I agree. And almost all of the teams in this league are mimanaged. I was a game away from promoting again my first season, but I thought I had to play playoff crunchtime, while the finals man from the other division had two small( one1-point) victories playing playoff normal and the enthusiasm gap was too much to overcome.
To the OP, as I said in the league forum, as long as you pay attention to your team, you should make the playoffs pretty easily.