RaceApp.eu eSports Management - Release Notes

As promised not so long ago, there will be full ACC support in RaceApp.eu. Testers are already checking out features in their early access account so it won't last too long for bringing it all to the public!

What can you expect?
RaceApp.eu is a free to use simracing league management platform. Our mission is to work closely together with communities in order to deliver exceptional experiences for drivers and organizers. Since we started in 2016 countless features were added as direct requests from our users - which count 2200 by today.
Simracing communities are our partners and not our competitors, so their presence with their series will always be in the focus of the audience.

What will RaceApp do for you?

1. Fully fledged booking system: self-service, car selector, teams, limits for same car/livery/class count, multiclass, safe password distribution, ...
   
2. Racing results and statistics: multiclass, chart diagrams, incident statistics, sector time analysis, ...
   
3. Series Scoring: scratch results, team score, endurance score, VLN scoring schema, rookie score, penalty management, multi series score, ...
4. Long time statistics: driver event history, leaderboard of community drivers, etc.
5. ACC specials: livery picker, entrylist generator

As framework aspect we manage data privacy aspects for you.
There is a long list of features we will deliver in the upcoming months. But that is a different topic and too much for here.

If you want to know more, visit raceapp.eu or our discord server. Our fb/t social media channels will get some more love too in the future so I will be glad if you join there aswell ;-)

I am looking forward to see your feedback, questions and thoughts. I am here to hear you!

PS: You may already try our established AC support

 

Hello Racki, that's good news!

We are looking forward to using the RaceApp as much as possible with ACC, as we have done in the past with RaceRoom.

Let us know if you need any kind of support, we would be glad to help you to further your great RaceApp!

 

If you can provide some sample logfiles in the newest v1.0.7 format that would boost QA for sure

 

Am Dienstag haben wir wieder ein Rennen, dann sende ich die die Daten!

 

Update News! Version 1908 is online now!

Early Access Accounts will experience:

• ACC: Entry List Generator, Livery Browser, Log Import with Result Analysis
  (Driverswap is supported but only primary driver will be listed in the App)
• rF2: Log Importer finetuning to latest feedback and bug reports
  INFO: Complete Mod support. Unknown mods will be automatically added to the database upon logfile upload. Then cars/classes/tracks are available in the booking system.
• R3E: Quickresult Report working just in local browser without anything else (experiment for future)
• Event Scheduler: Which community is driving which series on which days? Available through Button on the What's up page Appart from early access we have some

News for all users:

• NEW: Fairness Rating table on series statistics page
• R3E: United WTCR 18/19 performance classes
• R3E: Entry List csv report with R3E UserIds available from the event page
• FIX: Series scoring happend to produce duplicate drivers in some cases

As testing goes on we are optimistic to release early access features in September.
Any feedback appreciated. I am here to hear you

 

How Can I participate in ACC tests?

 

You need to fill out the community registration form from the start page and then I can enable the preview features for you. Simple as that

 

Hello Chris,

can you add to the entrylist.json "defaultGridPosition" please?

Would be helpful if you want to do reverse start order.

 

Which values do you suggest for this property?

 

I imagine it like this:

entrylist.json

{
"forceEntryList": 0,
"entries": [
{
"drivers":[
{
"firstName":"Max",
"playerID":"Sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}
],
"raceNumber":-1,
"forcedCarModel":-1,
"overrideDriverInfo":0,
"defaultGridPosition":-1,
"customCar":"",
"overrideCarModelForCustomCar":0,
"isServerAdmin":0
},
{
"drivers":[
{
"firstName":"Willi",
"playerID":"Sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}
],
"raceNumber":-1,
"forcedCarModel":-1,
"overrideDriverInfo":0,
"defaultGridPosition":-1,
"customCar":"",
"overrideCarModelForCustomCar":0,
"isServerAdmin":0
}
]
}

 

It is time to give you some insight on the current progress and also some background information.

When you start an event it is recommended to use the booking system with livery picker and participation confirmation. The logic behind calculates everything to give you a ready to use entrylist.json:

The livery picker currently supports only original liveries but not custom designs.
I am thining about an interactive livery designer which integrates in this process well and gives the admin a ready to use set of configuration files. But this will not happen in 2019 anymore.

The logfile import is straightforward and provides important information in the side column:


After logfile import you get the race result table:


Interactive Lap table where you can filter for best laps, theoretical best or individual sorting/filtering on drivers:


The statistics tabs starts with the position diagram:

Unfortunately the gap diagram is not useful right now on flying starts because the laptime counter seems to run when the lights go green and not when the participants cross the line for the first time. Therefore the gaps are wrong. I hope the devs can improve that.

In the lap diagram you can compare two drivers performances. In this example @Wutzmann won the battle for the faster lap count against me (congrats!). You can also see that there is no drop of performance during the race distance:


Next table are the performance statistics. You can show whole laps or only single sectors. The calculation method is explained below.


The race progress table shows positions gained compared to qualifying and the number of lead laps. On other sims we also show pit count but on ACC I do not have this information in the logfile:


After the race you do the scoring per autocalculate. You can have individual scoring tables, guest drivers, penalties and all other things you expect:

 

For an interactive experience you can check out the source of these screenshots here:
https://raceapp.eu/#/Events/3502?tab=race

Wanna see more what is happining in the series view?

Here we go with the series scoring:


Series statistics provide you with interesting details:



The last two columns are empty (CollisionsPerHour / IncidentsPerHour) because there is too less information for that in the logfiles. Hope to get more data here in the future.

The interactive page where these screenshots are taken from can be found here:
https://raceapp.eu/#/Series/465?tab=scoringDetail

Hope you like it.
Think we can go public with that soon

 

Awsome work here Chris, looking forward to setting up my next series through RaceApp.

 

Hello Chris

I informed bout your website a few days ago. Would it be an option for your project, that in the future also teams can register or organize there? Have often searched for such an offer and found nothing.

greeting
Heiko

 

What do you mean exactly by teams?
RaceApp is community centric because thats where all the series and events are organized and these people need to take the honor for that

 

Good news everyone! The newest RaceApp Update 1910 has just been published to our servers. And it's a massive one!

NEW 1) Assetto Corsa Competizione support is now available for all RaceApp users. Many thanks to the supporters in the early access program for providing valuble feedback! I hope you all like the comfort of the livery browser. As Kunos introduced custom liveries with a later patch, they are not supported yet. However there is the idea for an interactive livery designer on my desk. Keep tuned...

NEW 2) A brandnew Event Scheduler is available at the What'up menu page. See which communities perform which events in a nice monthly scheduler view. You can filter the view by using the Community Id in the URL.

NEW 3) The logfile upload routines have been enhanced to give you a lot more feedback about the file uploaded. For example you get information which driver names fall into the anonymization.

NEW 4) At the Series statistics page the performance table was enhanced with an additional column comparing the average Q positions with the R positions as +/- value.

NEW 5) At the series settings I have added a button to add a complete performance class to the selection (i.e. for Raceroom you can add all GT3 which includes GTR3 and all GT Masters.) This feature becomes more relevant with rF2 support, because as we have already seen content modders often use the car name also in the field for class name and so you do not have the comfort to select the whole class.

NEW 6) Confirming/Cancelling event participations has been improved on the What's up page. If you have several runs on one day the app asks you if you want to confirm all other runs aswell.

NEW 7) R3E Entrylist Exporters: They provide simple csv files which can be opened in for example in Excel. There are several places where you can find the button with slight nuances in the content - Take the one which fits your needs: Logfile/Event View at the info tab (drivers in the logfile with UserId and ingame name), Event participants tab (only confirmed drivers), Series booking tab (all drivers of the series)

NEW 8) ACC Entrylist Exporters: Similar to the R3E exporters you can download entrylist files. However ACC delivers a json file which can be directly used at your dedicated server configuration. Driver Names, Steam ID, Car, Livery and Server Admins are taken from RaceApp ready to use in your server configuration. Comparing to latest early access version there are additional property fields in the file which bring more comfort for editing (customCar, defaultGridPosition, overrideCarModelForCustomCar)

NEW 9) Team Scoring: There are multiple options in the series settings to configure scratch results in team scoring. Either take the scratchers from the drivers results and apply them to the team score or scratch the worst team result(s). Furthermore it is possible now to manually override team score calculation at the event scoring page.

NEW 10) The driverprofile now has the option to store Raceroom UserIDs. This is a direct integration with the official Raceroom servers. Please ask all your drivers to fill out this additional field. This value will bring additional features in future like automatic application of performance weights in the dedicated server (spoiler!) The errorprone maintenance of the list of in-game names will hopefully be transfered to UserId logic aswell some day. For many users the Id was automatically extracted from the logfiles already.

There are some minor fixes aswell:
- preventing duplicate Community Ids at the registration page
- driver statistics background calculation is more cpu friendly and should not slow down App usage anymore
- German Umlaute were not correctly displayed at eventlogs
- slightly reducing ads
- Time penalty was not correctly calculated if the lap counts where not the same

For feedback, critics, questions and ideas just drop me a line!
Chris

 

The first update of 2020 has just arrived on our servers! Many community feature requests are included as well as fixes for all known issues. However, the highlights of this release are the first steps for supporting driver swaps and the beginning of a complete design overhaul. Be prepared for the next things to come!

V2003:

FEATURES

• Result Page Display supports driver swaps (support on other pages soon!)
• Driver Nation Flags (see User Profile to set)
• Description Text on Event Page (similar to Series page)
• Copy Series settings with Clipboard Workflow

CHANGES

• Size Limit for Info and Rules Texts 100kB
• Logging Tab: Added Seconds in the date/time column
• Logging Tab: Detail Infos were missing in German Language
• Scratch Results: Red Strike line on empty cells
• ACC Booking: Allow to overwrite car numbers when using livery picker (no extra validation yet)
• Complete Redesign of Series Booking Tab
• Complete Redesign of Event Booking Tab
• ACC Logfile Import: Server Name taken from logfile, removed form field

COSMETICS

• Event Participants Tab: Show Performance Class instead of Car Class
• Multilanguage improved for Result Page (cs/de)
• Different coloring for DNF and DNS
• Updated some Series Setting Description Texts
• Redesign of Laptime progress diagram (Colors, Scale, Indicators)
• Changed all icons because of backend upgrade
• Position and Gap Diagram have a dynamic x-axis labelling

FIXES

• DNS Penalties were not calculated on the first run
• Result Tables for driver Tags had no alphabetical sorting
• 51% rule is now also applied to team scratchers
• Use scored event count instead of current date for driven events (scratchers)
• Driver Count on multiple logfiles in an event (Sum instead of max)
• Found team with multiclass option was not working

This is the design for the new series booking page. I wanted it to look more like a spotter guide. Hope you like it!


VMS had their first 6h Race on RaceApp! We are also ready for driver swap results now!

 

Great news for endurance enthusiasts!
RaceApp has a full support of driver swaps now.
This means required features were added to series booking, event participation booking, event results and statistics as well as series results and statistics.
The driver statistics page also reflect results where you participated as co driver.

Password distribution for co drivers and entrylist json generation will be available in the next update.

Keep me updated with feedback

 

Update 2003.4 is online now!

1. NEW: ACC downloadable json entrylist now contains driver swaps
2. NEW: RaceApp Logo is now extended with the Text 'RaceApp.eu eSports Management'. If you use the logo in your media, please update it, so it shows more clearly what 'RA' is all about and directs the interested ones to the correct site. Thank you!
3. NEW: ACC now reports pitstop statistics. This is not part of the logfile, but I was able to derive the data from the deviations of the sector times. The calculation looks for laps which S3 + S1 of next lap is more than 50 seconds slower than your median time.
(I have just seen Spash'n'Dash may lead to times below that so the limit will be reduced with the next update)

4. Fix: Testraces are not scored in the series team table anymore
5. Fix: Driver Count in Events is correctly calculated now (was wrong in multi races with last update)
6. Fix: Series booking with driver swaps did not initialize the dropdowns for drivers 2/3/4 successfully

 

I missed to inform you about the 2004 update:

1. Fixes for ACC entrylist (firstName, lastName, forcedCarModel, UTF16 encoding, ballast and restrictor with 0 added)
2. The User Interface Framework was migrated to the newest version to be able to open the gates for the next features to come. With this migration it was a goal to give you a much improved experience on mobile devices. Mobiles and tablets adapt to landscape and portrait view and you can do everything in the mobile browser what is possible on PC. Keep me noted if you experience any issues!
3. Start page shows communities where you are active first for quicker access
4. Updates on Help texts, the banner and some cosmetics
5. Backend preparations for upcoming features. URLs have no hashtag anymore, but old links are still perfectly valid
6. Readability of event diagrams has been improved for endurance races
7. Series Settings show more clearly the modes of team scoring now: Replacement Drivers / Best Of Team
8. Empty Driver Tags show as [No Tag] now which is clearer than only -

For other Sims:

1. rFactor 2 Support is finally accessible for all users. Please have all eyes open as this package is very fresh and has not gone though intense testing.
2. Support for 'Other Simulations' which do not provide a logfile. This is a Hello to every racer out there with a PS4 or XBOX and also to F1 drivers. You can use the app now in a reduced mode without logfile but you are able to use all other parts of it like the booking system or the event/series scoring.

Today we released Update 2005!

1. ACC entrylist generation has a checkbox to select if you want to force this list or allow nonlisted drivers to join aswell
2. The booking tags BRONZE, SILVER, GOLD and PLATIN are recognized and used in the ACC entrylist
3. ACC FirstName/LastName/ShortName can be entered at the new settings page to be used in the entrylist. If you keep them empty the App will generate the name from your DisplayName
4. There is a new driver settings page which can be accessed from your driver profile which brings us space for several new features. (driver license can be set by yourself for now)
5. Several smaller fixes (Details listed on our Discord channel)
6. The help page unveils the first information on our upcoming community supporter subscription. I think we have found some really nice premium features for you

For other Sims:

1. The RaceRoom User ID now identifies logfile entries so you do not need to add your in-game names to the list anymore