Now down in II, if you end up there, you will be very, very competitive and be the favourite to go back up. You will almost certainly find the guards you need in the interim. You should end up more competitive by rolling with the punches now than by breaking your team structure apart.
true, but if the goal is to get in Div I and stay there, once you are there you must avoid relegation at all costs, why?
yes your team will be strong enough for div II, but don't forget only 1 team promotes each year, and even thoug your team might be one of the best, it is prety hard to come out on top at the end.
Even if you have the best team, you still have a few rounds of play offs. Rounds in which you need to manage your enthousiasm real good, and if you are unlucky and a team CT against you on the way since that is their only option to get 1 round further and get some extra cash, because even though they know they can't win the finals, they will go for the cash, you are out, unless you CT as well, but then you will suffer in next round,... and so on.
Yuo can crack your head all you want about how you should play, you will never find a system that makes you win, you wil always have to be lucky that your oponents don't do things that make your head roll. Once you get in those play-offs, you must go with the crazy flow and hope and prey, because it's not all in your hands anymore at that time.
This makes that for example the 3rth or 4rth best team in the division can be promoted instead of the best. And that makes that it will be hard to get that promotion.
So.... try to avoid relegation, so you don't need the promotion anymore. ;)
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