Off-Topic for 09/07/2011 – 06:00

by schmalz

Welcome to the Tue, 09/07/2011 – 06:00 edition of Off Topic! You are looking at the next step in the evolution of VCN, the Off-Topic page. Have you ever been frustrated because you had a burning desire to call someone a sandbagger and could only hope to be timely by posting your comment to a photo gallery page or on a page describing a charity ride?

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Tour de France

is a joke. Who cares. I say we just all Buy UCI licenses and let races go off like Belgian kermesses. The whole Cat4 and up ranking system has and always will be meaningless.

Ted

The new system will take the 5 best ranked riders from the top 10 finishers, average their rankings and multiply that by 90% to create the quality of the race. Once the Race Quality is determined we need to establish the Points per Place to be distributed. Points per place are determined by taking the average rankings of all finishing riders to get the midpoint. We then take that number, subtract the Race Quality value, multiply it by 2 and then divide that number by the number of finishers, less one. Once we have both the Race Quality and the Points per Place, we can determine Rank Points for all riders. Rank Points are calculated based on the Race Quality value plus a rider’s place minus one multiplied by the points per place for the event. In summary:

Race Quality = Average x 90% of 5 best ranked riders in race’s top 10

Points per Place = Avg. ranking of all finishers x 2 – Race Quality Value / total number of finishers – 1

Rank Points = Race Quality + rider’s placing – 1 x Points per Place

WTF?????????

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