Igor
Timothy
Personally, I believe in the current meritocracy of promotion and demotion. I think that you have to earn promotion over a season. And if you are poor enough on track to gain demotion. That is perfectly fair.
Although I understand the fact that leagues may not be as full as some would like and that puts paid to automatic promotion and demotion, there is still a feeling that I have, that if we do gain such a power, hosts may become autocratic, cronyistic or even dictatorial in behaviour and demote or promote people for made up, yet fair sounding reasons. This is the main reason that I do not like this idea as you state it.
I would suggest, like for race re-runs, that only mods should be allowrd to do promotions from Pro and Rookie. And only if requested by a league host and if managers are at a competitive level good enough to compete at the promoted level...
Please solve my situation when it happened not so long ago. There are two leaders in the professional group, one wants to join the elite, the other does not, because he has a low level. It is not possible to disable up/down. Answer: a player with a low level quit playing until the end of the season to be overtaken by the next in the group. This tactic is also no better than dictatorship?
Meritocracy, my friend
Your second man should have taken the promotion and got the experience of fighting for survival in Elite.
Your Idea will lead to worse than what happened here. Especially with unscrupulous groups and hosts, giving any old toot as reasons to promote or relegate people.
My idea can be modified, though. By allowing for a pro or rookie manager to not leave the tier by request to mods, via the league host. That would also mean that the highest positioned relegatee from the division above stay up. But ONLY if a manager is of too low (Level 0-5 For a rookie, level 5-15 for a Pro)