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  1. Posted

    Bringing this thread back to life as I'm in the process of updating the file.

    I'm still looking to resolve the 8th April Eastbourne v Exeter (LC) issue - does anyone have a marked programme that can confirm the result of heat 13, in particular whether Noer or Millard rode in the race?

  2. Posted

    3 hours ago, compost said:

    I'm sure I've seen somewhere an individual meeting which needed a 5 rider run-off to determine the winner. They all scored 10 points.  Just don't recall the event sadly (advancing age).

    That same thought crossed my mind last night. Was it a Riders' Championship event at Bradford? Instead of having a series of races they just stuck all 5 in a run-off?

  3. Posted

    Not quite in the same league but 15th July 1984 Boston v Glasgow, Colin Cook 10+2 (4) and Steve Lawson 15 (5). Cook rode at #6 so the two weren't programmed to meet. His extra ride was an R/R in heat 6.

  4. Posted

    On 10/1/2020 at 2:55 PM, chunky said:

    That's why I love Speedway Researcher! Still, as we've seen previously, BL65 and Dave Allan seem to have this stuff in their heads!

    Actually I just have a lot of 'stuff' on my PC and happen to be a dab hand with a 'search' function :D

    Updating an Exeter 1984 file I've picked up a 9 from 13 - Monday 27th August 1984 Exeter v Poole (BL). All 7 home riders won at least one race (Mauger 3, Willmott 2, Campbell/Maxfield/Robinson/Andersen/Carr all 1) with guest Simmons (2) and Jakobsen (1) winning for Pirates.

  5. Posted · Edited by daveallan81
    Updated 17/02/2021

    Another research project I've been working on for quite a while and still looking for some heat details and other info. I've included what information I have for each match so anything that can fill any of the gaps eg. basic scorers or line-ups from blank programmes, welcomed.

    02/06 Ipswich v King's Lynn - full heat details [blank programme]

    17/06 Poole v Exeter - full heat details [blank programme]

    28/06 Stoke v Long Eaton - full heat details [blank programme & Long Eaton scorers]

    27/08 Stoke v Milton Keynes - full heat details [no info at all except result]

    29/08 Halifax v Berwick - full heat details [no info at all except result]

    29/09 Halifax v Milton Keynes (staged after Halifax v Ipswich BL) - heat times [heat results from video footage]

  6. Posted

    1 minute ago, chunky said:

    Excellent!

    So we started with Nigel Boocock and 16 from 24.

    Now Steve Lawson has it with 16 from 23.

    Any advance on that?

    I know that on their travels, Steve really was a "one-man team" on many occasions.

    Glasgow scored 439 NL points away from home in 1985 - Lawson scored 201 of them. Yeh we kinda relied on him somewhat :D

    One for the three riders list: 28/29 25th July 1984 Long Eaton 49 Glasgow 29 (Lawson 13, Collins 9, Reid 6)

  7. Posted · Edited by daveallan81
    Update

    26th April 1979 at Oxford, Glasgow's Derek Richardson 12 & Steve Lawson 10 out of 26 (13 heats).

    27th June 1981 at Glasgow, Crayford's Alan Sage 10 & Berry Thomas 6 out of 20 (13 heats).

    11th September 1982 at Berwick, Kenny McKinna 20 (+1) & Steve Lawson 17 out of 42 (16 heats).

    Not quite on topic, but close enough I think, does Steve Lawson's record of 16 out of 23 at Arena in 1985 still stand as highest percentage of a team's total by one rider?

  10. Posted · Edited by daveallan81
    updated

    Nodlew and I have been working on the 1982 Anglia Junior League results. We're left looking for 6 results if anyone can help, senior fixture in brackets if different:

    03/09/1982 Peterborough v Leicester (Peterborough v Middlesbrough)

    07/09/1982 Leicester v Mildenhall (Leicester v Cradley Heath)

    21/09/1982 Leicester v Milton Keynes (Leicester v Sheffield)

    21/09/1982 Milton Keynes v Peterborough

    28/09/1982  Milton Keynes v Mildenhall

    10/10/1982 Peterborough v Milton Keynes

  12. Posted

    21 hours ago, Marksman said:

    Yeah it does that with the GFA basic code as it's pretty old language now, most of the old Amiga/Atari games from the mid 80's used it!

    The general rule is you must replace the exact same number of characters as is listed in the exe.

    i.e If you want to Replace "Premier League" with "Championship" you'll need to add 2 spaces at the beginning or the end.

    "Premier League"

    "  Championship"

    So I couldn't change "Premier League" to "National League" because there would be one character too many? Or is there room for manoeuvre somewhere?

  13. Posted

    6 hours ago, compost said:

    Have you tried looking for result details in the old 'Speedway Surveys' annuals ?

    I know Maurice was had some strange ideas but I do recollect some of the year books, at least, had Junior/Reserve League/Division 2 results in.

    I think he did they '87 one retrospectively so it contained more information than some of the others.

    The information I'm really after pre-dates the Speedway Surveys yearbooks,. In most cases it's heat details I want and the yearbooks didn't publish them. Having had a look at what I've got earlier, it's really ony the 1982 Anglia & Central, the 1984 Scottish and the 1985 Anglia junior leagues I'm missing basic results for.

  15. Posted

    I worked out how to change the team names years ago but never bothered tinkering with the riders list. How does the game generate new riders? Does it simply take a combination of first and last names from the rider list and produce a hybrid - Broc Crump for example? Or does it have another way of doing it?

  16. Posted

    4 hours ago, Mimmo said:

    I've not looked, but I don't think 'researcher' included send halves did they?

    As far as 1987 is concerned, ten National League clubs are represented on Researcher. Only one, Glasgow/Workington, carries any junior details. Only five clubs have files for 1986, again only the Glasgow file carries any junior details.

    Good luck to anyone hunting down any junior results, I have files I've been working on for ten years plus that I'm still trying to locate results and heat details for.

  17. Posted

    The Central section began with 6 teams - Boston, Long Eaton, Mildenhall, Milton Keynes, Peterborough and Stoke. Boston withdrew from the league in August having raced 6 of their scheduled 10 matches. Matches were over 7 heats. I can't confim any dates but matches tended to be staged following the corresponding senior league fixture, the dates of which are in brackets:

    (31/05) Boston 19 - 23 Long Eaton

    (19/07) Boston 13 - 29 Mildenhall

    (25/05) Boston 24 - 18 Peterborough

    (21/06) Boston 19 - 22 Stoke

    (15/07) Long Eaton 23 - 19 Boston

    (16/09) Long Eaton 17 - 25 Mildenhall

    (08/07) Long Eaton 26 - 16 Milton Keynes

    (27/05) Long Eaton 23 - 19 Peterborough,

    (01/07) Long Eaton 22 - 19 Stoke

    (05/07) Mildenhall 35 - 07 Boston

    (20/09) Mildenhall 29 - 13 Long Eaton

    (18/10) Mildenhall 19 - 23 Milton Keynes

    (02/08) Mildenhall 28 - 14 Peterborough

    (20/05) Mildenhall 26 - 16 Stoke

    (07/07) Milton Keynes 22 - 20 Long Eaton

    (30/06) Milton Keynes 15 - 24 Mildenhall

    (06/10) Milton Keynes 30 -12 Peterborough

    (11/08) Milton Keynes 29 -12 Stoke

    (22/05) Peterborough 21 - 21 Long Eaton

    (28/08) Peterborough 15 - 21 Mildenhall

    (17/04) Peterborough 21 - 21 Milton Keynes

    (11/09) Peterborough 32 - 09 Stoke

    (22/08) Stoke 20 - 22 Long Eaton

    (04/07) Stoke 22 - 19 Mildenhall

    (10/10) Stoke 18 - 24 Milton Keynes

    (24/10) Stoke 28 - 13 Peterborough

  18. Posted

    On 5/20/2020 at 6:59 PM, Sp33dy89 said:

    I've tried to look into the file but as far as I know it's in an old file format. Win16 or NE(new experience) exe.

    I'm sure if anyone has knowledge of that kind of programming/software then the game could be updated more I would think. 

    Could be completely wrong

    It was suggested to me a long time ago that I'd actually played the programme way beyond it's limit. Hence glitches should be expected. They still happen on completely new games so I'm not so sure that's the reason but hey-ho

  19. Posted

    On 3/31/2020 at 12:15 PM, daveallan81 said:

    5th July went ahead v Edinburgh. however the A.J.L. match may not have been staged because... 

    ...BSF member Nodlew produced a sheet of 1985 AJL dates & results which, when using all currently available info, indicate that the second Peterborough v Mildenhall match took place after 25th September.

    A wee update on this one. The 19th July 1985 Edinburgh v Berwick programme carries a match report from the 5th July match and mentions "Heavy rain in second half which was cancelled after two races." It doesn't mention the AJL fixture but it's clear that the match either didn't take place or achieve a result.

    Regarding the after 25th September notion, further investigation seems to have proved me wrong with this one. 20th September Peterborough v Berwick programme appears to include a visit of Mildenhall in the AJL in the second half. It is billed as Event 5 Peterborough v ????? (Anglia Junior League) but the away riders are all Mildenhall juniors.

  20. Posted

    On 5/19/2020 at 8:56 AM, Sp33dy89 said:

    If for speedway promoter, when on transfer list. Click on your team name before clicking the riders name. 

    Can't believe after all the times I played the game I couldn't remember to do that. Now fully up and running, same old 'glitches' still happening for example:

    Over-strength teams - you can't do it but the AI can

    Ghost 4-2's - usual scenario one home rider excluded, the other placed third, your riders second and last, 4-2 to home team.

    An opponent's rider only taking one ride.

    Your injured rider being forced to take a second ride leaving you with just one rider in one heat, usually the last one.

    Interested to know if anyone else experiences these or other 'glitches' and whether any of you PC whizz kids could sort them out?

  24. Posted

    11 hours ago, pleasureboy60 said:

    Hi The only info I have is that Pet juniors ride against Mild on 26.07 and the score was Pet 18 Mild 6. Programme used was Peterborough v Glasgow. The second match was either on 07.06 or 05.07. I can't find any confirmation of which date was actually used, other than the fact that poss 07.06 was post and rerun on 05.07 programme was Peterborough v Edinburgh. Regards Barry 

    If you have the full 2nd half details from that 26/07/1985 v Glasgow match I'd very much like to have them.

    7th June v Mildenhall (NL) was rained off. Restaged 14th June which only lasted until heat 4 before weather intervened. I'd like to know if the A.J.L. match was rearranged but again rained off.

    5th July went ahead v Edinburgh. however the A.J.L. match may not have been staged because... 

    ...BSF member Nodlew produced a sheet of 1985 AJL dates & results which, when using all currently available info, indicate that the second Peterborough v Mildenhall match took place after 25th September.

    Speedboy, without wishing to hijack the thread, I wonder if you could post what you have for Mildenhall (home & away) as far as dates & scores go. I'd like to grab this chance to try and advance Nodlew's worksheet.

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