Been a while since I last used the forum, but the return of some interest in HD/Fury had me looking about the forums for a quick while. This post caught my eye. Looks like a quite intensive spreadsheet system, and seems like several years worth of tinkering as well, I remember seeing your posts in the "HD/Fury Stats" thread.
Looking through the screenshots, it looks like there are a few in-game eras that are being simulated in this. I'm wondering what exactly the rules and the format of this would be, i.e. whether it's a player vs player type of game using the spreadsheet formulae for "randomised rolls", or solo play vs the computer along the lines of a Manager type sports game?
Either way, clearly a lot of thought and effort has been put into this. I particularly like the inclusion of the distinction between the V-shaped Single-Hull and the Y-shaped Split-Hull as a functional statistic that could affect performance. Beyond simple appearance, only one console title (204
has really addressed that as a functional feature to increase on-track stability, but the rest of the series has glossed over it entirely. So I think its inclusion is a nice touch.
I'm curious enough about this that I think I want to know more