I may not have promoted....
but yeah, i sold off all my 32+ guys before the playoffs, so they'd be eligible for others' playoff pushes (max profit for them), and waited till "ineligble" for playoffs began, and bought Kinder, my 25K center, for the same price Mack gentry cost me. It's all about preparing if you know you're going to promote, you 2 had best records, so would promote no matter what. Didn't *particularily* matter (yeah attednance bosot and a trophy) if you won league or not...
Me, I needed to win championship to promote, thought had a team that could, was wrong, but eh, got some guys that are good for cheap as a result, and can build arena more anyways, etc.