Too lazy to read everything, so if somebody already promoted this idea, sorry for making it twice!
But if for small and tiny countries you make a different build up not much has to change.
My idea is as follow:
the highest national divison for a small country is division II. That way you can add 4 countries in one competition pyramid. The top 16 from those 4 countries plays in the division 1.
Promotion and relegation from division 2 to 1 and vica versa is a little difficult in some occasions but that should be solved without too much trouble. For the draft only in division 1 you have to do something with the nationalities. In the other divisions the nationality is clear.
You could say that if division 4 is full a country gets his own independent league. Which means the critical mass is (2)1,(3)4,(4)16 = 21 * 16 teams + (+/- 4) top teams in the highest league = 340 teams as starting point for a countries own league pyriamid.
I hope the idea is clear.
Last edited by Ruaidri at 1/18/2012 7:06:45 PM
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