League format

Here is the league format for season 4:


Division 1:

• 12 teams
  
• double round robin (22 matchdays)
  
• top-6 to playoffs:
  
  
  
  • 1st and 2nd to Semi Finals
    
  • 3rd...6th to Quarter Finals
    
  
  
  
• 8th, 9th and 10th to promotion/relegation playoffs round 4
  
• 11th and 12th to relegate
  

Division 2:

• 2 conferences (A+B)
  
• 10+10 teams
  
• double round robin (18 matchdays)
  
• conference winners (A1 & B1) to promote and to Div2 finals
  
• 2nd placed teams (A2 & B2) to promotion/relegation playoffs round 3
  
• teams placed in 3-6 in both conferences to promotion/relegation playoffs round 1
  

Division 1 playoffs:

• Quarter Finals (BO3, winners to Semi Finals):
  
  
  
  • QF1: 3rd - 6th
    
  • QF2: 4th - 5th
    
  
  
  
• Semi Finals (BO3, winners to Finals):
  
  
  
  • SF1: 1st - winner of QF2
    
  • SF2: 2nd - winner of QF1
    
  
  
  
• Finals (BO3):
  
  
  
  • winner of SF1 - winner of SF2
    
  
  
  

Division 2 Finals (BO3):

• A1 - B1
  

Promotion/relegation playoffs:

• 1st round (BO3, winners to round 2)
  
  
  
  • pairings:
    
    
    
    • Game1: A3-B6 / B3-A6 *
      
    • Game2: A3-B6 / B3-A6 *
      
    • Game3: A4-B5 / B4-A5 **
      
    • Game4: A4-B5 / B4-A5 **
      
    
    * Team (A3 or B3) with better stats from the regular season will play in Game1, the other one in Game2
    ** Team (A4 or B4) with better stats from the regular season will play in Game3, the other one in Game4
    
  
  
  
• 2nd round (BO3, winners to round 3)
  
  
  
  • pairings:
    
    
    
    • Game5: winner of Game1 - winner of Game4
      
    • Game6: winner of Game2 - winner of Game3
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• 3rd round (BO3, winners*** to round4)
  
  
  
  • pairings:
    
    
    
    • Game7: winner G5 - winner G6
      
    • Game8: A2 - B2 ***
      
    
    *** Game8 is to decide which team is set to play in Game10 and which team in Game11 on round 4
    
  
  
  
• 4th round (BO3, winners to div1)
  
  
  
  • pairings:
    
    
    
    • Game9: div1 8th - winner of Game7
      
    • Game10: div1 9th - loser of Game8
      
    • Game11: div1 10th - winner of Game8
      
    
    
    
  
  
  

Points marked on red updated on 13.2.

Since there was a "bug" in the league format earlier, we had to made small changes to it.

There is now 4 rounds in promotion/relegation playoffs (earlier was 3 rounds).

Main changes:

• 2nd placed teams from both 2nd divisions (A2+B2) will advance straight to the playoffs round 3.
  
• 2nd placed teams will play vs each other on round 3 as a placement match for round 4 (both teams will advance to R4)
  
• first 2 rounds in playoffs will be played inside division 2 teams (teams A3...A6 + B3...B6) as miniplayoffs
  
• 3 teams from div1 are starting from round 4
  
• winners of the 4th round matches will play in division 1 on season 5
  

You can find all the changed made from the first post (marked on red).
Also schedule is updated.