Ranking teams by "Overall Goals Difference" not by points
That idea WILL encourage teams to focus more strongly, on both offense and defense strategies. And hence perform at higher levels of play. This idea is based on rewarding teams for their overall goal difference throughout the whole league season, rather than just their match wins. In other words, the league table would NOT be determined by gained points, but by the overall goal difference. In case of a tie, the team that scored more goals would be given priority. If there is a potential criticism of this system, saying a team might be lucky, as it wins against a weak team by a large margin. The response to that criticism is that this "weak team" will face all the other teams as well. Another response is that the current "points system" isn't entirely fair, as it gives three points to a team that had a mediocre performance but managed hardly to score a winning goal, while it (the same current points system) gives the same three points to a wonderful team tha...