1) the team winning the finals goes up
2) the 2 teams winning their conference (unless promoted under point 1) will be compared to all the other conference winners from others D3. The tie-breakers are:
2.a) best W-L record
2.b) best point differential
2.c) most point scored (not sure about this one)
3) the 2 teams coming second in their conference (unless promoted under point 1) will be pooled together with 2nd teams from other D3 leagues. The tiebreakers are the same as per rule 2)
There are 4x6=24 teams demoting from D2 (before accounting for bots who are not going to be in a relegation position in D2 and bots in D1).
Therefore there will be 16 D3 teams who go up through method 1) and 8 teams who go up though method 2). Potentially you could have more method 2) or even method 3) coming into play if there are D2 bots who are not in a relegating position at the end of the season or D1 bots.
What this mean for our league is: Folgado Lakers will promote irrespective of what happens in the playoffs unless Surental Lakers overtakes him (but that's unlikely give the PD) in which case Surental Lakers will go up under point 2) above with a 21-1 record. The left right outs and Busan flyers have a chance, if they win all or nearly all their remaining games (there are several conference leaders elsewhere with a 13-3 record, so 18-4 and maybe even 17-5 might be enough to squeeze through.
Everybody else will have to win the finals.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 07/03/2015 05:59:19