Varying Numbers of Teams in a Division

[dirtboy]

Hi everyone. I'm on FM19 doing a big Australian lower leagues system that I have invented. What I want is after 2 national divisions I want to split into 2 sub divisions for Level 3-one being for Australia and one being for the Pacific (mainly NZ); like this.

 

A-League

12 teams, 2 relegated

 

A-League 2

12 teams, 2 relegated

 

Level 3

2 subdivisions of 16 and 12 teams respectively, winners promoted from each league

 

The problem is dealing with relegated teams. Say there were 2 Australian teams relegated, I wouldn't like to put one of them in the Pacific division as Australia is a long way from New Zealand. I'd then like the Australian division to grow to 17 teams and the Pacific one to become 11 teams. I understand I can probably do this by setting a maximum and minimum number of teams for the division but my question is is it possible to vary the amount of league fixtures based on the number of teams in the division? For example I'd like to have a double round robin when there's 14 teams but a triple round robin when there's 13 teams. Is this possible and if so how would i do that? I also have similar structures set up for the lower leagues.

 

Thanks.

[Wolf_pd]

Hmmm, that would mean having two versions of the competition and the game chooses the version based on the team-requisites. Interesting idea. Not entirely sure it would work though.

[L55DS]

On 30/04/2021 at 01:26, dirtboy said:

Hi everyone. I'm on FM19 doing a big Australian lower leagues system that I have invented. What I want is after 2 national divisions I want to split into 2 sub divisions for Level 3-one being for Australia and one being for the Pacific (mainly NZ); like this.

 

A-League

12 teams, 2 relegated

 

A-League 2

12 teams, 2 relegated

 

Level 3

2 subdivisions of 16 and 12 teams respectively, winners promoted from each league

 

The problem is dealing with relegated teams. Say there were 2 Australian teams relegated, I wouldn't like to put one of them in the Pacific division as Australia is a long way from New Zealand. I'd then like the Australian division to grow to 17 teams and the Pacific one to become 11 teams. I understand I can probably do this by setting a maximum and minimum number of teams for the division but my question is is it possible to vary the amount of league fixtures based on the number of teams in the division? For example I'd like to have a double round robin when there's 14 teams but a triple round robin when there's 13 teams. Is this possible and if so how would i do that? I also have similar structures set up for the lower leagues.

 

Thanks.

Yes this is possible.

 

Untick 'number of rounds' under 'league settings' and instead choose 'set number of rounds from maximum matches'.

 

I use this system in the Irish regional divisions which can vary from 12-20 teams. A max of 48 matches would mean, for example, a 20 team league having 2 rounds, a 16 team league having 3 rounds and a 12 team league having 4 rounds of fixtures.