Thursday, August 31, 2023
Final 2023 Organized Play Ranking
Monday, July 24, 2023
New OP Ranking Method
Some of you may know that I've been struggling this season to get caught up with CFR Organized Play rankings. The two culprits I have identified is that I have been busy and past me constructed a pretty elaborate system for calculating OP rankings.
So I'm simplifying. A lot.
I used to track every result from every race and calculate a whole series of things to try to judge relative competition. Now I'm just going to track the results of events and I'm going to use a simpler method to judge competition levels between different events -- more or less just counting the number of participants. More here.
This makes my work much more manageable. And so an in-progress 2023 season rankings is here.
Monday, March 27, 2023
WBC 2023 Tracks
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I expect someone to get angry here in the finals. |
WBC steward Chris Long has picked some tracks for this year's WBC event.
A nice mix of tracks below. The first group are some real classics -- three of the most raced tracks in F1 history. Group 2 is a collection of fan favorite modern era tracks. Then the last grouping includes 2 tracks never used in WBC qualifying before -- Kent which is a new design and Indy which made it's WBC debut as last year's finals track.
This year's finals is another brand new to WBC track -- Midrand, also known as Kyalami.
Good luck all.
Q1 Red
Q2 Purple
Q3 Green
Finals
Monday, October 17, 2022
CFR 2022 Organized Play Concludes (Finally)
In the end, only 4 points separated the top two drivers this season. With last year's champion Stephen Peeples just edging out former two-time champ Don Tatum.
The rest of the top 10 was a mix of regulars and break-throughs. Michael Polcen runs his streak of top 10 finishes to 5 seasons (1 short of Don's 6 seasons). Chris Long and Tim Mossman have had multiple top 10 seasons before but Tim was 40th last year and Chris hasn't been top 10 since he finished 3rd in 2018. James Benham made his first top 10 last year.
Jason Schultz ended the season 20 points behind our champion but in only his second season of organized play. Will Kennington, Justin Swaine, and Brent Fitz also made their first appearances in the top 10 this year.
But lets dig into how Stephen beat out Don this year. Below is a break-out of how each of them got points this year -- their top 5 race results and their top 2 tournament results. And some general data as well.
That general data tells an interesting story. Stephen beat Don despite Don winning more races (and even a higher percentage of races) and more tournaments. But you can also see the first clue here of how Stephen overcame that -- tougher competition. By design a field rating of 1 should be average (the median race field rating was 0.97 this year). So we can see that Stephen's average race was considered above average in difficulty of competition while Don's was -- on average -- considered below average.
This doesn't mean that Don was racing against shlubs. What it really means is that most of Don's wins came against smaller groups of opponents and/or not the very best of competition Below are the top 11 races, ranked by field rating this year.
The Regulars
Rookie of the Year
Most Improved
Steward of the Year
Other Numbers
Monday, June 20, 2022
2022 Organized Play Update and a Ranking Tweak
We are well into the 2022 CFR Organized Play season and I've updated the rankings. Finally. Thank you for your patience.
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
WBC 2022... It's On!
Two years ago WBC steward Chris picked tracks for the WBC CFR tournament. Now you all will finally get to race those tracks at WBC 2022.
Instead of repeating myself... here's the list of tracks.
Good luck all.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
CFR 2021 Organized Play Wraps Up
A couple tourneys (mostly mine) ran longer than anticipated this season. So this is later than usual. By a month or two really. But its wrapped and we can crown a champ.
2021 OP Champ: Stephen Peeples
Huge congrats to Stephen. Stephen won 8 races this season -- the most of anyone and nearly half of the 18 races he participated in. He also won 2 tournaments -- tied for the most tournament wins. This season culminated a sharp rise to the top for Mr. Peepels who raced in his first ranked race in the 2018 season. He was ranked 40th in the 2019 season and 6th last year.
Michael Polcen's top 5 races were slightly more valuable than Stephen's but Michael did not win a tournament this season -- coming in 2nd twice instead -- spoiling his bid for a 2nd title.
Dave Ling placed 8th officially but did win two of the more prestigious tournaments (Redscape's C1 and my P1). But he won only 2 races all season plus only 2 other podiums to end up with fewer points for his top 5 races than the other drivers around him.
Defending two-time champ Don Tatum came up short of the three-peat but did continue his streak of ranking top 4 in all 5 of the OP seasons so far.
Most Improved: Thomas Van Hare
Thomas was ranked 98th last season and jumped up to 30th this season after winning a race and the Hamilton series this year.
Honorable mentions: Robert Rund has been ranked in the 40s for the last 3 season and really put it together this year for 7 wins and a tournament victory to end up 5th on the season. Mike Greason moved up from 74th to 17th. Kevin Harrington from 78th to 25th. Kathryn Harley from 88th to 32nd. Larry Dygert from 101st to 42nd. Leon "Blacketo" from 120th to 64th.
Rookies of the Year: Curtis Milburn & Jeff Caldwell
I couldn't bring myself to single out one of them. Curtis and Jeff finished ranked 44th and 45th, less than a point apart. Curtis participated in 10 races. He didn't win any but did grab 2 podiums. Jeff only participated in 4 races and did no better than 5th... except for the race he won.
Steward of the Year: Brian DeWitt
I got a nomination for this award this season. I don't think I ever have before and honestly should ask for them in the future. As racing started to occur in person again this year, Brian offered up his house for the DMV series -- hosting double race-days with large scale cars and lunch! I'm sorry I never made it. Maybe next year.