The Heat Leader List....

SCB · November 18, 2015

So taking every riders last 20 meetings, here as the number of meetings they rode as a heat leader.

Take out Bjarne, Mads, Woffy, Ward, Zagar, Pawlicki, Magic, Pawlicki, Kildemand, Michelsen, Swiderski, Bridger and Guastafsson and assume the rest return then your 22 BSPA heat leaders should be everyone from Buckowski/King and up - but thats 23 riders.

There are a few anomalies, Buczkowski, MJJ, Hougaard and Miedzinski for example rode 100% of meetings as a heat leader so should be shifted up but as I don't expect 3 of them to ride EL in 2016 they don't matter. But it does make Buczkowski a contentious one!

Personally, I'd have just made the cut-off 14. The riders it was brought in to stop dropping to second string were Lindgren, Andersen and Bjerre and they fall within my cut-off. As for the rest, they could well be second strings or their averages are so high that they're heat leaders anyway.

rank meetings rider

1 20 Bjarne Pedersen

1 20 Jason Doyle

1 20 Chris Harris

1 20 Rory Schlein

1 20 Troy Batchelor

1 20 Niels K Iversen

1 20 Mads Korneliussen

1 20 Peter Karlsson

1 20 Fredrik Lindgren

1 20 Tai Woffinden

1 20 Darcy Ward

1 20 Matej Zagar

1 20 Przemyslaw Pawlicki

1 20 Nick Morris

1 20 Maciej Janowski

1 20 Piotr Pawlicki

1 20 Andreas Jonsson

18 19 Scott Nicholls

19 18 Grzegorz Walasek

20 17 Peter Kildemand

21 16 Dakota North

21 16 Edward Kennett

21 16 Chris Holder

21 16 Hans Andersen

25 15 Kenneth Bjerre

25 15 Craig Cook

27 14 Mikkel Michelsen

28 13 Mikkel B Jensen

28 13 Ricky Wells

28 13 Joonas Kylmakorpi

31 12 Piotr Swiderski

32 11 Vaclav Milik

32 11 Lewis Bridger

32 11 Simon Gustafsson

35 9 Danny King

35 9 Krzysztof Buczkowski

37 8 Cameron Woodward

37 8 Ryan Fisher

39 7 Davey Watt

39 7 Simon Stead

39 7 Michael Jepsen Jensen

39 7 Tobiasz Musielak

43 6 Patrick Hougaard

44 4 Kim Nilsson

44 4 Grzegorz Zengota

44 4 Szymon Wozniak

47 3 Robert Lambert

47 3 Richard Lawson

47 3 Ty Proctor

47 3 Josh Grajczonek

51 2 Adrian Miedzinski

52 1 Kenneth Hansen

52 1 Ben Barker

NickRushbrook · November 18, 2015

They should have done rider gradings for the whole top five.

Grade 5 being the top riders and grade 1 being the lowest ranked.

Points limit is 15 with the grades counting as points towards this limit.

Couple of examples below:

Holder - Grade 5 (5 points)

Cook - Grade 4 (4 points)

Milik - Grade 3 (3 points)

Kennett - Grade 2 (2 points)

Sedgemen - Grade 1 (1 point)

Total 15 points.

Obviously that is the most simple way of doing things but another example is as follows :

Batchelor Grade 4 (4 points)

Cook Grade 4 (4 points)

Milik Grade 3 (3 points)

Graczonek Grade 3 (3 points)

Sedgemen Grade 1 (1 point)

Of course there would be more arguments about who should be in what grade but then that's nothing new and would at least work for this season whilst false averages are worked out.

SCB · November 18, 2015

They should have done rider gradings for the whole top five.

Grade 5 being the top riders and grade 1 being the lowest ranked.

Points limit is 15 with the grades counting as points towards this limit.

Couple of examples below:

Holder - Grade 5 (5 points)

Cook - Grade 4 (4 points)

Milik - Grade 3 (3 points)

Kennett - Grade 2 (2 points)

Sedgemen - Grade 1 (1 point)

Total 15 points.

Obviously that is the most simple way of doing things but another example is as follows :

Batchelor Grade 4 (4 points)

Cook Grade 4 (4 points)

Milik Grade 3 (3 points)

Graczonek Grade 3 (3 points)

Sedgemen Grade 1 (1 point)

Of course there would be more arguments about who should be in what grade but then that's nothing new and would at least work for this season whilst false averages are worked out.

But straight away I look at that and I'm left asking, in what World is Kennett 2 and not 4?! How do you determine the grades? He's certianly better than Grajzonek and Milik!

Edited November 18, 2015 by SCB

NickRushbrook · November 18, 2015

Well, like I said, arguments over this sort of thing are common place. The list was done very quickly so the grades I allocated weren't put together with too much thought. Just an example.

waiheke1 · November 19, 2015

Grading is an awful idea imho. Marginal rider become superb signings or unemployable

Skidder1 · November 19, 2015

That appears to be what we have got anyway!!!

SCB · November 19, 2015

Grading is an awful idea imho. Marginal rider become superb signings or unemployable

It goes back to what I suggested a few weeks ago. Weight all riders averages based on the position they rode in!

barncooseboy · November 27, 2015

thats a brilliant new idea, weigh all the riders and no one allowed to have a team that is over 90 stone in weight.

kelvinht · November 27, 2015

thats a brilliant new idea, weigh all the riders and no one allowed to have a team that is over 90 stone in weight.

Like it - it's no worse than the stupid rules the BSPA come up with. Still open to abuse though - I bet Matt Ford would get all his intended riders to go on diet before signing...and what happens in 2017 when a riders weight goes up - presume he will have a rolling fat average to apply to team building :rofl: