Superbike & Superbike Form Guide

How the Form Rating works

Every rider on BSB Mecca carries a lifetime ELO rating, a chess-style strength score built from every race they've ever contested. Beating a higher-rated rider earns more; losing to a lower-rated one costs more. It's tier-weighted, so dominating a feeder series doesn't inflate it. That number is brilliant for all-time greatness, but on its own it lags a rider's current form: a returning legend can sit too high, a breakout rookie too low.

The Form Rating fixes that by blending the lifetime ELO with how a rider is actually finishing this season:

• Pedigree: proven class, a blend of a rider's current and peak ELO (60/40), so a mechanical-wrecked season can't erase a champion's standing while an in-form rider still stays on top. The raw ELO is never changed here; it still powers the all-time Power Rankings.
• Form score: this season's finishing positions mapped onto the ELO scale, 50% whole-season form plus 50% last-two-rounds form, so recent momentum counts double. Each rider's worst finishes are dropped first, so a mechanical DNF or first-corner crash doesn't bury a fast rider.
• Weight w: grows 0.15 per round raced, capped at 0.60. Early season (or pre-season) leans on pedigree; as the rounds stack up, current form takes over. It never fully erases ELO, which keeps proven riders honest.
• Minimum rounds: a rider must have contested at least max(2, 30%) of the rounds held to appear, so a one-off or cross-series entry can't gatecrash a class.

The result: whoever's hot rises to the top, while a rider's track record stops a small sample from telling lies. A ▲ means current form has lifted a rider above where their career ELO alone would rank them; a ▼ means they're under it right now.