From the December tech update:
Scoring: As has been said before, this project is built on a large technical foundation that will afford us freedom in the future to make changes quickly during testing and in response to community feedback.We have made some progress over the holiday and are rapidly approaching the ability to begin testing in events.
At a high level, the goals of adding scoring to racing are:
- Create a race environment that rewards Zwifters that race smartly and to the best of their ability by scoring their results, no matter where you finish on the day
- Give Zwifters a system of categorization or ranking that is not determined purely by power
- Help make racing more easily understood and more exciting for more Zwifters
We are presently looking at multiple scoring/ranking options to identify strong contenders for what we feel would best create a fun, engaging, and fair racing experience. Community feedback will also play a part in helping us make the choices as we keep progressing on scoring your race results. We have also scheduled work to examine the benefits of compound score to compliment our scoring/ranking structure in the future. If you’re curious what compound score is or does, you can read all the details at this source . The simple high level explanation is that compound score will be used with the express purpose of seeding Zwifters into an initial score or rank when no racing data exists for a given Zwifter for any reason.
Like we mentioned in the November update, we will have posts in the coming weeks with more detail on scoring, so stay tuned!
I don’t think Zwift has actually followed through with the more detail on scoring in the coming weeks updates though.