Hopefully he wants to make up for his last stint at Northside. I know he's been smashing the gym a lot, so maybe a fit, motivated Cookie will arrive come the start of the season.
Everything wrong with speedway in a nutshell.
Jacob performs exceptionally well last season, beats some top riders, and ends up losing out the following season with no team place. No wonder young riders are giving up the sport so easy.
I wasnt, but now youve brought him up, lets discuss. His speedway star article was interesting, and he seems to have turned a corner. Maybe someone should give him a second chance.
Think we need a bit more clarity of this new rule. Is it an accumulated percentage reduction, like yiu have calculated, or is it exponential reduction.
For example, it could be 8% × 5 seasons = 40%, which would be 5.27×0.6 = 3.16.
Or, is if, 5.27×0.92^5 = 3.47.
Mathematical convention is to round up if its 0.5, 0.05, etc.
2.5% of 8.2 is 0.205. Rounded up is 0.21, giving him an average of 7.99.
However, it does matter how its calculated.
You can remove 2.5% off 8.2 by multiplying it by 0.975, which would give you 7.995. Is the average the figure to be rounded or the reduction?