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Originally Posted by HRBaker
We have people who want more balanced competition, but defend moving playoff winners up before winning percentage - pushing weaker teams to the top too fast and stronger teams to stay in the lower levels longer - then complain about why they are still there beating everyone up and collecting tons of PPs while some Perfect Level teams find themselves 50 games out of first with no way to adjust other than spend money.
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I'd be open to a hybrid solution - reserve two of the four promotion spots for the two best regular season records, and two for the two "World Series" participants. If one or both teams overlap, then the playoff spot goes to sub-league series participants (with regular season record being the tiebreaker if only one team overlaps)
This would certainly solve the problem of a wild card team lucking out in a five-game series against the #1 seed getting an instant promotion, because they would then need to "back it up" by winning the best-of-7 sub-league series to qualify for promotion. It also would move obvious whales whose class shows over a long season upwards and onwards toward a level that is more appropriate for them.
Of course, the generous promotion rules in the first few seasons of the game, as the pyramid is being built, seem to work well towards "helping water find its own level" as it were. But it doesn't help for whales who are entering a team later in the season (such as now). A hybrid solution rewards both long-term success and playoff accomplishments.
I strongly believe you still need to have some sort of promotional reward for the best playoff teams because, as I said earlier, why else have the playoffs at all? For the 1000 perfect points? The graphic of a non-existent trophy? The little badge that sits in the upper-left-hand corner of your team screen until the game servers are shut down sometime next year? No. We try to do well in the playoffs because we want to get promoted, eventually up to Perfect League.