Well as you may know the 2nd division very much follows the same format(or very similar to) of the 1st division, the difference comes with the relegation while they also use an average table like in the 1st division but there's a thing to consider in here, from which branch does each club come. From the 3rd division and under there're two branches, the metropolitan branch, and the inner-country branch, there're exceptions for both cases, but mainly it responds to the basis that the clubs from Buenos Aires(the city) and its surroundings are "directly affilied"(thus considered metropolitan) and the rest are "indirectly affilied"(so they belong to the inner-country branch). In the end why this exists is just a nutty administrative criteria, because it doesn't make sense on logistics aspects either. So yeah the indirectly affilied teams that get relegated go to Torneo Argentino A, and the directly affilied teams go to Primera B Metropolitana. Ok, so we're set with that let's see the average table of the second division(directly affilied teams are in red, and indirectly affilied teams in blue). 1- Atlético Tucumán 65/34 1.912 2- CA Chacarita Juniors 179/110 1.627 3- Olimpo 115/72 1.597 4- Atlético Rafaela 177/111 1.595 5- Belgrano Cba 116/73 1.589 6- San Martín SJ 114/72 1.583 7- CA Unión 156/111 1.405 8- CA Aldosivi 150/110 1.364 9- Quilmes AC 96/72 1.333 10- Instituto AC Cba 144/110 1.309 11- All Boys 44/34 1.294 12- Defensa y Justicia 142/111 1.279 13- CS Independiente Rivadavia 91/72 1.264 14- Tiro Federal 138/110 1.255 15- Ferro Carril Oeste 133/110 1.209 16- CAI 131/110 1.191 17- Platense 131/110 1.191 18- Almagro 122/110 1.109 19- Talleres Cba 120/110 1.091 20- Los Andes 37/34 1.088 Not the focus of the case, but there's a notable dominance of the inner-country team over the metropolitan ones if you look at the top 10, there're only 2 metropolitan teams(fine, they're outnumbered 11-9 overall but still). Anyway, from each branch, Talleres and Los Andes would be getting relegated, and CAI and Almagro would be playing the promotion/relegation series, with a team of the TAA and the PBM respectively. Okay, until here everything makes some sense. Now, what would happen if for example, Talleres won, CAI lost, Almagro won and Los Andes drew(to lose is another possibility) this week-end(all possible scores, also take in mind that this could be temporally since there're 3 matches left in the season)? 17- CAI 131/111 1.180 18- Talleres Cba 123/110 1.118 19- Almagro 122/111 1.099 20- Los Andes 38/35 1.085 Well, in a simple look this doesn't really change anything, does it? Well yes, it does... Because the last two placed teams get relegated regardless of their affiliation status... Okay... so Los Andes and Almagro to PBM, Talleres would play the promotion/relegation series of the TAA, CAI avoid everything and Platense would be getting screwed over having to play the promotion/relegation series with a team of PBM. Oh well... Messed up, but you didn't hear the best part yet(or worse). It's that CAI plays Talleres... So yeah CAI would be benefitted by a defeat. So here's the matter, the whole thing of being branched is pointless in the end in divisions like in the TAA and below they're already divided by regions but they are part of the same thing! Branching and dividing in empty concepts like indirectly or directly affilied is pointless.