[Statsman1]

If you believe that a schedule of 162 games is enough to determine who the best team is, then you don't need playoffs.

The promotion/relegation system will appeal to those with a different perspective as to what the regular season determines.

In MLB, after 162 games, to have 4 teams make the playoffs in each league, you're saying that you need 162 games to find the top 8 teams...sort of. In that scenario, the team that finishes with the best won-lost record over 162 games might NOT win the championship...but haven't they already proven they're the best team?

I like the relegation system and the elimination of the playoffs, even though I live in Canada, and the dratted Jays only made the playoffs last year due to the wonked-out system MLB uses. This, to me, is a very interesting feature, as a team in Division 4 cannot get lucky one year and win the overall title (because you have to win the Premiership to be the best team in English football)...but they CAN move up to Division 3, and try again to keep climbing the ranks. Nobody goes from worst to first, in that sense.

Last year, Leicester City couldn't have won the title, and been so newsworthy last year, if they weren't already in the Premier Division. If they were in the Third Division, maybe it wouldn't have been so fantastic.