Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Request to Clucky: walk us through your scoring methodology for stock car racing

Clucky—can you walk us through how you did the rolls to score the stock car race?  (I’m not challenging the results, yet… I just want to understand the process).

As I interpret the rules, each competitor’s total time (in milliseconds) would be determined as follows:

“The race itself is 200 laps long. Each lap takes one minute for a standard stockcar to complete.”

So before the adjustments, the race would be (200 (laps) x 60 (seconds per lap) x 1000 (milliseconds per second)), or 12,000,000 milliseconds for the race for each competitor.

This 12,000,000 milliseconds would then be reduced as follows:

This one minute is reduced by X milliseconds, where X is ten times the value of the stockcar’s performance. It is then again reduced by the result of a Dexterity + Wits roll made for each racer. This process is repeated 200 times, once per lap. ... To speed things along, instead of making 200 Dexterity + Wits rolls, each Olympian makes a single 200*(Dexterity+Wits)

The performance roll is only done once and then used for each of the 200 laps, whereas the dex + wits roll is made 200 times (once for each lap).  Fair enough.  So a competitor’s total time, in milliseconds, would be

12,000,000 - (200 x 10 x (performance rating)) - 200DICE(dex+wits).

If my analysis is correct, can you walk me through what you did and show how it fits this equation?  I’m having trouble parsing the GNDT log and seeing what the various rolls that you made are supposed to represent.

 

Comments

Clucky: he/him

17-01-2007 14:09:02 UTC

Fact 1: Everyone races the same period of time. Thus, the only importance is how much time is reduced.

Therefore, I found the performance rating of each car, and then did the 200(dex+wits)DICE10 rolls for each racer. Added them up, and found the results.

Sadly, my brain didn’t know what I was typing when I wrote that up. I wanted the dex+wits rolls to actually matter, but they really didn’t except for breaking preformance ties.

spikebrennan:

17-01-2007 15:35:56 UTC

I think I see the error in my calculations: the dex+wits component is supposed to be 200(dex+wits)DICE10 rather than 200DICE(DEX+WITS), per Rule 2.3.1.  My bad.