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Originally Posted by jksander
I have never tried a promotion / relegation league, but everything I've heard from people suggests it doesn't work particularly well in OOTP.
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It can work well, but it takes a lot of manual work.
Here are a few things IMO that need to be done.
You need to make sure that the financials and reputations of the leagues as you drop down the levels get significantly smaller. This prevents lower level teams from being able to sign top-tier players.
You need to adjust a team's Market Size when they switch leagues. If a team goes up a level, their Market Size should go down. Market Size is built within the game to be relative to that specific league's average. This change needs to happen before you move to the off-season and the teams actually get moved between the leagues. Once you hit the off-season all of the new budgets/financials get assigned and it will be much more difficult to adjust.
If a really big market team (for their current league) gets relegated or a small market (relative to their league) gets promototed you may even need to adjust the Market Size of all teams and/or the Overall League Financials of the affected leagues to balance things out. I had to keep track of all of this in a spreadsheet to get it right.