Champcar 2017 Statistics #4 - Winning Teams

[takjak2]

For the purposes here my definition of a winning team is a team with at least one top 10% finish in 2017.

 

@enginerd asked the right question: is there a correlation between entering more races and finishing better? Yes! Winning teams entered 4.3 events in 2017 compared to just over 2 for the average team. The more races an AVERAGE team does in a year, the more likely their results improve. Up to a point; which is a very fair 40% average finishing position for teams racing more often. Remember, again from the previous discussion, I consider the range of 40% to 60% average finishing position to be a fair rate for an average team. A tighter distribution of average finishing position would indicate equitable, tight racing across the field.

 

 

But what if we are already a winning team? If we enter more events, do we continue winning? Not necessarily! In fact, the trend is for results to even out back towards that advantaged (but fair!) 40% finishing position. This is a really good result for the health of the series. However, I want to highlight and acknowledge a few teams that buck this trend. The teams noted on this graph are those that have the most exceptional performances over time. My hat is off to you. Cheaters

 

 

But what about the cars?! If you are an AVERAGE team in the series, what car gives you can advantage? I spent a really long time staring at this graph. It's not easy to interpret the full impact, but the yellow line is where you should focus. It shows that differences the cars that are chosen by the top teams have when compared to the overall entry rate. It shows that an E36 team is a winning team only about 5% more than their rate of entry would expect.

 

What if you are a winning team? If we are gonna prep a car and go and win in your first year what car should you be driving? Here are the conversion rates from general entries to winning teams. So if you want to be a winning team, bring a 370Z or an SC300.

 

 

Stay tuned for more statistics tomorrow!

[enginerd]

39 minutes ago, takjak2 said:

What if you are a winning team? If we are gonna prep a car and go and win in your first year what car should you be driving? Here are the conversion rates from general entries to winning teams. So if you want to be a winning team, bring a 370Z or an SC300.

So, this is a reason why you should have been filtering out the EC cars... the 370z was an EC car.

[takjak2]

5 minutes ago, enginerd said:

So, this is a reason why you should have been filtering out the EC cars... the 370z was an EC car.

 

Again and again: I don't have classing data. I've asked for it. Champcar doesn't have it collated.

It was also sarcastic

[enginerd]

15 minutes ago, takjak2 said:

Again and again: I don't have classing data. I've asked for it. Champcar doesn't have it collated.

In making my list to determine series standings for the top 75 teams I filtered out EC cars by using this page on speedhive. only 395 cars made it only my list, though, so it was more manageable than every car in the series.

 

[edit] I think the EC cars are really messing with your e36 results, like, way more than any other car. 5 of those 13 EC cars (pictured below) are e36 models. There are only 10 e36 cars in the Sebring results, HALF of these e36s are in EC. If a similar percentage exists across the board, I don't think any reliable conclusions can be drawn about the e36 from your graphs.