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A Taste of Home
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Chevy vs Ford at LACR
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<blockquote data-quote="jhwalker" data-source="post: 538393" data-attributes="member: 6964"><p>I've thought that there could be change made to bracket racing that would actually give a slight advantage to the car setting the lower dial-in time (which is the time that you arbitrarily set as your predicted ET). If you go faster than your dial-in time, you have 'broken out' and generally are gone bye bye. If both cars break-out, the one who breaks out by the greatest amount goes bye bye. The best run is when you match your dial-in time on the nose, with a perfect (.500) reaction time. Hard to do for us mortals. The combined difference between your actual ET vs your dial in, plus your reaction time compared to your opponent's same numbers will determine who gets the win light. </p><p> </p><p>OK, with my recommended modification to bracket racing, the car with the lower dial in gets a formula-driven advantage. </p><p></p><p>For instance, let's say the faster car will get 1/5 of the difference between dial-in times as the 'faster dial ' advantage. </p><p>Tetge dials at 12.0 I dial at 13.0 .</p><p>One second diff, so Tetge gets .2 advantage (1/5 of 1.0). Instead of me getting a 1.0 second head start with my 13.0 dial against his 12.0, I only get a .8 head start (1.0 - .2 = .8). </p><p> With equal reaction times, if both of us match our dial-in ETs -- Tetge wins due to the 'fast dial ' advantage. </p><p> </p><p>Maybe 1/5 of the difference is too much, maybe it should be 1/10. But there should be some advantage for having invested in a fast car, and/or being a better driver. It SHOULD BE A RACE fer Christ's sake!! Yeh, somebody would have to think a little, and there is the possibility of calc error unless actually computed in the track system, etc. </p><p>But the good news would be that looking over at that ratty 6 cylinder, 2 speed automatic tranny station wagon lined up against you with a 18.0 dial -- and you have a 13.0 dial -- he has to beat you by 1 second net to knock you out. </p><p>BENEFITS:</p><p>1. It would incent folks to dial as low as possible (quit sandbagging).</p><p>2. It would incent folks to make their cars FAST. </p><p>3. You might actually see fast cars in the finals!</p><p> </p><p>As it currently stands, bracket racing is a strange form of ET prediction plus reaction time with movement down the track for which a trophy is given. I'm with Tetge on this, :sleeping: </p><p> </p><p>JW</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jhwalker, post: 538393, member: 6964"] I've thought that there could be change made to bracket racing that would actually give a slight advantage to the car setting the lower dial-in time (which is the time that you arbitrarily set as your predicted ET). If you go faster than your dial-in time, you have 'broken out' and generally are gone bye bye. If both cars break-out, the one who breaks out by the greatest amount goes bye bye. The best run is when you match your dial-in time on the nose, with a perfect (.500) reaction time. Hard to do for us mortals. The combined difference between your actual ET vs your dial in, plus your reaction time compared to your opponent's same numbers will determine who gets the win light. OK, with my recommended modification to bracket racing, the car with the lower dial in gets a formula-driven advantage. For instance, let's say the faster car will get 1/5 of the difference between dial-in times as the 'faster dial ' advantage. Tetge dials at 12.0 I dial at 13.0 . One second diff, so Tetge gets .2 advantage (1/5 of 1.0). Instead of me getting a 1.0 second head start with my 13.0 dial against his 12.0, I only get a .8 head start (1.0 - .2 = .8). With equal reaction times, if both of us match our dial-in ETs -- Tetge wins due to the 'fast dial ' advantage. Maybe 1/5 of the difference is too much, maybe it should be 1/10. But there should be some advantage for having invested in a fast car, and/or being a better driver. It SHOULD BE A RACE fer Christ's sake!! Yeh, somebody would have to think a little, and there is the possibility of calc error unless actually computed in the track system, etc. But the good news would be that looking over at that ratty 6 cylinder, 2 speed automatic tranny station wagon lined up against you with a 18.0 dial -- and you have a 13.0 dial -- he has to beat you by 1 second net to knock you out. BENEFITS: 1. It would incent folks to dial as low as possible (quit sandbagging). 2. It would incent folks to make their cars FAST. 3. You might actually see fast cars in the finals! As it currently stands, bracket racing is a strange form of ET prediction plus reaction time with movement down the track for which a trophy is given. I'm with Tetge on this, :sleeping: JW [/QUOTE]
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