tommysvr

Rebuilt for FM2024! After a lot of back and forth dealing with a load of bugs with the 2024 Editor, I've finally got this at a place I'm happy with again. I've stripped it back a bit this year and managed to build everything in the basic editor. Hopefully that makes it a little bit more reliable. ----- ## LEAGUE STRUCTURE ISUZU A-LEAGUE - 20 Teams - Bottom 3 relegated - Brought back teams like Northern Spirit, Canberra Cosmos, NZ Knights, North Qld Fury and Gold Coast United - Other spots are made up by Wollongong Wolves, Lions FC and Adelaide City QANTAS A-LEAGUE 2 - 20 Teams - Top 2 promoted - 3-6 into Promotion Playoffs - Bottom 2 relegated to their respective regional Premier League - Made up of the best of the NPL teams from around Australia. PS4 PREMIER LEAGUES - 100 teams split into 5 regional divisions -- NSW Premier League (includes ACT) -- New Zealand Premier League -- Queensland Premier League -- SAWANT Premier League (South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory) -- VICTAS Premier League (Victoria & Tasmania) - Bottom 3 teams are relegated PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYOFFS - 5 champions of the State Premier Leagues go into a post-season, home and away mini-league (8 matches) - Top 2 in that league are promoted - This makes it extra competitive and difficult to get into the National A-Leagues and means only the best teams get promoted - I think makes sense due to the additional costs of travel - You might see teams win their league a few times without ever being promoted OPTUS CHAMPIONSHIPS - Same regional structure as the Premier Leagues - Top 2 teams are automatically promoted - 3-6 playoff for Promotion - Bottom 3 relegated STATE LEAGUES - Leagues 1 to 5 for each region, for a total of 25 leagues - Top 2 in each are automatically promoted - 3-6 playoff for promotion - Bottom 3 are relegated (except for League 5) LOWER LEAGUES - Below the State Leagues is inactive, unplayable Lower Leagues for each region. I did this so it was easier to add teams to the cups ----- ANZAC CUP - 1024 teams from the pyramid - Teams join over the first 3 rounds (A-League teams come in Round 3) - 11 games from First Round in September to the Final on the last weekend of May - Final is played at Stadium Australia in Sydney (Danny Townsend will be happy) JOHNNY WARREN CUP - 140 Teams from A-League, AL2 and State Premier Leagues - 8 matches from First Round in August to the Final in January (I tried to set Australia Day but it rarely works out) - Semis and Final played at Neutral venues HOST+ SUPER CUP - Winner of the A-League and ANZAC Cup play the curtain raiser a week before the A-Leagues starts EA SPORTS CHALLENGE - the winners of the 10 Regional Premier Leagues and Championships play in a 3/4 game cup in the first 2 months of the season ----- REGIONAL CUPS - Premier League, Champions and League clubs play in their regional cup: Chatham Cup - NZ Cup - Final played at North Harbour Stadium Dockerty Cup - VICTAS Cup - Final played at AAMI Park Ghan Cup - SAWANT Cup - Final played at HBF Park, Perth Canale Cup - Queensland Cup - Final played at Ballymore Stadium Waratah Cup - NSW Cup - Final played at Western Sydney Stadium ----- OTHER TIDBITS - I've added a total of 51 new derbies and a range of rivalries, trying to be as accurate as possible but also making up new ones based on proximity. - Example derbies -- Macarthur Derby (Macarthur FC v Macarthur Rams) -- Spit Derby (Northern Spirit v Manly United) -- North Queensland Derby (Nth Qld Fury v Cairns FC) - I've boosted attendances in the top 2 leagues; the population is booming and football is popular! - All clubs from the Championships up are professional - A few clubs have been given sugar daddies to push competition - Despite this, you'll probably see some real struggles in the first couple of seasons as teams find their level - I increased Australia re-gen rating a little bit - TV & Prize money is also pretty lucrative to push the league forward - Matches are played at 17:00 on Saturday evenings -- perfect for summer, in my opinion. Games will be moved to various timeslots across the weekend for TV. - Added some new media sources (Optus, Keep Up, A-League Memes) - Added 9 award categories for each league - Added the Joe Marston Medal, which is for the best player in the ANZAC Cup (given there's no Grand Final, I thought this was best) - Maximum of 6 foreigners in your squad - All Oceania nations are set to 'Treat as non-foreign' - Why is 'A-League 2' not 'B-League'? Because the A- is for Australia, not the level of competition. FM2024 Australia Fantasy Regional Pyramid.fmf

Oh yeah, really well in control of this one! I guess they haven't scored for 30 minutes, well done guys.

2.0 - Big Changes! - Added New Zealand to the pyramid; NZ Premier League, Championship and 5 leagues below - Added 5 more levels to the pyramid, matching the exisiting structure - Introduced a Playoff system for promotion from the Premier Leagues to A-League 2. 5 subdivisions meant 5 relegations, which I felt was too many. Instead, the 5 Premier League Champions playoff for 2 promotion spots. This makes it extra challenging to get into the 2nd division! - Added regional cups; Dockerty Cup (Victoria), Waratah Cup (NSW), Chatham Cup (NZ), Queensland Cup, Ghan Cup (SAWANT) - The Australia/FFA Cup is now the ANZAC Cup (seemed to make sense to properly welcome NZ) - The Dockerty Cup from the previous file is now the Johnny Warren Cup - Brought back Canberra Cosmos! Australia Fantasy Regional Pyramid.fmf

Thanks for the reply! I actually somehow got it to work, after lots of trial and error. It's slightly different from your suggestion - there is a stage in the parent division which promotes the top 2 teams. The winners of the child divisions all qualify for that stage. I'm surprised I got it to work - it was actually more simple than I thought. Seems to be working ok though.

I have a 5 regional sub-divisions in a league and would like to setup a post-season playoff between the 5 champions. It will be a mini-league, playing each other twice with the top 2 being promoted. I've tried to set this up but I'm having some difficulty. Can any body give some hints about how I can do this? The parent division doesn't have any stages, so do I create a second stage for each sub-division? Or am I just setting no promotion on those divisions, and then qualifying them for the Playoffs, and inside the playoffs the fate is set? One major issue, which seems to be a bug with the editor, is that some leagues are showing duplicated, and the new playoff division I added isn't showing. Has anyone seen a bug like this before? I'd appreciate any guidance. I searched but couldn't find anything too relevant, though I'm sure this has been done before.

Glad to hear that! Thanks mate. Let me know if you have any other suggestions as you move through the seasons.

Cheers, just added them!

Feedback and thoughts very welcome! I hope it's an enjoyable edit.

1.0.1 - 4 July 2022 Tweaked squad/matchday squad rules (limited foreigners to 6 and loans to 4 across all leagues) Added all Oceania nations to 'Treat as non-EU' 1.1 - 5 July 2022 Added New Zealand Knights to the A-League Moved Olympia Warriors to A-League 2, Lake Macquarie to NSW Premier League, Valentine Phoenix(??) to Lower Leagues Added NZ rivalries (Knights & Phoenix + Auckland & Wellington teams) Added New Zealand Derby (Knights v Phoenix) Renamed Northern Fury to North Queensland Fury (Northern Fury, like Western United, is a terrible name) Added some more Perth derbies: Inglewood v Bayswater, ECU Joondalup v Wannero, Floreat Athena v Subiaco, Stirling Macedonia v Balcatta Australian Fantasy Pyramid.fmf

I created an Australia league structure a few years ago and it was pretty popular on the Workshop. Given the lack of Australian edits that work with 22.4, I decided to make it again. Here's the background: League Structure Isuzu A-League - 20 teams // bottom 3 relegated Qantas A-League 2 - 20 teams // top 3 promoted, bottom 4 relegated PS4 Premier Leagues - 80 teams split into 4 regional divisions // Champions promoted, bottom 2 of each region relegated NSW Premier League Queensland Premier League SAWANT Premier League (SAWANT = South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory) VICTAS Premier League (Victoria & Tasmania) Optus Championships - 80 teams split into 4 regional divisions // top 2 of each region promoted NSW Championship Queensland Championship SAWANT Championship VICTAS Championship Caltex Lower Leagues - the rest of the teams in Australia (700 odd) play it out in their own regional divisions, further split into groups. To be honest, I couldn't be arsed making this league work properly but I wanted to house the teams somewhere. I'd recommend not actually adding this to your game. There's no promotion or relegation. Cups Australia Cup - all the teams in the pyramid Dockerty Cup - teams in A-League 2 to the Championships Host+ Super Cup - Australia Cup winner v A-League winner EA Sports Challenge - the winners of the 8 regional divisions all play off in pre-season Other tidbits Brought back a few teams like Northern Spirit, Gold Coast United. Created a couple of teams: Capital City FC (Canberra), Darwin FC, Alice Springs FC North Queensland Fury are now Townsville Athletic. This is because Northern Fury are also in the game and it didn't seem to make sense to have both. Instead, these teams don't like each other and now play in the Townsville Derby Speaking of derbies, I've added a bunch (still want to add a lot more.) For example, the Macarthur Derby (Macarthur FC v Macarthur Rams), the Spit Derby (Northern Spirit v Manly United) as well as Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Tasmanian derbies. The population is booming and football has never been more popular. Teams should regularly sell out/get close to selling out their stadium. This is for teams right down the pyramid All clubs from the Championships up are professional A few clubs have been given sugar daddies to push competition Despite this, you'll probably see some real struggles in the first couple of seasons as teams find their level Boosted Australia's regen rating and transfer values to try and push competition TV & Prize money is also pretty lucrative to push the league forward. The structure is roughly: Championships/Premier Leagues on Friday night; A-League 2 Saturday evening; A-League Sunday evening, with TV pushing matches around Added some new media sources (including Sydney Morning Herald, Optus, Keep Up, A-League Memes and some others) Added a bunch of awards for each league; the A-League has the Johnny Warren Medal and Mark Schwarzer Award (best player and best goalkeeper). The Championship and Premier League awards are overall, not per region (I thought this might help with finding lower league gems) One thing I have noticed is that if you view the awards of the lower leagues before the first award (Player of the Month) has been awarded, the game might crash, so be careful with that. Not sure if there's anything I can do about it.