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Better Promotion

Hello there :D

While I am aware that there has been suggestions for a playoff stage at the end of a season, I would like to expand that idea with my little own thought: Better Promotion.

More specifically, a promotion tournament.

I don't really like the idea of having the system of auto promotion and demotion. I believe that the better teams should stay in the upper brackets, while the weaker teams should stay in the lower brackets, until they develop into a stronger team.
The current system we have is 4 bottom teams get demoted, and 4 randomly selected winners from the lower divisions get to replace those spots.
So my two-cent is that, the bottom teams from the upper division would get a chance to play a best-of-5 series against the team that has been randomly selected to replace its spot. The winner would go to the upper division, loser would go to the lower division, and the teams in the divisions would be shuffled, ensuring that we won't have to play in the same league from last season and giving many teams that has struggled in a tough league a chance.

P.S: To add on top of the playoff suggestions from fellow peeps in this forum, a league playoffs should be double elimination best-of-3's, to absolutely ensure that the BEST of the best teams gets the chance.
The series should happen in one day, at a game every 8 hours, not one game per day (imo, that would take too long for a playoff to finish.)

Sorry for this long (probably grammar-error-littered) and dreadful of a topic.
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The issue with this, though, is that it focuses too much on the players and not enough on the managers. Where you finish over the course of the season is a result of how you've managed your teams in comparison to other teams. While, yes, a League is just a snapshot of comparing teams (some lucky, others not), this game is supposed to focus on the managers and not necessarily the replays and games themselves. If they manage to get the replay down pat in the future, I can see this as viable, but for now everything should be focused on general overall performance.


Though, yes, it would feel a bit more "real".
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Would be kind of cool but not a huge deal imo.
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...especially right now since everyone is promoting to the next tier anyway. Feelsgoodman.