I remember it being asked on day two of the Beta and it was promised a few days later that it would be put into the game.
But so far … nothing …
So this afternoon with some spare time I went into a search of my races from November 7th onwards, since that was the day ZRS came live after 3 months of testing. Opened Zwiftpower and my Companion App for activities and it brought me this :
Dont know if we can learn much from just my data alone, but it would be so nice when Zwift live up to their promise and come up with something like this for everyone. Sure we can all keep track in a sheet, but …
Few notes on my races.
The first 35 days were in the racing event where we had to race every day in the community event. Neatless to say I could not race to the max every day so took some a bit easier so kept very low and around my floor at that time.
The one A race was a miss click in the Tiny race where in the rush to enter the pen again pressed on join A and was wondering why they went up the Alpe so fast, till I saw I was in A cat.
Most of the ups and downs are pretty explainable by looking at the result I had or went on vacation, but some of them arent.
But my guess is that has most likely to do with 5 min power changes in my 90 days record.
So please Zwift, make this happen and do add a marker in the graph where the ZRS has changed due to power changes. It would not only make looking at my acount a lot better, but also looking before or after a race at the opponents graph of ZRS History.
They removed the ability to click through to opponents race info on Zwift.com, il let you guess where the results based system is heading post zwiftpower. It will be as opaque as possible as Zwift simply don’t believe in or want to provide transparency.
Add in the god awful UX within Zwift.com feed and you’ll never see much info of actual use
You might be lucky with a ZRS history for yourself - others… who knows.
I’ve been tracking mine since the start. Interestingly my ZRS has only ever gone up apart from when they reset the scores twice in a week. Lots of non-ZRS races where the long plateaus are. As far as I can tell, as long as you finish in the top half, your score goes up. A lot of people will get stuck on 1000 eventually if that is how it works!
I also do a lot of races where I know I wont do well in. Everything with a climb in it basicly drops my score again. So when there is a month (like this one) where the ZRaces have climbs my score takes a downfall. Sometimes even so far that I feel guilty that it drops so far and I could potentionally ruin the race for a lot in a cat down.
But as long as we dont have terrain handicaps, this will be the case if you dont only races on routes you know you do well in. If I was to do only flat races my score would look just like yours.
IMO you shouldn’t feel bad about racing where the system puts you. You can’t fix what’s wrong with it. If someone in a lower pen is having a bad experience, Zwift gave it to them.
Same thing happened Saturday in the Tinies. One of the racers in my cat dropped to a lower cat in ZRS but was unable to join that race in the next one.
Some humble brags here with that sort of progression. I’m middle-aged (probably the wrong side), mid-cat, mid-pack and my score barely changes. Unfortunately the rigid group scoring does not help.
Started at 366 in July ‘24, then to 393, dropped in Dec to 341 (which I think was a result of Zwift’s rescoring across ZRS), to 356 by March and 365 now. So in ZMonthly I can get into a half-decent group in Range 1 or be right at the bottom of the group in Range 2 (starting at 350), which is where most other events start their groups too. If I race any of those I’m up against racers of 480-520 (Bs on the old Cats) where one event would probably put me below 350 and see me yo-yo-ing groups for ever.
With a lot of flat races getting your ZRS on the rise isnt that hard if you have a sprint. In almost every flat race I do I end up in the top 60% of the field and so my ZRS goes up.
The going down bits are when I was doing other routes with hills in them or when my 90 day power records changed. But if I just did races on flats where I am good at I would probably end up in Avanced and get destroyed by the 900+ riders who I cant even follow on the flat.
Interesting to see peoples progression. I think you also do a lot of tiny races, racing only some, which will have caused some up and downs. If you didn’t do that I’m sure your score would be even higher.
Its clear that regular racing (without manipulation) leads to score increases for most people. There are some people limited to advanced pen who low to mid Bs…I would be myself if i did more ZRS races.
I do them a lot indeed, because I like the format, its good training and I have some friends who do them also which makes it even more fun.
If I do well in them purely depends on the route though. The level of riders in the Tinies is pretty high and the pace fast. If there is anything with a hill in it I get dropped. In other more flat ones I can hang on and sprint.
Last weekend was a good example of that. I finished 81st, 8th, 10th and 60th. That gives the bumps up and down like you said. But yes, if I do get dropped the GC is already gone so when I know I make the time limit I wont push myself to the max, cause I could better save some energy for the next one.
