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A division system would also give something to play for in both ends of the standings. Qualifying rounds between divisions would be at least dramatic and exiting as a regular playoff. But I understand that it might not be fair to start up with splitting teams into divisions. It would also give new teams and players long term goals. I think many teams and players might give up loosing every game with double digits. It would be better for the future and development of building up new teams and players.

Hello guys. I am programmer from ConsoleHockey. At the current moment Kenu more interested to create new engine and tournaments. IMHO for community better when site grows up and have several programmers. About tournament admins better to listen Kenu. As programmer i will help with stats migration, if its possible. If Kenu and his team will need other help, they may ask me =)

Welcome to the NHL Gamer Community Alex!

Very well said @gzell60. I agree we have all the time in the world. As long as our design is smart, we can manipulate data even after leagues have been finished. That being said, I appreciate your thoughts @Billy44205. You are right that we have thought about most, if not all of the things that have been mentioned so far. The thing is though, that our opinions are not the absolute truth, so we want to hear what the community wants and how they respond to these ideas.

Thanks everyone for your great thoughts and ideas! The first league will not have a higher and lower division. We might end up having to go to groups of some kind, but the first league will (in my opinion) be a fair starting point for all teams and then we can (hypothetically) divide teams into higher and lower divisions.

Intresting things to talk about. I couldn't stay quiet when you start to speak about future of this great new site you ‌@Kenu and ‌@Lurkins have built for us. Why should I? I think that every single player of every team should come and give their opinions here during these next few days, when the big decisions will be made. It won't be easy to tell for some "well known" teams to start to play from lower divisions, but on the other hand it ain't right to raise them straight to the top, if divisions will be made. After all, this will be the very first tournament and every team will be starting from the same line. I have to admit that I like the idea to play against the same teams year after year, because like ‌@Nephenzy said earlier, teams wouldn't give up so easily if they would have to start from the lowest divisions. This way also teams that might not be able to beat the very best teams would still have something to play for - division championship. It depends how many teams we are able to get on board, but like 14 + 14 could also be a fine working combination. This way you could play shorter tournaments as you have only 13 teams to play against (3games/week and regular season will be played in a month). Teams 1-8 from both would play the playoffs and from the higher 13. and 14. would face the lower division final teams = winners to the higher and losers to the lower division in the next tournament. This way new good teams that wants to join for the community won't have to play in the lower division that long and we would be able to get 2 (someday hopefully 3 or 4) intresting divisions. How would we start this? There is no way to tell, which teams should be in the higher and which in the lower group, as 0 games are played. One big group in the begin would be fair for all. 50% to higher and other 50% to lower group (10+10 or 16+16, depends how many teams will be starting from the very first), top-8 teams go for the playoffs. There will always be someone crying if we would now make 2 groups, because other (the one you are not in) would be so much easier... that way there would be a chance that there is some weaker team in better group as you start from the lower one. What a shame. Problem would be fixed in 2months - after your team have made your way to division finals and you have become a division champions. This way the first tournament would be a lot faster and we would be able to play 3-4 this year also (yes, my years starts from September, not January). This is just one of mine thoughts. After all I and most of us, will support you whatever you will decide, as long as we get to play some hockey!

Divisions would help teams in the long run to not give up that easy on their team and start new ones also... if they automatically would start in the lowest as a new team. These are hard questions to discuss but in the end we all want great rivalry and good hockey games. Its´up to all of us to create something good together even if we fight as enemies on the ice. Every team cant win but every team play a big part in the product anyway.

Waiting for the real games to start!