by brooks_piggott » Sat Dec 23, 2017 4:15 pm
In real life you have voters voting on things. They tend to keep teams high that they expect to be there at the end of the year and don't start dropping them until they start losing. The AI ranking system doesn't have that human "benefit of the doubt" logic, so it basically goes based on previous year's rankings + prestige. After 3-4 weeks the AI logic works a bit better and changes are less drastic.
We'll continue looking at it for patches and future versions.