For bot promotion, it always used to be that people who won their conference had priority over non-conference winners even with better records + tiebreakers.
So really he needs to beat out those conference winners who didn't win their finals championship. 19-3 still seems a bit on the edge, but maybe possible?
This was always what I thought too. From the manual, ranking (aka seed) is the most important criteria.
One extra promotion spot will be awarded to the team with the best regular season record (ranking being the most important criteria).
My understanding is that bot promotion looks first at the teams which finished in 1st place in their conference and that did not end up promoting. From that list of teams it takes the top 16 teams with the tiebreaker being record, then PD, etc.
Using the criteria I described above, then the top 25 US teams for bot promotion are ranked as follow:
1 Atlanta Dream
2 effingham hearts
3 Brooklyn Blackbirds
4 Missouri City Sounders
5 Chi-Raq's Bangerz
6 Illiniwek
7 Spider Monkeys
8 larrys cable guys
9 Sandersville Preyers
10 AMC SPIRITS
11 New Bedford Nasties
12 Chicago Goats
13 Wadsworth Grizzlies
14 MORNINGZZZ
15 TR Tigers
16 Hustlas
17 Moonlighters
18 Nevada Netheads
19 Lexington Legends
20 Bayou Rovers
21 Shake and Bake
22 Rocksters
23 Most Dope KnuckleHeadz
24 the stiforms 5s
25 UofDallas
....
58 Japan University
The top 16 would be guaranteed to promote as there are always going to be at least 16 spots in D III available for auto-promoters. I have not taken the time to see if there are going to be other auto-promotion spots for D III US due to bots that will be auto-demoted. The OP is 58th in the list and would need more than 40 bots in US D III that would need to be demoted in order to be auto-promoted. So like everyone else said, not very likely.