Quote Originally Posted by 4am View Post
Notwithstanding that playing for one season in every six would be utterly pointless, that could never be.

Every time you dropped a division/level through relegation your players would gain a star by the proposed system. For your example to work 6*, 7* and 8* teams would have to be relegated first - which is extremely unlikely to happen!
Untrue. You have 2 separate teams in your squad, 11 players of low quality (about 2* or 3*) who will manipulate the cup and the remaining to use for future seasons. You leave all your strong players on the bench apart from the cup... and there you have it, a way to exploit the relegation system. Oh, and you do get an easy cup each season

Quote Originally Posted by littledude072 View Post
not to mention, who would spend a few months just to get better going back and forth between leagues when they couldve gotten much better by getting promoted the previous seasons? promotions mean more money and skill points. i think not making the CL is punishment enough for some people. lower the promotion to just 4, and probably 3-4 demotees should be good enough
you should know this well that tanking a season doesnt automatically mean youll be 1st in last place. as with the other random 80-20% somehow the illegal formations could win, and probably get promoted
You'd be surprised what people can do. I pointed out the flaws and people will think the same as me...completely possible that they'll get relegated a few seasons in a row, use their weak team for the league and their strong team for the cup. People already manipulate the cup, what makes you think they won't do something like getting relegated to manipulate the league and CL too?