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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Zytsef (talk | contribs) at 18:45, 16 December 2014. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I just updated this article to reflect the most recent rankings release (Oct. 5, 2014) and I think it looks a bit messy. It looked fine with a release that determines division placement, but since the table is strictly segregated by division I don't think it's particularly useful.

It may make more sense to ignore divisions for the ranking article and focus on playoffs. While playoffs do bear the title of the division they supposedly represent, they actually have little to do with each other. For instance a D3 team can make it to D1 playoffs (and almost did, see SoCal). I'm going to start working on redoing this table so it's easier to 1) update in the future, and 2) tell at a glance who's going to playoffs. Anyone have any input on what you would like the new table to look like? Zytsef (talk) 20:19, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Took a stab at it. Updated it for the November 2014 rankings and banished most mention of divisions in the process. This is in light of the latest announcement from WFTDA about how divisions won't matter much anymore. We will have to wait for more details, I think, but it sort of makes it seem like Division 3 is either going away entirely or won't matter at all (because there are no Division 3 playoffs and playoffs are the only thing divisions are going to be good for). Zytsef (talk) 17:43, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Since there are articles for D1, D2 and D3, should there perhaps still be historical mentions of them? Echoedmyron (talk) 18:05, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure. I mentioned D1 and D2 in the prose part because they have tournaments. I'm not sure where we can shoehorn D3. Official rankings have done away with mentioning divisions and I'm not inclined to figure out which division a league is in on my own when updating the rankings here. I think the way things are right now is fine until we see the new white paper on divisions (the links from the WFTDA site still point to the old one). Derby Central seem to think that the minimum game play requirements are going to become universal across the whole org, despite which division a league is in. That would effectively make the bottom of D2 (not going to playoffs) and all of D3 equivalent. Zytsef (talk) 18:44, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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