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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 573622" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>There's a very, very crude way of assigning points in the Club Rankings which adds up the points that have been accrued in the four previous years. In 09-10, Connacht reached the semis of the ECC and won 4 points from that alone (they beat Bourgoin in the quarters to get there...). They took two points from "achieving" third place in 2011-12, and one for being in the HC in 2010-11. The real kicker? <em>They were in the Heineken Cup for both these years (as well as the next season) only because of Leinster's european achievements.</em> Without Leinster, Connacht would have been in Tier 4 with just four points.</p><p></p><p>There are much better ways of assigning teams to pools. The most obvious would be to draw upon domestic placings. Tier one: 1st - 2nd. Tier two: 3rd - 4th. Tier three: 5th - 6th. Tier four: the rest</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 573622, member: 55446"] There's a very, very crude way of assigning points in the Club Rankings which adds up the points that have been accrued in the four previous years. In 09-10, Connacht reached the semis of the ECC and won 4 points from that alone (they beat Bourgoin in the quarters to get there...). They took two points from "achieving" third place in 2011-12, and one for being in the HC in 2010-11. The real kicker? [I]They were in the Heineken Cup for both these years (as well as the next season) only because of Leinster's european achievements.[/I] Without Leinster, Connacht would have been in Tier 4 with just four points. There are much better ways of assigning teams to pools. The most obvious would be to draw upon domestic placings. Tier one: 1st - 2nd. Tier two: 3rd - 4th. Tier three: 5th - 6th. Tier four: the rest [/QUOTE]
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