The new Zwift Racing Score "ranking" metric... What a dog's dinner!
@Roady What do you make of your Racing Score of ~693?
I'm ~652, looks like 3rd in pen D, I'm nothing like third strongest D rider; I do the Zwift Insider Tiny Races because I love the format and I have severe fatigue issues even racing continuously for ~25mins; plus I think they've horribly skewed my figure by using my pen A results to avoid the "no sniping" rule in Tiny Races after technology issues.
It is totally a dogs dinner and as the rest of you are seeing - completely unbalanced. Have to admit I've not read up enough on it and even got close to understanding it. I'm still trying to get my head around zMAP and zFTP! I'm so out of date...!
Quite happy with my 693, but know I generally do race 'busy' series and generally the competitive races. But also with current CE putting me back down in C pen,
I can secure pretty convincing wins there when there's
smaller fields split by Zwift's categories... So I'm the 2 extremes I suppose - busy and competitive races, generally not using Zwift CE so don't rank, then the ranked races I'll generally be riding at not a busy time, so just pick something I like the course of either to be smashing the front of C, or as an iTT type effort.
But the ranking might work out better - there's no way I'm a 'Cat C' by the classic ranking systems that CE's zMAP puts me info. A category determined by ranking I'll probably be better fitted - like the DiRT series using the Zwiftraceing.app (DRS ranking) which finished and the FRR World Order series I'm dipping in & out of - which is ranked from my NP in previous FRR events. Both are more accurate for me to have competitive racing than zMAP CE and ZRS at the moment.
I'd seen a lot of talk about riders amassing a huge amount of score from Tiny Races, so that even goes the other way - boosting score with short multiple efforts and results. Then you enter a ranked longer race vs other riders who are not as well ranked, but are better than you, and due to your high score you 'bomb' them with points due to the differential when they beat you?! So they get ranked up and you get an easier race win next week in the same series...
Some of the top competitive Zwifters and teams already using this tactic to lower ranks of competitors, or maybe even themselves to race in lower ranked categories for bigger 'points' wins!? Really don't understand it totally. But the having some ranked races, vs others ignored seems to just screw up the matching and competitiveness of racing even more. Also highly unlikely they'll do anything about it until ZRL is close to starting and it becomes a complete clusterfudge.
Whilst i know the easy answer here is to go and try it
Would a disc braked wheel physically fit on a rim brake frame? I've a disc rim with a slight cracked rim i'm debating using for the indoor turbo (wheel on), however unsure if it'd fit. Don't plan on actually using brakes for it.
Depends on your frame and depends on your wheel... Really helpful that!
Think Steve has you mostly covered, but a Road rim brake wheel is generally a 130mm hub. Early disk QR wheels where 135mm hubs, so they did the same and would fit - but then Thru Axle came out and the first hubs where 135 but the lugs too big to fit into a QR, then thru axle standard generally changed to 142mm for more clearance (some edge cases like my Diverge in the middle at 137mm with SCS lol). BUT many 'off the shelf' wheels came with axle endcaps so you could convert the wheel between 130/135 QR, 135 TA and 142 TA. If you have one of those wheels and the right endcaps, you *should* be able to get the disc wheel to fit a rim frame.
But unless it's a wheel from a known manufacturer bought as a wheelset and not from an off the shelf bike, it's likely you don't have the endcaps or may struggle to get them.
I've a rim wheel if you trawling for some - have a couple of complete Giant alloy wheelsets, 1 of which I serviced & cleaned to sell and I never listed.
Like these. Maybe I should sell them, last time I looked they where not selling for £20 so not worth the hassle lol
