Trying to tank a season

[magic3]

Do you think only one thread does that??? Almost every thread shows some sort of fault in the game. Not only that, but many of the threads show faults with management. THAT would be hard to take if they were not making a boatload of $$$ off this game.

But right now, they are showing that they dont give a **** about anything other than the money, or they WOULD make some serious changes to appease the public. The fact that they stay quiet and collect their cheques is damning enough!

I have seen a screenshot here and there of odd losses but I have never seen person purposely trying to lose by doing all the right things (mixing the lineup, messing up the formation, illogical orders) and not be able to lose for few games in a row.. i guess I have just stopped reading a lot of threads

[Don Duffy]

So many details to deal with. Check your "orders" too, make sure your lesser players do the corners and penalty kicks, no auto subs, etc.

[Nicky]

I'm at 5 points to the top (with 4 teams above) and 11 points above the no-promotion zone

today the last attempt. I'll try with a 1-0-0-5-5 hard attacking.
My goalie will try to stop the attack playing as gk

I'll come back with match report

[Dman2pt]

Good luck!

[Nicky]

I almost missed it.....

[cracicot]

I almost missed it.....

Dude, if you are going to use such an offensive formation, I hope you have blue arrows on everyone. that will keep them from being so offensive and with their position, they wont be completely defensive. Now that I see your team full of scouts, I realize it is hard to tank any game unless most of the other teams are of quality close to you. Otherwise, the rare troll results are not enough....

[Dman2pt]

What we take from this, is that If you have a good Team, and whant to Tank, it is better to do it since the day 1, otherwise it will be dificult to lose enought points to end behind 7th place.

[Raykco]

I am currently trying to tank the season. I am 10 points behind 7th place. But the difference with me is, I am still using my regular formation (4-4-2), and virtually always have players in their rightful position. I do use my lesser players, but sometimes this doesn't work and I win. I am still training my players on a daily basis (and actually power training some), so I'm using the packs. My players always go into the matches with their morale/fitness in the green.

The reason I am tanking is that I had a poor start to the season and was in 8th position at the halfway point, so took the decision then. I'm hoping to avoid promotion and start with a very strong squad for next time. As it stands now, I have 9 players who are scouts or better, but have another 6 who are within 20 skill points of reaching the mark.

[Nicky]

I know my team is quite good. Without this tanking idea I would probably finish the season from 1st to 3rd place.
But, as happened to Rayko, I had a horrible start to the season and, considering 2 absurde eliminations from cups, I decided to tank though I have a good team.

First I tried with 10 defensive players: 1W - 1N - 1L
Then with all the players on the wings:1W - 1L
Now I'm trying with all my players forward, leaving all my half empty: 1L

Ok, next time I will use less scouts (but 5 at least must play..)

[Nicky]

Update: after 2 matches won against two teams in the bottom of the table I'm 14 point over the no-promotion zone, I must try to get at 4th place at least.
It is 5 points far and I only have 5 matches..

Anyway, I think that 80% of the chances to get a victory in TE comes from your team quality
In the remaining 20% you can include all the things we talk about every day
Moreover, now I'm sure that ball possession is almost useless