LOL what Nico? Can't agree with your assessment at all too.
You play in a league by yourself and above all things, is a moderator. You, of all people, should have a 'moderate' opinion about this because you are in fact a little bit part of the staff of the game.
Even Jack Basford and Andrew Wiseman have acknowledged that the qualifying is something that needs tweaking, because of this very reason we are putting here: too much randomness.
The state of play shows us that the qualify is a lottery, because no matter what we do (apart from deliberately putting hard tires, because then you KNOW you are at the back), you will be given the most random bullshit start position. You can be P1 one day and P32 the next, with no apparent reason whatsoever, like Jason said.
We have this constantly in our very populated league (I'll save you the trouble of searching for it, here it is:
http://igpmanager.com/play/?url=league-info/911#tab3 ) and if you just spare 5 minutes looking at how stupid our qualifying is, you will see for yourself. If you want, of course, because you already said (albeit with other words) that we were moaning pointlessly.
Every fact that Jason brought forth is from our somewhat long experience with this game. He has experienced it, I have experienced this stuff a lot and almost everybody in the league that we are in now (and the other league we have been in the past, the BRL) experienced this type of thing as well. iGP is needing a lot of tweaking in many fronts (qualottery and pit rape comes to mind right now), and the one thing it doesn't need is one moderator coming here and defending the game just for the sake of it.
Get the facts right, read about what people are saying and do a little searching and studying on the subject. Then you give your opinion, in a moderate way, as your forum title of MODERATOR would tell you to.
Qualifying is so much broken that people call it a qualottery. Isn't that enough of a hint that something is not right?