Tanking teams and association matchups

[pcmacdaniel]

The irony of tanking is that by tanking managers increase the probability of playing against tankers (or other monster teams). Been there and seen many previously very successful associations, get demolished by bringing their quality up to the range where the draws are filled with teams that have either tanked, bought many tokens, stacked conditions from farming, or used the loan exploit. Playing with a 7* average is a very different animal than playing with a 5* or 6* average.

The advantage of tanking isn't when that manager has an 8* team, its when that managers players quality reduces to a 6* or below quality average when they'll have massive skews to the stats and now be playing against teams w/o such skews most often. At low quality average, if u have skewed 5*/6* players and get a bad draw, due to a large number of gray stats around 20% or so, it's actually easier to upset a higher quality opponent as well.