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Create a league structure with promotion/relegation. It is not so hard. Let’s the clubs go up and down by its own sporting merits. It is basically what the whole world uses beside USA and AU.
A national club competition: Australian rugby going it alone
It’s unfortunate for Argentina. I guess they’ll have to turn into South America and focus to grow the rugby there. There some advances, The America Rugby Championship (The America 6 nations) is going well (at least before covid), and Uruguay and Brazil has been growing a lot (at expenses of my own country, Chile). Also, the first South American professional league was announced for this 2020, with teams from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile. Obviously this was suspended, but maybe that is the future, and perhaps one of these teams could represent the continent in a Super Rugby final series in the future.
How five plus five doesn’t add up: Part 1, 2021 transition
That argument can be used in reverse way to current system too.
Percentage rewards winning by low scores over winning by higher scores. So basically, today’s system rewards more wet-weather matches, where that kind of results are more likely to happen.
Extra point for kicking certain amount of goals or scoring a minimum of points can also be argued to be unfair due to weather.
Why it's time to ditch percentage from the AFL ladder
An unbalanced fixture is a flaw by itself, regardless how you sort the ladder. Even the competition points are flawed by an unbalanced fixture. It was one of the weird things I discovered when I was introduced to AFL/NRL competitions
Why it's time to ditch percentage from the AFL ladder
Why don’t use the point difference as it is used in Football (Soccer) and a lot of other sports in the world? The problem with percentage is the higher the score, the lower is the reward for scoring more. With point difference, the reward is constant regardless the actual score (both a 70-50 and a 120-100 scores have the same point difference, but different percentage) , and there is not flaw for weather or field size.
Also, there is another flaw in your proposal. If you only take in account the points for, some matches could become one-side games. If a match is decided in third quarter by a huge point difference, the team losing has no incentive to reduce the difference (they could start thinking on next match), but the team winning would try to increase the scoring. You can end up with a 200-50 score without any competitiveness. Higher score is not necessary more fun.
Why it's time to ditch percentage from the AFL ladder
Well, the article suggest to use the new tests that get results in 3-4 hours. That would mean it is not needed a full isolation. You can run tests one or two day before the matches. Maybe meet the teams, play two games in four-five days, and release them for 10 days or so. Not sure the expected effectiveness of this potential test though, its cost or such kind of things.
In my opinion, it is impossible to keep all Australia in self isolation the whole year. When the curve starts to flat, some bussiness and activities will have to go back. Sports are a good candidate, with the added positive morale effect on a society which will start getting mad of boredom.
NRL will soon finalise bubble, test plans
Melbourne supremacy can be easily debunked with something called ‘Second Victorian Team’. Don’t think NRL wants it soon though
Stockholm syndrome: Time to relent to our masters, the Melbourne Storm