It allows more matches between top teams and by halving the points you make sure that those matches count and aren't dead rubbers.amirbachar wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 02:59In most major sports the points are truncated completely and there is a playoff. The interest of the crowd is the most important for small leagues and also brings the successmatt wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 23:20The halving of points after the regular season is to blame: it really does not incentive the top teams to fully focus on the league in the first half of the season. A team like Club Brugge, as long as it is in the top 4, might get complacent after a while, especially after they weren't first for almost the whole 2021-2022 season and still won the league.dnina10 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 22:13 To the first question, I would say that they have become one of those who focuses a bit too much on playing in Europe. Last season was very much the same way. Club had put a lot of focus on the CL and domestic performances struggled. I wouldn't be surprised if they beat Benfica and then struggle to make Playoffs 1
Still recovering 4 points to 1 club or 6 points to 1 club with 2 more in the middle isn't the same so I don't think clubs won't focus.
With a knockout play off that would be more true (not so important being 1st, 2nd or 3rd