[Neags23]

Those are all really great ideas. I'm impressed.

I've setup several Civil War type leagues (a Northern League and a Southern League), but never so intricate that a loss for one side hurts its finances.

I didn't see this contest in time (and I'm much too lazy to put it into the proper format), but another league similar to the Civil War league is...

That all of the teams in the north are rich and play in huge cathedral-like stadiums. They get a hundred thousand fans per game, and can afford to sign the free agents from either league. The southern league is poor, they play in small parks, because no one can afford to go to the games. They're lucky to get 15k per game, but they're scrappy. The teams tend to be younger and cheaper. There's no interleague play, so the World Series is a big event, featuring the rich juggernaut against the small time scrappy team.

In the one I setup, the small time teams won the series a majority of the time, even though the team from the North generally had all of the highly paid super stars.

Anyway, don't mean to detract from the glory of the winners. Just wanted to expand on that Civil War league idea a bit.

Congrats guys!