Association Concerns

[pcmacdaniel]

I happen to currently be in a platinum association, and we're over 1350 points so I'm happy with how things are going for my team.

The thing is, platinum is broken. The 6*/7* team range works fine, it's the below 6* and above 7* ranges that are broken horribly. Exploiters are rare in the 6*/7* range, however they do exist. My association has an average quality of around 116% currently and haven't seen anything outside the norm this season. However we have members that have accounts in other associations that aren't in the 6*/7* range that have experienced problems. The member (who was our best player) that left at the start of the season, has another team in the platinum association AngelDevil, which is an 8* platinum this season, and has been 9* platinum, season's past. Another one of there members has his main account in our association still as they reduced to 4 members, and only bring in the other 2 members (if they wish to return) for the last weekend of the season, for the tokens. They've won every tournament, in which they've played w/ 4 members.

It might seem weird that they play with 4 members instead of 6. However, one must understand that the last 7 weekends in which they've played with a full 6 members, they've drawn Turkish Legend (World Top 15), 5 times. Turkish Legend is all tankers, but these aren't your normal tankers. They're token buyers that power-train, whom all took their teams to 180% before tanking. Some players have a 1% skew. One manager even has a 200% player, because he's repeated the level 10 consecutive seasons. It's impossible to beat them, so managers are going down to 4 or 5 members, or just quitting associations altogether. These managers leaving aren't free players too, they're token buyers. Some are tanking, whereas in the past they'd spend hundreds to maintain a 9* team every season. But they can't compete with tankers above 180% in associations, so they've resorted to tanking to close that gap. Nordeus is losing a good source of revenue because of this.

Below 6* is where the draw exploiters hang out. A simple look at the World Top 100 this Wednesday and you'll see 5* associations, with something like 3 teams with 7* or above teams and another 3 teams that are like 1*, 2* or 3* teams. After the draw, these low quality teams will hit the transfer market, and acquire eight 5* players, then proceed to acquire 3 7*+ players on loan. So a 1* team, becomes a 6* team, but was calculated as being a 1* team by the association draw engine. MANAGERS PLAYING FAIRLY, cannot compete against such associations no matter how skilled they are.

The 6* and 7* range however as I mentioned above and Adam Jus did as well, works fine for the most part in platinum.