The perfect game????

[RavennaAl]

I've always been trying to find that perfect balance between having an offense move the ball and the defense stopping it. Now I'm wondering if my rules are too offensive orientated. Let me explain: I play 20 plays per quarter, not including kickoffs. That makes 80 plays per game. I've been playing my solitare league games and so far, well, I'm not so sure. In 4 weeks of play, I have one team averaging 34 points a game, next is 32, then 30, 28, 24, 23, 23, and finally 18. Defensively, they average 16, 20, 25, 25, 27, 28, 31 and lastly, 37.

Yardage wise, the offenses range from 370 total yards per game down to 228. Defensively, they range from 226 total yards to 379. Of the top 10 running backs, 5 are averaging 10+ yards a carry. As far as passing goes, the QB's are averaging about 60% completions, one interception per game, 1 1/2 TD's per game and average yards range from a high of 178 to a low of 82. What do you guys think? Is this too much, too little or about right?

Sometimes I think my teams are scoring too much, especially when the halftime score is 35 - 28, then other times the teams will go 2 or 3 quarters with no scores at all. The one thing I am happy with is that the for the most part, the games have been fairly even, with only a few blow outs.

So, I'm curious. What would you consider a perfect compromise? Given the number of plays per game, 80, what would you think an average score should be? 24-21? 17-13? 33-30? How many yards do you think an offense should have to be average? And what about the defense? Would you think that 10 yards per carry is too much? How about 9 yards, or 8? :o