Quote: Towns88 "Bottom replaced by top in the championship and second bottom plays second in the championship in a mpg on a neutral venue ?'"
There’s no silver bullet - every system has its drawbacks. SL has made pretty exhaustive attempts to prove it these last few years.
I don’t watch a lot of NRL, but it was being lauded earlier in the thread. With 8 of 16 making the finals and no relegation, it must have its share of dead rubbers too.
Some years your team will have a duller season than others. But the idea that games don’t matter when trophies are out of reach is a psychological problem, not a scheduling one, imo.
My only preference is that we keep the new system is as simple as possible. Complex systems can chuck out anomalies - our last game of the regular season being an example, when all we really cared about was not losing key players to injury. That was weird.