Player Points Cap Round 2
Some clubs have improved their accuracy. The 50% maximum deduction still seems to be missed by some clubs.
How effective is a points cap scheme when 30 player points Rats Colts I lose to 24 point points Hobbits Colts I by 64 points?
One Club is over the limit by their own declaration, yet the match is still recorded as a draw.
Oh well, having started a bit of a commentary on the whole points thing here is Hugh's Round 2 observations:
Colts 1 Round 2
Souths - Improvement on last week, with no 0 point players, although Brandon P-A can only be reduced to minimum of 2 points.
Parra - No team as yet. No Comment.
Penrith. Improvement.
Gordon. Still 6 players reported at 0. With these players at 1 point mimimum, Hugh's adjusted score is 26. Still well within the points cap.
Norths. 4 ) point players. With a minimum of 1 point, The Hugh-o-meter reckons they come in at 29 declared + 4 = 33 points.
Wicks. 41 Declared points and in breach by their own admission. The Hugh-o-meter reckons Kamp is 4 points not "-", O'Donaghoe is minimum of 3 points not 1, and Crafts is awarded 2 points for the "-" on the team list. The actual score for the team as listed is assessed by the Hugh-o-meter as 41 + 4 + 2 + 2 = 49 points. They have overshot the target by 22.5%. Have they employed the Obeid family as their scrutineers?
Rats. Same issues with 0 point players. Assuming the 8 of these are at 1 point the Hugh-o-meter assesses them at 30 points. HTF can a 30 point team lose to a 24 point team by 64 points?
Colts 1 Round 1
While some clubs have improved the accuracy of their reports in Round 2, not much has been done to amend the cluster that round 1 was.
Wicks have listed their missing 2nd rower, but even though Rudolf is a junior from Wickland, he still attracts 1 point not "-". They still have no full back listed, and the same issues remain over Kamp, O'Donaghoe points. Katsouskis is still over declared at 6 points and he should be 3. Even with all those issues, they should be within the 40 points.
Rats. Have added a prop and changed previous listed prop to the bench, in doing so adding 2 points to their total. The Hugh-o-meter calculates their score at 26 declared + 6 @ 1 point not 0 = 32.
Colts 2 Round 2
No team lists from Parra, Norths, Uni or Eastwood, so no comment.
Souths. Good Improvement.
Rats. Still have 11 players at 0 points. The Hugh-o-meter has them at 11+11 = 22. Still plenty of space.
Penrith. Improvement in the 1's has not flowed throough. They have 1 @ 0 and 3 at "-" . From a declared 19 points, the Hugh-o-meter assesses an extra
1 + 3@2 points to make the total of 26.
Wicks. Katsouskis is beleived to be a reasonably loyal junior so should have a max 3 point dedcution to 3. Hugh-o-meter score should be 22 not the declared 25 points.
Gordon fall foul of the Fresh Reserves rule. All their squad should count for the points cap if they have taken the field, which the Hugh-o-meter has assumed happened. With 9 players incorrectly assessed at 0 and one at "-" then they may have maxed out at 21 declared + 9 @1 point and 1 @ 2 points = 32 points.
Colts 2 Round 1
Wicks have added a previously unreported #10.
Parra still appear to have taken the field with no left centre, but 3 reserves were listed.
Wests have named their fullback and this brings them to 29. Phew.
I hope I have less to report after round 3.
If the problem is with myrugbyadmin as has been suggested by @Belly2 Blues, then here's hoping that SRU are talking with the technical boffins at ARU to fix the issue.