20 team leagues

Quinta · 12-23-2020, 04:53 PM

Last week I was in a 20 team Silver League. I was curious about how common they are and what people thought about keeping the same number of promotion and relegation spots as a 30 team league (I get the why as they need to balance the whole pyramid but I was curious what people thought about relegating 40% of the league or promoting 20%).

I had a team that hovered around .500 all season and that got me thinking about the odd dynamics. Mid week it looked like a .500 team might be relegated. Then later in the week/season it looked like a sub .500 team might make the playoffs (and thus possibly get promoted by winning a single 5 game series). Neither happened but a team around .480 got relegated and a team around .510 got promoted.

bailey · 12-23-2020, 07:27 PM

It's not possible for each level to be evenly divisible by 30, so some leagues will be 16-28 teams in size. I wish they would go larger for some rather than smaller, but, oh, well, it doesn't happen that often.

12-23-2020, 04:53 PM	#1
Quinta Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Oct 2020 Posts: 278	20 team leagues Last week I was in a 20 team Silver League. I was curious about how common they are and what people thought about keeping the same number of promotion and relegation spots as a 30 team league (I get the why as they need to balance the whole pyramid but I was curious what people thought about relegating 40% of the league or promoting 20%). I had a team that hovered around .500 all season and that got me thinking about the odd dynamics. Mid week it looked like a .500 team might be relegated. Then later in the week/season it looked like a sub .500 team might make the playoffs (and thus possibly get promoted by winning a single 5 game series). Neither happened but a team around .480 got relegated and a team around .510 got promoted.

12-23-2020, 07:27 PM	#2
bailey Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,342	It's not possible for each level to be evenly divisible by 30, so some leagues will be 16-28 teams in size. I wish they would go larger for some rather than smaller, but, oh, well, it doesn't happen that often.