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So if Hume svores 8 or more tonight he becomes the NL top scorer?

This site should help: http://www.speedway.org/history/

Simple Maths After 14 heats 42 points from 28 rides combined team average 1.5 x 4 x 7 = 42 The four riders in heat 15 will be top scorers so typically scoring 8 from 4. In heat 15 their are only six points available but they would need to score 8 between them to maintain their averages. So the top two in each team would see their averages fall from 8.00 to 7.60, leaving a combined CMA of 41.20 for each team and a 45 all draw.

This assumes that these riders would be willing to ride in British speedway for the money available. To bring the other teams up to a strength near Swindon you have to find seven riders (two for P'boro and one each for the other five teams) at the Iversen/ Zagar level. And if you can't persuade all these riders to come over here then the league will be unbalanced and you will have teams wanting to drop down as a better alternative to being league whipping boys. It is a struggle to find seven teams that want to compete at the current points levels. With higher limits there would be even fewer. PS If Ipswich had won the league would next season's limit be 41.43?

Congratulations to Anders Rowe. All this whinging us really rather tedious. The early calling of the result may not be ideal but it is a well established mechanism (anyone remember the great Kasprzak Suchanek run- off for the World u21 title?)

postcard on e-bay at the moment https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Postcard-Speedway-rider-Bruce-Seemens/303329104946?hash=item469fd2d432:g:cW4AAOSwH9JdmMuf

Click through the many other places link and you get to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California,_Berkshire

Probably because the sight lines from the refs box at Swindon are very poor and the ref can't rewatch every heat on the off chance, unless you want to be hanging round on the windy terraces all night.

Ruddick's greensheet is 6.67. The weighted average of the riders who replaced him was 6.63. How is that an advantage? PS His actual 2019 average ( exc bonus) from official fixtures is 8

He had a Polish licence in 2018 and actually rode in the Polish Championship. Not sure about his current situation though.

400 by my reckoning

Think it would have been much bigger if the meeting had been on a Saturday like the well attended semi final. And on the subject of Ellis Perks - his CL average has risen from 3.95 to 6.4 this season making him one of the most improved riders in British speedway this season. His current CL average is greater than Rasmus Jensen's was at the same age (5.92 for Somerset in 2015)

Why not take the refereee's word for it? He's an ex-rider ... so by your logic infallible.

To quote from some of the material I have: "The name California appears on local maps as early as 1761." 1930s adverts refer to "Longmoor speedway at California." Apart from the country park there is little evidence of California as a settlement, the church and hall already referred to and the double mini roundabout. These are generally shown as having Finchampstead addresses.

And on Saturday where would Perks, Ras Jensen and Vissing be?

Faced with seven meetings to arrange at fairly short notice in October and endless rain I imagine that the principle factor for Leicester's management is simply getting the meetings on.

Forecast looks iffy. Hopefully it will turn out better than last year's deluge

I have a similar recollection. Was it a PL play-off between Rye House and Sheffield? 2007?

A reminder of the last official fixture between Championship and Premier League teams http://www.sheffield-speedway.com/news.php?extend.2439 Sheffield 32 Leicester 58.

While I agree with your general point I can name seven Poole riders that Rasmus Jensen could beat on a regular basis. After all Rasmus would be number one in the Poole averages if he were in their team

Berntzon is 26. Not a single Swede under 25 averaged even a point a ride in this year's Elitserien. Hellstrom-Bangs (who is still 16) is definitely the hot prospect, only Hjelmland and Anton Karlsson of the other young riders look like Elitserien material at the moment.

We have enough problems with doubling up, but trebling up just makes it ridiculous

Greg Hancock, Melbourne 2015 (and before that Hampel, Stockholm 2014)

I think you can. Michelsen averaged 2 points a match more in the Extraliga and over a point a match more in the Elitserien.

If it is about the best 15 riders in the world why do you exclude Michelsen? He did more than Drabik in his GP appearances this year. He has performed better than Drabik in the Extraliga and Elitserien and is miles ahead of a horde of GP riders in both the Polish and Swedish averages.