Amount of players.

[cookizzz]

@cookizzz thanks for replying.

How you mean top14 players are considered for cup? Everyone plays in the cup right?

You will notice this if you read more posts in this forum. As I understand, the average quality of only the top 14 players at season beginning will be considered for grouping teams into the same cup.

For League and CL drawings;

At the start of each League draw, you see The qualities of teams in a range of your own. for example: your quality is 33, then probably those drawn into your Leaugue are close to your own avarage quality, If you buy lots of crap players your avarage quality will drop EVEN if you didn't sign them.

I Have 22 players in my team. I bought a crappy player to support my case and my overal avarage did drop.
So lets say your quality is 33 with those crappy players. Then at the beginning of next season you get rid of them all.. your quality for example wont be 33 to but 36 suddenly. Your opponents still are around 33 who didn't use this "tactic" So you have a major advantage over them.

For CL drawing. I agree only top 4 players get into it CL drawing. But again and especially in lower levels. Managers who don't feel like playing this game anymore still can get nr 4 in a low level. with overal qualities around 14 or so. You apply the ""tactic"" of buying crappy players and selling them after next season draw, you probably get put up with those players instead of serieus managers who have qualities around 17 that time.
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I am not sure about the detail method of league or CL drawings. For league, average quality is likely the most important factor for drawing, but there should be some other factors which makes one or two teams with significant lower and higher quality being grouped to the same league of other similar quality teams. Counting qualities of players outside 22 team squad can be an explanation but personally I don't think so.

BTW, do you know that the average quality of your team on viewing by yourself is different from that on viewing from other teams? For example, assume that your team have 24 players, including unsigned 2 players with far lower quality comparing with other players, and the overal average quality you noticed is 33q. If your friend view your team profile, he may find that you have 22 players only and your average quality is probably 35q. That's why I am not sure if the average team quality viewed by ourselves is the value used for drawing.