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For promo/rel, this is what I tried recently, and I liked it. It meant that minor league teams didn't have to be adjusted, all stats were in the same league history, and by using max attendance, I was able to create tiers. it's not perfect, but it did the trick for me:
4 divisions across 2 sub leagues, 10 teams per division. There's a 162 game schedule in the schedules on OOTP mods that gives you NO inter-division or inter-league play, so it makes each division a silo. So you can call each one a league.
I promote 2 teams and demote 2 teams.
For the playoffs, I made a cup:
8 teams from tier 1
8 teams from tier 2
5 teams from tier 3
3 teams from tier 4
I have it set so that all of tier one gets a bye. Then I do elimination (best of 3) among the other 16, then Prelim Round (best of 3), Semi-Finals (best of 5), Finals (best of 5) and the Baseball Cup (Best of 7).
Can't help on the foreign stuff, sorry, but try that for your prom/rel and see how you like it. Again--it's not perfect, but I'm finding that bad teams sink to Tier 4, and good teams rise to Tier 1/2. What's nifty is if you leave the finances alone, some teams that have Tier 2/3 budgets will fight into Tier 1, but struggle to stay there, because they have less funds! (This was on 10 years of testing.)
Good luck!
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