Appreciate the feedback. Was doing any and every Perfect Draft / Tournament I could to try and scrape together resources. Going from fun and competitive to absolutely impossible to win within a single week is possibly the worst feature I've ever heard, even if I understand the desire to prevent tanking/league manipulation. Maybe they ought to factor in how many leagues have been completed by the team in question into that formula, because doing so well that you're slammed into a brick wall is the absolute opposite of feeling rewarded for success!
Will try to find Twitch things or figure out the Discord if I start playing again, but the "Super-Promotion" punishment is probably enough to turn me off the game for a while.