I can only talk from a Shootout perspective so...
I will offer some insight on that.
Many coaches who play in the LAEFL, the LVEFL, the ACEFL, the DFW, the BAM, and now the CBSMF League will use a one-stop situation. This is done because, we for the most part, think it is a vital part of the enjoyment of the game to be able to tweak bases, throw passes, open holes, and then create read-react scenarios where all of our energy to make players do specifically what we think they should do actually happen.
True, on every given play, the players will not do exactly what you ask them to do or train them to do-- but isn't that so in reality? If that did happen, the game would be one of Utopia, meaning everything would work exactly like you expect it to and the score would be something like 1006 to 1006. Everybody would perform like you want them to.
But in the stoppage system, at least in the one-stop, it is for the most part like a "suspended-in-time effect". This allows the defense to re-act to a play that would otherwise go untouched. It occurs in a 20 second period which speeds up the game. While other forms of the game may get in 30 plays in a 3 hour period, we get in up to 100 plays in 3 hours. And yes, the plays are quality plays where you can open holes and run plays like reality. All with the knowledge of knowing you tweaked a players base to set those holes up or make that turn around end.
But the one-stop is from a sense of speeding up the game to know that this is something that can be pleasing to the television audience and it is efficient in nature. In this style of play, we have no problem in showing games in a timely, exciting manner on internet tv or in the public eye because it is done with great efficiency. And because the players have been in extensive training camps, having been created, tweaked and molded in a way that your team has outstanding chemistry, it makes for one of the most fun styles of play in the game. Why would 70 coaches from across the country be willing to form a league under this ruleset if it did not offer fun and intrigue?
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