Yes because it's ever going to happen that someone is going to be that far infront in the points table that he wont be caught up in 7 EXTRA games.
The 12 team league he was competing in isn't there anymore either but hey ho lets pretend nothing changed.

Ask the bookies to pay out? It's not fair if they don't either include his points against the amateur sides or stop at the regular season-end.

Had a look into it for my own reasons, and Betfair sportsbook and Coral are the only ones that settle markets after 30 games. The rest settle all markets after 23 and he majority of firms now offer 'League Leaders Shield' after already settling the 'Regular Season' market.

Yeah I bet with coral was going to do it on my skybet account don't know whether it would have made a difference

It's interesting how the super 8s are treated, if they are an extension of the regular season or of the playoffs.
You hear the pre and post match interviews where players/coaches talk about "semi final footy" and sky seem to be showing almost every game in one form or another, thats more in line with how they treated the old playoffs than the regular season (be interesting to see what the tv deal says what they can/must do).
I'd have like to have seen them promoted as the playoffs, and the BBC to have picked up their national highlights program, because if they do that this year for the semi finals there will only be 2, half the coverage the game got in recent years.