Warrior General Games

Drop the number of Silver leagues to 4, increase the number of Copper leagues back to 16, and setup promotions & demotions between Silver & Copper.

Right now, about half of the teams in Silver are either CPU owned, have all CPU players, or are run by owners/coaches who just are not ready for the Silver level of play. My idea is to bump these teams back down to Copper where they belong so only those teams that are at a Silver level of play are actually in Silver, meaning Silver becomes more competitive, but not to the level of Gold. This is what a LOT of people are looking for at the Silver level because they don't like only needing to game plan for less than half of their games.

For this to truly work, you need promotions & demotions between Silver & Copper similar to what is currently between Silver & Gold. The reason for this is because you don't want teams that make it to Silver, but then give up, to remain in Silver. With 4 Silver leagues, you have 8 Divisions, and if you drop 4 teams from each division, you would need to demote 32 total teams, which just happens to be the exact number of divisions if you have 16 Copper leagues. You would need to promote 32 teams from Copper, so just promote the two Copper teams that make it to the Championship game.

As for promotions & demotions for Gold/Silver, just promote both Silver teams that make the championship game, and each division of the 4 Silver leagues will get one demoted Gold team, which makes for a very nice balance.

In the end, what this idea does is not only adds 4 more Pee-Wee leagues total, but it gives Pee-Wee a true 3-tier set of leagues, for a more balanced division of skill levels. I know more Copper leagues means more CPU teams, but who cares at the Copper level, plus it helps newer Pee-Wee owners have some initial success so they don't get discouraged early.

Thoughts?

One thing, we can't fill those copper leagues atm...

I like the 4 silver leagues though... should be better because we have a ton of CPUs in gold

I'd start with making an Owner buy a Copper team only. New owners shouldn't be allowed to go straight to Silver. Add in your plan, and make the owners work their way up. And like Z said, I'd AT MOST, bump the Copper league total up to 10. Almost 4 leagues are all CPUs.

Originally posted by zmj44
One thing, we can't fill those copper leagues atm...

I like the 4 silver leagues though... should be better because we have a ton of CPUs in gold


A lot of CPU Copper teams won't hurt anything as it helps those human controlled Copper teams win some games. I doubt they would go 12 Copper leagues, so it would either be 16 or 8, and I think they would prefer to gain 4 leagues rather than loose 4 leagues.

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Until the SIM is fixed, PW is going to continue to die. If you want it fixed simpler, then make stamina much less of a factor for PW, give them 50 SP at creation instead of 25, and then go. You could trim roster sizes down to 40 instead of the 55 necessary to compete at a high level.

Oh, and fix passing while really having a penalty for repeated slamming the ball from any formation (not just the same play!).

Originally posted by juiceweezl
make stamina much less of a factor for PW



I agree with this.. if you think about it, Stamina shouldn't be a factor at all in the minor leagues.