Originally posted by Mat McBriar
Question for Catch here:
Originally posted by
so that we can start at the top and fill down until we have hit 128 teams and then sort by rivalries.
The ordered list will look approximately like this:
--Demoting WL teams, in order of record, normal tiebreakers (playoff wins, playoff games played, wins, ties, points allowed, points scored) - 16 teams assuming no CPUs or guts
--Top 80 playoff pro teams by normal tiebreakers - 80 teams assuming no CPUs or guts (running total 96) - keep them in the same related leagues
--Top 18 elite teams by normal tiebreakers - 18 teams assuming no CPUs or guts (running total 114)
--Top 14 competitive teams by normal tiebreakers - 14 teams assuming no CPUs or guts (running total 128)
If you sort this 'new' Pro tier by rivalries, won't the demoting WL teams (for the most part) get pushed into the same league? Yielding imbalance?
With this tier I feel like sorting by rivalries isn't the way to go. As much as the userbase wants rivalry, initial parity is more important. Rivalries will build as the new tier ages.
I envision this working just like the promotion system does in the minors. The top 16 teams from SAPL will promote to one conference with the top 16 from APL will go to the other conference to form the new "Southern" league. Same thing with WEPL and EEPL, etc. etc. etc.
So, instead of 32 teams competing to be conference champs from SAPL (for example) and earn a trip to the WL, there will just now be 16 fighting to make the 3rd round of the playoffs. All this does is cut the bottom half of the Pro teams and moves them into Regional Pro.