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Everything posted by waiheke1
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1. Better presentation of meetings - entertainment should last tgwo hours, not 15 one minute bursts 2. Better marketing 3. A sensible and transparent average system, produced by people who have rudimentary maths skills 4. Proper fixture planning to minimise rider unavailability 5. an independent ruling body None of the above would cost anything significant. If we want to add wishlists: 6. track covers for all tracks 7. better track prep at some tracks 8. a decent sponsor to allow sides to bring back top riders the issue of course with this is it penalises further teams who start the season poorly, and gives a huge advantage to those who start the season well. I'd suggest getting rid of "like for like" swaps and say any tre-declaration has to be done within the points limit i think you missed the point of Arniegs post, which was in relation to riders letting team mates past, which is a different thing to throwing team points away which is what Simmo did - of course in those days bonus points were included in team averages. Much easier to artificially lower averages in the days pre the introduction of rolling averages.
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New Averages For 42 Point Limit
waiheke1 replied to DunRobin's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
given two posters noted it, can only assume the BSPA realised they made a mistake and reloaded the file? the column "c" seems to be highlighted green for KK, which is unique to him? -
New Averages For 42 Point Limit
waiheke1 replied to DunRobin's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
shurely shome mishtake? if this is really his new average, then the BSPA have surpassed themselves yet again in their incompetence -
Chris Holder ! :- Friend Or Foe
waiheke1 replied to g13webb's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
So if I hire a builder to build me a house. I tell the builder that I will pay him 5 times his usual hourly rate but a condition of awarding him the contract is that he will work no more than 10 hours a week elsewhere until the job is done. In your view that is an unreasonable restraint of trade? Exactly. And I'd suggest the chances of you getting injured and therefore unavailable for work as a result of taking additional work elsewhere is somewhat lower than that of a speedway rider. -
Chris Holder Average Farce At Kings Lynn
waiheke1 replied to mudflaps's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Surely if it was an average lowering exercise he would have gone through the tapes or faked an ef instead of getting excluded on two minutes? -
Chris Holder ! :- Friend Or Foe
waiheke1 replied to g13webb's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
How is it a restraint of trade? Do you really think it's illegal to offer a contract a condition of which is a level of exclusivity about working for your company? Which law do you think this breaks? What if the poles reword the contract and simply says the rider needs to train in Poland each day unless the employing club agrees otherwise? -
Agree on KC but at the same time he was hardly a team man. Belive he described riding for Halifax as "me and 6 prats" or words to that effect.
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Best (and Worst) Performers Season So Far
waiheke1 replied to waiheke1's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
For me Bellego is the biggest surprise of the season and if I were a Robins fan he'd be my rider of the season.But is he really the best signing of the season, when his average has dropped vs starting average whereas other signings have improved their average? -
Best (and Worst) Performers Season So Far
waiheke1 replied to waiheke1's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
He's considered one of the signings of the season because everyone assumed he'd drop his average by a couple of points and he has dropped by far less. Need to remember that he was on a higher starting average than the likes of batch and schlein. As a kiwi aces fan I wasn't sure whether to be ecstatic or annoyed about that display! First kiwi to score a max at bells vue since Larry Ross? I'd also note that the averages font reflect any adjustment for riding as 2nd string vs reserve. And that display has likely pushed him up to a "d" 😅 I'd have assumed anyone looking for kk would have started at the bottom of the list... -
Best (and Worst) Performers Season So Far
waiheke1 replied to waiheke1's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Given that on average every rider was going to drop by around 17%, why would you not consider a rider dropping their average by only 10% to be over performing? Or are you of the view that over 70% of the league have underperformed? -
Best (and Worst) Performers Season So Far
waiheke1 replied to waiheke1's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
understand your point, but realistaically he could have been expected to average over 10.7 which would have been the requirement to be considered "performing as expected." And as a side note, the worst side you could have named, which actually would have hit bank on 50 points for team building: Zengota, Newman, Watt, Sronicki, Ellis, Kerr, Clegg. Combined 2017 GSA of under 24, and would average under 27 points a meeting. A number of those riders have been dropped by their teams. -
Best (and Worst) Performers Season So Far
waiheke1 posted a topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
A simple look at how riders have achieved vs starting average. Have divided into 5 categories: A: Strong overperfomers - those who have maintained or improved their starting average B:Overperformers : those who have dropped their average by 10% or less C: Average performers: Those who have dropped their average by 10-20% D:Under performers: Those who have dropped their averages by 20-30% E: Massive underperformers: Those who have dropped their average by more than 30% AVERAGES GSA St Ave Ratio Ellis Perks 4.16 2.32 1.79 Zach Wajtkecht 3.49 2.56 1.36 James Shanes 2.57 2.00 1.29 Kai Huckenbeck 6.29 5.04 1.25 Rory Schlein 8.49 7.17 1.18 Brady Kurtz 8.76 7.63 1.15 Mark Riss 4.52 4.00 1.13 Kenneth Bjerre 9.22 8.22 1.12 Cameron Heeps 5.67 5.07 1.12 Daniel Bewley 4.32 3.09 1.11 Joshua Bates 5.47 5.02 1.09 A Nathan Greaves 2.17 2 1.09 A Nicolai Klindt 5.78 5.42 1.07 A Troy Batchelor 7.79 7.36 1.06 A Charles Wright 6.83 6.59 1.04 A Richard Lawson 8.29 8.17 1.01 A Nicholas Morris 8.98 8.97 1.00 A Jack Smith 2 2 1.00 A Fredrik Lindgren 10.04 10.09 1.00 A David Bellego 7.42 7.63 0.97 b Lewis Rose 5.5 5.8 0.95 b Kyle Howarth 6.76 7.18 0.94 b Danny Ayres 3.26 3.56 0.92 b Samuel Masters 8.08 8.88 0.91 b Jack Holder 6.22 7.16 0.87 C Chris Harris 8 9.21 0.87 C Jan Graversen 3.47 4 0.87 C Robert Lambert 7.59 8.76 0.87 C Jacob Thorssell 8.53 9.88 0.86 C Craig Cook 8.47 9.88 0.86 C Danny Ayres 3.02 3.56 0.85 C Jake Allen 5.03 5.96 0.84 C Hans Andersen 8.37 10.01 0.84 C Patrick Hougaard 7.26 8.71 0.83 C Kim Nilsson 7.76 9.63 0.81 C Josh Grajczonek 7.14 8.9 0.80 C Stuart Robson 5.67 7.09 0.80 C Ricky Wells 6.29 7.92 0.79 D Lewis Kerr 4.87 6.16 0.79 D Paul Starke 5.18 6.62 0.78 D Lasse Bjerre 5.11 6.64 0.77 D Justin Sedgmen 5.84 7.6 0.77 D Steven Worrall 6.5 8.51 0.76 D Scott Nicholls 7.02 9.23 0.76 D Emil Gröndal 3.24 4.39 0.74 D Erik Riss 5.02 6.85 0.73 D Edward Kennett 6.79 9.27 0.73 D Max Fricke 7.25 9.91 0.73 D Jason Doyle 9.75 13.41 0.73 D Robert Branford 3.29 4.6 0.72 D Nicklas Porsing 4.69 6.58 0.71 D Dany Gappmaier 2.8 4 0.70 D Bradley Wilson-Dean 3.46 5.02 0.69 E Daniel King 6.16 9.57 0.64 E Lewis Kerr 3.82 6.16 0.62 E Josh Bailey 1.22 2 0.61 E Chris Holder 7.43 12.53 0.59 E Rohan Tungate 5.27 9.03 0.58 E Jason Garrity 4.92 8.55 0.58 E Kacper Gomolski 4.2 7.71 0.54 E Krzysztof Kasprzak 5.95 11.08 0.54 E Adam Ellis 4.17 7.8 0.53 E Kyle Newman 3.3 6.31 0.52 E Grzegorz Zengota 4.92 10.91 0.45 E Max Clegg 1.75 4.04 0.43 E Adam Skornicki 3 7.22 0.42 E David Watt 2.86 7.56 0.38 E The strongest possible team you could have named would line up: Lindgren, Schlein, Kurtz, Morris, Bjerre, Huckenbeck, Perks, who have a combined GSA of around 56 points, and would average around 61 points per meeting (assuming 5 riders to Freddie, Kenny and Kai, with PErks taking only 3 rides) -
Yes, but if they hosted a gp a pre requisite would no doubt be that they bring in temporary seating as they did for the SWC.
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Agreed. Though doesn't all this sound like exactly what Tai wanted to put in place? Didn't he spit the dummy over food and arranging an opportunity for a practice session in Poland that no one went to? Maybe my memory is off
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It would have to be one of Poland and Sweden, which realistically means Sweden. Why would he choose to ride Britain rather than Sweden though?
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Really? Didn't it hold 10000 or 120000 for the swc final? (Wiki says 18k which I think is wrong). How many GPS outside Poland get more than that? Cardiff, Melbourne. ..? I'd be surprised if there was any significant impact on Cardiff.
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Poole Pirates Vs Kings Lynn Stars 12/07/17
waiheke1 replied to Shaleshifter's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Why would you have to do it a week after each other and why would it be bending the rules? -
New Averages For 42 Point Limit
waiheke1 replied to DunRobin's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
I would say no. Given old pl averages were used for both leagues and the leagues were built to 40 and 50 respectively then I would say it's fair to say the top flight is 25% harder and therefore multiplying/dividing by 0.8 (or1.25) to convert between leagues is correct. Is be amazed if the bspa endeavoured to use any kind of statistical analysis given their failure to do so when that was the obvious solution to the skewed heat format in previous years. -
New Averages For 42 Point Limit
waiheke1 replied to DunRobin's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
I presume because the cl is 80% as strong as the pl, and in their wisdom they thought dividing by 1.2 was the same as multiplying by 80% - it's the only explanation I can think of. -
New Averages For 42 Point Limit
waiheke1 replied to DunRobin's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Tbh the 1.2 (though really it should be a multiplier of 0.84) makes more sense than allowing riders in on old averages without a multiplier. But to use the hybrid system they are using (and dividing by 1.2 rather than using an 80% multiplier) just reeks of incompetence. -
I thought they were dividing by 1.2?
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Bash The Bookie Sec Finals Competition 2017
waiheke1 replied to racers and royals's topic in International World of Speedway
Klindt 50 less A Laguta 75 more -
He wouldn't have fitted at the start of the season without going with 2x2 pointers at reserve. He would only have fitted now as a swap for lambert or batch, neither of whom he is likely to outperform.Plenty of people criticising stars management, but tbf I don't think there is a lot to criticise from a team building perspective. All very well throwing names out but they need to fit the team building limit. Some of the other criticisms may be totally valid. If Holder had been scoring a dozen points each meeting as was expected that's about an 7 pt swing each meeting, and everyone would have been happy. If Holder had been scoring a dozen points each meeting as was expected that's about an 7 pt swing each meeting, and everyone would have been happy.
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New Averages For 42 Point Limit
waiheke1 replied to DunRobin's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Because the bspa don't have a clue about averages and are making it up - badly - as they go along.