RaceLog Announcement: 'Changing Your Online Multiplayer Experience'

[Bram Hengeveld]

After a long period of stealth development RaceDepartment is proud to announce the arrival of ... RaceLog! RaceLog is our in-house developed software application that tracks all your online racing data for various PC racing simulations and translates this information into a state of the art online ranking system.

RaceLog will soon be available to all our licensed members who actively participate in our various PC racing clubs and give them the opportunity to compete against other players in an exciting new online multiplayer environment.

It will bring together a large amount of information for our licensed members, giving them a central place for all things racing. Our new service allows our members to track all their personal best laptimes, practice-, qualification- and raceresults and over time more features will be added.

The keyfeature of RaceLog is to compare where you stand against other players of our community and track the progress of your online career. Your raceresults from various games will be processed after each online race and via an algorithm transformed into an unique ranking score.

Over time this ranking score gives you access to online competitions, pro racing series and maybe you will be crowned the "Fastest Racer" or "Most Consistent Racer" of RaceDepartment by the end of the year and win great prizes!

The rankings will be reset on annually basis and all previous races until today will be discarded so everybody who wishes to participate in our online events can still win the yearly prize.

Check out the RaceLog Rankings here

Check out the RaceLog Results here

Available features

• Ranked races for Formula Truck and Game Stock Car.
  
• Session (practice, qualy, race) results.
  
• Global ranking
  
• Game filters
  
• Server filters
  
• Lap history
  
• Session streams
  

Coming soon

• Ranked races for rFactor 2, GT Legends, RACE 07, Assetto Corsa (t.b.a), Project CARS (t.b.d.)
  
• Live timing
  
• Live track view
  
• Real-time event sign-up
  
• Special features for our Premium Members (thanks for keeping this website alive with your donations, lots of love!)
  

Find below some screengrabs of RaceLog in action. If you have any questions please leave them in the comment section below and we will do our best to answer them.

For now if you wish to be amongst the first to make an appearance on the RaceLog leaderboards head over to the Game Stock Car racing club or the Formula Truck racing club and sign up for the scheduled online events that are tagged with a "RaceLog" prefix.

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[Marco Bijl]

looks like i have to wait until next year for me to get rfactor 2 to be on the ranking system

It depends Ron.. For now we have GSC and FTruck as pilots, but that will be more platforms soon I am sure.

 

[Roland]

Nice work!! This is looking very impressive already
Once fully implemented this will be quite a FAST growing database...

 

[Paul Bennett]

looking good guys, this could open up hot lap & time trials for fun in between events

 

[Pablo Lopez]

Nice! waiting for it to come to AC!
missing those CTRA times on LFS

 

[Dennis Phelan]

Looks like the right man for the right job done did it!! In Aces!

 

[AndrewBo]

Respect. Nice work m8's.

 

[Yves Larose]

is it possible to view the our racelog at the moment ?

 

[Stefan Mizzi]

is it possible to view the our racelog at the moment ?

Sure Yves! It's online and can be found here:

http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/pages/racelog-rankings/

and

http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/pages/racelog-results/

 

[Hampus Andersson]

How does the algorithm work across platforms?

 

[OverTake.gg]

I moved your question to the central thread Hampus Andersson

 

[Stefan Mizzi]

How does the algorithm work across platforms?

Hampus, we have a process which reads data logs from the various games. The system then processes these files and saves the data into an organized way.

Then our rating engine calculates these values for Ranked Servers (these are denoted with an #R):

1. rating globally over all games and races
2. rating per game over all races for that particular game and
3. rating per game and car class for that particular game and class

For now, the rating is purely based on the race result and drivers are also given negative points for DNF.

Let us know if more explanation is required

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Thanks,
I take it in the future various championships will be rated differently?
Meaning if you win in a tougher league (more drivers etc) that will increase your rating more then driving in a championship with let´s say 10 drivers?

 

[Stefan Mizzi]

Thanks,
I take it in the future various championships will be rated differently?
Meaning if you win in a tougher league (more drivers etc) that will increase your rating more then driving in a championship with let´s say 10 drivers?

The engine can take various dynamic rules, so yeah, it would be possible in the future.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Do you get more points if you beat people with a higher ranking? This would allow the better drivers to move up the rank faster. Also if you get beaten by someone with very low rank you could lose points to them. Just a couple of ideas.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Absolutely, like tonights truck raced proved

 

[Miroslav Davidovic]

Great job there Stefan!

 

[Anthony Levene]

Really impressive Stefan! Good work

 

[Sebastian Wolff]

Why is it that rankings for game stock car are displayed only in car class "All", whereas when I set the filter to any specific series nothing gets displayed? Does it mean you only raced mixed series so far?
One more question: is it possible to view the possible maximum amount of points to win for a specific race before the actual race?

 

[Stefan Mizzi]

Why is it that rankings for game stock car are displayed only in car class "All", whereas when I set the filter to any specific series nothing gets displayed? Does it mean you only raced mixed series so far?

Most probably F3 is not being mapped yet as a class for GSC, thanks for pointing it out...I'll check it out Ratings are also calculated by Game and Class so data will come up.

One more question: is it possible to view the possible maximum amount of points to win for a specific race before the actual race?

Hmm, not sure, but I will check it out.

Cheers

 

[Sebastian Wolff]

Thanks!