Less than 2 months to go now before the season starts.

Here's how our leagues are looking:

Each division is ranked based on last season's final standings, and then teams promoted and relegates up and down accordingly.
If there are any teams who drop out this year, all teams will move up in the order they are listed here:

Teams in bold have recommitted already. Teams in italic have already stated they are out...


<p class='p1' style='color: #000000;][span class='s1]PREMIER:Stowie;Ruddy;HEAVER;Karlos; Rev;Mick; jet;Dabombers;Steve;LiQuiD_SiXx;bgt2110;anthak.
<p class='p2' style='color: #000000;]
<p class='p1' style='color: #000000;][span class='s1]DIVISION 1:Walesy; Owen;Fez;Pearcey47;crossy;Philosoraptor; costak;Jasmine;rodgo;headmandude;yumcha;ddsaints.
<p class='p2' style='color: #000000;]
<p class='p1' style='color: #000000;][span class='s1]DIVISION 2:nicksnow; 6'10;maggots;Don_Cottagers;trav00;doolz;underachievers;HEATalicious; OutKast_au;Rad_E_Cool;tasho;Spurs_jay.
<p class='p2' style='color: #000000;]
<p class='p1' style='color: #000000;][span class='s1]DIVISION 3: lethal;smokinjoemisiti; hawker;Lano24; doobs;Jmulldihno;Peaches;sparks1511;Jaammiiee;clintongary; BradM;insider.
<p class='p2' style='color: #000000;]
<p class='p1' style='color: #000000;][span class='s1]emergencies: Emes; chris88; grav; macca118;




Premier and Division 1 are both full up. We are still waiting on 1 from Division 2, and 4 from Division 3.
Emes, chris88 and grav are all in Division 3, I just haven't moved them in yet for transparency.
macca118 is still waiting in the wings, and probably likley to get a spot.

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In the last thread, we opened up discussion on a proposal made for a different structure of our leagues. 4 people stated they would prefer not to change, however 2 of those mentioned they would be fine with the change as well, whilst 10+ people expressed they were in favour of the proposal. Given this feedback, I feel it is ok for us to go ahead with the change. If anyone feels strongly against the change, please express your dissent in this thread and we will work through it.
Apologies to Lano and HEATalicious. I found it really interesting that you are both in the lower divisions and still favoured the current setup, however the numbers were against you on this one.

Presuming there is no further dissent, this is how the leagues will work for the '16/17 season:

All leagues still with 12 teams in each.

<ul>
<li>A Premier League</li>
<li>A Division 1 league</li>
<li>Any other leagues as conference leagues, could have 1, 2, 3, 4 or any ammount of these leagues with sit at the same level of the hierarchy and all feed into the Division 1 league through promotions.</li>
</ul>

We do still need to work out how many teams move between the leagues at the end of the season, but we can work that out prior to the '16/17 season.

What we do need to work out now is how the teams from the current leagues will move into the new structure for next season. ie the promotion and relegation setup for this season.

I propose the following:

Keep the promotion/relegation rules between Premier and Division 1 exactly the same as last season.
5 teams move from Division 1, ]downinto the Conference leagues (allows for the wildcard to still come into play)
4 teams move up from Division 2 into Division 1 (same as last season)
1 team moves up from Division 3 into Division 1 (Grand final winner)

I believe this allows for a transition into the new structure, keeping much of the current system in place, whilst also having a sneak peak with 1 team jumping from Div 3 up to Div 1. This is mainly to lessen the impact on those teams who were promoted last season and not further disadvantage teams that were relegated last season. This is why I felt we could not implement the new structure for this season after we had already determined promotion and relegation guidelines for last season, because it would have rendered them essentially meaningless, and teams would have had less to play for last season.

What do you all think?
Please let us know in the comments if you agree or not with this proposal for this season.

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In the comments of the last thread, it was also proposed that we add an extra IR spot.
This has been raised several times before and we have never been able to reach any consensus on it so I have set up a poll on each of the league homepages on ESPN. Please everyone vote on this, and if anyone has any comments or questions on it, please let us know here in TS down below in this thread.