Season Scoring Help

[azlj]

Hi All,

Our SCX Digital club is starting our annual season next week and I'm the official score keeper.

My question is on the points spread we came up with. The gap between 6th and 1st seems insurmountable to me. I don't want to set the season based on a one or two races. Here's how the scoring is broken out:

Place - Points - Gap to First - Gap to Next
1 - 52
2 - 43 - 9 - 9
3 - 37 - 15 - 6
4 - 31 - 21 - 6
5 - 25 - 27 - 6
6 - 19 - 33 - 6
0 - 15 - 37 - 4 ← Provisional

We also give bonus points if you qualify 1st or run completely clean race.

Pole 2
Accident Free 5

Any suggestion on what has worked for other in the past?

Our format (in case you're curious):
1. We run 6 "Events" (think of events as race nights).
2. Each event consists of at least 2 (and up to 4) races in each of our 3 series (Nascar, GT, and Trans Am).
3. We qualify once for each series, then we invert the field based on the previous race. For example, we run qualifying for NASCAR and set the field for the first race based on that run. The second race we invert the field from the results of race 1, race 3 we invert the field based on the results from race 2. If we switch series we qualify again.

BTW - I've built a nice (I think) scoring spreadsheet in GoogleDocs to keep track of the scores through out the year for up to 6 racers. I'd be happy to share the file if anyone is interested.

[Florida_Slotter]

When we ran the National FCR Championship Series - that was a program with many states and raceways involved - we chose a bit more simple scenario.

You received from 1st (25 points) down to last (1 point) for each race you entered.

If there were more than 9 racers at the race, everybody got a 3 point bonus. This kind of gives your racers a bit of incentive to tell somone else about the race.

We also awarded 1 bonus point for TQ and for fast lap during the race.

It was much easier to count on your fingers then the what you are proposing. It worked very well.

[RichD]

Since it is usually not possible for all of the drivers to attend every race we drop out each racer's two or three worst races, otherwise the racers that can make every race would have a big advantage. The number of races that are dropped depends on the number of races in a series. We divide the year up into three series, but some weeks we do proxy races or miss one due to bad weather. I have an Excel spreadsheet that has spaces for 22 drivers in each of six classes.