Cornishman Posted July 9, 2012 Report Share Posted July 9, 2012 I think the world cup meeting has proven once again tonight that although Harris is struggling badly in the gp's this year, Britain doesn't have anyone better. He was by far our best rider tonight. Personally I don't think GB should have a rider in the 2013 gp series, I'd much rather see someone like Darcy or Vaculik come in. But if there does have to be a British rider, Bomber is still number 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grachan Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 I agree that Harris is our best rider, so I would imagine that the organisers are hoping he can get a big finish and make a final or two so they can re-select him. Harris may be struggling this year, but he is above Woffinden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebrum Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Woffinden is not in the top 15 riders in the world. Nor is Harris, nor is Ljung........................................................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dump that clutch Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 (edited) What' this obsession with Vaculik? 1 good GP round and now he deserves a fulltime GP place. http://postimage.org/image/gzk64uz6j/ I'd of thought you would of been the last person to talk of obsession Edited July 11, 2012 by dump that clutch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 The GP series produces the best GP rider rankings. Given that the SGP is now 12 rounds and again uses the less arbitrary round robin format for each GP, it would be reasonable to say the top part of the GP rider rankings and the world's best riders are synonymous. What the GP rankings don't tell you though, is how good riders who don't race in the series are by comparison, and where riders are picked as much for television and sponsorship reasons, there could well be discrepancies in this respect. Outside of the SGP, by far the best determination of ability is league averages. Whilst obviously not every rider competes in every league, as you say there's enough of a crossover to work out a reasonable coefficient for each league and thereby how an average established in one league might translate to an average in another league. What is less certain though, is where riders compete in more than one league, how should their 2 or 3 averages be weighted relatively to each other. For example, if a rider competes in Poland and Sweden, should they take 50% of each average to work out their overall ranking, or maybe 60-40 in favour of Poland? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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