The main concerns in walkover are:
1. The point differential (25-0) is atrocious, to say the least.
2. If you are a home team, having a walkover is a big drop on attendance, since your fans know that the team is on a losing streak.
3. Again, i should say once more, i don't really understand the fans' logic where they will buy to watch their teams games, even though they know that they will give walkover.
4. Also, why would teams giving walkovers get a merchandise income? i mean, they don't have players, what jerseys would they sell? do they sell jerseys of their past players who they sold already?
5. Lastly, why would they receive a weekly TV contract revenue if they don't play themselves. i mean, if you gave a walkover in a televised game, what would people watch? commercials?
1. At least increase the point differential, i'll say 50 points, or maybe some other reasonable measures.
2. There must be some kind of an incentive for having a home team play against those teams who gives walkover. i'm thinking of a penalty that they would pay to the home team.
3. The 3rd issue is rather hard to think of a solution to. if realistic enough, a team that gives a walkover should not have an arena income that week, since its logical that no fans will watch their game.
4. The 4th issue, i guess i'm implying that they would not have a merchandise income? lol. i say, they should be given lower.
5. In hear, i'm thinking that since this is a contract, maybe there should be a stipulation that if they give a walkover during a home game, there should be some kind of breach of contract, and so they will pay damages. maybe they will receive half of their TV contract for that week.
1. is 25-0 really atrocious or so bad, i would say giving then +50 would be way to much. Since it don't have an effect on the forfeiting team, and a 25 point win isn't bad for the point differential.
2. can happen with a bad team, too. Since the fans ain't really affected how it comes to an loss, giving the winning team to big advantage against team who battle for there win isn't good in my eyes.
3/4/5. i agree, even when you had to consider that mistake may happen, and team shouldn't be punish to hard for screwing up one game. So your reductions sounds reasonable.
Imho the biggest problem with WO isn't mentioned, the different risk of injurys and weird minute management. I really hope for letting then play against an "basic" bot team when the opponent can not field a team, especially since they seem to calculate something gamelike anyway.