@pcmacdaniel
Thanks for that
I always wondered how folks were getting 18 year olds with 1% attributes.
I have faced many such teams and it is almost impossible to stop these players.

Coming to the topic, I do agree with your assessment that associations is a fun but broken feature.
One way to help fix it is using the suggestion that I have put forward in the past on the forum:
https://forum.topeleven.com/suggesti...s-totally.html

No promotion, no relegation(which is anyways not there), uniform 20% docking for all teams.
Helps with tanking, no "lower level" teams to buy from, your player will lose some skill with each season passing by.