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Malta Supreme Championship final on tomorrow between Jets and Royals at MSC

Jan 04, 2013 Sports

Jets replace Kings at top of rankings, regardless of the outcome

Regardless of the outcome tomorrow’s (Saturday) Linden Amateur Basketball Association’s 2012 Malta Supreme Christmas Magnificent Seven basketball championship final between Amelia’s Ward Jets and Victory Valley Royals, Jets will supplant the Kashif and Shanghai Kings as the number one ranked club in Linden.
LABA in January last year announced that clubs will in the various categories be rated on results of how they finish in competitions and this adoption saw the winners get 10 points, second placed will receive seven, third position gets five, fourth receives three, fifth place gets one point and the other places no points.
Based on the newly instituted points system which became effective in January of last year, the Association has been able to run off three senior tournaments in Open or Division One categories where the Kashif and Shanghai Kings won the first, the Trophy Stall Regulation championship to jump start their top rating and Amelia’s Ward Jets placed second, while Victory Valley Royals came third. Then there was the BOSAI Championship which was won by Half Mile Bulls after they were fifth among the clubs in the previous championship as Retrieve Raiders after placing sixth emerged second by losing the BOSAI championship. Kings placed fourth behind Jets who were third and Royals ended fifth at the tournament.
However, Kings had remained on top of the rankings as they had 13 points after two tournaments while Jets and Bulls were next on 12 points with Royals on seven.
Going into this tournament Kings can only get third of fourth place as they contest the third place playoff with Bulls and Jets, who play Royals in the championship, will get at least seven points or a maximum ten if they win the final and will ended on either 22 or 19 points, whereby Kings from a win can only finish the season on18 points with a win or 16 if they lose.
Whichever way it ends, the Jets will claim the top ranking when the tournament concludes. A win by Royals can push them past Kings in the ratings as they will end on 17 with a win and, that is providing Kings lose their game and end on 16 points, instead of 18 from a win tomorrow.
This means that the matches are key to how all four teams will end the year 2012 as they want to end the year end championship with a high ranking so as to start the new year in a position where they can be favourably placed in any knockout tournament this year.

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