The Southern Cross Stunts Trophy

ZakStunts Folyami ratings

Current

Latest update: ZCT259 (Mar 2023)

New entries: Erik Barros

Recently inactive: satanziege

New leader: Duplode

Personal best: Argammon, Frieshansen

Racer Rating Change
1 Duplode 2191 +23
2 Alan Rotoi 2181 -12
3 Argammon 2083 +22
4 CTG 2061 n/a
5 Friker 1911 +22
6 Frieshansen 1879 +12
7 KyLiE 1850 +2
8 Zapper 1766 -11
9 Usrin 1753 n/a
10 dreadnaut 1716 +19
11 Overdrijf 1692 -7
12 Ryoma 1592 +19
13 Heretic 1559 -2
14 Erik Barros 1492 +31
15 Shorty 1393 -70
16 Cas 1379 -24
17 afullo 1377 +10
18 Shoegazing Leo 1242 +21
19 Stan 286XT 1107 +10
20 Daniel3D 1106 -29

The “change” values are differences between current and previous ratings for racers who took part (and had an included entry) in the latest race.

Near misses

Racers unranked due to inactivity who have raced (with an included entry) within the last twelve rounds.

Racer Rating Latest
Akoss Poo 2030 C249
Marco 1989 C252
satanziege 1080 C255

Historical

Latest update: ZCT259 (Mar 2023)

Racer Pers. Best At
1 Ayrton 2351 C100
2 Renato Biker 2309 C180
3 Gutix 2302 C111
4 CTG 2233 C160
5 Duplode 2221 C128
6 FinRok 2221 C229
7 Alan Rotoi 2213 C254
8 Akoss Poo 2170 C169
9 Marco 2104 C218
10 Argammon 2083 C259
11 Bonzai Joe 2072 C134
12 Alain 2019 C32
13 Mark L. Rivers 1994 C88
14 SuperBrian 1972 C124
15 Roy Wiegerinck 1963 C15
16 Mingva 1961 C102
17 Friker 1953 C187
18 Chulk 1951 C61
19 Seeker1982 1944 C230
20 Zak McKracken 1906 C64
21 AbuRaf70 1898 C138
22 Frieshansen 1879 C259
23 Overdrijf 1878 C221
24 DarkChaser 1872 C69
25 KyLiE 1862 C252
26 dreadnaut 1860 C210
27 Usrin 1833 C255
28 Zapper 1801 C245
29 vamologocomisso 1788 C69
30 mislav 1782 C64
31 XDude_NL 1778 C28
32 Krys TOFF 1732 C45
33 Stingray86 1716 C229
34 Doelloos 1710 C28
35 Imperas 1701 C198
36 Bismarck 1695 C15
37 DieselJoe 1691 C45
38 Ben Snel 1690 C14
39 Pershing II 1636 P1
40 Shorty 1631 C167
41 satanziege 1623 C31
42 ADPunk 1616 C142
43 Fernando Brito 1612 C32
44 Ryoma 1608 C243
45 Heretic 1604 C250
46 dstien 1596 C125
47 Pitman 1560 C107
48 SergioBaro 1559 C53
49 Johnny-K 1555 C54
50 dosbox92 1545 C218
51 JoSi 1514 C110
52 afullo 1508 C243
53 Paleke 1503 C51
54 Pavekiller 1502 C89
55 Erik Barros 1492 C259
56 Cas 1488 C170
57 arturbmallman 1486 C200
58 Shoegazing Leo 1472 C171
59 Guga 1427 C36
60 Eddie Brother 1419 P3
61 Juank_23 1415 C15
62 KHR 1405 C5
63 Crazy Jimmy 1399 C118
64 Ranger 1395 C33
65 PedroAntonio 1394 C64
66 JTK 1389 C26
67 Cyberman 1383 C93
68 Antti 1378 C91
69 Straycat 1372 C233
70 hek 1372 C64
71 GTAMan15 1363 C238
72 Dinmor 1362 C49
73 AMG 1362 C82
74 Trx 1362 C7
75 lise 1349 C48
76 sd4000 1325 C214
77 Igor 1308 C238
78 Böbszlee 1308 C91
79 Neil McRae 1294 C27
80 Fredmen67 1249 C109
81 Motig 1247 C199
82 Marci 1227 C64
83 Daffy Duck 1227 C27
84 matamo 1207 C244
85 Tweety Bird 1185 C27
86 Daniel3D 1174 C249
87 Stan 286XT 1167 C238
88 Lene 1164 C69

About the ratings

The ratings in this page are calculated using the Folyami system, an Elo-like system adapted for racing competitions and, in particular, ZakStunts. The technical details on the system works and how it differs from Elo are outlined in The Folyami Rating System page. In the following paragraphs, I will focus on the aspects specific to its current implementation for ZakStunts.

Two rankings are assembled from the ratings: current and historical. The current ranking lists the rating for each racer after the most recent race they took part in, while the historical ranking lists the personal best rating reached by each racer over the entire history of the competition. The rankings have complementary purposes: while the current ranking is very dynamic and responsive to form, the historical rating provides lasting records and milestones.

To be included in either ranking, a racer must have completed at least five ZakStunts races, so that their rating can stabilise to some extent after starting from the arbitrary initial value of 1500. Additionally, in accordance with the dynamic, responsive to form nature of the current ranking, racers must race at least once every four races to remain in it. Racers who leave the current ranking due to inactivity can rejoin it at any time by taking part of a race, with their ratings preserved.

While the rating values shown in the rankings are integers, the calculations are done with decimal numbers, with the results only being rounded down for display in the final tables. The order of racers in the rankings is set according to the values before rounding; there are no other tiebreakers. The choice of rounding down, rather than to the nearest integer, was made so that one can look at the rankings and claim that, for instance, someone has reached 2000 points while being sure that the actual result won’t turn out to be, say, 1999.93. The rating differences shown in the tables, as in the “change” column of the current ranking, are taken between the rounded down values for consistency.

The historical data of ZakStunts results used to obtain the ratings was reviewed to eliminate inconsistencies which might muddle up the results. In particular, known ghosts have been excluded altogether from the calculations (legitimate name changes and pseudonyms, on the other hand, have been merged). Additionally, there are three Folyami-specific exclusion rules for race results, which aim at keeping obviously unrepresentative results from affecting the ratings. They are:

Results excluded under those three rules do not count towards reaching the five race threshold for entering the ranking, nor do they count as race activity for the purpose of remaining in the current ranking.

The ZakStunts results data set used to compute the ratings are available in the GitHub repository of the project. If you spot a mistake or an omission in the data, it can be reported through the usual channels, or through an issue or pull request at GitHub.