I did the ZA 1 race this morning in the category recommended by Zwift (C) with a race score of 391 and finished 3rd out of 33.
Zwift power shows me in 6th out of 19 in Cat C.
Why the difference and where did I actually finish?
Thanks
It’s a time-based event (30mins) and Zwiftpower orders the results by time. Since you all have exactly the same time the order is random. The Zwift website/companion app results will be in the correct order.
Im not sure how that makes sense.
There was 33 of us racing, staring at the same time. In 30 minutes I traveled further than all but 2. Zwift Power shows only 19 racers in the event.
I suppose ZP only shows 19 because maybe you have to be registered on ZP for a result show but that doesn’t explain why there are people ahead of me that are not listed at all in the results on Zwift. As if they were either not actually in the event or they were in a different Cat and got lumped into mine on ZP. If thats the case that kinda BS because how can you be expected to race or strategize against someone you don’t know you’re racing against.
Zwiftpower doesn’t support “furthest travelled in x time” as a race type.
Then how can ZP determine a winner for that race?
Again why are people listed that aren’t show to have even raced in my cat on Zwift?
How is it one of those people that is my same weight is considered to have beaten me despite me having 4.1 wkg to his 3.1?
I understand how that could happen in a more traditional race but not on a hill climb where drafting is basically non-existent.
The only way to determine who won is who traveled furthest in the allotted time.
I can see ZP doesn’t make this distinction so it must define finisher another way but it’s completely unclear.
Then how can ZP determine a winner for that race?
It can’t. As Brian said, the results on ZwiftPower are nonsense. They’re “randomized” (I don’t think it’s actually random, I think it’s done in a deterministic way, but doesn’t depend on what you did during the event) for fixed-time events because those are assumed to be group rides.
The only way to do it would be for the organizer to go in and manually enter standings. I know I’m not doing that for any races I’m organizing, and I don’t expect anyone else is.
Thanks for the reply.
I guess I’ll just have to accept there is no good reason for ZP to be the way it is.
There are good reasons for how it is - that event type (fixed time) was used only for group rides in the past, which were not competitive. Organizers specifically didn’t want results based on furthest travelled, as it would encourage riders to leave the group and ride faster than the scheduled pace.
Zwift (Zwift Academy) created a race that isn’t a supported race type in ZwiftPower. ZwiftPower isn’t an independent site anymore and Zwift chose not to develop support for that race type in the years since they took over ZwiftPower.
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