I’ll just share these two pictures from today, and hoping that this will point out how confusing the current zFTP system can be to the general public, and why it’s constantly questioned when there are two unique systems in play, and that they don’t agree.
End of tonight’s ride:
Zwift .com:
Now personally, I do understand the differences here; however, this is probably something that should be reviewed. I suspected this would be the case, but haven’t had an FTP increase screen in some time, and last time my zFTP didn’t change when my in-game FTP changed that I had noticed.
Point being; it’s a bit silly that currently the game and the website disagree with each other in telling me what my FTP is; and with a 3% difference, things definitely get fuzzy; because as it stands, Zwift the program would still have me in Cat B right now, where the website has upgraded me to A.
Again, personally I recognize the difference; however, I wouldn’t expect everyone else in the world to recognize these differences.
And this is especially problematic in my scenario, where the hard limit into A is 250w; meanwhile, reference picture 1, where the game literally says I’m still below 250w.
Point being; I watched someone upgrade on ZRL to Cat A a few weeks ago; and congratulated them when I saw them the next day… they had no idea they upgraded.
Zwift needs a better system in place for alerting people that they’ve upgraded, because as it stands, it’s quite hidden away; and there are zero alerts when yours does change.
… and then we get stuck with people jumping on the forum asking “why’d I upgrade???”