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Old 05-30-2005, 01:24 PM
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Here's a different take on the results. I do not submit this as the end all analysis to the conversation as to which car is best. However, if you add up the finishing position for each chassis, then divide it by the total number of drivers running that chassis, you get the average finishing position for that chassis:

Chassis - total points - # of drivers - AVERAGE FINISHING POSITION
HB Cyclone 16 3 5.33
Tamiya 415 115 11 10.45
Schumacher Mi2 11 1 11.00
XRAY T1FK05 59 4 14.75
Losi JRXS 52 3 17.33
Yokomo BD 54 3 18.00
Corally RDX 18 1 18.00
Associated TC4 197 9 21.89
Kyosho Proto 63 2 31.50

Remember the line about the different kinds of lies, now. You can make statistics say anything you want. Still, this kind of analysis should emphasize more the average performance of the car and/or TEAM of drivers, and less the performance of any one driver. Obviously if there's only a few drivers for any one chassis, the ranking should be considered less significant. The opposite is true if there are more drivers for any one chassis.

I might be over-analyzing, but, hey, it's my day off.

Also - I may have the number of drivers for each chassis wrong!
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