Our Kart version of choice is Mario Kart: Double Dash!!! for Gamecube. The vast majority of our play is at Baby Park, 9 laps with frantic items.

Official Baby Park

  • 150cc. versus. 9 laps. frantic items
  • 5 players. 4 active and 1 sitting.
  • 50 total races in blocks of 10. Each player races 40 and sits 10.
  • Draw lots to determine initial sitting order. rotate one seat to right every 10 races.
  • Re-pick characters and karts each time seating changes. Seat #1 selects first and fifth, #2 second and sixth, #3 third and seventh, #4 fourth and eighth.

Scoring

  • 1st Place = 4 points
  • 2nd Place = 3 points
  • 3rd Place = 2 points
  • 4th Place = 1 points

Gap Scoring

  • relative scoring. differs from overall standings because one player is always sitting out.
  • measures finish position differential between players.
  • on a cluster standings view, you read the column below a player’s name. A positive number means the player whose name is the column title leads the player whose name is the row title. A negative number means the opposite.
  • ex: Player A finishes 1st and Player B finishes 3rd. Player A is credited with 2 Gap Points relative to Player B. Player B is debited 2 Gap Points relative to Player A.
Rk Nm # WP 1 2 3 4 Jer Tom Dan Nic JD
1 Jer 40 118 18 9 6 7 na -16 -10 -26 -20
2 Tom 40 108 12 11 10 7 +16 na -2 -21 -25
3 Dan 40 104 9 12 13 6 +10 +2 na -11 -17
4 Nic 40 89 6 10 11 13 +26 +21 +11 na -14
5 JD 40 81 5 8 10 17 +20 +25 +17 +14 na

Software

My friends and I started playing Mario Kart: Double Dash for Nintendo Gamecube on the day of its release in 2003. But it wasn’t until 2010 that I wrote a viable program to track results.

Despite more recent versions, I feel the double item management coupled with the loosest mini-turbo handling of any iteration makes Double Dash the series' greatest entry. Baby Park stands as the ultimate arena for local multiplayer. Time Trial is also a worthwhile endeavor.

In August 2010 I began exploring the Google App Engine platform. I wrote a system to collect race results in Fall 2010.

Check out a live instance or view the code.

The basic structure of the site allows you to create a league. The league has login credentials which can be given out to allow access to the league. Within the league you create player, venue and season entities. And within a season there are clusters which are groupings of matches.

As of 2012 the system has collected over 1000 races.

EDIT: 2013-05-12. I’ve taken down the GAE app. I broke it while extracting its historical data.

EDIT: 2016-01-04. I’ve done some analysis on the extracted data.

EDIT: 2016-01-11. I’ve done even more analysis on the extracted data.