D1 -1 league - 14

• D1 1st-3rd - (6)
  
• D1 leaderboard - (1)
• D2 1st-2nd - (6)
• D2 leaderboard - (1)
• Next in line - D1 4th-5th place, D2 leaderboard

D2 - 2 leagues - 28

• D1 4th-8th - (9)
• D1 leaderboard - (2)
• D2 3rd-5th - (8)
• D2 leaderboard - (3)
• D3 1st - (6)
• Next in line - D1 9th place, D2 6th-7th place teams, D3 leaderboard

D3 - 3 leagues - 42

• D1 remaining teams - (10)
• D2 6th-8th - (6)
• D2 leaderboard - (4)
• D3 2nd - 3rd - (12)
• D3 leaderboard - (10)
• *Next in line - D2 9th-10th place, D3 leaderboard

D4 - x leagues x 14

• D2 remaining teams
  
• D3 remaining teams
  
• New Managers

After much discussion, procrastination, and analysis I'm pretty confident in the above setup. Please share any recommendations. Will finalize after reviewing all ideas and tweaking as necessary.

Free daily rotos we will always have inactives. Expanding league size to 14 minimizes the impact of a couple inactives in upper divisions. The bottom division will have more rough edges even with the original waiting list and occasional recruitment to find replacement managers.

Overall we have 6 inactives across 5 D1 and D2 leagues. Not bad at all, hopefully the current crew can hang strong until the season starts to wind down. D3 is a mixed bag. 4 leagues have 2-3 inactives, one league the bottom 5 in the standings are half gone, and the last D3 is a disaster. 10 leagues in pretty good shape to 2 not so hot leagues overall. Honestly not bad. And the fact that all upper division leagues are highly active is really awesome.

So half the battle with the division breakdown is maximizing the groups of highly competitive and active managers. The bottom division is always going to be hit or miss. Two options in regards to the bottom division. 1 we can consider making the bottom division weekly lineups. Not sure how much that would decrease turnover. and 2 we gotta make the bottom division (at least in regards to relegation and moving up) more reliant on the overall leaderboard.

Overall this proposed setup means there will be 14 more teams in the upper divisions, I believe that is the most important point. And the 4 division setup means we can more easily establish purpose for managers no matter where they are currently sitting in the standings.