Player/Team Forum

It is very difficult to move around in the MWRVS league since movement only happens every 3 weeks. New teams and teams with new members that do not get seeded properly suffer for much of the year.

Currently during the first 3 rounds of movement 2 teams move up a tier and 2 teams move down a tier every three weeks.

I propose that during the first 3 rounds of movement the top team moves up 2 tiers, the second place team moves up 1 tier, the third place team moves down 1 tier and the fourth place team moves down 2 tiers.

This would help seed teams better at the start of the year. It would also reduce the risk of playing the same team 4 times in the first 4 rounds of movement (happend to me last year).

There are a couple things you can do in the top and bottom tiers to make this movement strategy work. Here is an example:

Tier 1 - 1st stays in Tier 1, 2nd stays in Tier 1, 3rd goes to Tier 2, 4th goes to Tier 3
Tier 2 - 1st goes to Tier 1, 2nd goes to Tier 1, 3rd goes to Tier 3, 4th goes to Tier 4
Tier 3 - 1st goes to Tier 2, 2nd goes to Tier 2, 3rd goes to Tier 4, 4th goes to Tier 5
Tier 4 - 1st goes to Tier 2, 2nd goes to Tier 3, 3rd goes to Tier 5, 4th goes to Tier 6
Tier 5 - 1st goes to Tier 3, 2nd goes to Tier 4, 3rd goes to Tier 6, 4th goes to Tier 7

Thanks for the feedback. I understand it would really suck to move down 2 tiers if your team has a bad night or doesn't have key players... but the first 3 rounds of movement are for general seeding and should have large scale movement. The remainder of the season is to establish where you really belong.

IMO - A tier 1 team playing in tier 3 isn't nearly as bad as a tier 3 to 6 team crawling their way up from tier 13.

It will probably be tough to change the rule because over 80% of existing teams are where they belong and don't want to risk moving down 2 tiers. By next year my team should be in the tier we belong in so I probably won't care either by that point... Just took us 2 years to get up there. :)