How have you managed to struggle so badly in League Level 2 with that squad? 14th in the league?

I had a 'test' team run on auto-pilot (watched no games) last season in Level 2, Playing 5-3W-2 (MR-MC-ML), Team Average of 19.3 which is far worse than your team at Level 2 and it won the league by 18 points (W23-D2-L1).