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In my own newbie league, with 7 active newbies all starting around March 20, we had 2 totally inactive newbie teams (also created then) reaching the playoff semifinals, and one even made it to the final - because the initial rosters of the inactive teams were strong, and because they kept training game shape it seems

an inactive new team should after 3-4 weeks be significantly weaker than an active new team. Maybe remove their game shape training

I think that if someone trains Game Shape or the other team training only - should be soon defeated by you.

Is good to have bot teams slightly strong by the time - you should to done by the time better improvement than the bot team and you will not be just lucky than the others, because you have got bot league so is easier for you to reach the playoffs

I agree on the team variance. Checking teams that are about to go bot, looking for possible FA, you will come across some teams that started with players that qualified as FA, and others whose top-salaried player is barely over $3000.

So perhaps something like this. BB generates 1800 players and places them in bins of

1A) 25 players.
1B) 25 players
1C) 50 players
2) 50 players.
3) 125 players
4) 125 players
5-18) 100 players

Where the players are ranked based on some measure of talent.

1/4 of new teams would get a player from 1A, 3, two from 4, and one from each of the rest. You could sort of think of this that a team that traded up for an early first round pick, and swapped their 2nd pick for a 4th pick.

1/4 of new teams would get a player from 1B, 2 from 3, and one from each of the rest. Equivalent to trading up to a high-mid 1st round, and trading a 2nd for a 3rd.

1/2 of new teams would get a player from 1C, 1 from 2, and one from each of the rest. They in effect get their first 2 picks in the 1st 1-1/2 rounds.

Or maybe you could let new teams actually pick their squad. Perhaps they could see 10 players when they pick from each bin. These would be presented through a personality mask, so they would have an appropriate name and face for their country. If a player is consistently passed over, he could be moved down to a lower bin.

A new team would not be placed into a league until they had actually selected their squad. This would reduce the problem of totally inactive teams for 5 weeks.

Or perhaps squads of 15 players could be generated, and somehow have a entry draft for 3 18 and 19 YO. It could work much like the regular draft, but there might have to be an adjustment for the draft order. Right now, the draft is a total bafflement for new teams, and yet they are expected to invest in scouting.

As for new teams taking over existing teams records, perhaps something like this:

After a certain point of the season, let's say either the end of the 1st round, new owners couldn't be assigned teams with winning records. If a top team goes bot, it is probably fairer to let all the teams have to contend with its talent, rather than hand it off to someone who will have a good record, but no players.

This will tend to make it harder for owners who start late in the season from promoting during the bot cleanup. But there is no reason for them to expect for that to happen.

When a new league is opened up to active owners, all the records could be reset, or maybe set to 0.500. Teams would then have a sprint to determine who qualified for the playoffs. Once the playoffs have started, no new owner should replace a team that is in the playoffs.