This year's Pro14 table based off of last year's results

Firstly, in the interconference games last year both conferences would have won 114 points each, which indicates that on aggregate the conferences are equal, however in Conference B there are clearly two tiers: Leinster, Scarlets and Ulster at 66-57 points while Treviso, Edinburgh and Dragons all were at 26-22 points, in contrast in Conference A Muster were clearly top and Zebre clearly bottom with the middle four achieving fairly middling scores.

As for who the winners are from this new system, if it works out for Treviso like it would have last season a 4th place finish (realistically the Kings will not be challenging this year) would put a lot of critics to bed, however on a points per game gained in the new system Edinburgh are the big winners at 0.34 points more in the conference system, which is a whopping 7.48 points over the course of a season. Munster, Leinster and Zebre all lose between 2.86 and 4.4 points per season. Points which either in terms of jostling for playoff seedings or to avoid being cast adrift cannot really be lost for those teams. However ultimately there are so many variables in rugby it could work out that this year Edinburgh for example would be big losers under the new system, however this wasn't a completely pointless excercise because at the end of the day we all got a colour coded spreadsheet out of it.