Originally Posted by Kaelissa

The reason it seems kind of bad, in my eyes, is that it basically gives a huge advantage to teams that are already doing well, and means that new players/characters joining subsequent Seasons will be squashed almost immediately.

If there's no "stop" point to the seasons there isn't a lot of point to them at all. In sports, a team that won 100% of its games the previous year doesn't automatically make it to the World Series (etc) the next season. Moreover, the WORST performing teams get the top draft picks, not the best teams.