Playing with some of the hints Marcus mentioned about the new PT Pyramid (30-60 Perfect teams, and 48max Diamond leagues) I came up with a "rough" guess of the level numbers.
Disclaimer; I could be terribly wrong LOL
Marcus comments sets about 1500 teams in his current Beta test run into his top 2 levels. If we look at his team totals (24,198 teams) that puts about 22,500 teams in the lower 6 levels (Gold to Rookie). If he configures the structure closer to a pyramid this time, I get the following breakdown...
Perfect - 60 teams
Diamond ~ 1400 teams
Gold ~ 2400 teams
Silver ~ 3000 teams
Bronze ~ 3600 teams
Iron ~ 4200 teams
Stone ~ 4800 teams
Rookie ~ 5400 teams
That totals about 24,000 teams, as showing in his beta screen shots.
If we extrapolate those ratios back to PT20 (660 leagues, and 19712 teams) we get the following breakdown... (Note: these are "gross" numbers - meaning not divisible by 30 team leagues)
Perfect - 49 teams, 2 leagues
Diamond ~ 1174 teams, 39 leagues
Gold ~ 1957 teams, 65 leagues
Silver ~ 2446 teams, 82 leagues
Bronze ~ 2935 teams, 98 leagues
Iron ~ 3424 teams, 114 leagues
Stone ~ 3913 teams, 130 leagues
Rookie ~ 4402 teams, 147 leagues
So, why did I do this exercise? ...to try and figure out what level my teams would likely be in under the new structure. Best I can tell, there are currently 2,670 teams in Perfect. Since I'm usually just under .500 with my Perfect teams, I'm probably hovering around the 1500th best team.
If my estimations above hold true, my current Perfect Team(s) would likely be in the upper Gold Level area in PT21 and much more competitive.
And THAT, my friends, makes me a lot happier than where I am now
