Thanks orangepace for doing most of the legwork on the standings. Everyone, please look it over and let me know if you see any mistakes! I will begin working on the scheduling, and release it in a couple hours.


Overall Standings (Team/Record/Point Differential):

• Champions League:
  1. Tennesee Tech 2-1 +38 CHAMPIONS!
  2. Drake 2-1 +7 (leaving)
  3. Sacred Heart 2-1 +5
  4. Texas State 0-3 -50 Relegated!

Tiebreaker = Net point margin

• Diamond League:
  1. Jacksonville St. 2-0 +25 Promoted!
  2. Holy Cross 2-1 +4 Promoted due to Drake leaving
  3. Eastern Illinois 1-1 +2
  4. San Diego 0-3 -31 Relegated!

• Badass Bobcats League:?
  1. Northern Arizona 3-0 +50 Promoted!
  2. Howard 2-1 +52 Promoted due to Drake leaving
  3. Albany 1-2 -14
  4. Cal Poly 0-3 -90 Relegated! (looks like new coach fredengel has already scheduled next season's NC)

• OVC Wanabees League:
  1. Youngstown St. 3-0 +35 Promoted!
  2. Savannah St. 3-1 +11
  3. Maine 1-1 +2
  4. Alabama A&M 0-1 -3 (leaving)
  5. St. Mary's 0-2 -6
  6. Missouri St. 0-2 -39

New teams next season:
Roboto39 – Missouri State (already in, but ready for full non-conference scheduling)
badaxe – Northwestern State
justaguy – Portland State
tampafla – Marist
truedevil33 – Sam Houston State


Teams leaving promotion/relegation:
Hatroq – Drake
dachmann – Alabama A&M
fredengel - Cal Poly

Looking to join in Season 126:
gympy_88 – Northern Iowa

Looks like the conferences next season will be the following (will post schedule shortly):

1	Tennessee Tech	OVC	OP's Playground
2	Sacred Heart	NEC	OP's Playground
3	Jacksonville State	OVC	OP's Playground
4	Holy Cross	Ivy	OP's Playground
5	Eastern Illinois	OVC	OP's Rejects
6	Texas State	Big Sky	OP's Rejects
7	Northern Arizona	Big Sky	OP's Rejects
8	Howard	MEAC	OP's Rejects
9	Albany	NEC	Badass Bobcats
10	San Diego	PFL	Badass Bobcats
11	Youngstown State	Gateway	Badass Bobcats
12	Savannah State	Gateway	Uncle Rico's Crew
13	Maine	A10	Uncle Rico's Crew
14	St. Mary's	SWAC	Uncle Rico's Crew
15	Missouri St	Gateway	Uncle Rico's Crew
16	Portland State	SWAC	House of reigny
17	Northwestern State	A10	House of reigny
18	Marist	OVC	House of reigny
19	Sam Houston State	Big Sky	House of reigny

Couple of notes:
1. I was thinking of typically trying to make the bottom conference the conference with 3 members, instead of members that have already been in the league longer. However, I thought a great cutoff line for a 3-person conference was in the third conference (Badass Bobcats), between Youngstown State and Savannah State
--Youngstown State and Savannah State are in the same conference and may not play against each other next season. It's more fun if every team can play each other
--This also shows how much each game matters in this league. Losing to Maine is what hurt Savannah State for moving up. If both teams were undefeated, I'd move them both into the Badass Bobcats.
2. This gives all the non-promoted teams in the bottom of this year's standings another chance to fight for promotion. Although next season, there's the risk of relegation that wasn't there this season!
3. All 4 new teams are in the same league at the bottom. No free extra steps by being one league higher, you'll need to earn your way from the bottom to the top!

Fyi Mizz St is Gateway too (not Big Sky), but we're both in South and thus play every season.

Schedule is ready to go, just giving a chance to see if I made any mistakes with the standings.

Also, winners of each bracket from this season have free reign(y) to change the name of their respective league they won. I'll PM each member individually.

Posted by rusticity on 9/2/2016 4:19:00 PM (view original):
Fyi Mizz St is Gateway too (not Big Sky), but we're both in South and thus play every season.

Woops, I miswrote that somewhere in my table. Think I had it right in my scheduling last season. Thanks for noticing!

Guess Howard has ended up with the luck of the draw.. the only promotion they actually earned was out of the "House of Reign"

Only if you call a nonconference schedule against E. Illinois, Texas St. and NAU lucky.

Posted by lgftw on 9/2/2016 4:24:00 PM (view original):
Guess Howard has ended up with the luck of the draw.. the only promotion they actually earned was out of the "House of Reign"

Howard and Holy Cross got promotions for being 2nd in their respective leagues, due to the exit of Drake. I'd prefer if teams have to fully win their divisions, but I can't stop people from leaving the promotion/relegation league outright either :(

Team	Week 2 Opponent	Week 2 location	Week 3 Opponent	Week 3 location	Week 4 Opponent	Week 4 location
Tennessee Tech			Holy Cross	Away	Sacred Heart	Home
Sacred Heart	Holy Cross	Home	Jacksonville State	Home	Tennessee Tech	Away
Jacksonville State			Sacred Heart	Away	Holy Cross	Home
Holy Cross	Sacred Heart	Away	Tennessee Tech	Home	Jacksonville State	Away
Eastern Illinois	Northern Arizona	Home	Howard	Away	Texas State	Home
Texas State	Howard	Home			Eastern Illinois	Away
Northern Arizona	Eastern Illinois	Away			Howard	Home
Howard	Texas State	Away	Eastern Illinois	Home	Northern Arizona	Away
Albany	Youngstown State	Away			San Diego	Home
San Diego			Youngstown State	Home	Albany	Away
Youngstown State	Albany	Home	San Diego	Away
Savannah State	St. Mary's	Home			Maine	Away
Maine	Missouri St	Away	St. Mary's	Home	Savannah State	Home
St. Mary's	Savannah State	Away	Maine	Away	Missouri St	Home
Missouri St	Maine	Home			St. Mary's	Away
Portland State	Marist	Home			Northwestern State	Home
Northwestern State	Sam Houston State	Home	Marist	Home	Portland State	Away
Marist	Portland State	Away	Northwestern State	Away	Sam Houston State	Home
Sam Houston State	Northwestern State	Away			Marist	Away

Holy Cross isnt available week 4.

Sam Houston and Portland st. Both big sky. We will see if we get scheduled.

Posted by truedevil33 on 9/2/2016 7:35:00 PM (view original):
Sam Houston and Portland st. Both big sky. We will see if we get scheduled.

Fixed

Argh. I'm hoping people can typically leave weeks 2-4 open for scheduling this.

Looks like orangepace, cjsweat, and you all have weeks 1 and 5 scheduled already too, so we probably can't shift anything around now...

As Naskin said, I think the only way this will work is making sure everyone that wants to play leaves 2-4 open. Thanks Naskin - I'm sure this is like herding cats, lol.

Yep, the only way this works is if everyone follows the rules. I think it's a great and fun league to be a part of, but don't join if you can't follow the rules.