Promotion and relegation

Promotion and relegation are real and they matter. But they describe how you did last season, not a guaranteed division number for the next one.

Placement is recalculated every season

Every season, placement is recalculated against the actual field that season, using the same rating system — plus, from Season 2 onward, your real league results.

Most seasons this lines up closely with your promotion or relegation result, because the pool doesn’t shift dramatically between seasons. When it does — a wave of much stronger or much weaker teams registering at once — holding a team to last season’s number regardless of what that number now means would produce exactly the lopsided matches the format exists to avoid.

Division 2 means “matches at Division 2 strength,” not “the division you were in last time.”

When those two things diverge, matches win, not labels.

You get told, and you get a choice

If your placement changes because the field around you changed, you’ll be told before the season starts, and told why. Then you choose:

• Accept the corrected placement. Recommended, and what you’re seeded at by default.
• Ask to stay at the division tied to your prior promotion or relegation.

If the field has shifted a lot, the second option is likely to mean lopsided matches, and you’ll be told that plainly rather than discovering it in week one.