We've seen a bunch of aberrations about the spectator algorithm, and it seems to me my playoff game shows once more it's completely ill-conceived. I finished 18-4. I was playing the same team that gave me my fourth defeat in the meaningless (for me), last, game of the regular season. In the regular season game 4300 people showed up. In the playoff game, 3000. I think I've heard before that there is no playoff boost, and that's fine by me. But something should be done to temper the effect of a defeat in one's previous game, especially in moving from the regular season to the offseason. As it stands, it is very counter-intuitive.
If realism was the only design principle a NBBA team (and similarly first league teams) would average 10-15-20k supporters per game, while a Div II would average maybe 1000 and a Div. III would have friends and family, so promoting from a division to another would be impossible, and promoted teams would relegate right away.