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I think I counted 14 Div. III teams either already bot or at least 4 weeks since last login. Of those, 9 are in 8th place. I think 1 was in 5th place.

I count 2 Div. II teams that are bot.

So, what does that mean?

At least 2 spots available for auto-promotion into D3 in the off-season. Outright promotion is better because you get the attendance boost.

I took a look at the leagues today to get a sense of how this will play out.

Div II has 2 demoting bots

Div III has 11 presumably demoting bots (7 are in 8th place, 2 in 7th, 2 in 6th) and 3 teams likely to go bot before the next season (1 of those is in 5th place, the others will be demoting anyway), plus 1 that might go bot in time, but I'm not certain and it will be demoting anyway.

There are 15 teams in Div. IV that are 21-0 going into the season finales:

IV.47 Dragonmasters ..........+850
IV.44 Griffin Shadows...........+826
IV.54 The Banana Bombs...... +824
IV.53 The Americans............+782
IV.1 Muppet Honey Badgers...+741
IV.27 GTZ........................+738
IV.58 Blazing Ninjas ............+710
IV.16 SkYz Da LiMiT.............+703
IV.29 Rum Ham .................+700
IV.18 Pyramid of Success......+667
IV.56 Smurf Village Smurfs ....+632
IV.22 N.C. State Wolfpack....+626
IV.55 Rockford .................+607
IV.4 Seachickens..............+600
IV.5 Beaufort Plankers........+556

I'll try to update that after tonight's games so we'll see how it looks. I didn't look for 1-loss teams at this point. I suppose more than 2 upsets are certainly possible and a 21-1 team could bot promote, too.

Patience. All will be revealed.

Wasn't trying to be impatient. Just doing some research and figured I'd post it.

One of the 15 unbeatens in D-IV lost tonight, and it was the one with the best PD. That could be important if a team gets to bot-promote.

Next update: 1 of the 22-0 teams lost in the quarterfinals, Rockford of IV.55.

Here are some facts about the availability of Bot promotion among some others:

No Bots in NBBA

Division 2
Relegating Bots: 2
Domstad Devils, Valhalla!

Division 3
Non-Relegating Bots: 1
PBC Verona*

Relegating Bots: 11
Grim Koalas, BuckNuts, Hunterkirualeorio, Denver Extraterrestrials, Savage Slammers, The Meatbusters, Yenkins Bombers, Tai'shan Crimson Eagles, Flying Cows, Midget Dunkers, Wine Country Boozers

(* means that a team has not gone bot yet, but will go bot before off-season processing if they don't log in.)

This means that:
There is no spots open for a D3 team to bot promote.
There are 3* spots open for a D4 team to bot promote.
There are at least 14 spots for a D5 team to bot promote.

This also means:
There are 2 D.III leagues that will not get a D.II demotee, giving a D.III league a 12.5% chance of not getting one.
There are 11 D.IV leagues that will not get a D.III demotee, giving a D.IV league a 17.19% chance of not getting one.

All 13 of the remaining 22-0 teams in Div. IV won their conference finals.

oh, I wanna finally win. Bot promo is great and all but a win would be nice. Maybe this season? I got my fingers crossed.

You got it this season, Czarina. Your defense has been strong. I can't see you losing.

IV.44's Griffin Shadows has already claimed one of the 2 spots.