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30 minutes ago, blue witch said:

Keep 15 heats but just do 2 nominated races. Reserves only 3 rides each and it would make it more worth the money seeing the big guys an extra time each. Should adopt the TS rules of Poland too. I also agree just have a superheat/run off for agg purposes

The Polish formula seems to work well. Hence it won’t be adopted here.

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16 minutes ago, The White Knight said:

Silly idea in my opinion. a Draw is a Draw - and that should be it.

Typical Speedway. Why make it straightforward when you can complicate it. 🙄

You've hit the nail on the head. Change for change sake. Even the super heat was a  3-3 draw !!! 

Plus you need to have an A level in mathematics to understand the league table nowadays.  

I take it you could actually win the league without winning a single meeting all season with this points scoring system 

 

 

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1 hour ago, blue witch said:

Keep 15 heats but just do 2 nominated races. Reserves only 3 rides each and it would make it more worth the money seeing the big guys an extra time each. Should adopt the TS rules of Poland too. I also agree just have a superheat/run off for agg purposes

How do the Polish TS rules differ to ours out of interest?

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This will sound daft after last night but a superheat the vast majority of the time will favour the home team thus making the away teams riders get nothing for their efforts all night 

Especially worse on an aggregate score … for example Ipswich could beat Belle Vue by 20 in the home leg…. Then lose by 20 in the away leg yet the ‘superheat’ is held only at one track where the second leg is and huge home advantage … this is not a pop at Belle Vue because the first leg could be at Belle Vue and then Ipswich get a superheat at Foxhall where Doyle and Emil are clear favourites in the second leg 

90-90 over 30 heats and yet one race decides on who goes to the final at the HOME teams track feels wrong 

I don’t know the answer … you could say race wins but that would stop team riding 

Maybe match races by this I mean 

7 more heats 1v1 against your opposing number and one team would get 4 wins 

I don’t know I read what I wrote and that seems silly a bit lol

Anyone think of any ideas 

 

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52 minutes ago, Gavan said:

This will sound daft after last night but a superheat the vast majority of the time will favour the home team thus making the away teams riders get nothing for their efforts all night 

Especially worse on an aggregate score … for example Ipswich could beat Belle Vue by 20 in the home leg…. Then lose by 20 in the away leg yet the ‘superheat’ is held only at one track where the second leg is and huge home advantage … this is not a pop at Belle Vue because the first leg could be at Belle Vue and then Ipswich get a superheat at Foxhall where Doyle and Emil are clear favourites in the second leg 

90-90 over 30 heats and yet one race decides on who goes to the final at the HOME teams track feels wrong 

I don’t know the answer … you could say race wins but that would stop team riding 

Maybe match races by this I mean 

7 more heats 1v1 against your opposing number and one team would get 4 wins 

I don’t know I read what I wrote and that seems silly a bit lol

Anyone think of any ideas 

 

If level on aggregate, neither team gets the bonus point?

2 x 20 points home wins would still give an exciting climax with both teams chasing the bonus point. Then even if one team, can't gain the extra point, a 5-1 could prevent the opposition gaining it?

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It's the aggregate super heat that I don't really get. How can you have 2 different meetings on 2 different tracks and then have the decider on one the club's home track? Especially in a sport as poorly organised as speedway when there's any amount of reasons as to why meetings could be rearranged/rescheduled, again giving one side an advantage.

As for the super heat for a draw on the night...why?

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It's the aggregate super heat that I don't really get. How can you have 2 different meetings on 2 different tracks and then have the decider on one the club's home track? Especially in a sport as poorly organised as speedway when there's any amount of reasons as to why meetings could be rearranged/rescheduled, again giving one side an advantage.

As for the super heat for a draw on the night...why?

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Have two bonus points for an aggregate win (treat it as winning one 30 heat meeting) and have one point each for a drawn aggregate score....

Or put a dart board on the centre green and play nearest the bull...

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2 hours ago, Gavan said:

Especially worse on an aggregate score … for example Ipswich could beat Belle Vue by 20 in the home leg…. Then lose by 20 in the away leg yet the ‘superheat’ is held only at one track where the second leg is and huge home advantage … this is not a pop at Belle Vue because the first leg could be at Belle Vue and then Ipswich get a superheat at Foxhall where Doyle and Emil are clear favourites in the second leg  

 

That happened to us in the KO cup last season. We drew with Sheffield over 30 races then they had the home advantage when it came to the decider. We always have the second leg for this very reason. 

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Why is the 4 3 2 0 scoring system used?. Means avoiding last is the priority. Why not 4 2 1 0, making winning a priority. Surely winning should be a priority when you have a race with 4 riders of the quality of Emily, Doyle, Bewley and Kurtz.

 

 

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18 minutes ago, RS50 said:

Why is the 4 3 2 0 scoring system used?. Means avoiding last is the priority. Why not 4 2 1 0, making winning a priority. Surely winning should be a priority when you have a race with 4 riders of the quality of Emily, Doyle, Bewley and Kurtz.

 

 

May as well just do a 1 vs 1 run off then if just about winning the race. Scoring system is fine the way it is as encourages team riding. 

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