Each league has 2 conferences of 8 teams. Each has its own standings, but includes games against teams in the other conference.
You play the other 7 teams in your conference two times (once at the start of the season, and once at the end of the season). Your next league game starts the 7 games at the end of the season.
You also play each team in the other conference one game (during the middle of the schedule). This stage has just been finished.
The playoffs include the top 4 teams in each conference, who play two rounds of one game to determine the conference champion. The "Playoff" section of the standings, shows the bracket if the season had ended today. It will change if the order of the top 4 teams change.
The conference champions play a best of 3 series to determine which team promotes from your league.
The 8th place team in each conference relegates. The 6th place team in one conference will play the 7th place team in the opposite conference in a 3-game series to determine which relegates.
Though Israel has 5 divisions, there are only actually human (non-bot) teams in the top 4 divisions. BB does not let teams relegate in such situations actually relegate. So if you finished in 6th place, you would still have a relegation playoff, but neither team could relegate.
This could change if Israel were to get a lot of new owners (it currently has 700 amd would need around 1360 for 4 divisions to be filled).
Last edited by jimrtex at 3/24/2008 4:09:28 AM