Hey Antiz... wat up man? Come on IRC more often.. want to talk 2 u about Dutch Eredivisie
Parma would be a nice challenge... because while their 1st team might be good enough for a European spot... their bench is almost all 19 year old Italian youngsters and so it'll be a really good challenge to little by little bringing some of these younsters into 1st team and eventually making Parma a top team like they used to be.
What I'd suggest is for sake of reality... you put Parma along with 15 other Italian teams in ONE division called Serie A (Change League A --> Serie A in edit mode). and then pick the best teams... of Europe and put it in other 3 divisions.
That means like 7 top teams from England... 4-5 from France... 5-6 from Spain, porto, Benfica... 4-5 from GErmany. Spartak, Celtic, Rangers... Ajax... Feyenoord and PSV all MIX.
I used to have PROPER divisions but then I realized.. that way some country's clubs were totally not getting into WEFA cuz if you have lets say:
Serie A
EPL
La Liga
Bunesliga
sure its realistic but what about French clubs or Dutch clubs then?? and all those other Mix European ones like Spartak and Porto.
So best thing is to make your own division realistic and then MIX all those top teams that could be in WEFA in other divisions.
So you have like Man Utd, Chelsea, Newcastle, Liverpool, Arsenal and maybe Villa or Boro from England while you have Stuttgart... Schalke, Bayern Munich, Leverkusen, Werder and Wolfsburg as well as Marseille... Auxurre, PSG, Lyon and Monaco with Ajax... Feyenoord, PSV and AZ and then top 5 spanish teams or so.. and other teams like Porto. But dont put South American teams.
Anyways i find thats the best way and you get mixture of top clubs in WEFA from different countries like you should while your own division is all realistic.
Another tip is seeing as how there are 20 italian teams... and Div 1 only allows 16.
What I do is because i dont want to see teams other than ITALIAN teams getting promoted in Season 2. I usually dont put the WEAKEST teams from Serie A into Div 2 because that way they might not get promoted.
So i dont put Reggina... i put someone like Fiorentina... or Lecce.. or Sampdoria.... that i know have firepower to get promoted from Div 2. Also for the other 4 spots in Div 2... i choose REALLY shitty ass teams so my weak italian clubs in Div 2 get promoted more than likely.
so i pick like De Graphshop, FC Den Bosch, Istres and AEK athens and 90% of the time.... its the italian teams you put in Div 2 that get promoted and you have another realistic season
Take care for now.