Lower league clubs promotions

Hello. I am wondering, how are the teams that play in leagues that I do not have active or in nonleague get promoted? Does the strong teams get the promotion more likely? I like to play with smaller clubs and when I get feeder teams the board recommends naturally clubs that are very small and plays somewhere very low.. Loaning players to those clubs should make them strong compared to opponents...so is it likely to get those teams eventually promoted to active league?

I think generally it's heavily weighted on reputation, but low-rep clubs can and do get promoted every now and then. Don't think your players on loan to them if it's a non-active league makes a difference.

I believe it is random, weighted by the team's reputation.

If that is correct, then the players you loan to them won't make a difference.

Unfortunately, if you are a club that is playable and send your loanees to a club that is non-playable, your loanees won't develop and they won't help that team move up into the promotion places.

Fortunately, if you have a feeder club that is playable, your loanees can develop and they can help that team earn a promotion.

Copperhorse thats wrong, if you send a player to a feeder club thats nonplayable they still play games and get match xp.

They play 'simulated' games, v.s. ones generated by the ME.