Pandemic Year Folded Into Ratings

CIELO Ratings 3.0.3 have been rolled out thus including racing from 2020 in the populations of races. With one hundred and twenty-eight races now rated, the NASCAR ACTIVE DRIVERS LIST reflects the Cup Series races inclusively from the 2020 Daytona 500 race forward through the present. The ELO ratings now span 1134 to 1905 with …

Truex Time

For Martin Truex, Jr., 2003 has been a much better year than 2022. While Truex was winless on the NASCAR Cup circuit last year, he is excelling this year. Monday marked the third victory in the last ten starts. After the 2023 Crayon 301 race, Truex’s ELO rating is 1787 (3.0.2). After the twentieth race …

OPEN

All ELO rating systems use a pre-defined rating for contestants entering the population to rate the result of their first event. Most use the assigned average, in our case 1500, to calculate their opening rating. New Zealander Shane Van Gisbergen won his debut NASCAR race on the Chicago Street Course this past weekend. The victory …

NASHVILLE UPDATE

The following table has the updated CIELO RATINGS of the NASCAR Cup drivers through the Ally 400 contested at the Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday, June 25th. The current ratings revision, 3.0.0, is the alpha version of the ratings. This version uses k=12 arbitrarily to mirror the work previously done by others to use an ELO …