highest avg rider

[Lurcher]

Ok all you stat lovers 

 

who has had the highest end of season avg.

 

I remember Crump on about 11.2. has anyone ever got higher, think Adams may have been close?

[Speedball]

Remember Hans Nielsen having some sort of ridiculous season with Oxford where I think he only got beaten a handful of times. Around about 1986/87 I think.

[YerRopes]

Not really a stat man, but didn't Freddie Lindgren hsve a ridiculous average around Monmore at one point.. 

[Baldyman]

Anders Michanek,,, 11.36 is the highest I've found 

[Fromafar]

Hans Nielsen 11.57

Joe Owen. 11.54

[TeamBouchard]

Ivan Mauger 11.67 for Belle Vue, 1969.

[M.D]

7 hours ago, TeamBouchard said:

Ivan Mauger 11.67 for Belle Vue, 1969.

Spot on, Ivan followed by Hans..

[waiheke1]

Depending if you include all meetings, or just BL.If the latter i think Hans wins

[mikebv]

12 hours ago, TeamBouchard said:

Ivan Mauger 11.67 for Belle Vue, 1969.

Can't remember the stat, but didnt he only lose something like three races all season at Hyde Rd?

[Steve0]

I remember a few seasons back Doyley started with a near 14 point average

[Wolfie456]

Ole Olsen 11.39 twice for Wolves 

[cuckootoyou]

Didn't Billy (Sanders) have a really decent average when we sadly lost him ?

[The Third Man]

6 hours ago, mikebv said:

Can't remember the stat, but didnt he only lose something like three races all season at Hyde Rd?

Remember Arnie Haley beating him from the back in the silver sash match race at Hyde Road that year

[dontforgetthefueltapsbruv]

7 hours ago, cuckootoyou said:

Didn't Billy (Sanders) have a really decent average when we sadly lost him ?

Think it may have been 11.53 at the time  (not certain and not checked)

[mikebv]

To be fair there does need to be the balance to the equation that many of the 'massive' averages were gained with no fixed gate positions, and the No1 usually picked the best every time, and usually only four rides a night with no 'best riders in the last race' which can impact massively averages nowadays..

But even so, running a high 11 plus average was some achievement given that virtually all the best riders in the World rode here at the time and the heat leaders still rode often against each other..

[Bagpuss]

Good for the stattos but a bit boring really, where is the jeopardy when these 11+ riders were in their races? 

[Lurcher]

thanks for all the replies.  I came to the sport in the 1990 so most are a bit before my time, but would have loved to have seen some of the riders mentioned in full flight.

[hyderd]

I remember I Mauger from time to time leaving his fuel tap closed and losing power on bends 1/2, after turning it back on he would chase the other riders and often still beat them.

 

[Grachan]

Hans Nielsen is the only rider I know of to manage a perfect 12.00 league average away from home during an entire season. He dropped a few races at home, though, bless him.

It was 1986. He finished with a league average of 11.83.

From what I remember, that year there was a small league and the League Cup took up half the season. His average in that was lower so it drops below Ivan's. In league alone, though, I'm pretty sure Hans in 1986 wins it.

 

 

Edited May 18, 2020 by Grachan

[steve roberts]

On 5/15/2020 at 2:01 PM, mikebv said:

To be fair there does need to be the balance to the equation that many of the 'massive' averages were gained with no fixed gate positions, and the No1 usually picked the best every time, and usually only four rides a night with no 'best riders in the last race' which can impact massively averages nowadays..

But even so, running a high 11 plus average was some achievement given that virtually all the best riders in the World rode here at the time and the heat leaders still rode often against each other..

All the more remarkable that Hans achieved an average of 11.03 in 1988 and 10.91 in 1989 when both those criterias were in operation. Just demonstates the force he was during the eighties.