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Starke and Wright wont get a deduction. Ellis might depending on how the see his not riding PL last season.

A rider not mentioned by any EL teams fans as far as I can tell. Simon Stead? Not my idea of a great signing but there worse signings could be made too.

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!

Aaron Summers would technically be your number 1 if you signed him now!

He'll meet the NL riders 3 or 4 times a meeting giving him 3 or 4 points, plus the opposition reserve so assume he beats them half the time thats another 2 giving him 4-6 points a meeting.

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

I'm expecting Castagna to get about 5 tbh, so it's not impossible a couple of months in they swap. And if they don't I think its more likely to be down to Sarj doing well. If you look at how his career has gone he's improved every year so if he carries on I think he'll be fine. I think there more pressure no him at Cov to be the senior reserve than at Ipswich.

Smolinski on a 7.5ish average having a won a GP in the last 2 season would have to be a heat leader. A crap one but still a heat leader

I'm sure if you tweets the BSPA and ask they'll tell you. With Buster Chapmans transparency and honesty policy now surely in full swing.

He had 14 meetings at the start of the year and then 6 right at the end but in the middle of that he had 18 in the 1-5. Just running the number again he did only average 4.3 in the 1-5 which is lower than I though. That said, looking at his scores, his worst scores do coincide with when he broke his ribs and picked up at injury in the EL.

The averages actually have nothing to do with it. You could sign Zengota (7.7), Watt (7.2), Summers (6.8), Bjerre (5.9) and North (5.9) but you would still technically only have two heat leaders. Bjerre and North, the two lowest averaged riders. Zengota rode about 4 meetings as heat leader. Watt about the same, Summers 0. While Bjerre and North rode all but about 3 meetings each as heat leaders.

It depends if he wants to be 4,6,8 or 10 times World Champion or if he wants to push himself. I think we all accept he's got a damn good chance of 5 or 6 speedway titles (he got 2 in 4 attempts - that's a stupid record!) but will he find that "boring"? And would he prefer to struggle a little in some of form of sport and eventually make it? How does he tick? Does he want to be the "best ever" at something or be challenged to be good at something else? I can't see him quitting in reality. He might give some other sports a go, the new challenge and all that but it's more likely to be in addition to speedway not instead of.

If Freddie and Kylmakorpi are your heat leaders then I'd be worried! Where are you going to use the rest of the point? Aaron Summers?!

Sarjeant averaged 5 in the 1-5, so he should have no issues maintaining it in the 1-5.

KK could ride in the NL when he's on one of his "down" and still struggle. It just depends how he's going. He's a risk worth taking IMO. All or nothing, try and go out with a bang rather than a whimper.

No, his last PL average was 4.67. 4.89 is what he averaged in the EL in 2015.

King has to be a heat leader or it makes a mockery of having a heat leader list.

50p says it's KK for Bryan Yarrow, Ryan Fisher, Shamek

Starke is 3.6, so if Pooles team with Ellis on 3 is 0.5 under the limit Ford was right that with Starke they would have been over the limit. It comes to something when a Coventry fan has to defend Ford from accusations of lying from Poole fans!

TBF, Eurosports coverage of Swedish Speedway was crap. Sometimes not show at all, sometimes shown late, sometimes shown but not in full. Crap is fair. But thats Eurosport, always has been

KK has to go to Leicester. BV can build an OK team without him, Wolves can probably manage, just. If Leicester don't get KK then they're buggered.

Zengota, Watt and Summers will lose almost 5 points between them next season. So Swindon would have to start 5 points under the limit. The reason the team with Doyle failed wasn't because of Doyle but because the other 6 (well, 3 of them - at any given time) were beyond crap.

Can just see Leicester being left with Zengota, Watt, Summers, Batch and Wozniak!

Instantly install Swindon as one of the favourites. They have a great number 1 and you know Rosco won't mess up the rest.

Martin really is what the NL should be about for the likes of Coventry. Brought in seemingly from nowhere, no fan-fare he come in as a reserve and has improved, steadily at first but greatly the second half of last year. He's become a fan favourite and with any luck will pick up a PL place (or at least some guest bookings) this coming season and depending on what they do with the draft (and taking a positive view on the future of the club) he could well find himself riding for the Bees in the next few seasons. It's all well and godo having the likes of Darryl Ritchings (who did a wonderful job) but ultimately he filled a gap and did a good job for a season, but he's a Swindon boy who will sign for the Robins when he's ready for the EL. Anything I read about Martin seems to be positive too, theres no doubting he's become a real fans favourite.