It is hard for new people/teams to make a judgement around seeding vote. Some of the new people may choose not to vote based on that. Based on that it makes sense not to count the vote on people's own team when they are placed last.
I think the teams most affected are the Middle teams as this is where the cut off is between division 1 and 2 and maybe there should be a pre-league knock-out tourney of the 4 Middle teams.
Or if one team from division 2 believes that they should be division 1 they should challenge the last team of div1 for a knock out game to steal their place before the league starts
But both will mean starting everything early.
Also we need to remember the league is organised by people who are willing to put time in it and being over critical may put them off from doing it ; what I mean is maybe all these should be considered but should also acknowledge it's an evolving process
It is hard for new people/teams to make a judgement around seeding vote. Some of the new people may choose not to vote based on that. Based on that it makes sense not to count the vote on people's own team when they are placed last.
I think the teams most affected are the Middle teams as this is where the cut off is between division 1 and 2 and maybe there should be a pre-league knock-out tourney of the 4 Middle teams.
Or if one team from division 2 believes that they should be division 1 they should challenge the last team of div1 for a knock out game to steal their place before the league starts
But both will mean starting everything early.
Also we need to remember the league is organised by people who are willing to put time in it and being over critical may put them off from doing it ; what I mean is maybe all these should be considered but should also acknowledge it's an evolving process