manipulation of quality is cheating for me. In real football, if Real Madrid would register for the begining of season players from Castilla and one week after that they would say: Oh, we made a mistake we want to register Ramos, Benzema, Ronaldo and others for competitions that would be cheating, right?
In my squad there are four players with 1* quality and I admit that is cheating and not managerial tactic. I started doing that when I found about this on T11 forum from 40+ level managers, but still it is cheating.
This season cheating didn't work for me as I was drawn in a strong league with a lot active managers. But, I don't complain, it will be more interesting to play the league. :-)