I'm not sure if I get this right, but the top team in your conference was a bot?
Any team with an active user will not be replaced by a new team, so either the team was a bot, or a managerless team.
I realy don't get why a new team would be less competitive then an ownerless team.
If you can TIE the new team, you surely coul TIE the ownerless team,... I don't get it...
The replacement should make it more difficult now for you, not the other way around.
If I misunderstood, please explain.
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