While there are certainly things I don't like about the split, this one doesn't bother me in the least. You're not comparing like with like, so it's a meaningless comparison. As long as we have the split, sometimes I wish they'd just go the whole hog, treat the post-split as two groups proper with the bottom team in each group starting on zero again (and the teams above retaining their relative points advantages), so people didn't feel the need to point out this "problem" every year.