Moral Championship Standings

[jens]

Is there a problem?

OK, just some examples.

I count Hamilton's DNF in Spain 2010 as a car problem, which based on my memory was a suspension failure rather than just puncture.

This analysis hasn't counted Sebastian Vettel finishing 4th in Bahrain, while he started suffering from a car problem from the race lead, thus losing 13 points (dropped from 1st to 4th).

Regarding Räikkönen's 2003 you said his score includes Spain, where he had a start crash. But he started from last (!) position on the grid and was unlikely to score (many) points anyway.

And so on, and so on.

Not a big problem. I am trying to understand you are trying to have some general methodology. If I personally calculated, I would go on a race-by-race basis. I.e there is a difference whether a driver retired from P1 or P5, whether he had a car problem from P2 and dropped to P6, or retired altogether. Whether he stalled on the grid from P3, or had a crash with another car from P7. Or he inherited a race win from P5, because all drivers in front of him retired with problems (Johnny Herbert in 1995). For example in Spain 2012 Hamilton finished 8th, but arguably lost a race win, because he was DQ'd from qualifying due to fuel irregularity. Every situation is unique. That's why I personally don't use a "generic methodology", because it doesn't enlighten, what exactly was going on.

BUT... Leaving criticism aside, your work shows at least several tendencies (i.e Vettel winning by a bigger margin in 2010/12, Mansell and Senna neck-and-neck in 1991, Ferraris winning 07-08, etc). I don't want to criticise too much people, who put in an effort to do something. While it is easy to criticize from distance. But there is a possibility to go more into detail.