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To me, it sounds like a change worth doing. The one arguable advantage I can see in the current rules is giving an initial boost to brand new teams created mid-season by free agents. However, I'm not convinced that's enough to justify the status quo, with its strangeness of retroactive changes to the team scoreboard and its complexity in having to handle free agents differently from pipsqueaks leaving a team.

Apple

Some Forum bookkeeping: I have split the monthly updates of the ratings into a separate thread on the ZakStunts area of the Forum; the general discussion of the rating system and the site features remains here on the original topic. By the way, the I plan to post the ZCT285 update tonight

Edit: Of course I was going to do all that and then announce the split on the thread I didn't mean to  Now fixed.

ZCT285 has motivated a new subsection in the "Illusion track" Wiki article 

On a somewhat related note, something I'm curious to see -- and that, I guess, we'll only find out in practice -- is whether fights to reach (or prevent!) PTB +2 will be common.

We've just had PTB +2 being awarded for the first time, and it went to Argammon! To achieve that, he had to fend off a hefty challenge from MiDiaN, who was also in contention for PTB +2 into the third week.   

The scoreboards for 2001-2003 are currently empty. I'm waiting for the end of ZCT285 before I copy the old data to the new table. Once that is done, 2001-2003 submission will be included in the statistics!

As advertised, those scoreboard pages are now filled again, and several of the stats already pull 2001-2003 data 

Tiger

Working as intended 

KyLiE and Spoonboy have earned PTB +0.5, while HerrNove could guarantee it as early as by the next update.

As predicted, congratulations @HerrNove for reaching PTB +0.5!

That's big news! Congratulations @MiDiaN !

A quick report on PTB. As week 3 begins, two pipsqueaks are in contention for PTB +2: current leader MiDiaN (32:47 margin at midnight -- right now, as I post this, it's about six hours smaller) and Argammon (84:09 margin at midnight). Both of them have reached PTB +1. KyLiE and Spoonboy have earned PTB +0.5, while HerrNove could guarantee it as early as by the next update.

The not-something-else plurality of our poll was right at least

Is the season's standings page one of those places?

Not really: points from each race are shown correctly on the season scoreboard including in the case of ties. There's an issue with the display of tiebreakers for the overall season results (see this discussion from last year), but that's a separate thing.

Might as well make a poll this time!  The context:

@ Herr Nove, I will add a new color after the public days making it even more colorful 

I am not surprised that @ Argammon is going to hide the secret sauce he's preparing with a (I guess) blue car.

Swamp