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MavTV seems to be stuck on showing "Rider Gap" for most of the race. I find that info to be close to useless. Manually calculating gaps is simple when they show Time Behind Leader. But doing the opposite is much harder, especially if you are tracking a guy further back in the field.
Ideally, they would rotate between both.
Ideally, they would rotate between both.
Poll
That doesn't make sense.
Quick, tell me how far Varize is behind the leader. Or tell me how far Hammaker is behind Vohland (before that part of the leader board rotates to 21st-30th place).
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The Shop
Am I missing something?
Someone 96 seconds behind the leader is irrelevant info for me.
To me it easily and precisely lets you see what’s happening in battles and if someone is on a charge and catching the leader, they still have to get one position at a time. The gap to the leader is irrelevant until they’re at least into a podium position.
Who cares how far behind the leader someone in 10th is? However I’m still interested in the gaps to 11th and 9th.
Will fix.
Or even fast lap? 😂😂
Time behind leader is my favorite.
Either way is fine, the gap to the next rider is more useful to identify where the clusters of riders and real time battles are taking place. Gap to leader is more useful to see the overall strength of the class.
I also think carrying the gaps more than 1 decimal point is a waste of valuable screen space. But that's another topic. (The difference between being 4.518 seconds behind leader or 4.5 seconds behind leader is irrelevant.)
I dislike it on the sides.
Pit Row
Again, why would I care how far back Hammaker is from Vohland? You're using a stupid example here. I want to know how fast Hammaker is catching Ray, then Pape etc.
Perfect example was 450 moto 1. Even when they weren't showing Tomac coming up, you could track his progress to the next rider very easily using the gap information.
People like gap to leader because they've displayed it that way for decades but it isn't better information.
To use your example, when Hunter is in 9th and gaining 1.5 seconds a lap on on the guy in front of him, show me that. He could be doing the same exact lap times as the leader but it requires paying more attention to the sidebar to watch gap to leader over the course of several laps.
I can get all the information I need from the leader gap. But the rider gap makes it messy to try to get the full picture.
It’s retarded. And typical of the program to ruin something so freaking simple and take up a third of the screen with it is equally retarded.
Time behind leader gives you who is having battles, and if a rider with a bad start has a chance of catching the lead pack. If it was just rider gap, you don't know if the lead pack is pulling away or not.
Who cares if it shows to the hundredth the gap between 8th and 9th if they aren't going to televise that battle anyway? Time behind leader you can still figure out there's about a 1.5 second gap vs knowing it's actually 1.432 seconds.
For just a few short years in the mid to late 00s, SPEED would have a little blip every time a rider set the fastest lap of the moto, no matter their position. I thought that was cool. Would have loved to see that when Tomac was dropping his lap times by a couple seconds at the end of motos from 17-19.
As for the question, behind leader 100%.
I'm often looking at how far back a rider is from a certain position, for example when Hammaker was 19th this weekend I wanted to know how much time he is behind 10th and if he can make that gap up. When they show time behind leader, it's a simple calculation using Hammaker's gap from leader and the 10th place rider's gap. If they show time behind leader, now I have to keep track of 9 rider gaps and add those together and then it really gets inaccurate.
As far as that goes.....would be cool for the broadcast to maybe just rotate between the two?? I'd be good with that.
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