{"id":16588,"date":"2025-09-25T10:19:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16588"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:19:33","slug":"most-improved-team-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?p=16588","title":{"rendered":"Most Improved Team 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The most improved team this season was Castlefields, who improved 26 points on their record breaking points total from last season! Wrockwardine Wood and Bylet improved by 15 points each, while Sir John Bayley also improved on their record breaking season last year by 13. There were only three teams that were more than 1 point worse than last season, with St Georges being a massive 58 points down after all the players they had lost, losing 5 places. 6 teams all gained places compared to last year, with Wem USC, Highley and Hanwood all gaining two places. Hanmer lost two places while Meole Brace and Ifton lost a place each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castlefields receive the \u00a350 for being the most improved team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Team<\/td><td>2025<\/td><td>2024<\/td><td>Pts Difference<\/td><td>2025<\/td><td>2024<\/td><td>Pos. Difference<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Castlefields<\/td><td>298<\/td><td>272<\/td><td>26<\/td><td>1st<\/td><td>1st<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wrock Wood<\/td><td>243<\/td><td>228<\/td><td>15<\/td><td>3rd<\/td><td>4th<\/td><td>+1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bylet<\/td><td>146<\/td><td>131<\/td><td>15<\/td><td>12th<\/td><td>13th<\/td><td>+1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sir J Bayley<\/td><td>285<\/td><td>272<\/td><td>13<\/td><td>2nd<\/td><td>2nd<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wem USC<\/td><td>171<\/td><td>159<\/td><td>12<\/td><td>8th<\/td><td>10th<\/td><td>+2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Highley<\/td><td>177<\/td><td>168<\/td><td>9<\/td><td>7th<\/td><td>9th<\/td><td>+2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hanwood<\/td><td>189<\/td><td>182<\/td><td>7<\/td><td>5th<\/td><td>7th<\/td><td>+2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Horsehay<\/td><td>113<\/td><td>112<\/td><td>1<\/td><td>14th<\/td><td>14th<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Burway<\/td><td>182<\/td><td>183<\/td><td>-1<\/td><td>6th<\/td><td>6th<\/td><td>&#8211;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Adderley<\/td><td>147<\/td><td>148<\/td><td>-1<\/td><td>11th<\/td><td>12th<\/td><td>+1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Meole Brace<\/td><td>167<\/td><td>168<\/td><td>-1<\/td><td>9th<\/td><td>8th<\/td><td>-1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ifton<\/td><td>225<\/td><td>230<\/td><td>-5<\/td><td>4th<\/td><td>3rd<\/td><td>-1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hanmer<\/td><td>138<\/td><td>158<\/td><td>-20<\/td><td>13th<\/td><td>11th<\/td><td>-2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>St Georges<\/td><td>163<\/td><td>221<\/td><td>-58<\/td><td>10th<\/td><td>5th<\/td><td>-5<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most improved team this season was Castlefields, who improved 26 points on their record breaking points total from last season! Wrockwardine Wood and Bylet improved by 15 points each, while Sir John Bayley also improved on their record breaking season last year by 13. There were only three teams that were more than 1 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[113,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5VaGi-4jy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16592,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions\/16592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}