Another way to look at the data in this season. We can calculate the score of each "private match" of every driver against every other driver. For example, Vettel beats Alonso 9-7 out of 16 races.
The matrix for the first 7 drivers is:
Code:
VET ALO RAI HAM WEB BUT ROS
VET = 9 10 10½ 10½ 10 11½ = 61½
ALO 7 = 12 9½ 8 11 12 = 59½
RAI 6 4 = 8 9 10 12 = 49
HAM 5½ 6½ 8 = 8½ 9 8½ = 46
WEB 5½ 8 7 7½ = 7½ 11 = 46½
BUT 6 5 6 7 8½ = 8 = 40½
ROS 4½ 4 4 7½ 5 8 = = 33
I have chosen the drivers who have achieved 1st or 2nd at least twice. If the two drivers are out of points, it is considered as a tie.
Vettel beats everybody. Only Alonso could beat Vettel, and only if he beats Seb 4-0 in the next GPs. Alonso loses to Vettel and ties 8-8 with Webber.
After them, Raikkonen and Hamilton are tied 8-8 and beat Webber, Button and Rosberg. So, KR and LH would be in 3rd-4th position in the ranking.
At the bottom, Webber, Button are more mixed (Webber ties with Alonso, but Button beats Webber). Rosberg is in 7th position.
A simple resume of the table is adding the scores for each driver, it is showed at the right of the table. Notably, this sum is the same as using a 6-5-4-3-2-1 score system among those drivers. With this method Alonso is just 2 points behind Vettel; it equals to two positions, an easy gap to overcome in four races.
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