London Bike Polo League II (winter 2009/2010)

I disagree with this. The problem with last year's system of all games being played to 5 was that if a team failed to turn up, the other team - the forfeit-game-winners, so to speak - necessarily took a 15-0 victory. If in League II we were to have a time limit set on games, then the forfeit-game-winners could also just take a 1-0 hypothetical victory in each of the fixture's 3 games, giving a less objectionable goal difference of +3.This is also intuitively pleasing because it fits with the supposed game situation whereby forfeit-game-winners (who are the only team on the court) can win the charge and score the first goal in a game, but would be unable to score further since they cannot take possession of the ball. Final score: 1-0.

That way a team could still play, say, 19 games of a 20 league season, and not have all their efforts come to nothing, because something unforeseen prevents them from playing one (or more) fixtures. To throw such a team out of the league is not in keeping with the spirit that the players run the league, and real life can happen to players.

I like this.