End of season - Scotland and Ireland leagues

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End of season - Scotland and Ireland leagues

Post by FTP-ashario » Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:46 am

At the end of this season, Scotland and Ireland will be allocated their own leagues and will thus become fully fledged 'major' countries in the game. Match start times for league matches will be as follows

Scotland 09:00
Ireland 11:30

Each country will be populated with 4 divisions, resulting in 120 teams each.

Prior to the end of this season (probably in 2 or 3 weeks), existing managers will be able to register their intention to move to one of the new countries via the 'Transfer Club' link on the club page. A news item will be created when the game is ready to accept 'transfer requests' to Scotland or Ireland.

During the end of season updates:

- a 'bot flush' will occur in all countries. All computer controlled teams will be demoted to the bottom divisions, and all active teams will be promoted in their place. All teams in a country will be ranked based on division, final league placing, points and NRR and then they'll be placed, by rank, in their new leagues (eg the top 8 teams will be placed in division 1, the next 16 in division 2, the next 64 in division 3 etc). For example, if you finish 3rd in a div 4 league, there is a good chance you will end up in division 3 after the end of season updates.

- teams wishing to move to Scotland or Ireland will be sorted randomly and then placed in leagues starting with division 1. When division 1 places are full, teams will be placed in division 2. When division 2 places are full...you guessed it...teams will be allocated to division 3 and so on.

- for the first season, all divisions in Ireland and Scotland will have the ticket prices, sponsorship income, member soft caps and end of season prizemoney of a division 4 league.

- for the second season, divisions 1-3 in Ireland and Scotland will have the ticket prices, sponsorship income, member soft caps and end of season prizemoney of a division 3 league.

- for the third season, divisions 1-2 in Ireland and Scotland will have the ticket prices, sponsorship income, member soft caps and end of season prizemoney of a division 2 league.

- for the fourth season, division 1 in Ireland and Scotland will have the ticket prices, sponsorship income, member soft caps and end of season prizemoney of a division 1 league.

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