Alright, CMP fans:
Here you go.
All CMP races since the start of 2010:
Southern Discomfort 2010:
South Spring 2010:
South Fall 2010:
Southern Discomfort 2011:
Note that there is one outlier that's WAY offscreen: What appears to be a transponder glitch on Student Drivers at Southern Discomfort 2011.
It is interesting, however, that if you look at the individual races, you'll see that it DOES appear to matter how fast you are in the top 10-15% of the field - but only in comparison with each other, not the field at large.
RobL wrote:Can you post or send me this data? I do statistics/modelling/projections for a living and this is not what I expected to see.
(work is blocking the actual graphs but looking at it on my phone - you can't use a straight "average speed" since all track have different averages. If you can, normalize the speed as a percentage of fastest lap)
As in x=bestSpeed / laptimeInSeconds ? That seems a bit off, since the speed value is already computed from laptime and the track length.
At any rate, if you do that you end up with the uncorrelated column-looking thing you do above on a per-race basis, a bunch of seperate (occasionally partially overlapping) columns for each event.
As for the data, it's copy-paste from Mylaps - which gives you something similar to a tab-separated values file, except with really mangled data fields for some races. Here's the raw data:
http://www.phyrefile.com/file/view/X1xReTd8XMO5NiEv
If you'd like, I can massage that into XML, or a proper CSV, or whatever pretty easily, since the parser I wrote uses (almost) all the available data (It ignores most DNS cars)
There are two races missing from the 2010 season - the season opener because it's missing timing data on mylaps, and one other race because it seems to be completely missing.
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