I'm ok with setting up a new league structure and starting a game with it - have been practising stage by stage to make sure it works.
But how do I set it up to have the original league setups (for England, Scotland etc) in place for the first season and then each team's position in the new structure determined by their finishing position in the original structure - for example would want the top 13 English Premiership, top 2 Scottish Premiership and the English Championship winners to form the following season's British Premier League and so on down throughout the levels? Is this where Fates come in, and would I need to remove all promotion and relagations from the existing competitions? Also when adding Nation Rules to get into Advanced Rules for this would I have to start with Create New Leagues and Cups and recreate the existing structure first or can I do Add Lower Leagues and then build in the changes?
Am I missing something obvious in the advanced setup. Playing around with various ideas and have a 24 team division split into two randomly drawn groups that play each team twice in their group (22 matches) - the top 6 from each group go into a final league stage from which promotion happens, as do the bottom 6 from which relegation happens. I'm pretty sure I'm ok with how the fate works to enable that, but what I can't seem to find is how to ensure the second stages only have matches (home and away) against teams they haven't already played and to carry through the results from the 10 matches each team will have played against the teams from their original group.