Admin wrote: Changing the structure from 8 leagues and 14 team divisions would be major surgery and I'm not sure there is much of an advantage to it. The game and reports built around a 26 week season for 14 team divisions. To change it would require the game to be run on a separate programme, and any future changes would need to be made in both so it's not something I am keen on.
The problem with combining the Central and Eastern leagues, and using the empty division to add a 3rd and 4th English division is that they would have separate cups, and teams from the English 3rd division would qualify for the Champions League, which is silly.
Adding a 3rd division is possible, but the problem would be the cups.
The FA Cup has 5 rounds currently, 32-16-8-4-2. A 3rd division would mean 42 teams so another round would be needed, not such a problem, could be done on say turn 3. The league cup would have a minimum of 35 teams so would also need another round. The first round could be done on 2 and 4, the second round on turns 5 and 6. So is possible. In fact Cup wise, there is no difference between 3 divisions and 4 divisions, as 56 teams (4 divisions) is still under 64 teams.
The problem with division specific cups is European qualification, though it would be possible.
Lowering the starting OA is a separate issue, and I think transfers are too big a part of the game to entertain transfer windows.
What if the number of Champions League places was reduced from 36 to 32 with the 4 places from the empty division taken away from the game?
The Champions League 1st group stage could operate on a basis of 8 groups of 4 instead of 9 groups which would actually make it tidier to operate being top 2 only qualify for the 2nd group stage consisting 4 groups of 4 with the top 2 progressing into the usual format from the Quarter Finals onwards.
A bit of effort I appreciate but could be a solution to the over-subscribed English division in HFG's.
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