Rider Rankings

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I know a while ago there were a few people doing rankings for riders but recently looked for these and couldn't find any knocking about - so I've had a go at doing some!

 

This is based on 2012 averages in the top 3 leagues from Sweden, Poland & UK, top 2 leagues from Denmark & main Czech and Russian divisions. I've used riders appearing in more than 1 league to try and rate the strength of the leagues - for the record Sweden comes out on top with Poland just behind (97% its strength). Our Elite League ranks well down - 83% - only marginally ahead of the Polish second tier. The Premier League came out at 52% and National League at 21%.

 

Obvious problems are that riders can be somewhat handicapped by the leagues they appear in any anyone who didn't ride in these is not ranked at all but it was just a quick(ish) thing so I'll make no apologies for that! I'm sure there are plenty of oddities in how the results have come out but hope it makes interesting reading for a few of you.

 

I don't follow the sport as closely as I used to but was surprised to see Niels Iversen in 2nd ahead of Chris Holder. As always, depending on how you set the rules for the final ordering you get a slightly different outcome but hope these mostly make sense. I took the averages from the http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/ website so if you don't like it take it up with them! :-)

 

If anybody has any questions on this, wants to know where any other riders are or see the full list I came up with then let me know but here is the top 100...

 

1. Nicki Pedersen

2. Niels Kristian Iversen

3. Chris Holder

4. Jaroslaw Hampel

5. Darcy Ward

6. Greg Hancock

7. Krzysztof Kasprzak

8. Grigorij Laguta

9. Emil Sajfutdinov

10. Andreas Jonsson

11. Grzegorz Walasek

12. Leon Madsen

13. Ryan Sullivan

14. Janusz Kolodziej

15. Jason Crump

16. Robert Miskowiak

17. Tomasz Jedrzejak

18. David Ruud

19. Matej Zagar

20. Tai Woffinden

21. Daniel Nermark

22. Piotr Protasiewicz

23. Martin Vaculik

24. Fredrik Lindgren

25. Peter Karlsson

26. Patryk Dudek

27. Hans Andersen

28. Michael J. Jensen

29. Krzysztof Buczkowski

29. Przemyslaw Pawlicki

31. Tomasz Gapinski

32. Adrian Miedzinski

33. Dave Watt

34. Chris Harris

35. Kenneth Bjerre

36. Lee Richardson

37. Grzegorz Zengota

38. Peter Kildemand

39. Thomas H Jonasson

40. Troy Batchelor

41. Rafal Okoniewski

42. Antonio Lindbäck

43. Maciej Janowski

44. Scott Nicholls

45. Bjarne Pedersen

46. Artem Laguta

47. Tomasz Gollob

48. Sebastian Ulamek

49. Linus Sundström

50. Peter Ljung

51. Mads Korneliusen

52. Kenni Larsen

53. Bartosz Zmarzlik

54. Dawid Stachyra

55. Joonas Kylmäkorpi

56. Jurica Pavlic

57. Dennis Andersson

58. Kjastas Poudzuks

59. Daniel King

60. Damian Adamczak

61. Andriej Karpow

62. Charlie Gjedde

63. Mikael Max

64. Mikkel Bech

65. Jason Doyle

66. Roman Povazhny

67. Rory Schlein

68. Piotr Pawlicki

69. Daniel Jeleniewski

70. Michal Szczepaniak

71. Rune Holta

72. Damian Balinski

73. Craig Cook

74. Aleksandr Loktajew

75. Rafal Trojanowski

76. Robert Kosciecha

77. Timo Lahti

78. Norbert Kosciuch

79. Simon Gustafsson

80. Maksim Bogdanow

81. Ronnie Jamrozy

82. Cameron Woodward

83. Benjamin Barker

84. Magnus Zetterström

85. Artur Mroczka

86. Kim Nilsson

87. Edward Kennett

88. Adrian Gomolski

89. Mariusz Staszewski

90. Wladimir Borodulin

91. David Howe

92. Andrzej Lebiediew

93. Ricky Wells

94. Josef Franc

95. Mariusz Puszakowski

96. Renat Gafurov

97. Karol Baran

98. Tobiasz Musielak

99. Simon Stead

100. Jonas Davidsson