Playing systemSeasonEach season at PowerPlay Manager lasts 16 weeks, 112 days to be exact. First, the regular season lasts 13 weeks and each team plays 38 regular season games. Each league has 20 teams. The game days for regular season games are Monday, Wednesday and Friday.After the regular season the first 8 teams qualify for the playoff for positions 1 to 8. Playoff game days are Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Playoff is played in best-of-three series until final positions of all teams are determined. This means that the eliminated teams from the quarterfinals and semifinals continue the playoff for their final ranking.The playoff champion is promoted to a higher league. The runner-up will play in the promotion round. Teams ranked 9th to 16th after the regular season play in the playoff for final ranking. This playoff is also very important, as the teams ranked 13th to 16th will play the beaten finalists from the lower divisions to avoid relegation. Teams ranked 17th to 20th after the regular season will be automatically relegated to the lower divisions and they will be replaced by the champions from these divisions. However, these relegated teams will play the playoff for final ranking on positions 17th to 20th. Each league has four leagues below it where the teams from this league are relegated. If any league does not have all four leagues in the tier below but, for instance, only one, then only the team that ranked 20th will be relegated. In such a case the team ranked 19th will play in the relegation round. The playoffs will determine the final league ranking. It is important to finish as high as possible. General sponsors and media sponsors offer more generous contracts for the upcoming season to the higher ranked teams. Warning! All playoffs are played with a knock-out system where the top seeded team always plays the lowest seeded team. This means, that if teams that are seeded one, four, six and seven advance into the second round of the playoff, the first seed will play the seventh seed and the fourth seed will play the sixth seed. The playoff tree displayed in the playoff page is dynamic and so it changes after every round depending on the results, even though it might seem, that the first seed should play the fourth seed. The relegation/promotion round is a best-of-three series. The games are played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the final week of the season. The home ice advantage in game 3 (if needed) goes to the team from the higher league. Scoring systemRegular season has the following scoring system:Win in regulation: 3 points Overtime win: 2 points Overtime loss: 1 point Loss in regulation: 0 points If two or more teams are tied on points at the end of the regular season, the ranking is decided by the better goal difference (goals for minus goals against). If the teams are still tied, the other tie breaking criteria are higher number of goals scored and finally higher overall team rating. System of leaguesThe top level is made up of only one division. Then there are 4 divisions on the second level and the number of divisions multiplies by four with each level. Therefore, there are 16 divisions on the third level, 64 on fourth, 256 on fifth etc. The divisions are marked by a combination of Roman and Arabic numerals. For example II.3 means that it is division number three on the second level.League regroupingAt the end of each season there is a league regrouping of the two lowest league levels in the selected countries. That means that the redundant leagues will be closed and the active teams will be concentrated into the lowest possible number of leagues. This regrouping is necessary in order to keep the game interesting and avoid large numbers of teams without managers. During regrouping it may happen that some teams from the lowest league level will be promoted one level higher. |