tornligament wrote: Season 2 will now be with 7/10 teams as bot teams.

Just to update you... After week 10 I am the last human in this league. The last guy to drop out got promotion from his league, so he must have been fairly keen.

Ramraider I understand you because I do the same thing happened. I started my league with 6 or 8 bots, and I prefered friendly cups that play my league. However, it's better for you because on the next league, probably you'll play with more people.
For example, next week I'll win my league although I should play 4 more matches.

RonanP wrote: People don't seem to realise how fast promotion is.

I disagree, since officially only one team is promoted. Now I wasn't around in the last off season, so I don't know if the administrators moved more teams up to support the higher divisions with more people.

I did a few number crunches yesterday on our area to find out how many people were playing and how many were bots.

Top Division: 40 % players
2nd Division: 30 % players
3rd Division: 28 % players
4th Division: 25 % players
5th Division: 47 % players

So being promoted from 4th to 3rd is the easiest, then it is 3rd to 2nd, and then it is 2nd to Top. The 5th to 4th division is by far the most difficult to get promoted from and right now two of the spots are taken by bots, since there are two leagues with zero human players. So right now it 79 players (81 seats - 2 bots) out of 378 players getting promoted to 4th division, which is 21 % of the players. I am not saying it is bad rate, but it is still only around one fifth of the players playing in 5th division, so the battle is tough. Remember that if we were filled with players then it would only be 10 % of the player base getting promotions.

And it is also impossible to move everybody up, since there are enough players to fill up the entire four highest divisions and still have enough to fill some spots in 5th division. So this can't be done in a fair way.

On the plus side then it doesn't matter much, since the amount of money you make from ticket sales are still maxed out for the time being unless you have an enormous stadium (35.000+). Right now I am in fourth place in a 5th division league and the minimum attendance I can get is 38.160 multiplied by my form and weather. So with my current stadium closing in on 2.000 seats then it will be ages before this will become a problem.

Started in 11th?

jose_cb28 wrote: Ramraider I understand you because I do the same thing happened. I started my league with 6 or 8 bots, and I prefered friendly cups that play my league. However, it's better for you because on the next league, probably you'll play with more people. For example, next week I'll win my league although I should play 4 more matches.

I now have three bot teams to play. If I win this week I will win my league