Broken Bat - Suggestions: Relegation and Promotion

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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date

#60835	09/13/2018 8:05:02 pm	Aug 19th, 2037
peacockpenguin Joined: 11/18/2014 Posts: 102 Inactive	Make relegation and promotion be a top two and bottom four teams across the board.

#60836	09/13/2018 9:00:07 pm	Aug 19th, 2037
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	Wow. I completely dislike it, but it's unique.

#60847	09/14/2018 5:35:24 pm	Aug 21st, 2037
peacockpenguin Joined: 11/18/2014 Posts: 102 Inactive	I'm mostly just frustrated at the season I'm having this year.

#60852	09/14/2018 9:06:39 pm	Aug 21st, 2037
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Promotion and relegation is important because it pits teams and managers of similar strength against each other. That's essential when there are ~600 teams. Steve

#60853	09/15/2018 12:00:44 am	Aug 21st, 2037
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	I think you might have misread his suggestion. If I understand it correctly, he's suggesting every team in every division either be promoted or relegated. He wants the top two in each division promoted and everyone else demoted!

#60870	09/17/2018 8:13:35 am	Aug 29th, 2037
amalric7 Joined: 01/20/2016 Posts: 2236 New York Lancers V.4	Yeah lets not do that! I've developed a number of (mostly friendly) rivalries over the years playing this game, and this would effectively sink that. Full marks for originality though, as Mike said.

#60878	09/18/2018 9:13:47 am	Aug 31st, 2037
peacockpenguin Joined: 11/18/2014 Posts: 102 Inactive	Sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant the top two teams in league promoted and bottom four teams demoted regardless of division. It will still be the same number of teams promoted and demoted.

#60883	09/18/2018 2:23:05 pm	Aug 31st, 2037
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9588 Haverhill Halflings III.1	That gets a little messy because you are now moving teams between West and East. For instance if 3 of the bottom four teams were in the West all three would demote, but maybe 3 of the teams promoting from below were from the East. That would force one of the West teams into the East.