Here's a post from the TRL forum which I find very intriguing.
"We had, only a couple of weeks ago, people on this board arguing quite vociferously whether 1 round of games are played concurrently or consecutively is an existential threat to the integrity of the competition on the basis of an outlandish possibility that it could leave clubs engineering results for what are relatively minimal benefits (or even no benefit at all, just laziness).
Yet we have now created a situation where we could end up with a situation where we come to the last weekend of next season and say Wakefield are safely mid-table and Toronto stay up with a win, they play each other last game of the season, Why are Wakefield going to go out to win try and win that game if it means they lose £150k in funding?"