[QuantaCondor]

Originally Posted by whifflebird

I'm a relatively new player so I may not know the full scope of tanking, but from what I have seen it is done by:

1 - using all your stud cards in the regular season, racking up achievements and PP
2 - pulling those cards and playing reserve iron cards in playoffs to ensure you lose in the 1st round and don't get promoted.
3 - rinse, repeat

An easy solution to this that does not affect the economics of the game it to automatically promote the top 2 teams based on regular season performance, and then the top 2 other teams based on playoffs performance.

Now there is still incentive to do well in playoffs, and if you kill it in the regular season, then tanking in the playoffs does nothing.

Problem solved?

Playoff tanking isn't necessarily the issue. Some people just get a 140 win season in iron followed by an intentionally bad 40 win season in bronze or something