Hi Zwift team.
We all know that long races (100km+, 2.5+ hours long) always are not very crowded. It’s a little bit unfair what I lost racing points due to fact that only two people (including me) are at the finish line of such race. Long races already are not very crowded and this approach to RS calculation will not make them more popular. My example: I did two races last week. +/- same effort level. Short race give me +4 points to RS. Long race - give me -7 points. From training and fitness level long race is more demanding
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it’s how their algorithm works on races with very few participants, with 2 participants finishing the person finishing second is classed as last so drops points, it has nothing do do with length of the race or the effort put in
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From other side. In long race you have more chances to finish last. Due to reduced field. And this must be taken into account in algorithm somehow. Otherwise, it’s great way to improve fitness and lower RS.
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its been mentioned many times on here how smaller race fields skew points gained/lost for race score
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