Season 2016/17 in figures
The tables below contain information about the strength of teams and boards fielded in the league competitions this season.
Cooking the books
In order to interpret the figures you will want to know the basis of the calculations:
Team totals are calculated after the minimum counting grade has been applied to defaulted boards, ungraded and low graded players.
For individual boards, a minimum counting grade has been applied to defaults (0 in divs 1 and 5), but for lower graded players their grade has been used. For ungraded players estimated grades have been used. Some of these have changed over the course of the season.
The difference in the treatments described above means that in divisions 2 to 4 the sum of the average grades of the boards is less than the team average. All averages have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
Defaulted matches have not been included in the calculations.
The figures
All teams
| Division 1 | Division 2 | Division 3 | Division 4 | Division 5
|
| average team | 835 | 705 | 505 | 450 | 329
|
| average board 1 | 196 | 173 | 145 | 133 | 112
|
| average board 2 | 181 | 152 | 129 | 122 | 92
|
| average board 3 | 168 | 135 | 121 | 99 | 70
|
| average board 4 | 154 | 123 | 103 | 87 | 55
|
| average board 5 | 136 | 114 | | |
|
Av team
- sum av boards | 0 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 0
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Team by team break down:
All figures are team totals.
| team | average | biggest | least
|
| Cheddleton A | 855 | 921 | 761
|
| Holmes Chapel A | 850 | 946 | 819
|
| Newcastle A | 821 | 827 | 789
|
| Stafford A | 814 | 938 | 677
|
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| Cheddleton B | 720 | 725 | 715
|
| Crewe A | 699 | 713 | 687
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| Holmes Chapel Rooks | 669 | 703 | 620
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| Macclesfield | 718 | 725 | 707
|
| Newcastle B | 709 | 720 | 665
|
| Newcastle C | 714 | 722 | 710
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|
| Alsager A | 506 | 514 | 482
|
| Cheddleton C | 510 | 514 | 483
|
| Cheddleton D | 510 | 518 | 483
|
| Crewe B | 508 | 519 | 487
|
| Fenton A | 510 | 519 | 492
|
| Kidsgrove A | 481 | 508 | 446
|
| Meir A | 508 | 512 | 479
|
| Newcastle D | 503 | 518 | 477
|
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|
| Alsager B | 455 | 456 | 443
|
| Cheddleton E | 458 | 459 | 449
|
| Cheddleton F | 449 | 460 | 433
|
| Crewe C | 436 | 459 | 428
|
| Fenton B | 448 | 460 | 426
|
| Meir B | 446 | 456 | 442
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| Newcastle E | 454 | 457 | 442
|
| Stafford B | 450 | 456 | 439
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| Cheddleton G | 289 | 358 | 162
|
| Cheddleton H | 289 | 329 | 145
|
| Cheddleton I | 310 | 380 | 154
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| Crewe D | 346 | 398 | 275
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| Crewe E | 321 | 393 | 213
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| Fenton C | 353 | 392 | 261
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| Meir C | 368 | 399 | 328
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| Newcastle F | 354 | 394 | 298
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Head to Head
The following table shows the average grading differences, i.e. shows by how much the weaker team/player is outgraded. Defaulted boards have been omitted.
| Division 1 | Division 2 | Division 3 | Division 4 | Division 5
|
| team | 72 | 25 | 16 | 10 | 47
|
| board 1 | 10 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 11
|
| board 2 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 17
|
| board 3 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 23
|
| board 4 | 23 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 20
|
| board 5 | 21 | 8 | | |
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For comparison see figures for seasons 2009/10 and 2012/13.
