Rather than have a 2nd Premiership division, have a 30 team PremiershipTop 10 play each other home & away, then play the rest once each
11-20 play each other home & away, + 1 game against top 10, + 1 game against bottom 10
21-30 play each other home & away, + 1 game against top 10, + 1 game against middle 10
Getting into and staying in the Top 10 is the goal, and the league is printed in the blocks of 10, so Team 30 couldn't just have an easy draw, the highest they could get is 21.
2 teams up and down between blocks.
Slightly random element about who you get at home or away - gate attendance is shared.
Sky would probably like this as you could have a Sunday triple play of progressively more important games; one of the 5 games each week from the Top 10 would be a fairly juicy one, but you would often get 'improving' and on form teams who had won lots of games in a row against weaker opposition coming up against a Top 10 team.
Not that it is a great model, but NHL has teams playing each other slightly random numbers of times.
The image above shows how the league would have started this year.
One other benefit here is that the current Premiership end of season is focused around the top and the bottom; having nothing to play for once survival had been secured makes for a dull set of Bolton vs West Hams from March onwards; here they would be critical to survival.
Ludicrous?
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