jespernohr wrote: 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.

Surely those stats suggest the need to move all bot team down to the 5th division and you would rank all teams based on finishing position, record, TD'S scored then points scored and then points differential, that should split rank the teams in a fair way.

jespernohr wrote: 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. ...

They didn't.
Only 1 team promoted from each division, and no re-organization was made.

80% human this season

40% human at season start, but as I'm in div 5,it could still go up

butchpt6 wrote: i have 7 human teams, started with 5 when the season began. However, im almost certain none of them are yet playing or setting line ups

This is quite weird, since I had 5 teams at the start of the season and one has now gone bot, so we are 4 players left.

Based on how the new managers should be distributed, always new managers to the division/leagues with the fewest managers, then this doesn't make any sense at all.

I also know that one of my mates are only two people left now in their division/league, so it makes even less sense!