Tēma: What season did Div III start?

The are a huge number of NoName teams in Div III so I'm wondering if its just because Div III recently started, or is it just that hard to get new USA managers?

D3 has been around since the beginning although II.12 is new this season.

they changed the way leagues are filled this season so that they fill up one league at a time. This, coupled with filling a brand new league (no clue why it was created) has resulted in several league being full of noname teams.

that should have read III.12

There are lots and lots of people who sign up and then never log in again, or just try a little bit and quit again. For someone who isn't familiar with this type of game, or with hockey, there is an awful lot to do at first.

After a team is idle for 3 weeks, it becomes a NoN. PPM adds a bunch of new teams to a league at once. If you look at the starting date for teams in your league, you will see many started about the same time as you did. There 3 weeks is about to be up, and you may see a few more teams become NoN. When there are enough NoN in your league, they will start putting new teams.

This is a fairly convoluted promotion scheme, I guess I'll have to experience it before I can full understand it. It might be easier to attract people if the levels weren't made so wide. As it is now you need 16 leagues to fill Div 3. If you use a more narrow league structure it would be more competitive.

Div I (1 league), Div II (2), Div III (4), Div IV (8), ...

As of today we could fully populate 4 full divisions this way and be starting Div V.

With the current structure you need 416 team to populate the first 3 divisions, and we are less than 60% full.

Nobody likes playing against noname teams (well yeah its fun winning but,...).

At the very least, we should be consolidating and closing down DIV III leagues to keep things competitive. There should only be eight Div III leagues running atm, maybe 10 at most.

It's a pretty simple structure especailly once you see the end of the season calculations go through.

I.1 has one league, each season 4 teams get demoted automatically, and are sent to II.1, II.2, II.3 and II.4. They are replaced by the 4 teams who win the playoffs in those leagues.

5-8 in I.1 do a playoff against the 2nd place teams in II.1, II.2, II.3 and II.4 for promotion.

Then basically the same thing happens at the next level, IE, the bottom 4 teams in II.1 go to III.1, III.2, III.3 and III.4, the bottom 4 teams go to III.5, III.6, III.7, and III.8 etc.

So since you are in III.1, you are fighting for promotion to II.1.

Trust me, it may take a while to get used to, but it makes for a very competitive and challenging system

Yeah - actually I think the wider is better for competitiveness, at least the way it is done here. You end up not seeing as many "too weak" teams staying up and you get teams promoting that can make an immediate impact.

Im in D3 or D2