2020 scoring system – is it an improvement?

@jrenaut 199309 wrote:

To give us something to argue about that isn’t proper lighting or ebikes

Didn’t mean the dislike, sorry!

The cap last year was ridiculous. Me commuting even 4 days/week amounts to >100 miles. Why should I be penalized for doing exactly what FS is all about? You want more points? Ride more!

This scoring system is definitely preferred, but could be tweaked (again). 20 points for 1 mile? That seems excessive. I rode every day one year. It was ok, but I got to feeling like 1 mile rides were silly so I hardly did any this year. When I did it was to check whether my home maintenance was adequate.

I don’t really have any useful suggestions, but I do like the idea of having multiple leaderboards for teams and individuals. Like how about a straight up mileage one? I’d like to see where I stack up among the people for whom mileage counts. Other leaderboards would enable people to focus on other things and maybe work their way into top 10 positions etc…

Whatever is decided, we can’t thank enough the people who put all the time and energy into developing the website, programming the data collection “things”, sorting through all the entries and assigning teams. Thanks to all, your hard work is very much appreciated!

I’m matteblack and I approve this year’s point scoring methodology (not that that means anything or anything). Seriously, though, I liked this year’s more than last year’s (my first foray in FS). I, too, set 10 miles as my new sleaze, which I termed a megasleaze (although some days I did a true sleaze).

Looking forward to next year, I would probably tweak it a bit, but not by much. Which parts would I tweak? Let me sleep on that and answer in November.

The +10 for mile 1 is directly equivalent to -10 for not riding a mile, it just recasts the penalty as a reward. Where things currently stand, I believe the top 8 teams are also the top 8 teams by ride days so the scoring system seems to incentivise the right thing; it certainly encouraged me to ride more, more often than I might have .

I like the concept of targeting a certain amount of miles each day, in this case 10/day. That’s about an hour on a bike a day which seems like a “stretch” for someone to do 7 days a week for 10 weeks or so. I think that’s good for a casual competition. Raising this number seems a bit unreasonable as dedicating more than an hour a day to this would be asking a lot. Lowering the daily mileage target seems like it would be too easy to make it a “competition.”

The only thing I would consider changing would be doing some sort of balancing system to even the teams. Total up your miles for the first two weeks before teams are generated and then try to distribute the high mileage folks and low mileage folks? Probably been discussed in the past as it isn’t a revolutionary concept by any means.

I will echo what someone else said earlier in this thread, THANK YOU TO THE ORGANIZERS AND FOLKS THAT PUT IN TIME AND EFFORT TO MAKE IT ALL WORK!!!!

Been having a blast this year!