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I'll started this this morning and got all the leagues sorted and was doing the cups before I had to go to work. I'll post the completed version when I go home and finish it but, before I do, I would appreciate anyone having a wee swatch and hitting me up with any ideas or stuff I've missed?

TIER 1: Scottish Premier League

  • Single Division
  • 16 teams
  • Bottom two teams relegated
  • 11th-14th (4 teams) play off for final relegation spot
  • £1,000,000 TV money per club (one live game a week)
  • £10,000,000 for champion with prize money decreasing by 25% for each position
  • Sixteen teams decided by in game reputation

TIER 2: Scottish First Division

  • North/South Division
  • 32 teams (divided into two leagues of 16)
  • League champions promoted (2 sides)
  • Bottom teams relegated (2 sides)
  • 2nd-5th (8 teams) play off for final promotion spot
  • 11th-14th (8 teams) play off for final relegation spot
  • £500,000 TV money per club (one live game a week)
  • £5,000,000 for champion with prize money decreasing by 25% for each position
  • 32 teams decided by in game reputation to a degree but a few teams were forced to jump ahead of others to keep the Highland/Lowland split reasonable. The Fife teams, for instance, are in the Highland League. North/South split is Perth

TIER 3: Scottish Second Division

  • Highland/North East/South East/South West Division
  • 64 teams (divided into four leagues of 16)
  • League Champions promoted (4 sides) This is continued to lowest tier.
  • Bottoms sides relegated (4 sides) This is continued to the second lowest tier
  • 2-5th (16 teams) play off for final promotion spot (16 teams) play off for final promotion spot. This is continued down to the lowest tier
  • 11th-14th (16 teams) play off for final relegation spot. This is continued to second lowest tier but with 17th-20th for Fourth Division and 12th-15th for Fith Division.
  • £250,000 TV money per club (one live game a week)
  • £2,500,000 for champion with prize money decreasing by 25% for each position
  • Regional split was mostly done by reputation and trying to remember where Dalkeith is. I was pretty sure I had done this as close to perfect, without compromsing quality in the divisions, until I accidentally put half of the teams set for the South West Division in the the Fourth Division by accident and ended up chucking in a bunch of Highland Amateur teams to make up the numbers rather than go through it all again. Highland League southern boundary is Fort William. North East is squeezed between Fort William and Perth to include Perthshire and Tayside teams. Perth is also the boundary for South East/West by latitude and longitude.

TIER 4: Scottish Third Division

  • Highland/North East/South East/South West Division
  • 64 teams (divided into four leagues of 16)
  • £125,000 TV money per club (one live game a week)
  • £1,250,000 for champion with prize money decreasing by 25% for each position
  • By this point teams just got chucked into divisions randomly. The game will sort it into something geographically appropriate next season

TIER 5: Scottish Fourth Division

  • Highland/North East/South East/South West Division
  • 88 teams (divided into four leagues of 22)
  • £62,500 TV money per club (one live game a week)
  • £625,000 for champion with prize money decreasing by 25% for each position

TIER 6: Scottish Fifth Division

  • Highland/North East/South East/South West Division
  • 68 teams (divided into four leagues of 17)
  • £31,250 TV money per club (one live game a week)
  • £312,500 for champion with prize money decreasing by 25% for each position

TIER 7: Scottish Sixth Division

  • Highland/North East/South East/South West Division
  • 64 teams (divided into four leagues of 16)
  • No relegation
  • £15,625 TV money per club (one live game a week)
  • £156,250 for champion with prize money decreasing by 25% for each position
  • To even the divisions up (I was one short) there is very special team added into the South West division

Scottish Cup

All teams in from the start with a random draw. Most will get a bye to the 2nd round. Straight knockout. Replays up to, and including, the final. Final played at Hampden. Semi finals at a neutral venue. £2,500,000 for winning final and then prize money more or less halved for each preceeding round (£1,250,000 for winning a semi final, £650,000 for winning the quarters)

Other Cups

The game has the following Scottish "regions" that all clubs are based in: Angus, Ayrshire, Borders, Central, Grampian, Highlands and Islands, Perthshire, Fife, Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire. So each region gets its own knockout cup. Simples. Low reputation competitions and each club gets £1,000 appearance fee in the first round then gets £1,000 for each win until the final which is held at a neutral venue. Straight, unseeded knockout tournament with extra time and penalties and no replays.

Reserves/Youth

Reserve leagues use main divisions with no age restrictions or the like. Youth league is U-18s and uses 24 team regional divisions. Youth players come through at 14 years old. Can sign a pro-contract at 16 years old but can remain on a youth contract until 21.

Work Permits

Aint done this yet. Was thinking of dingying work permits altogether.

Season Length

There is a very short pre-season. This is due to the large play offs in the lower leagues. There is a winter break for three weeks in January however.

Awards

I aint done these yet. I was thinking of having a Player/Manager/Young Player of the Month/Year for each tier rather than each division. I was also gonna make them all voted for by managers. Because why the f**k not?

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Bundesliga Boy

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I was going with £95 million but I see what you did there with the whole rounding up.....good job!

Maybe we should think outside the box a little too......Scottish cup champions get Executive class flight to California and a free week in the playboy mansion! Teams that go out in round one get a night with Atomic Kitten as there's no sense in rewarding failure!

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You've been a busy little beaver! However, I think a lot of people might agree with me when I say that and important factor must be that all games kick off at 3.00 pm on a Saturday whether the television likes it or not, and if a match must be shifted at short notice for tv reasons, the tv company must reimburse the away teams supporters' club for loss of revenue over buses cancelled and punters not able to go midweek. Pie in the sky I know, but would it not increase numbers on the terracing?

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Can you alter the league structure in Football Manager these days? Last time I checked, you could move the clubs around, but the number of teams in each division (and suchlike) were all hard-coded.

Which version did they bring this in for? Sounds like fun, but FM13's still my most recent.

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Can you alter the league structure in Football Manager these days? Last time I checked, you could move the clubs around, but the number of teams in each division (and suchlike) were all hard-coded.

Which version did they bring this in for? Sounds like fun, but FM13's still my most recent.

For about five years now...

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For about five years now...

Is that all? :lol:

Sucks that I don't have time for that kind of messing about now :(

Who's your "very special team"? Glenbuck Cherrypickers?

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Just went to bed like a looser when I finished work last night and started again on it this morning. The regional cup things takes fucking AGES! Managed to do the league set up in a little over an hour and it took me that long just to do half of the regional cups.

Should finish it tonight. Thinking of adding in a British and Irish Cup as well and/or a "Super" cup with the regional cup winners.

Mind you I'm also thinking of adding Gaelic as a language for the Western Isles teams so maybe I should step away from it....

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Final cut (hopefully) https://mega.co.nz/#!xQxU2Z6L!508nh62tv8UckJD-0euDUOYMHf5sf6uH5e59LJLhKz0

Awards added in (no monthly awards: just yearly).

For some reason the 2nd division play offs run until the start of July so, in total, there's only a four week break from season end until the next season. The other leagues finish up around early June. I've had to make the transfer window come in half way through July because of this and it also means any teams in that division could lose players out of contract before the play off final. That's cockwomble levels of ineptitude but hardly the end of the world for a daft game.

After one season the geographical splits are pretty solid apart from the 5th and 6th tier due to the massive amounts of Highland teams at those levels.

Regional cups look fun and a good way to blood youngsters or give squad players playing time (as do the early rounds of the Scottish Cup). SPL was pretty tight until 5/6 games to go when Dundee Utd and Aberdeen fell away and Celtic won it on the penultimate day of the season by beating Rangers at Ibrox.

I'm in it as a player/non player if you want to go hunting for me. Likewise there is a "special" team in the 6th division which should be a fun game if you choose to go them. Aside from that I'd recommend hitting "choose a club for me" or starting unemployed to see what happens. Adding players to playable teams would probably make sense to as, beyond the third division, almost no one has any players so you'll be playing greyed out players until the youth players come through at season's end

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