With that system it is possible to rate the performance of drivers.
This page gives an overview how ranking points are determined.
Ranking Points
The driver ranking system applies points for experience, success and safety of drivers.Each of these categories are rated per driver and they sum up to the total ranking points per driver.
Experience
Every driven distance counts as experience.Depending on the session type, there are different points earned per distance.
The experience points are granted relative to one million driven meters (Points / Mm).
Practice: 1.00 Points / Mm
Qualifying: 10.00 Points / Mm
Race: 20.00 Points / Mm
Sucess
By leading positions in race, qualifying and record tables, a driver can gain success points.Leading positions are counted as places prior to other drivers in a table.
Think of it as counting positions from the bottom of a table.
If for example a driver takes a second place in a race of five drivers, he has three leading positions (he is prior three other drivers in the result table).
Was this second place in a race of ten drivers he would get eight leading positions.
This automatically weights sessions with high driver amount as more rewarding,
while beeing the only driver in a table gains no leading positions.
Additionally the driver with the best race time earns points.
Best Time: 0.00 Points / Position
Race Time: 2.00 Points / Position
Qualifying: 0.50 Points / Position
Race: 1.00 Points / Position
Safety
To restrict rough driving and encourage fair driving the ranking system counts points for unsave driving maneuvers.These points are typically negative, so they reduce the overall ranking points of a driver.
Penalized maneuvers are cuts and collisions. Collisions are are related to the speed at which they happen.
A collision at twice the normalized speed costs twice the penalty points, while a collision at a quarter of the normalized speed costs only a quarter of the points.
Cuts: -0.10 Points / Cut
Collisions with Environment: -1.00 Points / Normspeed-Collision
Collisions with other Cars: -5.00 Points / Normspeed-Collision
Normalized Collision Speed: 100.00 km / h
Ranking Period
The ranking points are not calculated over all sessions. Instead they are cumulated over a period of time.Sessions wich are older than this period are not considered for the ranking points anymore.
An exception are positions in record tables. Since these records last, the ranking points for best times will last.
... well, at least until a slower driver gets faster.
Ranking Period: 91 Days
Ranking Groups
The driver ranking table is split into several groups.This allows drivers to compete in equal performance categories and allows performance ballancing on the server.
The group assignment of each driver is defined by reaching an absolute amount of points.
The minimum requirement for each group can be viewed in the driver ranking.