I would also like to comment about the ability of riders to DNF to preserve race score. I was feeling competitive tonight and ended up going pretty hard instead of purposely throwing. One other rider and I quickly managed to drop 2 of the 4 starters and about 10 minutes later, I dropped on the first major climb. After another 45 minutes of time trialing, I couldn’t close the distance and finished 2nd out of 4. …except the other two riders that we dropped at the start had quit and I ended up finishing dead last - in second place - and lost 7 points.
I actually was wanting to drop my race score to have access to more races, but not like this. This is also not the first time this has happened to me. I’ve been on a losing streak for the past couple of weeks where the back of the field just DNFs out as soon as I drop them or they get dropped by the group I’m in. As a result, I’ve been finishing near the back, even if I’m middle or front of the pack when counting starters. Right now, I just want to get into a range where I can race consistently again, so I’m not too unhappy about this, but this seems very broken. The point system needs to consider starters.
Yep.
Scores need to change based on Qualified finishers.
This excludes: non starters, DNF, and Sandbaggers.
I also propose people racing out of category (racing up) be excluded.
First, we need a way to review everyone who participates in a race.
The way Zwift handles (actually, DOESN’T HANDLE) race results is ABSURD!!!
If I were Zwift I would probably also seek to close the loopholes around Zwift Power where people can just erase their entire history and reappear at a different height/weight/power.
Happy to chat to someone, but I won’t post the fairly obvious technique here.
Agree and disagree.
Every DNF should get a 2-5 point ZRS increase to discourage DNF’ing.
Agree that there should be somewhere we can find out who we rode an event with. Zwift does try to convince us all that they’re a social platform, but weird you can’t look up who you participated in an event with.
Is this something the racing community needs to administer and implement? Sort of an Independent Race Review Board? Daunting given the number of every day racing but perhaps necessary.
They’ve only done this for stuff with money on the line, partly because it’s a paid service and delays results. It’s mostly good though and always interesting which top racers dodge it
