Talk:County Championship

message: If you don't really know cricket, it doesn't tell you if this is test, four-day, one-day matches.
* As far as I am aware, the points system for the County cricket is as follows:
14 pts for a win
7 pts for each team in a tie
4 pts for each team in a draw
FIRST INNINGS points are awarded for each team in the first 130 overs of each innings and retained whatever the result of the match:
(a)A maximum of five batting points to be available as under:
200 to 249 runs 1 point
250 to 299 runs 2 points
300 to 349 runs 3 points
350 to 399 runs 4 points
400 runs or over 5 points 
b) A maximum of three bowling points to be available as under:
3 to 5 wickets taken 1 point
6 to 8 wickets taken 2 points
9 to 10 wickets taken 3 points 
This is verifed under the cricinfo website on:
http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005/ENG_LOCAL/CC1/CC1_TABLE_2005.html
Hope this helps.
* The league tables seem to be rarely updated on this page. Unless anyone has any objections, I will remove the sub-section around the start of the 2007 season and maintain a link to cricinfo's current standings pages Seedybob2, September 17, 2006
** Actually, we could just link to the wiki article on the current 2006 English cricket season. It's not very well maintained either, but I'll get the tables up next week. Sam Vimes | Address me 10:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: For an unwatched competition, I've seen quite a few people at Worcester, Cheltenham and Trent Bridge. Like most people living in the past, Keating is in a cloud cuckoo land. Attendances at Notts have improved in recent yearsFieldgoalunit (talk) 08:41, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unwatched 

message: I wonder if it is worth adding "Also" to the "Promoted" table header in the Promoted and Relegated section. Its well known by cricket followers but perhaps not by others that the Champions of Div 2 are promoted, accompanied by 1/2 others, to Div 1.
A second suggested clarification concerns the wooden spoon. Should there be a note to say that since 2000 this means bottom of Div 2?  I don't think that definition is obvious.  Does anyone agree or disagree?TSRL (talk) 16:26, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotion list and wooden spoon 

message: The bonus points system used in actual matches does not seem to quite square with the system as described in the article.  I was at the last day of the Surrey -v- Gloucester game at the Oval yesterday.  The scoreboard showed the bonus points at the bootom as usual.  However for a substantial part of the morning session, the Gloucester bonus points were shows as
:"Bonus points  3  OR +1"
I assume that 'OR' means over rate.  The article describes how points can be deducted for poor over rate (and indeed the scoreboard changed to 'OR 0' and later to 'OR -1' as the day progressed).  There is no mention as to how points are apparently added for over rate.   86.130.98.251 (talk) 16:49, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Points are deducted if a side's over rate is less than the required minimum. I think the +1 on the scoreboard was indicating that Gloucestershire's over rate at that stage was 1 above the required minimum. I can't remember the details of just what the deductions are, but I imagine that a websearch would throw them up. JH (talk page) 17:16, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bonus points system 

message: Shouldn't we have a list of the teams in the County Championship and when they joined the first-class elite? Might be quite interesting. – PeeJay 11:48, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconding the above, how is it that this article doesn't have a list of the actual clubs that play in it? (Let alone the clubs' home grounds, captains, etc., as with the articles on every other sporting league). I'm almost certain that there was such a list at one point, but I have no idea why it would have been removed. Really peculiar. IgnorantArmies (talk) 12:01, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there was a list several years ago, probably before the list of winners was put in a separate article. Jack | talk page 16:09, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of teams