Roger Jacobs

There's always a lack of support on the terraces at Ipswich, unless there's a very big attendance. The vast majority of fans stand around the top of the terraces on the first & second bends, and on the seating high above the back straight. Viewing is poorer lower down because of the stock car catch-fencing.

They have 10 league fixtures to schedule between early May and end of August ...

Acceptance of mediocrity only encourages the BSPA to think even less about the paying customers who keep their businesses afloat.

Aces using R/R for Fricke, and Zach Cook as the guest for Blödorn. Etheridge is planning to return from his collarbone injury. Witches using R/R for Starke and Sedgmen as the guest for Riss. https://ipswichwitches.co/raceday-preview-belle-vue-premiership-a/

I do apologise most humbly!!! Hope you're not too angry

Riss is not in the starting list ... Fricke and Blödorn are ... https://www.fim-moto.com/fr/documents/detail/starting-list-fim-speedway-grand-prix-world-championship-qualifying-round-abensberg-ger-06062022 Congreve gets a place! Edit: After being reprimanded most severely by Racers & Royals, I now realise there's also a GP Qualifier at Debrecen, at which the aforementioned Herr Riss does indeed have a place.

Totally different track (to anywhere!), probably different engines.

The new Green Sheets should now be based on the last 18 matches, so a few more older scores will have dropped of the calculations. I don't follow them closely enough to know the impact. Next month it will be down to 16. As mentioned previously, it's the last X matches, irrespective of home or away, i.e. not half of each. By October, it will be the last 10 matches - at some point I'll work out the likely number of home/away for each team.

For some reason, Iversen got a new average on 26th May. Lawson will be #1 as of 1st June.

Big Cat Diary is the authority, but has gone AWOL after tonight

Yes, cheers - I looked again and found the solution (and edited my post). Also, see my reply to Daniel Smith

Yes, thanks ... I looked again and edited my post ... a very odd situation! The need for Iversen to get a new average on 26th May (I guess because he was previously on a re-assessed average?) and the move from 20 to 18 matches from the 1st June has had quite an impact on the KL averages.

Well, they might have broken 30 with him in the team.

It really is bizarre how the averages work, I can't follow the scenarios where Pickering is highest ... I'll look again. Edit: OK, got it now ... Pickering is indeed #1 just for tonight. It really is a stupid rule that forces the top average rider to ride at #1 ... it can cause needless disruption to established line-ups and/or rider positions, and not every rider is suited to the #1 race jacket - although I'm sure Pickering will do a decent job.

No way are Diamonds stronger without Starke.

https://britishspeedway.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/p22_issue_6.pdf These are based on the last 18 meetings (or minimum 4 home and 4 away - I don't think the minimum requirement has changed). Assuming the new Transfer Window Regulation is for 25% of all League matches, team changes can be made after 15 meetings, which is 2 June. Not sure what happens if any are rained off between now and then, i.e. does the window move ...

I don't let it bother me, because win or lose, it has no major impact on my life - just a moment of cheerfulness or a feeling of same-old-same-old. Even if the Witches won something, it's only transient - there's much more to life than getting upset about sport. Nobody has cheated. Whichever regulation was used - either a poorly written, vague new Reg, or some sort of dispensation - it was approved. Stop being such an authoritarian stuffed-shirt and just chill

Exactly.

Either way, the Regulations have been cobbled together, and the new "window" Regulation is unnecessarily vague, unhelpful, and - to be frank - totally useless. I'm happy to keep stretching it, if only to keep winding you up, seeing as it seems to mean so much to you.

League fixtures. Doesn't say anything about the regional starter competition, and the BSPA/L must have decided the window only applied to League racing. The League hadn't started when the changes were made. I think most people have agreed it's 25% of League fixtures, i.e. when 15 have been completed - which (assuming no postponements) is currently on Thursday, 2 June ... so 2 changes can be made after that, initially using the June Green Sheets. I guess that if a team makes a change to replace three riders, you'll say that's more than two

Congrats also to Riss, who top scored for Germany and won the Grand Final at the Longtrack of Nations: https://fim-longtrack.com/results-herxheim-nations/?

Blimey! The Witches won a last heat decider! Celebrations all round

The Regs don't say anything about making changes before 0% of League matches ...

(Previous replies deleted/lost!) Teams can replace riders up to the points limit - hence Ipswich had over 7 points to use when they replaced Heeps. Because teams are normally close to the points limit, the replacements tend to have a lower average. The BSPA has introduced a splendidly vague new Regulation this season whereby once the Prem started, there's a window between 25% and 75% of fixtures when replacements can be made. The 15th fixture (25%) is on 2nd June, by which time the new Green Sheets will be in operation, and teams will know how much scope they have to make changes, if required.

If you add those individual scores to the team totals, then it's not a Pairs event ... not that it is anyway, with a third rider *having* to take a ride.