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Rolling averages are updated twice a month now for all EDRs who have done 2 home and 2 away and all other riders who have done 4 home and 4 away. Rolling averages now only take into account this season and last season - any meetings from before that are discarded - so KK for example has to start again this season.

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Rider's averages for 2017 will not include meetings from 2016.

All riders will remain on their PL, Assessed or Converted (EL x 1.4) average until they have completed 4H & 4A matches.

Makes a lit of sense. Now they just need to confirm a re declaration limit of 42 or 43 points and issue a transparent rule on treatment of averages for new riders after that point. So far the BSPa seem to have done a reasonable job with the rules for 2017.
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Rider's averages for 2017 will not include meetings from 2016.

All riders will remain on their PL, Assessed or Converted (EL x 1.4) average until they have completed 4H & 4A matches.

Forgot to add that all relevant League Matches will count. 32 Premiership, 36 Championship.

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Forgot to add that all relevant League Matches will count. 32 Premiership, 36 Championship.

And that imo does not make sense. They are going to have to guess a conversion between the two new leagues. Actually, once teams are named a reasonable conversion could be approximated. But definitely opens things up to manipulation of averages.I don't understand the logic in doing this.
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Forgot to add that all relevant League Matches will count. 32 Premiership, 36 Championship.

 

 

And that imo does not make sense. They are going to have to guess a conversion between the two new leagues. Actually, once teams are named a reasonable conversion could be approximated. But definitely opens things up to manipulation of averages.I don't understand the logic in doing this.

Not sure if you are misunderstanding.

It doesn't mean that a rider in both Leagues will have a combined average. They will end up with a Premiership average calculated over 32 matches, rather than the 20 match Rolling Average.

Similarly they would end the season with a Championship average, calculated over 36 matches.

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Not sure if you are misunderstanding.

It doesn't mean that a rider in both Leagues will have a combined average. They will end up with a Premiership average calculated over 32 matches, rather than the 20 match Rolling Average.

Similarly they would end the season with a Championship average, calculated over 36 matches.

I had misunderstood.

In that case, that again seems a remarkably sensible decision!

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just say any redeclaration must be under a 43 point limit. That includes if you replace a rider with a lower averaged one. Job done.

I see your point and that lower limit will be in place it seems but I was looking at a different point.

 

If a side were to lose each of their first 4 away matches by say 20/30 rather than 10 then the redeclaration will have more flexilbility whatever the limit is.

 

With a 'brand new' average being acheived from those first 8 meetings rather than a rolling 20 the impact of any reduction would be greater.

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just say any redeclaration must be under a 43 point limit. That includes if you replace a rider with a lower averaged one. Job done.

 

That doesn't address the situation where after so few meetings some riders will be on false averages. Similar happened last year where some draft riders had an 8+ average after the first few meetings..

 

Granted, reserves have tougher rides in the new (old) format, but if some teams have cannonfodder at #7 is it quite possible that some reserves could put two or three points on their average in the first 8 meetings.

 

Another change that doesn't seem to have been thought through.

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I wonder if the BSPA/SCB will take the overall team averages of the Championship teams after 4 home and 4 away meetings and make that figure the 'new' (reduced from 50 points) team average for Premiership clubs.??

 

The Championship teams could well have averages above 44-45 points after 8 meetings and it would be a little silly for them to have a higher average than the reduced Premiership figure!!

 

ps. Do League Cup and Elite Shield meetings count towards the Premiership averages?

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