Scrap the points system
sergio2006
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Ok, this might sound silly coming off one of the most exciting premier league seasons in years but I was thinking the other day about how much I hate draws and how the importance should always be on winning the game. I know the Football League already addressed this when they went from 2 pts for a win to 3, but how about this.
The league system be decided purely on wins. Most wins takes the title. Now having a quick look at the tables the only English league which would have had a different winner was league 1. Generally the team with the most wins ends up league champion anyway.
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by using this system draws would be completely meaningless and equal to a loss. Jose wouldn't be able to park his bus. EVERYONE would play to win. It would make the race for the title and the relegation battle tighter for longer.
Obviously a lot of teams would tie on wins but you then go to the following tie breakers. Head to head results, if still not separated you go head to head goal difference. If still tied, league goal difference, then goals for.
Probably just a daft idea in my head but I think it would make football even more exciting than it already is.
As a fan of Rugby League I love the fact that when I sit down to watch a game it is very unlikely to end as a draw. a 0-0 under my system in the last 5 mins would be a frantic end to end thriller rather than the current system where two mid table teams could knock it round happy to pick up a point, or worse still Jose Mourinho parking his bus away from home against the top 4.
Criticisms welcome!
The league system be decided purely on wins. Most wins takes the title. Now having a quick look at the tables the only English league which would have had a different winner was league 1. Generally the team with the most wins ends up league champion anyway.
BUT
by using this system draws would be completely meaningless and equal to a loss. Jose wouldn't be able to park his bus. EVERYONE would play to win. It would make the race for the title and the relegation battle tighter for longer.
Obviously a lot of teams would tie on wins but you then go to the following tie breakers. Head to head results, if still not separated you go head to head goal difference. If still tied, league goal difference, then goals for.
Probably just a daft idea in my head but I think it would make football even more exciting than it already is.
As a fan of Rugby League I love the fact that when I sit down to watch a game it is very unlikely to end as a draw. a 0-0 under my system in the last 5 mins would be a frantic end to end thriller rather than the current system where two mid table teams could knock it round happy to pick up a point, or worse still Jose Mourinho parking his bus away from home against the top 4.
Criticisms welcome!
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If anyone feels cheated by watching a draw maybe football isn't really for them.
I not sure if people really understand football nowadays
The main point was to make the season more exciting for longer. I know it went to the last game this season but that isn't normally the case.
The idea is to get every team to play to win all the time. Which should be the norm anyway.
Football doesn't need artificial excitement thrown in by completing removing the idea of a draw, it's fine.
Right now, if you go a goal down you're one away from getting something out of a game. Under your proposal you'd be two goals away from getting anything. Teams would close up completely in terror and try to snatch a goal, and football would be both dull and ruined at the same time.
A last-minute equaliser is exciting, so advocating its removal seems at odds with your intention.
Of course they all go out to win games, this playing for a draw is just media nonsense. Teams play to their strengths.
We have seen some great games that have ended up as draws.
Maybe to encourage attacking football there should be bonus points for goals scored say 1 point if a team scores 3 or more, win lose or draw eg draw 3-3 get 2 points each, win 4-3 winner gets 4 points loser 1 , win 3-2 winner gets 4 points loser 0 etc.
We have just had one of the tightest title races for along time all taken place when the actual quality of the product is not what it was a few years ago.
If something is working don't try to muck around with it
I agree. You either enjoy football or you don't, it's as simple as that. I was tempted to say that the OP was talking nonsense, but at least he was honest enough to say Rugby League is his game of choice. I don't understand genuine football fans wanting to change things. If you didn't enjoy the PL title race and relegation battle this season, perhaps it's time to give football a rest for a while.
I know Greg would agree with me.....:D
If you look back on this years PL, you will see that chelsea thrashed the teams around and above them.
Hardly parking the bus and playing for draws.
Did he park the bus when beating Arsenal 6-0?
We played counter attacking football in that game, with a much depleted squad - and won 0-2
what is wrong with a draw?
this is not american sports
If we was comparing a sport that have recently signed a domestic TV deal with 3billion pounds with another sport that had signed one for 200 million or one with attendances going up against one with attendances going down I could understand it. But its the revese.
Heard about Amercian football as well. Not a sport that is what you would call massive outside of America while our league is massive across the globe.
I think people need to learn to make their own excitment more then trying to get it from changing one of the biggest sports brands in the world
Perhaps an alternative points scoring system could be - one point for winning the first half and one point for winning the second half and a point for winning the overall game. So teams would get nothing for a 0-0 draw and would need to win both halves to get the full 3 points.
Boring to who?
Im sorry, but that is a terrible idea!
Great games can end in draws.
Lesser teams are desperate for a point when playing City etc - a draw IS a great result for them. If they got nothing for it, what is the point of them ever turning up?
100% agreed
Absolutely
Not another 4-4 draw. Terrible, i would demand my money back.
You beat me to it.
A team fights back from 3-0 in the last 11 minutes to 3-3 but get absolutely nothing for it. Brilliant.
I've also seen many a game where the two teams have gone full throttle at each for the 90 minutes and the game has ended goalless.