Description of issue
So I want to create a simple North / South split between two Sub-Divisions, and let the game assign teams on their geographical position, with a city in the north and the south as centre points for these divisions respectively.
Also underneath advanced comp rules --> Child Competition / regional rules --> General there are these options
Where the first three does nothing towards what I want and the randomize really randomizes all, which is not the intention either, but it has this little textlet which does have one key sentence in it - not biasing the decision on the team's previous division. This sheds some light on the workings of the regional distribution.
Because - to my testing results, the game does not purely take the geographical position of the club into account, but would really really really like to keep clubs in the previous year's division.
Which can lead to group assignment results like this:
Where there are 4 more southerly teams than Berburg and 2 more than Junglinster being assigned to the northern division, but Berburg and Junglinster remain in the south as they were there the year before.
Which then evidently leaves holes in the Northern division, which the game then fills with random relegated or promoted teams which should go to the south (in this case Munsbach and Kanach, 3rd and one before last on this sorted list). Truly random, as these are not even amongst the Northernmost teams in the promotion / relegation pool...
Which of course exacerbates the issue even further, when in the next year they will be considered "belonging" to the North because they were stupidly put there the year before...
So how does one completely eliminate previous year's sorting bias and at the same time use the geographic sorting? Teams that are on the edge would have to occasionally move division in this system depending on the promotions/relegations.
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