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I dont think any options should be added to encourage this strategy... Things should be implemented to help stop it altogether.

I like the idea of freezing the income for spectators for atleast the game, if it was on the road for his next.

This will never happen with the current draft system in place. Part of the reason I like to tank is for the draft pick. How would this be accommodated in your system?

That would be a problem, yes.

Why don't you offer a solution for this problem?

I don't really know how to solve the problem, though I'm not really a fan of the suggestion of applying for demotion. I think the programming required to allow teams to apply for promotion and dealing with errors such as what happens if all the teams in div 2 want to demote, or if a team in div 3 didn't want to promote, is just too hard to program. Also having to deal with somehow giving the teams that demote extra income for that season and extra season ticket holders for that season is ridiculously unfair.

Consider the following:
A team from div 3 promotes to div 2, realises that he is unlikely to be able to compete, so applies for demotion. He is now going to stay in div 3, and get the attendance and income that he would have gotten in div 2 whilst dominating div 3. It just wouldn't work, sorry. And each time he promotes he will get an additional promotion bonus.

Last edited by Naker Virus at 6/15/2011 1:00:04 PM

I would appreciate an option where teams that want to rebuild could apply for demotion instead of intentionally losing a whole season to move down.
This would give a team that wants to compete on a higher level the chance to do so and take teams that distort competition out of the game.

The problem would be the lower income, so I propose to either give such a team a single payment comparable to the promotion bonus or treat them as bottom ranked higher div teams for the next season, so the income would be the same as if they would have remained in their previous league.

Another unmentioned problem, if you consider it you are tanking "hard", which means you could be on a relegation place in the lower division easily.