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Lublin will be very thin if Mikkel can't ride

I'm thinking going from Czestochowa to Gorzow for a 18:00 match is a bit hard for the away fans. Don't have a good explanation for the home crowd not showing up as expected

Indianerna bring in Jason Doyle and Andreas Lyager in replacement of injured Krakowiak and Kasprzak.

As it stands right now Torun is the lucky looser and they will face Lublin who has the 1 at this time. However Czestochowa has a chance to take that 1 spot

Oh absolutely, I just tried to figure out a way in which these rules would actually screw a team. Have to admit I really dislike this lucky looser format though. The benefit being of course that we get 3 meetings again today, hopings for some drama and good speedway

So after all this talk of the playoff format the one really weird scenario I could see happen here is Gorzow go out and win big with let's say 12-14 points meanwhile Wroclaw keep it close and lose to czestochowa by 2 or even find a draw then Torun are through? There is a path here where we could feel really sorry for this Wroclaw team

Also looks like we will get a sort of final here in heat 19

The people setting the odds seems to have more faith in Czestochowa rather than Wroclaw, problably because Czestochowa are the only ones who are able to match up with Lublin when it comes to the u21 riders

Yeah it's a difficult one to predict, I think if Piraterna go through they are getting picked, between Dackarna and Rospiggarna it's tougher in my opinion but there is something to be said about Dackarna - Västervik being a derby and them being able to attract a good crowd in that matchup

https://www.svemo.se/globalassets/svemo-forbundet/dokumentcenter/protokoll/speedway/2021/beslutsprotokoll_3_track-racing_gallande-elitserien_2022.pdf Must not be updated. Here is the document from when svemo announced the rules. Number 12 is about playoffs and translates to: 1st & 2nd directly to semifinals, 1st in the regular season table choose between winners of quarterfinals. Teams placed 3 - 6 to the quarterfinals, 3rd placed team choose between 5th and 6th.

Good work that someone is keeping up However the playoff quarterfinal might not be 3 v 6 and 4 v 5. The third placed team get to chose who they want to face between 5 and 6

Yes changed my answer, for some reason the table I looked at first hadn't updated properly, my bad

If Dackarna win by 2 then there is a last heat decider for the bonus point, and if Dackarna win that they are then through as well

That semifinal was incredible racing

4 Heats in and I'm already enjoying this way more than the majority of GPs this season, they have some great racetracks in Poland and this field of Riders is almost GP quality as well

Bet365 have Basso and Brennan rated quite highly at 12/3 and 7/1 to win today but at another bookie I can get 18/1 and 27/1 are those worth taking a stab at?

Doyle less for £200 please

Yes fair Stojanowski won’t get a point but Hansen should at least be able to beat Zielinski in the two heats they face so passenger is maybe a bit harsh. What would you make the odds?

Can someone explain to me how Gorzow are deemed underdogs today against Torun on Bet365? I would have flipped the odds or at least made it a 50/50

Bad playoff format in my opinion. Much prefer it the way Sweden has done it the last couple of years where it's 1st and 2nd directly to semifinal and then 3v6 and 4v5 as the quarters (or 3rd gets to pick opponent between 5 and 6). The idea that you can lose a quarterfinal and still move on to the semis is illogical and if you are going to have 6 out of 8 teams to the playoffs then you need to have a bigger incentive in finishing higher up the table, which I think you create by having the 1st and 2nd placed teams directly to the semis. The positives of this is of course we get more meetings and having the best loser progress makes it so teams should keep fighting eventhough they've already lost.

Madsen less for £300 please

Vaculik 200 MORE

Maybe you are right, that 2019 season wasn't good for him but I've seen enough good heats from him to at least say he is comfortably better than KK and Lindback. He was one point away from qualifiying to the GP series again this year which would have been interesting to see. I also realise he hasn't done so well in the international competitions but we are talking about a guy who has the 2nd best average in the ekstraliga this year, can't be to bad surely

Hoping for it, such a skilled and entertaining rider to watch

Such a shame, with the way Kolodziej has been riding in Poland it would have been really interesting to see him in individual competitions internationally