What is Øverrated.net About?
Here we are now
Øverrated’s mission is to observe and record the evolution of motor racing ratings. This site’s analyst, author, and historian is Stuart Slagle.
Slagle, who has over two decades of experience as a horse racing official, hopes to use this website as a sandbox for exploring analytics in a sport separate from his day job to refine his statistical and data visualization skills without endorsing or criticizing those within his own sport.
The success of the motor racing ratings depends on the confidence that patrons and racing organizations have in them. Invariably, discussions will arise on whether a vehicle and helmet is underrated or overrated – thus the origin of the site’s moniker.
To combat a crowded domainname space, Overrated.net relies upon some typography trickery to acquire a relatively short name. Yes, the first character of the website’s name is a zero (Ø) and not a capitalized letter o (O).
Where we were before
2026
Professionally, Slagle transitioned his career from supporting a singular horse racecourse to all North American thoroughbred racing.
This domain was focused on horse racing ratings and their use in carding horse races. Analysis of the horse ratings is potentially polarizing and would be a distraction to my ability to support the racing world.
2025 and before
Slagle experimented with applying ELO ratings to the three NASCAR signature series and thoroughbred horse racing at the now-defunct website https://cielo.world/.
CIELO Ratings proved more tractable in motor racing than thoroughbred racing, partly due to population structure. Racing-Reference catalogs 19,861 drivers across its historical and active database—a population comparable in magnitude to a single annual North American thoroughbred foal crop. The critical advantage: that equivalent dataset is concentrated over roughly one percent of the historical time span, yielding substantially higher data density.
(sps – 2026-05-24)