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Threnodas · 02-04-2019, 02:02 PM

I'm in favor of more (6-8) promoted/demoted teams, as well.

One thing about promotion/relegation in the real world is that there is a massive financial advantage for teams in the top level, and a massive financial penalty for dropping out of it, and there are usually obvious disparities between newly promoted/relegated teams and their opponents, so there are reasons to limit pro/rel to the few teams that clearly deserve it.

In OOTP, there are no such structural disparities between levels, so there are no real costs to switching levels too fast. If anything, I get the sense that players in 70-win purgatory at a higher level would often rather drop down to earn more PP and improve their team, and everyone (the manager and their opponents) would often rather see an obviously superior team get promoted, even if they lose a 5-game playoff series.

02-04-2019, 02:02 PM	#24
Threnodas Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 256	I'm in favor of more (6-8) promoted/demoted teams, as well. One thing about promotion/relegation in the real world is that there is a massive financial advantage for teams in the top level, and a massive financial penalty for dropping out of it, and there are usually obvious disparities between newly promoted/relegated teams and their opponents, so there are reasons to limit pro/rel to the few teams that clearly deserve it. In OOTP, there are no such structural disparities between levels, so there are no real costs to switching levels too fast. If anything, I get the sense that players in 70-win purgatory at a higher level would often rather drop down to earn more PP and improve their team, and everyone (the manager and their opponents) would often rather see an obviously superior team get promoted, even if they lose a 5-game playoff series.