We have a FPA in Cornwall. Started last season and carried on this season. We rarely have cards so that was a non starter. Last season we asked the refs to mark each team out of 5 based on some criteria we previously discussed and agreed at refs meetings. This we found had too many teams too close come end of season. So marking is now out of 10. For each team for each game. We felt it worked reasonably well. Obv some inconsistency between refs but when isnt there? It has little to no effect on player behaviour. 

Interesting - we have just told our referees that they need to be more vigilant around persistent contact offences etc and issue more blue cards where appropriate..to date I think they have been reluctant....we are also considering including countingh the number of penalties award for 4 non-walking offences as an additional marker

TBF to our teams 99% of the time they are a joy to ref. I've only ever issued a red under DOGSO. once. Blues for SPA and USB once. Honestly it is really rare. Pens for team offence are also not very common these days. And this is not because we are lax. I think we are pretty strict. Contact is almost unheard of and very rare too. But within our criteria any cards would involve a downgrading as would also the not walking count. I think perhaps we are just lucky. then again I've not managed to ref yet this season and we did put a lot of work into educating clubs 2 years ago before season started by visiting every single club. So maybe that is part of why we have reasonably well behaved boys and girls.

Chris, I reckon you are either very lucky or have a very compliant set of teams.  Here in Oxfordshire, the 50+ teams in particular still think they are playing Vets (full-on) 11-a-side football, so numerous persistent occasions of contact etc and there is hardly a game in most league matches that doesn't have a number of running offences, including quite a few penalties for 4 offences - my own team actually managed to rack up 10 running offences in a single 15 min game, so I faced 2 penalties as the goalkeeper!

We have also had to deal with three very serious misconduct/violet conduct issues in the past couple of years.

We really want to introduce a worthwhile scheme that gets buy-in from the clubs and helps drive down the bad behaviour etc

Chris, I reckon you are either very lucky or have a very compliant set of teams.  Here in Oxfordshire, the 50+ teams in particular still think they are playing Vets (full-on) 11-a-side football, so numerous persistent occasions of contact etc and there is hardly a game in most league matches that doesn't have a number of running offences, including quite a few penalties for 4 offences - my own team actually managed to rack up 10 running offences in a single 15 min game, so I faced 2 penalties as the goalkeeper!

We have also had to deal with three very serious misconduct/violet conduct issues in the past couple of years.

We really want to introduce a worthwhile scheme that gets buy-in from the clubs and helps drive down the bad behaviour etc