Already try this and it doesn't work at all !!!
And i 'm a specialist of cup draw so i know what it means decrease quality !
Quality is not the only things that rule the league drawn by now , there are others things but it didn't manage to find it ! Maybe in the future ...
Kaizer Franze is absolutely correct.
I do the same too. Last two seasons I won the cup playing vs same or one lv lower teams, and I won it (one double and one treble), without having a super team, just a 5-6* team.
I have eight 6* players, six, low q academy players and then I buy 5* players from the market.
Even if i went with those 14 players and have a normal/easy cup draw, in the league I was among teams with 5*-6* players and active managers.
My guess is that there is some hidden calculation :
-maybe picking quality 3 days before the end of the season
- maybe from the titles
-maybe from the new fb app where we can see home many W-D-L a manager have, or what's his qualification in the game
"you are among 1% of the players of the game".