1.1) Purpose
- The GWR or Generally World Ranking aims to compare the performances of Generally drivers according to their performances in various competitions and to the difficulty of these.
- It is based on the same idea as GRADE which is today abandoned.
1.2) Types of events
- Hotlap : alone against the time, only the best lap is counted (or the 2,3,4,... best laps).
- Timetrial : alone against the time during several laps in a row or rallye-stage.
- Race : against 1 to 5 AI controled by computer.
1.3) Types of periods
- By year : it's the GENERALLY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
- By month.
- General classification.
2) SUPPORTED EVENTS
2.1) Requirements to be supported
- A new competition, a new season of an old competition or a special event must have an English thread (with the rules, the schedule and the files to use) in the following English forum, in competitions section : Generally Racers
Exception : the F1-Cup Season 20 because at the beginning of the season the previous rule was not clear enough concerning the following point : "new season of an old competition".
It could be useful (but not mandatory) if the competition also had a specific website either in english or enough intelligible to be understood by a non English-Speaker.
2.2) Competitions already supported
- ‑> Supported Events <‑
2.3) Championships
- A championship will be supported only if there is at least 3 supported events.
3) SCORES and POINTS SYSTEM
3.1) Purposes
- It has to reward the efforts of the players : the more there is participants and the more it is difficult to have good result.
3.2) Past rules
- Before 2010 : archives
3.3) Scores
3.3.1) Classification and calculation
- The ranking of each month/year/category is made according to "score".
- The score of each category is calculated by increments : the more a result is good and the more it will have a significant weight in final "score".
- The scores of each event are rounded to the higher integer.
3.3.2) Disqualifications (DQ)
- According to the GWR a driver is disqualified only in case of cheating, by playing with a prohibited speed game, by using the identity of someone else, by using several nicknames in the same event to skew the results or by modifying the files (screenshot, savegame, track, car, AI, gr.ini). In all other cases he will be considered as NC (not classified) by the GWR.
- In both cases (DQ or NC) the driver scores 0 point.
- For score calculation, a disqualification is more important than all other results.
3.3.3) Increments
3.3.4) Score calculations for 2010 and drivers
Whole year :
- Score of race (or hotlap, or timetrial) category = points of the 8 best results x1 + points of the next 8 best results x1/2 + points of the next 8 best results x1/4 + ...
- Score for general classification = points of the top 4 results x1 (whatever the category) + points of the next 8 best races and 8 best hotlaps and 8 best timetrials x1 + points of the next 8 best races and 8 best hotlaps and 8 best timetrials x1/2 + points of the next 8 best races and 8 best hotlaps and 8 best timetrials x1/4 + ...
For each month :
- Score of race (or hotlap, or timetrial) category = points of the 2 best results x1 + points of the next 2 best results x1/2 + points of the next 2 best results x1/4 + ...
- Score for general classification = points of the best results x1 (whatever the category) + points of the next 2 best races and 2 best hotlaps and 2 best timetrials x1 + points of the next 2 best races and 2 best hotlaps and 2 best timetrials x1/2 + points of the next 2 best races and 2 best hotlaps and 2 best timetrials x1/4 + ...
3.3.5) Example of score calculation for a month
- A driver runs 21 events in the month and earns the following GWR points (category between brackets) : 2 (C), 75 (TT), 48 (TT), 57 (HL), 37 (C), DQ (C), 88 (C), 23 (TT), 52 (TT), 60 (HL), 67 (HL), 62 (TT), 46 (C), 7 (HL), 72 (C), 72 (HL), 229 (C), 6 (HL), 79 (TT), 46 (TT), 72 (TT).
- Look in the table : the value of increments for a month in each category is 2, and for general classification we have to take the best result.
- After you have to sort the result of each category from the best to the worst (put the DQ at the header of the list because they are considered more important than all other results).
The sorted lists are :
- Races : DQ, 229, 88, 72, 46, 37, 2.
- Hotlaps : 72, 67, 60, 57, 7, 6.
- Timetrials : 79, 75, 72, 62, 52, 48, 46, 23.
- The more important résult is the DQ (0pt, hence the importance of never try to cheat).
- Therefore the scores are (each division is rounded to the higher integer) :
- Races : 0 + 229 + 88/2 + 72/2 + 46/4 + 37/4 + 2/8 = 0 + 229 + 44 + 36 + 12 + 10 + 1 = 332
- Hotlaps : 72 + 67 + 60/2 + 57/2 + 7/4 + 6/4 = 72 + 67 + 30 + 29 + 2 + 2 = 202
- Timetrials : 79 + 75 + 72/2 + 62/2 + 52/4 + 48/4 + 46/8 + 23/8 = 79 + 75 + 36 + 31 + 13 + 12 + 6 + 3 = 255
- Generally : most important result + other results by categories and by increments = 0 + (229 + 88 + 72/2 + 46/2 + 37/4 + 2/4) + (72 + 67 + 60/2 + 57/2 + 7/4 + 6/4) + (79 + 75 + 72/2 + 62/2 + 52/4 + 48/4 + 46/8 + 23/8) = 0 + (229 + 88 + 36 + 23 + 10 + 1) + (72 + 67 + 30 + 29 + 2 + 2) + (79 + 75 + 36 + 31 + 13 + 12 + 6 + 3) = 0 + 387 + 202 + 255 = 844
3.3.6) Particular case
- If only one category has been ran (for a month or a year) then the scores of general ranking will be the same than scores of this category.
3.3.7) Score calculations for 2010 and teams
- Important : this is not the total of points of each event which is considered as a result but the points of each driver for each round.
- Else it's the same calculations than drivers, only the increments change.
3.4) Points
3.4.1) Generality
- The NC (not classified) drivers score only 1 point (x multiplier).
- For login events, drivers who loged on but have sent nothing will score the point(s) of last position.
- If there is only one driver, he'll have the corresponding points and will be considered NC (not classified).
- In case of tie, the drivers have the same number of points.
- The points of each events are rounded to the higher integer.
3.4.2) Tables
3.4.3) Virtual distance
- For each track : multiply its length by number of lap(s).
- Events without stints, with N+1 tracks including D+1 different tracks : add 2N+2D kilometers.
- Events with stints : average distance by driver (virtual distance / nbr drivers x nbr teams).
- Qualifications : the multiplier must be strictly lower than the main event (take multiplier of the line above, if you are on the front line then take the multiplier of the column to the left and at least x1).
3.4.4) Rallyes
- Event on several rallye-stages and eventually several deadlines.
- Each rallye is counted as one event in GWR (look table above to know which multiplier to apply).
3.4.5) Rookie events
- Event only reserved to rookies or drivers who took part to a little number of events and with no great results.
- In this the multiplier given by the table above won't be used and will be replaced by the multiplier 2 rows above (or on the 1st row if it's impossible).
3.4.6) Endurance events
- The drivers are classified by teams and in each one by best stint (in km/h).
3.4.7) Tournaments
- Qualifications : points are awarded normally.
- Final phases, 1st round = 1/n finals : points are awarded normally.
- Final phases, following rounds = 1/m finals + eventually a classification round : points won are divided by attendance and multiplied by attendance of 1st round.
- For example : 1st round = 1/8 finals (16 drivers), 2nd round = 1/4 finals + match for 9th position (8+5 = 13 drivers), 3rd round = 1/2 finals + match for 5th position (4+3 = 7 drivers), 4th round = final A + final B (2+2 = 4 drivers) ; the following multipliers will be used : 16/13 for 2nd round, 16/7 for 3rd round and 16/4 for 4th round.
3.4.8) Marathon competitions
To avoid "marathon competitions" with too many points awarded and too many events to play :
- If N events of the same category (HL, TT or race) and competition take place the same week, points awarded will be divided by N.
- The multiplier of the event may still not be lower than the first row of the multiplier table in the corresponding category.
- Exceptions : for special and annual events like Tourist Trophy.
3.5) Seeded drivers
- Classification of the 32 drivers the best scores during the 6 previous months.
3.6) Rookies
- A driver is considered as rookie of GWR for his first month of participation. To not handicap him if he started during the month or at the end of the month, he's also considered as rookie for his second month of participation, except if the first month he won the classification of rookies or if he was driver of the month in at least one of the 4 categories.
3.7) Tie (scores)
- Only drivers of podium will be decided between, the best position is for the driver with less disqualifications, and after for the driver with most points, and after for the rookies (1° month before 2° month), and for most victories, and most 2° positions, and most 3° positions, ... , most events, poles positions, 2° positions in qualifs, … , best laps, 2° best laps, ... , high score in GWR, 2° high score in GWR, ... , best average speed, 2° best average speed, ... , best margin of victory, 2° margin of victory, ... , smallest difference with winner, 2° difference with winner. If there is again a tie, the best position is for the youngest driver in Generally in the category of the tie.
4) TEAMS
4.1) Teams (general classification)
Endurance Events :
- as the drivers use the same car, win/podium/top5/top10/BL/PP/DQ are counted only once.
- the teams score the sum of their 2 best drivers' points.
Other events :
- each team scores the sum of points/wins/podiums/top5/top10/BL/PP/DQ of their drivers.
4.2) Imposed teams / GR teams (since december 2011)
4.2.1) Definition
- For competitions where teams are imposed (Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull, ...) players can, if they wish, choose another team for the GWR ranking.
- One imposed team = One GR team, meaning that all drivers listed on an imposed team will run for the same GR team.
- If no request is made then the name of the imposed team is preserved, but it won't score points for GWR.
4.2.2) Eligibility for the GWR
- The imposed teams are not eligible for GWR, they don't score points and don't appear in statistics.
- They are only mensionned in result pages : full results of each events and championships, partial results with only the winner names or drivers' statistics.
5) DATES
5.1) Rankings
- Each month, to make classification I take the date of results (or at least replays) publication of each event instead of deadline.
5.2) Deadline of publication to be counted in the month
- Until January 2010 : the last day of the month, 23h59 GMT-12 (Tahiti).
- Since February 2010 : the first day of the next month, 23h59 GMT+1 (Paris). Only if the deadline is before the end of the month.
6) NICK NAMES
If you use several differents nick names, or for quite other complaint you can warn me at the following : joskgr@gmail.com