Obviously a big topic for years is how to open the game up. Ideas often get brought up like interchange caps, starting positions and things like that. In my opinion it ultimately it comes down to the coaches wanting to play defensively and mitigate risk at all times.
An idea I have to encourage coaches to attack more is to award bonus points for teams reaching a certain benchmark. Assuming we get back to full length games for the purpose of this idea, if a team scores 120 points they get an additional 2 points. So if a team wins and reaches 120 points they receive 6 points for the game instead of the current 4. Additionally a losing team can still get something out of a loss should a game be particularly high scoring.
You could potentially do it in stages, so maybe 1 BP for 90 points and 2 BPs for 120, meaning a losing team will still hopefully try to score to get something out of the game and the winning team will ideally push for 120. So even in blowouts the game is somewhat "live" right to the end for both teams.
The score and amount of bonus points can obviously be tweaked to your liking, but as an idea do you think awarding bonus points would encourage coaches and teams attack more and mitigate risk less, ideally resulting in the game being opened up?
An idea I have to encourage coaches to attack more is to award bonus points for teams reaching a certain benchmark. Assuming we get back to full length games for the purpose of this idea, if a team scores 120 points they get an additional 2 points. So if a team wins and reaches 120 points they receive 6 points for the game instead of the current 4. Additionally a losing team can still get something out of a loss should a game be particularly high scoring.
You could potentially do it in stages, so maybe 1 BP for 90 points and 2 BPs for 120, meaning a losing team will still hopefully try to score to get something out of the game and the winning team will ideally push for 120. So even in blowouts the game is somewhat "live" right to the end for both teams.
The score and amount of bonus points can obviously be tweaked to your liking, but as an idea do you think awarding bonus points would encourage coaches and teams attack more and mitigate risk less, ideally resulting in the game being opened up?