Northern Ireland correct* league structure

[\'Appy \'Ammer]

The Northern Ireland league was never fixed after the 22.4 update, and therefore it won't be in this FM version. I have restructured the leagues to have the correct split in the Championship, and the Premier Intermediate League. It mirrors the Premiership (that one is correct!). The asterisk in the title is because this file is ALMOST correct. In real life the PIL has 11 teams in 2021/22 season and then has an extra team after that. I created this by making 12 teams straight away. So, the rules are all correct, for the 2022 and beyond seasons. Each league, has 12 teams, and a split after 3 rounds. Then 5 extra fixtures are played resulting in promotion and relegation playoffs. 

*** Right, this was bugging me a little so I've added another file (ni 2.94). In real life, the PIL only play 2 rounds during the regular season as opposed to the 3 rounds in the other 2 higher divisions. (22 games plus the 5 extra equalling 27 games.). Also I noticed that the last game before the playoffs was taking place on a Sunday. Nothing happens on a Sunday here, so I've changed that fixture day to be the Saturday. This effects all 3 divisions. This also gives an extra day recovery before the first leg of the playoffs.

UPDATE - 8th May 2022

I realised yesterday, when starting a new save, that version 2.94 did not include the European Playoffs in the Premiership. I have mainly used my 80s file and I had omitted these playoffs as they weren't needed. However I have now re-created the file - version 3.1. This now has the European playoffs, and kept the other changes that v2.94 implemented. This should be the final version and I'm very happy with it.

I've removed version 2.93. 

 

ni 2.94.fmf

ni 3.1.fmf

Edited May 8, 2022 by \'Appy \'Ammer
added 3.1

[MuVortez]

That's ace, I didn't realise the Championship and PIL now followed the split league system as well. I'm working on a full extended league system for Northern Ireland, am just testing at the moment but will add these splits in now as well. Can I ask who the extra team you added was? Did you just pick a team or was it from real life?

[\'Appy \'Ammer]

I put Donegal Celtic in. There was no real method in this other than they were the first team to get promoted into the PIL in the second season in my own save before I realised the leagues were all wrong. I replaced their level 4 place with Rasharkin, who are a team in the database not allocated to a league. That way I didn't have to keep adding a team to replace a team to get the rules to verify. 

Edited April 24, 2022 by \'Appy \'Ammer

[MuVortez]

Sound thanks! I've added the split but when I added the extra team it has such a knock on effect to the whole system by moving that one team I've just went with the 11 in PIL. I think I can live with it, have spent a couple of weeks putting this together so really just want to get on and play it now

[\'Appy \'Ammer]

I understand LOL. Does the league extend to 12 in your second season? It will do next season out in the real world!

 

[MuVortez]

2 hours ago, \'Appy \'Ammer said:

I understand LOL. Does the league extend to 12 in your second season? It will do next season out in the real world!

 

No it won't and to be honest it's going to bug me  I'll maybe send out an update n a week or so after I have had a play through. It just throws the cups all out of whack because of the autogenerated rounds and numbers from leagues. Wish I had known before I started getting the cups in :S 

Am sure there'll be bugs to fix anyway

[MuVortez]

In fact it's bugged me so much I've just went and fixed it! Was easy enough as I was just moving one team from Ballymena Prem to PIL. Right off to start my game and Get Belfast Phoenix up the leagues and into the Europa Conference   

[\'Appy \'Ammer]

I've added version 2.94 to the opening post. 

On 23/04/2022 at 20:23, \'Appy \'Ammer said:

*** Right, this was bugging me a little so I've added another file (ni 2.94). In real life, the PIL only play 2 rounds during the regular season as opposed to the 3 rounds in the other 2 higher divisions. (22 games plus the 5 extra equalling 27 games.). Also I noticed that the last game before the playoffs was taking place on a Sunday. Nothing happens on a Sunday here, so I've changed that fixture day to be the Saturday. This effects all 3 divisions. This also gives an extra day recovery before the first leg of the playoffs.

I've kept version 2.93 on here for those that prefer 3 rounds in the PIL.

 

[\'Appy \'Ammer]

I realised yesterday, when starting a new save, that version 2.94 did not include the European Playoffs in the Premiership. I have mainly used my 80s file and I had omitted these playoffs as they weren't needed. However I have now re-created the file - version 3.1. This now has the European playoffs, and kept the other changes that v2.94 implemented. This should be the final version and I'm very happy with it.

I've removed version 2.93.