POINTS TABLE MADNESS

From the 2010–11 season until the start of the Professional Cricket League the teams have played each other once in a double round-robin format followed by semi-finals which are contested between the top four teams of the league stage.

Points were awarded as follows:

Outright win – 12
Loser if 1st Innings lead obtained – 4
Loser if tie on 1st Innings – 3
Loser if 1st Innings also lost – 0
Tie – 8
Incomplete Match

1st Innings lead – 6
1st Innings loss – 3
Tie on 1st innings – 4
Score Equal in a Drawn Match

Team batting on the 4th innings – 8
Team fielding on the 4th innings if that team has lead on 1st inning – 6
If scores tied on 1st innings – 4
If team has lost on 1st innings – 3
Abandoned Match

In the event of a match being abandoned without any play having taken place, or in the event of there being no 1st innings decision, three points each.

Professional Cricket League era

Since the 2014–15 season when Professional Cricket League started the teams have played each other twice in a round-robin with the team having the most points at the end of the League being awarded the Championship and the Headley/Weekes Trophy.[35]

Points are now awarded similarly to the 2010/11-2014/15 era except that now the concept for points for first innings lead has been abandoned and replaced with bonus points for batting (1 point being awarded in intervals of 50 runs for total scores over 200 for the first 110 overs and up to a maximum of 5 points), bowling (1 point being awarded in intervals of 2 wickets for 3 wickets or more taken in a team's innings for the first 110 overs and up to a maximum of 3 points) and for pace bowling (0.2 points for each wicket taken by designated pace bowlers). Tied matches are now awarded 6 points instead of 8 points and the range of points awarded for drawn matches has been replaced by each team getting 3 points plus the bonus points. For abandoned matches, the points awarded to each team has been reduced from 3 to 1, except where a match is abandoned due to a dangerous pitch, in which case the visiting team are awarded 12 points (as would happen with an outright win).