The 2 crews with the most war points should be the team captains for the next war.

(Option: They then each pick 4 crews for their teams in the order of Team A, Team B, B, A, A, B,B,A.)

The remaining unpicked crews are added based on the last war final standings using the pattern: A,B,B,A until all crews are assigned. Crew Standings will rank crews with same score in previous war.

Add incentives, eg. A time-limited trophy for each member of the top 10 crews (and/or individual point getters) to place in a casino, to discourage attempt to "fix" the standings. My idea for these trophies is to make them give a good bonus to top crew(individual), less to 2nd place, and so on down to the 10th position. This trophy when in a casino would increase profits and popularity for that casino. When the next war is declared, all these trophies disappear.

Rationale: Crews being assigned by standings does not address the current status of the activity of a crew. Their performance in the last war better represents the crews war activity. New crews (never been in war) and crews that opt out of a war would have 0(zero) scores adding to unknown randomness.

The trophies would add a "prize" worth fighting for. The profit/popularity increase is attributed to the fact that people like to see the "bling" of the winners...