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[Backbiter]

I've been thinking about this for a while, and today's result has prompted me to post it.

We won comfortably, but dropped off second half, which was frustrating. The points system could be altered so teams would have an incentive to keep going for the full 90, even teams who have been stuffed out of sight in the first half.

Three points for a win could potentially be four, if you award teams a bonus point for winning each half.

Teams who are four-nil down could still pick up a point from the game if they came out and won the second half.

So today, we'd have picked up 3 points instead of the maximum 4, and Bolton would be rightly steaming that a wrongly disallowed goal had cost them a point. Fair play to them for continuing to press for a goal, but too many games seem to die a death when no side has anything left to go for. An extra point could do wonders to improve excitement, entertainment and atmosphere.

Games that are cagey affairs in the first half and fizzle out as the interval approaches would be transformed if there was a point at stake for a goal that wins the first half.

I'm sure there are good reasons why this might not be sensible. I know a 5-1 victory like ours today would be worth fewer points than a 2-0 win with a goal in each half, and a team that loses 5-1 could pick up as many points as a team that draws 4-4 (with both halves ending in draws), but it could alter the way teams play for the better, so I reckon the plus points outweigh the downsides. It wouldn't be revolutionary, but could really make league matches, title run-ins and relegation battles even more compelling.

[Spiller86]

It's not a bad idea in itself, a sort of bonus point system has livened up rugby (at least in the southern hemisphere) to no end.

Still I think plenty of traditionalist would be against it, suggesting the league is just as exciting as it is.

[midlandblue]

4 points for a win would simply make the devide between the top 5 or 6 greater than it is now and would mean the second half of the season would simply be 2 leagues, one for european places and one to avoid relagation

[dkw]

Spiller86, on 03 October 2011 - 08:38 AM, said:

It's not a bad idea in itself, a sort of bonus point system has livened up rugby (at least in the southern hemisphere) to no end.

Still I think plenty of traditionalist would be against it, suggesting the league is just as exciting as it is.

Works in the lower leagues of RL and makes games that could just drift into a boring finish if one team takes a big lead into a competition to win the bonus point. In RL the system is if a team scores 12 points more than the opposition they get the BP, if the losing team manages to stay within 12 points however they get the BP.

[Spiller86]

Yeah it's similar in the Super Rugby down here. But of course it'd have to be different because of the low scoring.

I don't think a point for each half is such a bad thing. It does give an incentive to teams. It'd also be a reward for teams who do well in the first half against big teams but then get run down in the finish. Then again It might nearly have kept West Ham up last season. They were specialists at the glorious defeat under Avram, so maybe it's not such a great thing.

[Valerie]

What a relief. I feared this thread would be call to introduce cheerleaders.

I vaguely recall a system where points were awarded for goals scored, but I can't remember what sport or country.

[The old shedboy]

Wot about.....4 pts a win.....2 pts for any draw.......(but) add 1 pnt for every goal scored in any matches.....Oh i can see the flaw