Quote: PopTart "So......this is how it works
Each year you get points for your league position.
We got 2.77 last year for finishing 12th. It starts at 4 for top and reduces by 0.11 each position.
Additionally, the league final position is judged after playoffs, so if you finish second, or 14th if in Championship, but win the grand final, you are judged as position 1 (or 13th). Same for 2nd 3rd 4th etc.
Then, you get an extra 0.25 for winning GF. So final league position isn't as important as winning through the playoffs.
THEN (sorry I said it was complicated)
Your league score for last 3 years are added together to get an average.
Ours are currently
2023 - 2.779
2022 - 3.001
2021 - 3.001
The new score for 2024 will replace 2021.
The sum divided by 3 to get the average.
Then all those averages are put into a new table order and if anyone has changed positions, the new numbers are allocated, with 4 for top and reduced again by 0.111
So, on the last scores, over 3 years, we were 12th, so got 2.78 points.
No-one above us can fall lower than 12. Only Toulouse can get above us.
So to answer the original question, the answer is, we need to do better than Toulouse.
If we win GF then we've nothing to worry about. If we lose in the GF to Toulouse we will just fall below them on the Performance points...... unless we win the 1895 Cup, then we'd be above again.
It's quite tight. Primary goal, be better on the field than Toulouse.
People saying league position doesn't matter are not correct. Of course there are other factors to decide if we make SL, but the points on offer for GF and 1895 are a big impact as only 1 team can get each of the points'"
Looking at a sort of worse-case scenario for us next season, does that mean that if somehow we don't win the Championship and Toulouse somehow does, as long as we finish in 2nd say and lose the 1895 final, will that still make us one of the IMG top 12, making us qualify for SL. If Leigh has another decent year they'd overtake us, if not already for the CC win, and then there's Cas and the supposed wrong score they sent in or whatever it was. If they say finish 10th in SL for example and pick up other small gains like we have and are gonna do like LED advertising boards etc, could they overtake us if we don't win the lot or at least win the League and final
Man the different scenarios and outcomes although our part of it doiesn't include too many clubs, it's enough to give you a headache.
