His response to the earlier poster is still correct: there is already a mechanism in place by which d.IV bot teams (that weren't already scheduled for demotion) are replaced by non-championship winning d.V teams. It's kind of nit picking to say that particular statement is inaccurate, because it's pretty obvious he wasn't trying to lay out the mechanics of bot promotion, he was just giving a general "there's already a mechanism to promote some of the better D.V teams that missed out on traditional promotion."
So unless you win the regular season or playoffs, you are doomed to stay in D V, even if you have the second best record in your League
And why is this a problem? If over multiple seasons you repeatedly can't manage to win either the playoffs or your own division's regular season, do you really deserve to promote? (The idea that d.IV is somehow chock-full of bots is outdated.)