I am still not clear what you are saying. The rewards will come long term expressed in players long term technical development. My point is that who wins the league is an irrelevance, and that tweaking the competition regs in some way shape or form towards current orthodoxy misses the point.
Whowins the league does not matter. What matters is where the league's players are in 3-4 years time.
Agree results irrelevant. I guess what I'm trying to express - poorly by the looks of things - is that this 9 week competition has little development structure around it. The competition rules are a microcosm of the larger and far more important issue, which is there appears to be little strategy for the age/competition; as part of a bigger NZ player development plan.