About the AVG Performance Ranking

(electric assist not included)

how AVG Ranked Performance works

While BCI is primarily a social cycling club, a significant subset of members self-identify as performance riders. These cyclists enjoy challenging both their fitness and ability to hang with stronger and faster riders.

BCI has developed a method to “compare” ride stats and rank riders of both groups in a fair, useful, and fun way. We call it "AVG Performance Score.” It’s an analytical tool tracked by age and gender (see details below) and it’s specific to riders using “acoustic,” or non-motorized bikes. Riders on e-Bikes are expected to self-identity so they are not unfairly included in this score.

This only affects the APG metrics. All riders are included in the other categories

(Total Miles Ridden / Saddle Time in Hours) x (Feet Climbed / Number of Rides) = AVG Performance Score

What is APG? Simply put, it’s an equation: AVG Miles/Hour x AVG Feet Climbed/Ride = AVG Performance Score

Here are two examples.

Rider A has the following YTD stats:

2500 Miles Ridden, 119 Hours in the Saddle, 50,000 Feet Climbed over 50 Rides, which translates to:  21.00 AVG MPH (2500/119) x (50,000/50) x 1000 AVG Feet Climbed per ride = 21,000 AVG Performance Score

Rider B has the following YTD stats:

500 Miles Ridden, 25 Hours in the Saddle, 30,000 Feet Climbed over 10 rides, which translates to: 20 AVG MPH (500/25) x (30,000/10) x 3,000 AVG Feet Climbed per ride = 55,560 AVG Performance Score

Therefore, even though Rider A has a higher AVG MPH over many more miles, Rider B has a higher AVG Performance Score than Rider A due to a much higher AVG Feet Climbed per ride, and would be ranked higher in the table (“1" being the highest rank).

APR attempts to level the playing field so that all riders are compared on a per-ride basis, using average speed and average number of feet climbed per ride as the most important parameters in determining rank.

For obvious reasons, electric bicycles are not included in this feature.
If you see an electric bicycle riding member included in this chart, please contact statistician@bikeirvine.org.

If you wish to opt out of the performance rankings but remain in the basic metric charts, let me know.

Thanks,
Rob Oglesby, statistician@bikeirvine.org