I have a sneaking suspicion about A-League results. Other pundits wax on about how "interesting" the salary cap makes the A-League. It makes it fair. It makes the game a level playing field across all areas. Every represented team, no matter how poorly attended, can have an equal shot at winning games, the Premiership and the Grand Final.

Maybe. Yep. Sure, I get it. But I'm suspicious that it does a lot more than just make the league more "interesting". For example, the most supported team in the land can't outspend and therefore outperform most or all of the other teams. And so it flounders around the bottom of the table.

It's a travesty that such a well supported club like Melbourne Victory can't spend bigger to attract bigger players and attract more fans and greater revenue. In Melbourne, in Australia, all over Asia. Why not?

FFA is running the A-League like a socialist state. Sure, everyone gets the same food coupons, and the same sized slice of pie, but it's a much smaller pie than would be available if the system was run more like the free market.

In a competition where team budgets are relatively even, there is a limit on how much you can achieve. The Victory board, running its expenditure like a 12 year-old boy playing fantasy football, stacked its deck with attackers, forgot about midfielders and thought it didn't need to spend on a coach. Boy, did that work out well...

Other teams, who many pundits said "don't have the cattle to play that style", like the Jets, spread their money more thinly and widely, and now perform admirably.

If a team gets lucky and employs a very crafty and intelligent coach, who can pick cheap talent, you might get a team like Brisbane that performs well consistently, with a few bargain-basement talisman players.

But when it all comes down to it, there is a strong case to be made that the salary cap drastically reduces the statistical possibility of creating one team superior to the others.

This means that on any given day, home, or away, one team can beat the other.

If I flip a coin 30 times, I'm bound to get runs of heads followed by runs of tails, or heads and tails in random order.

Forget the Heart's winning streak earlier in the season, forget Melbourne Victory's dire record this entire season.

It's all down to luck, statistically speaking. Your team is in its position on the ladder largely due to luck. How many times has Archie hit the woodwork this season? What if those went in? Victory would be much further up the ladder.

Perth had a dismal early part of the season. And now they are one of the form teams. Not really, they were just thrashed by the cellar-dwellers. They played almost exactly the same way earlier in the season and now the rub of the green has changed from going against them to going for them.

Even Central Coast Mariners, who have a very fine coach with hardworking players have struggled recently. Why? Have they suddenly become worse at football? No, it's just random variables mucking about with them.

And Brisbane Roar, who had that immense record-breaking run, due largely to a very crafty and intelligent manager, has gone on to have ordinary results in recent times.

And all that's without even mentioning questionable referees decisions.

So what's the point of this discussion? And what's the solution, if there even needs to be one?

The point is, that this salary-cap, while working to give everyone a chance, knobbles those that could really lift the game in Australia and it makes the table (mostly) a result of random statistical variations.

I'd be willing to bet that you could re-start this season all over again and apart from one or two teams, the table would be completely different. Sydney would be wooden spoon, Gold Coast would be in the finals and Melbourne Victory would be Premiers.

The FFA salary floor limits new entries and slows potential growth of the league and the game as a whole in Australia.

The solution is to lower the entry fee and lower the salary floor and simultaneously raise the salary cap. As long as new teams can cover essentials like team travel and operating costs, and provide a Foxtel suitable stadium, let them enter.

That might mean there would be minnows from regional areas that would be regularly trounced by big city clubs. So what? It happens all the time, all over the world, in the Premier League, La Liga, the SPL etc. As long as there were a few minnows, it wouldn't matter.

Lowering the salary floor might allow South Melbourne to enter the A-League, as well as make it easier for Canberra, Wollongong, Tasmania and another New Zealand club. It would allow western Sydney to enter small and then build.

Raising the salary cap would free up Sydney FC to spend more to bring the club to a position it should be, as one of the largest football clubs in the country, with huge fan support and mesmerising performances.

It would allow Melbourne Victory to buy more flashy footballers to feed the hunger of its fans. It would allow Nathan Tinkler to buy Newcastle a few shiny marquee players, or the Bakrie group to splash cash into Brisbane.

The problem at the moment is that no matter who your team is playing this weekend, you really have no idea whatsoever whether they will win, draw or lose. It's all just random. And that's stupid. You might as well go watch frog races.