It will be interesting to watch this progress over the season.

its the RL equivalent of the duckworth lewis method

Exactly

sorry Mission you've got to re-think the scoring: shouldnt a -2 team should get more for beating a +2 team than 0, and a +2 team get penalised for losing to a -2 team? how about the total score for a game where teams for different pools are playing being calculated as the teams own rating ie +2/-2 plus the points for the game ie 0,1 or 2 PLUS their opponents rating . so a top team playing a bottom team would get +2 plus 2 if they won plus -2 = 2 and if they lost, nothing. if they beat a top team its still only +4.

what do you think? How would this change the table?

Im baffled.

What will this alternative super league table prove come the seasons end?

The SL table doesn't lie

You need to find a hobby to occupy your spare time pal

I'm going to stick up for Mission, as I think he's getting a lot of grief on this thread

The table won't 'prove' anything, its just an interesting perspective. It's same as things like tables based on 'recent form'. They are interesting and enable us to see which teams are performing in particular ways

I, for one, look forward to seeing how this table develops. It's hard to tell much after one round. Once everyone has played six matches it will be more interesting

Come the end of the season the table should be in the same order as the super league table - thats the point. the idea is simply to take into account whether a team has played more difficult games and be a better prediction of the final league standings through the year. for example i know we were all disappointed to lose this weekend but you could argue that its not a team you would expect to beat and not as bad as say salford who lost to castleford, a team you'd be looking to beat to make the 8.

Can you tell i was a bit bored this lunchtime?

Come the end of the season the table should be in the same order as the super league table - thats the point. the idea is simply to take into account whether a team has played more difficult games and be a better prediction of the final league standings through the year. for example i know we were all disappointed to lose this weekend but you could argue that its not a team you would expect to beat and not as bad as say salford who lost to castleford, a team you'd be looking to beat to make the 8.

Can you tell i was a bit bored this lunchtime?

Dont know why that posted 3 times!