Quote Originally Posted by julien12 View Post
Question: did you change anything (i.e. several players increasing their quality by 20% or so) to get your 6 season run in Platinum or was it more “luck of the draw” in terms of what opponents you faced?

The other alternative is that despite our relative successes in Gold 1 we need to kick some players and get in consistent +100% teams. Any thoughts?
Every week we set weak teams using our lowest quality players in starting 11. We still tend to draw opponents of equal quality and avoid the mutant beasts. However towards the end we would occasionally draw those Top100 manipulators regardless of the teams we set.

To answer your second point, I am Captain of our Association and I have stuck with the same colleagues since the beginning give or take the odd person retiring from the game. I could not imagine ever removing any of them as we have a Facebook group and often chat. I consider them friends so we take whatever comes together, good or bad.