The downside of the British system, of course, is that handicaps are based on fewer reported scores and thus are slower to reflect a player's changingability.
Scaradorable the Hunter starts getting into expensive casting cost territory at five, but players get a very reasonable 4000 points of power and a potentially game changingability for the price.
Some industry insiders suspect discounting like this on a such a wide scale could fundamentally change shopping behavior, much like Walmart changed promotional activity with EDLP or the internet is changing our ability to always compare pirces.