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I would be curious to see the current team size distribution. Knowing the average isn't really enough to fairly judge the impact of shoving small and large into a single division. Are there a bunch of 36s and a bunch of 12s? My guess is that is harder for a team with 12 new athletes to add enough athletes to feel competitive than it would be for World Cup to move 12 Shooting Stars to another team. Again, without seeing the data it is hard to come up with a conclusion.
A separate point - are we concerned with continuing to develop a fan base to help attract new athletes to the sport? Fair or not, the larger teams tend to attract many more spectators and attention. I would be hesitant to ignore the relationship between team size and crowd size.
I'll see of I can get the distribution. Worse thing they can say is no, right.
The fan base isn't a concern I've put much thought into. My experience is former cheerleaders becoming fans, not former fans becoming cheerleaders. The biggest drum I've beat the past couple years is increasing the average number of teams to someplace north of 8, from the 3.25 it was last time I counted.