WHAT'S THIS ABOUT
- To revise points for teams receiving a forfeit.
SUMMARY OF CHANGES
- Works out an improved way to award points to team receiving a forfeit which does not unreasonably disadvantage other teams in each competition.
DISCUSSION
- Forfeits numbered 22 in season 2022/23 out of over 500 total matches in 12 different grades and competitions. This is really a minor problem in statistical terms but it's important to get the rules right.
- Ideally there should be no forfeits at all but that's not very likely to happen.
A detailed complaint was received from a club President which pointed
out the inequity of the forfeits points rule when matches in the same
round are weather affected.
- As per Regulation 11.6 and 11.7, team which received a forfeit were due maximum points for the round.
- The other two matches in the round happened to be a "juicy" outright and a washed out draw.
- The team receiving the forfeit was awarded more than 15 points while three other teams scored no more than 5 points and the outright winner received 15 points too.
- That is a big difference.
- The forfeiting team gets 0 points and the bills for the match.
- By contrast, if the other games were both 'normal' first innings results, the points would be split so that half the other teams in the grade scored about 7-10 points and 2 teams scored their bonus points (2, 3 or 4 or so). The team that receiving the forfeit would get 8-10 points or so.
- This is a smaller difference.
- There might be several ways to 'fix' this disparity.
