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The system of Playoffs, and Promotion and Demotion of Teams is not well done from my point of view.

If just 1 team out of 16 can promote is going to make a lot of teams stuck in a division for ages.
Taking into account the number of bots we have in higher divisions this doesn´t help to hook many users.
In Spain First Division we already have 5 bots, meaning that al least one of them is going to continue next season in our group.
Right now I don´t see many complaints about this but they will come soon when teams realise how difficult is to promote.

So I give my personal idea of how we could solve this problem (from my point of view):
Promotion

The four top-ranked teams in each conference will make it into the playoffs. There is a one-game elimination match between the 1st- and 4th-ranked teams and between the 2nd- and 3rd-ranked teams in each conference, followed by an elimination match between the two winners. When these champions are decided, the winners from each conference face off in a best-of-three showdown. The winner of the division finals is crowned champion of the division, and is promoted to a higher level of divisions.

And I will also add that the runners-up of every two divisions will play a single-match elimination between them. The team with the higher standing from the finals is given the home-court advantage.

Demotion
Six teams from each division will be demoted to a lower level of divisions. The 7th and 8th seed in each conference will be automatically demoted, and the 5th-ranked team from each conference competes with the 6th-ranked team from the other conference in a best-of-three relegation series.









Edited by LA-fergranaino (28/11/2007 19:21:47 CET)

Last edited by fergranaíno at 11/28/2007 7:21:47 PM

There are already many complaints about this. There will be bot cleanup at the end of this season, as there was at the end of last season. Check out the Suggestions forum. There have been several promotion/demotion models proposed.

If just 1 team out of 16 can promote is going to make a lot of teams stuck in a division for ages.
Taking into account the number of bots we have in higher divisions this doesn´t help to hook many users.
In Spain First Division we already have 5 bots, meaning that al least one of them is going to continue next season in our group.

Those bots will be demoted regardless of the standings during the bot cleanup.

A change to the promotion/demotion policy is not necessary at this time.

if you have 2 teams promote that means you have to have 8 teams demote.. since we have a factor of 4 pyramid structure... reducing the factor to 2 or 3 would result in many more levels of the pyramid and thus make it harder to promote from the bottom to top again.

No, I did not say 2 teams promote in every division.

I said or meant 3 teams promote in every 2 divisions!! The winners of for example Division II.1 and II.2 and a single match between the runner-ups of those divisions who play for promoting. So every 4 divisions (II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4) we have 6 new teams promoting; and in the upper division (I.1) 6 teams are relegated (the 7th and 8th from both conferences and draws between the 5th and 6th, so it makes 6 teams demoted!!!

Or incorporate an inter-divisional playoff. Though for now the bots should provide enough extra promotion opportunities.