Quote: Scooter Nik "The biggest problem with franchising remains the three year gap. For my money they should be on a rolling system, one team up, one team down - expansion of SL excepted - EVERY year, but based on (an arbitary figure here) the previous three seasons, and teams promoted to be given that three year season of grace.
Granted, you could quite easily have the anomaly of a team finishing third off the bottom being relegated, but as it's franchising, and not promotion/relegation in it's most literal form, that shouldn't be an issue - all clubs involved would know the score at the start of each season.'"
Problem with that is if you have one up one down every year but promoted team get's 3 years then who do you drop out? As you'd be replacing 3 current sides with 3 new one's effectively!