Ah ok, that makes sense. I have always found the concept of teams being limited by averages a little weird, and imo it is part of the reason for the short term thinking in terms of rider development as it is not worth developing a rider as they improve their average and then you cant fit them in your team. It particularly affects the middle order riders or young reserves who reach a 6 or 7 average after a few years

Points scored divided by rides taken (all rides) times by four. Hence the maximum average being 12. 

Remember that evening well. Conditions were horrible, would have been called off had it not been a world level meeting I’m sure. Outclassed the field which included Tai Woffinden on his home track. Only one rider that evening looked as if he’d go on to be a world champion and it wasn’t Tai. 

Just read the article and you cannot argue with anything he says... Because, it has all pretty much been suggested on here in the past!!! Almost every sentence I read, I thought "No s**t Sherlock!".... Where we are now has been inevitable for many years, and, (forever it seems), forecasted on here, yet "Mike" seems to have had some kind of epiphany and realised the sport is in serious "you know what"... Even suggesting plenty of things that could be done to get more riders into the sport!.. (Obviously no one, apart from the fans, have noticed exactly the same lads, (getting older), turning up each week, at all the tracks in both divisions, for the best part of a decade!)... The sport, like all sports, needs an "Elite level", however, it seems unaffordable to do it in the UK for enough tracks... And "one big league" will mean riders losing out on the money that doubling up brings, so will want more from their one team, and the league will have plenty of "good" riders missing on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturdays as they race in Denmark and Poland... A right (self inflicted over many years) schemozzle... Magic wand time at the AGM? If so, maybe we need Harry Potter rather than Harry Redknapp!!!  

Exactly,desperate stuff

How exactly are averages calculated. I always thought it was based on the riders programmed rides, but clearly I got that wrong if you are saying that RR rides are included