Won't it be much of a much-ness? With the top 8 especially - if the points pre-split are added to post-split you will end up with a 'natural' top 8 based on the season overall.

With those in the bottom 4 that go into the league with the 4 championship teams, I guess the arguement the RL are putting forward is those finishing 9th and 10th pre-split will get a more favourable set of home fixtures than those finishing 11th and 12th.

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I guess that would mean that (in theory at least) the SL teams in 9th and 10th pre-split are more likely to end towards the top post-split and therefore '9th' and '10th' if you added their finishing positions post-split to the top 8.

I guess whichever SL team in the middle 8 (including the 4 championship teams) comes top of their mini-league will technically be 9th overall and the SL team that comes lowest in the mini-league will technically be 12th. As said, the proviso would be that the teams 11th and 12th before the split will be more (theoretically) likely to finish lower when they go into the new mini-league because they will have been worse than those who were 9th and 10th before the split and the subsequent home / away split they are given will be a bit more challenging meaning that (again, theoretically) they will find it more difficult to win as many games as other teams...

Won't it be much of a much-ness? With the top 8 especially - if the points pre-split are added to post-split you will end up with a 'natural' top 8 based on the season overall.

With those in the bottom 4 that go into the league with the 4 championship teams, I guess the arguement the RL are putting forward is those finishing 9th and 10th pre-split will get a more favourable set of home fixtures than those finishing 11th and 12th.

www.superleague.co.uk/rlnewera

I guess that would mean that (in theory at least) the SL teams in 9th and 10th pre-split are more likely to end towards the top post-split and therefore '9th' and '10th' if you added their finishing positions post-split to the top 8.

I guess whichever SL team in the middle 8 (including the 4 championship teams) comes top of their mini-league will technically be 9th overall and the SL team that comes lowest in the mini-league will technically be 12th. As said, the proviso would be that the teams 11th and 12th before the split will be more (theoretically) likely to finish lower when they go into the new mini-league because they will have been worse than those who were 9th and 10th before the split and the subsequent home / away split they are given will be a bit more challenging meaning that (again, theoretically) they will find it more difficult to win as many games as other teams...