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I agree with previous speacher. The fifth promoted team might on paper sound like a good idea but in reality it is poor. The team that promotes tends to be from the weakest league rather than getting unlucky. Does not sound like a fair way of promoting a team.

In my opinion, the rule is as it should be, total fair and fine. Give a reward for a team that was best during the whole season, 22 games.

I am not against the idea of promoting two teams from a league though but there must be a better way then. In fact I would very much like the Swedish league system to be changed to a smaller structure with only two division II leagues and 4 division III leagues and if so promote two teams per league to fill the spot for four relegated teams from the higher division. In large countries it will probably work very well with a multiple of 4 but when there are less than 100 teams it is not working well.

The second promoted team would ideally be the loser of the playoff final with promotion money being less than for the playoff winner. Promoting due to most wins in regular season still does not attract me. The benefit from home advantage is large and if still not succeeding it is such poor luck that anyone can get.

Division 2 tends to be fairly unbalanced, with a concentration of good teams in one or 2 leagues. Record and conference position is not great to reflect that. I'm sure you have the same in your nation.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 9/26/2017 7:11:24 PM

there is a huge difference !

they want to win, first of all, and there will be no boost if they promote like that, so believe me, they have absolutely no interest in playing the playoffs like scrimmages ! (except maybe if your best friend is in the same league as you and can promote, but come on, this doesn't really happen...)

Yes I agree, attendance bonus is veeery important. Without that, they can't make a good profit.

I think you greatly underestimate the attendance boost.

In my div3, a classical promotee who delegated made 500k more than I did over the season and I promoted the new way (was also in the finals so your way would've worked for me too) and more than that, he wasn't paying attention to his prices while I kept trying hard (I even made the playoffs...)

So the attendance bonus is a huge must have in my opinion, I would've rather stayed one more season in D4, I might've made more money there

But I get your point, the playoffs should not be friendly games !