The Revenue-Sharing is meant Postseason only, so during the regular season you of course should (and would) receive all the normal income from your Arena.
Let´s add some reasons for the proposal:
(1) Tanking for 5th Place-Issue gets resolved. Everybody has to compete till the end (to some degree) and will get a money-reward for doing so.
(2) Smaller Groups / Divisions help building rivalries and to some degree will increase the fun.
(3) Having more than one team going up (and therefore more teams going down, 2-8 or 3-12) would make a season more interesting for most teams, as there often are pretty clean out favourites in most leagues. Having multiple "money spots" to compete for makes the race for 2nd more interesting and increases the fun. Still, finishing first is worth the effort and gets you a nice reward.
(4) With both the 2-8 or the 3-12 relegation model, you need more teams than 16 to realize that task. You simply cannot exchange 10 out of 16 teams from a league, so you either have to make the league bigger, or you cannot do this kind of model -> Bigger Leagues (24 / 30 Teams).
(5) The draft gets more interesting if there´s more competition, but also more and more diverse things to get. And it´s more NBA if there´s only two rounds, which is a good point for some.
(6) I don´t like the current distribution of Off-Season Income. Even if you´re successful, you might make a big loss during the off season. I don´t say that you will earn money with my proposed system, but at least "success" pays off here.
(7) Far more suspense, and less boring 3-game series with each team tanking one game and only playing the decider at full power. Pretty much every game counts - if you lose a 3-game series, you are relegated, and no matter if you lose it in 2 or in 3, you get the same money. So you play for result, not for money.
(8) If each Division holds more teams, you might save a league level in some of the big countries. E.G. Germany. That´s ALOT less games which have to be simulated if you cut Germany´s 6th Division.
(9) The way to the Top is shorter. If only on Paper. It´s so far away if you start in Division 5 or maybe 6, and the "long" way to go might bore you. If you start in Division 3 even in a rather big country, it´s - at least on paper and for psychology - not that much of a leap to the "Top Division".
I don´t think the transfer from 16 to 24 or 30 teams would be hard. Skip relegation down in a season and you immediately go from 16 to 20 teams, let the finals runner up also go up with the winner, and you have your 24 teams at the top. Then fill up the 2nd / 3rd / 4th Divisions just the same, and the empty slots get filled up with the "best record" non-going up teams from the next lower division.
Last edited by LA-seelenjaeger at 1/4/2012 4:07:46 PM
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