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I don’t have any good ideas how to solve this ”problem” but i can share my opinion about Lite division. I have played In Lite two seasons. At season 4 we had 30 games regular season and i really loved it. Sure that time there was only 31 team in Lite but i really felt like Lite division was competitive. At season 6 we were relegated from Pro to Lite. I got to admit that i didn’t have any interest to play in Lite because i felt that regular season wasn’t competitive enough. Regular season didn’t mean almost anything and there was too much playoffs games. Let’s crunch some numbers. If you play every regular season game and playoffs games to game sevens: You’ll play 18 regular season games and 42 playoffs games. Something has to be done to these numbers in my opinion. I know that there is alot Lite teams which want to play really competitive games and wants to get to Pro division. But there is also teams who doesn’t want to be promoted to Pro but doesn’t want to play only normal club games. Just an wild idea: Lite should be NHLGamers third competitive division. Cut the number of teams to ~30 and make one lower division to teams who wants to play only for fun. Lites bottom 8 will play relegation games against ”casual division” top-8 and boom. Lites regular season has meaning again and you have more games. This is just an idea so don’t judge me

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It's not a terrible idea, but I think that if there were 4 divisions, it would suck if you were a really good team and had to start in the ''wood'' division, but then you would have to wait until the next NHL game if you want to get to Pro division. + I'm not an expert, but, from what I've seen, the number of teams that "don't want to be promoted to pro" is really little. ECL should always be competitive and a 4th division would be kinda pointless imo. If people want to play competitive and casual at the same time, there should be a different tournament taking place parallel to ECL (like the Magic cup). Also, this level of competitiveness and equality among teams, I think, is almost impossible to achieve for Lite, because every season you get a few teams in Lite that don't know how to skate/shoot/pass and some that could even play with the big boys up in Elite. Right now ECL Lite is kind of in the middle between being a lower-level, yet competitive or just a plain, casual league. I think the tournament organizers should decide which one they want it to be and fully go for that. I'm all for lowering the number of teams that make the playoffs to 32, because, as everyone has asked for, that gives the teams more meaning to their games and also one less playoff round (6 was a bit too much). And yeah, I get that there will be more teams that quit mid-way during the season, but if a team has the mentality of quitting, then that team isn't what this league needed anyway.

I liked this message (and also agree with OP), but I don't really agree with the last idea . Yes, regular season in Lite should have more games in it (if or when it has the most teams playing, after all). 26 or 30 games in regular season is good I think. Then just cut down the number of teams getting into playoffs if you have to, or create some fancy creative qualifier rounds for playffos for those teams that are in the bubble (to make games more meaningful for them). Furthermore, regular season success within your own division should matter more (and this is where my own opinion/experience comes more to live, since my team somewhat suffered from this in ECL7). If you end up in a division that is very competitive in regular season (just look at the point percentages per game, not anything else), you don't get good seedings in the playoffs. And yes, I understand that you have to be able to win any team to win it all, but still as we are now, regular season in Lite doesn't matter much at all. Personally, I loved the last season of ECL Lite because the division in regular season that our team played, was in my opinion the most competitive/fair in a long time in Lite. The level of skill for most teams against were roughly the same, so you had to earn every goal, win and point in the standings. But the chance to end up into that kind of division in the next ECL is probably pretty slim. And that is all I'm after in EASHL (&ECL's): Meaningful and hard-fought tight 6-vs-6 games, not blowout losses or easy wins.

How many games do you want??. I think 18 to 30 games is great beaqause then you have time to do other stuff. Some of us have families and work to take care of but we still wants to play ecl.

Thanks for the feedback and good write-up @ahonaattori! I do agree that we could go a little higher in game amounts and we'll take that into account once we know the amount of teams that sign up for ECL 8. The reason behind the low amount of games has nothing to do with the amount of work for our staff (while it is a valid point, that there is a ton of games as it is) and I am strongly against tracking any less stats. There are two major reasons behind the decision in the past to have roughly 10 teams per Lite group: The Lite playoffs take a bit longer than in the other divisions and in order to keep the seasons between the divisions roughly in the same ballpark we could not have the regular season go on for much longer. The amount of teams that quit during the season has traditionally been the largest on the Lite level. With the shorter regular season, we've wanted to make sure the regular season doesn't feel like too daunting of a task even for new teams that might have trouble winning any games. Teams quitting during the season not only causes extra work for our staff, but is very unfortunate for the teams that may have their efforts nullified by a deleted team. That being said, perhaps we can get a roughly 24 game regular season instead of the current 18 for Lite. The final size of the groups depends on how many participants we have. The amount of playoff teams is another question we have to tackle every season. There was some criticism above towards almost all (64/75) Lite teams making the playoffs last season - which is understandable. Then again, 32 would - in my opinion - be way too little, considering the amount of teams and the whole ideology behind the Lite division. You could of course have some sort of compromise in between, but it does in fact take the same amount of time to finish the playoffs nevertheless. Ideas are welcome in this category, of course.

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