No, but this is asked quite often, and people have different views on it.
For me it’s important to understand the purpose, the whole philosophy, behind the rankings and why this approach was taken.
It gives people an accurate rank so that when pens are formed based on rank, they are fair and fun. It gives riders something to fight for in every race regardless of whether their expected performance lies. It rewards improvement. It is results and performance based. It is updated in an accurately way regardless of how the pens are sorted (it is not reliant on pens being sorted by ranking itself).
It is not a way to rank rider by capability. It is not a way to sort all riders from best to worst. If that is what you want, you just take a ZP-like approach where you only consider the best performances. However, this approach is not compatible with the benefits listed above. That’s a concept that took my a while to get my head around, so I can explain it further if needed.
Once that is understood, you see that the ranking system really has to be global - all results, all positions in races, need to be taken in to account. If a sprinter only enters sprint races their ranking will natural be higher than if they entered a range of formats. However it is accurate, for the races they take part in. If they enter an AdZ race and do badly, their ranking will adjust downwards. So it is always self-correcting - and when used to sort pens, even if there is a relatively wide range of capabilities, it is fair…
So no, there is no separate ranking for race type (once you think about it, you start to realise that would be extremely difficult to do anyway. Sometimes a hilly race is won by a sprinter in a big pack, sometimes by a climber, sometimes by a puncheur).
That said, one of the benefits of ranking using this type of approach is that the way pens are sorted is really irrelevant. It could be completely random. It could be power based. It could be age group based. It could be ranking based.
So if you are a race organiser setting up a hilly race, you have plenty of options depending on the type of experience you are trying to create. Examples:
- Split by ranking
- Split by 20m w/kg
- Split by 5m Compound Score
- Split by rider phenotype
etc etc
Apologies for the long answer to a short question!