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Stabler12
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posted: 2025-02-05 01:56:54 (ID: 100189073) Report Abuse
Howdy and thanks in advance for reading.

Assumptions/ Ideas
I hate bots. When 7 of the 13 League games involve Bots=Boring. League play is about facing the same team 2x a year and learning to love/hate those games. Looking at you Corsairs.

We have the ability to pick and choose our division every year. The end of year realignment lets us make the Sea Devils look anyway we wish.

hmpf22 is a genius in trying to recruit people to his division. We need to do this. This game needs more folks. Unfortunately 200 is about the size right now. There aren't enough new players sticking around and the 200 here aren't enough to fill the all the leagues.

The soccer system of many tiered leagues is very cool. Relegation/promotion and a game to decide it is the best. This game had that when the Division 2 leagues were around. One of my proudest moments was winning my way out of a fairly competitive Dragons 2.2 in the relegation game.

I believe there is a programming quirk that doesn't change the out of conference scheduling. So the same division plays the same division every year. If we had 2 divisions of Bots, we could have them play each other.
Sure would be cool if we could do something with this quirk without bothering Pete in the least.

Take these 5 assumptions/ideas, sprinkle with some magical thinking aids I had lying around and out pops this idea.

The Sea Devils play each year for which teams would be in which division. The procedure being the same in each conference. The East would be the premier Division (only cuz it's listed first on the League page). The North the Second division and so on. Win the North? You are playing a friendly/relegation game against the 4th place/weakest team in the East. Best team moves up. Bots fall to the West. New players would have a sense that they are moving up as they join in the West and have a really easy schedule. Every year the elite League returnees would go to the East. Chances are that the east would have been the home of the newly minted Elite player anyway. So a spot is avalable. Remember that we can manually move ourselves around. No work for Pete.

Please tell me what you think. The Michigan Weasel Traders are all for more competition. This might be the way to do it. More games against evenly matched opponents, easy environment for new players, no work for Pete.
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Radu91
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posted: 2025-02-05 07:26:47 (ID: 100189076) Report Abuse
It's an interesting idea, but the format just won't allow it really.
You say to advance to East, ok, but 4 manager will be in the East, perhaps 4 in the North, 2 in the South and 0 in the West. And come playoffs time how will you do it?

In my opinion a better idea would be a Sea Devils League composes of 17 teams single conference, 1st example (17 teams because one team will have a bye week and it will still be a 16 games league), with the TOP 7 playing in the playoffs (#1 seed getting a bye, just like in the NFL now), but that means some teams will not get the opportunity to play in the playoffs (5 to be exact, compared to the system now)
or
2 conference with 10-12 teams (something similar it's done in soccer MLS), with the best 6 or 7 from each conference advancing.
This options will give less BOOT teams in the League, but also will max out the option to join another region if that region is ful of managers.
In most regions there are at least 15 managers and other region have 27 as example. then you can add the D2 league again.

Here's the problem.
If you change the format, will mean less teams in a region (yes), but it would have to change the SuperCup to and somehow they must be connected.
Another problem will be that Elite will maintain the current format, but you will have a different one in D1 and D2.
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butchpt6
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posted: 2025-02-05 17:23:11 (ID: 100189084) Report Abuse
Any change as such would mean BOTs making it into the post season and ive no time for that.

We need to fill our spots out with friends and family. Contact old Sea Devils and get them back etc etc.

Only way to fill up the spots

If it wasnt against the rules 100% have a second side, but understand why it is.
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Stabler12
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posted: 2025-02-05 21:20:32 (ID: 100189089)  Edits found: 2 Report Abuse
Please remember the overarching concept here for me is that Pete needs to do nothing for us to self organize our divisions. We can ask for his help when this is a fully baked idea but for now we need to talk it out.

"Any change as such would mean BOTs making it into the post season and ive no time for that."

I understand. If we put all the bots in the west to pack them together a couple of things could happen. A Bot could win the West. Their playoff fate would be the #1 Wildcard. In essence a bye for the #1 wildcard. Not great having a bot in the playoffs but not a horrible outcome. I think we might even be able to switch the venue to the Wilcard team like we can in SC.

Or the West would be won by a new player joining us. I have no problem with this outcome. Still a playoff bye for the #1 wiidcard.

More likely is that because we advertise game wide " Come and win the West"; We will draw players that want that elusive one win in every League thing. They can enter the West (or whatever division we choose). Problem solved, all Bots gone, League Full, Mike Drop.

Because it is 16:20 here in Gaylord, Mi: Have you ever wondered who this Mike guy is that everyone talks about dropping?

Last edited on 2025-02-05 21:34:43 by Stabler12

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posted: 2025-02-05 21:37:00 (ID: 100189090) Report Abuse
Mike is the best friend of Will.
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