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Originally Posted by dim13
I use promotion/relegation. I am really glad Markus gave us this option in the game. I did it manually in OOTP65 and it was kind of a pain. Now it's not much of a chore.
Level 10 - 10th place team is replaced with a brand new team. This keeps the game fresh with new blood added each year.
At first I deleted the 10th place team in level 10 and recreated a new team - but after playing 45 years, the new team always finished last and only lasted 1 season. I restarted my game and now just replace the team name, logos, etc. with the new team coming in the league - all players are kept.
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Have you considered the grace period of maybe 1 year to give them a chance?
As I said, it's rarely come into play with my scenario, but it has been an important buffer in some cases.
Incidentally, I'm in season 14 of my scenario... for the first time, I relegated a franchise that started at MLB (Cincinnati Reds) down to Double-A. I've had a couple drop from Triple-A to Single-A, but the Reds have the dubious distinction of the greatest fall from grace.
Overall, we've had the following movement between MLB and PLB:
Down
* Denotes the team has successfully played its way back to MLB after relegation)
Boston*, Cincinnati, San Diego*, St. Louis, Atlanta*, Arizona*, Kansas City*, Santo Domingo*, LA Angels*, Seattle, Toronto, Connecticut, Minnesota*, Charlotte*, Colorado*, Chicago Cubs*, Inland Empire*
Up: (* Denotes the team has been relegated back to PLB at some point after promotion, ** team started scenario in Double-A)
Fresno, Provo**, Birmingham**, Indianapolis, Rochester*, Greensboro, Tacoma, Midland-Odessa**, Portland
What's been interesting to note is the difficulty some large-market teams, such as Monterrey, Tijuana, Mexico City, and Brooklyn have had in getting promoted (or in Toronto's case, brought back up). I have set all the market sizes proportionally, although things are evened out by setting the New York and LA teams' market size to a 5 or 6 to account for the respective five and three teams in the area.