for the CRL grid, with only 9 drivers finishing on the lead lap, 3 drivers failing to classify, and a total of 4 drivers not bringing the car home in one piece, not to mention a total of 28 front wing changes. And emerging from that chaos was a podium featuring three rookie drivers. The_562KING earned his first win in the CRL F1 division, going from pole position to win the race by a comfortable 13 seconds. PCC-Godly, who started P6, put together a masterful bit of strategy, pitting on lap 2 to find some clean air and pulling off a massive undercut to finish P2. Isiboy23 would grab the last spot on the podium with a solid drive in the Aston Martin after qualifying P2.
20 laps around the famous Monaco circuit proved difficult for the CRL grid, with only 9 drivers finishing on the lead lap, 3 drivers failing to classify, and a total of 4 drivers not bringing the car home in one piece, not to mention a total of 28 front wing changes. And emerging from that chaos was a podium featuring three rookie drivers. The_562KING earned his first win in the CRL F1 division, going from pole position to win the race by a comfortable 13 seconds. PCC-Godly, who started P6, put together a masterful bit of strategy, pitting on lap 2 to find some clean air and pulling off a massive undercut to finish P2. Isiboy23 would grab the last spot on the podium with a solid drive in the Aston Martin after qualifying P2.
The Haas pair had a relatively uneventful race, finishing in the same positions they started, with ghost_726 finishing P4, and xINCIDENTx finishing P5. jmtitan10 put together a consistent drive and picked up two positions from the grid to finish P6, matching his best finish from season 3. Ellleventy11 scored 7 points for Ferrari after finishing P7, and picking up the fastest lap point, in what will be a disappointing day for the Ferrari team. ArabKid50 successfully put another Aston Martin in the top 10, scoring 4 points for his respectable P8 finish.
HAL9100 put together a masterful drive after his qualifying disqualification, picking up 9 spots to finish P9 after starting P18. A lap 1 undercut, followed by the decision to drive the Mercedes with a damaged wing late, combined with some phenomenal defending from teammate jmtitan10, all helped HAL9100 gain the most positions of anyone on the streets of Monaco. The last point scoring position went to reserve driver Maple_Bro, who finished P10 after starting P12.
With only one race in the books, the individual standings obviously match the final classification. But it’s worth noting the strength of the rookie drivers on the circuit. P1-P3 are all held by rookies, with a total of 5 drivers in the top 10 belonging to the rookie class. Is the F1 division of the CRL seeing a changing of the guard, or will the veterans prevail over the course of the season?
With one race in the books, the constructors’ championship saw some unexpected names at the top. Alpine claimed top spot thanks to The_562KING’s victory, while another 20+ point day from the Haas duo saw them start their title defense in P2. Aston Martin put two cars in the points to narrowly beat McLaren to P3. Mercedes will start the year in P5, while Ferrari rounds out the point scorers in P6. Williams, Alfa Romeo, AlphaTauri and Red Bull will all look to score their first points of the season in France.
Race at a Glance
- Podium – The_562KING, PCC-Godly, isiboy23
- Team Win – Alpine (25 points)
- Pole Position – The_562KING (1:10.522)
- Fastest Lap – Ellleventy11 (1:12.558)
- Most Positions Gained – HAL9100 (P18 -> P9)
- Driver of the Day – PCC-Godly (8/18 Votes) – I was feeling good going in Monaco and was confident in my pace. A lap 2 pit stop gave me enough clean air to reel in the leaders after an less than optimal qualifying. Besides that I managed to keep it out of the walls and executed my goals for the race.
Season 4 Preseason Team Power Rankings
By ghost_726
The team power rankings will be based on an average of individual race ratings. The media team will score each team’s performance in each race from 0 to 10, and the teams will be ranked according to their average score. Since no races have been run yet, for the pre-season ranking our media team ranked each team from 1 to 10, and we averaged out the votes to see who would be ranked where.
Season 4 Preseason Driver Power Rankings
By ghost_726
With silly season now concluded, the grid is set for season 4 of the CRL’s F1 division. And what a silly season it was, with a total of 7 new F1 drivers, and only 3 teams maintaining their driver pairings from season 3 (including HAL9100 and jmtitan10, who moved from Williams to Mercedes).
This season our power rankings will follow the same approach as last season. The media team will vote for their top 5 drivers, and the drivers with the most votes will be ranked 1-5 based on how many votes they got, with first place votes being worth 5 points, second place worth 4 points, etc.
