Why does Zwift still allow people to join races in lower categories than their race scores should allow? It’s more fun to race with an appropriately competitive group, but not so much against “pro” riders
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They don’t allow it, and that part of the system works. The part that doesn’t work is the information you are seeing post race.
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Because ZwiftHQ is very naive about allowing score decay and not using historic power data going back to last season (9+ months ago when available) to correctly pen allocate a vast majority of racers.
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In the race which you just finished ALL of the racers started the race with a ZRS score at or below 210. The fact that you now see several racers with finishing scores well above 210 is due to the fact they achieved new 90 day 5 min pbs during the race and their score went up as a result BUT you don’t get to see those increases in the results. You only get to see the actual race position point gains 10,10, 7, 6, 5, 5 etc which are added onto any pb gains.
There are regular complaints that the finishing ZRS minus the race position points = more than the pen limit ergo they started above the pen limit. Unfortunately for those performing well in the race Zwift is only showing you half of the full picture.
[Zwift does not allow you to compete in a pen below your ZRS score]
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I do wish they use decay and took in to strength of field.
Thanks for answers. It looked to me like some scores were so high compared with upper cutoff that the wrong people could join. I’ll have to look more closely.
I notice today that in the past 2/3 days Zwift have quietly made a change to how race score movements are now reported.
If you look back at the results of this race again now you will see the score movements include those large gains from new 90 day 5 minute pbs.
Hard to keep up with changes when they are done quietly behind the scenes !
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2/3 66% less then full day, i think you mean 2-3 days. @Ian_Attoe