Level 9 is so, gather together the best teams. It 'happened to so manyHaving brought in no fewer than 10 scouts on day one of the season, and having a player go to 7* on opening day I was pretty confident of being able to retain my 100% record of winning the league every season. However, we have been given literally a league of death at Level 9 today.
The average quality of the top 5 teams -
SL Valclinic 67.2
Flea FC 66.4
FC Jupiter 65.7
Lele DS 59.5
Brombe Armate 57.2
So even with my ten scouts my team (Flea FC) is not the strongest in the division, with SL Valclinic nearly 1Q better, and then FC Jupiter less than 1Q worse. I imagine that the title will be a three way blow out between us, with Lele DS and Brombe Armate not a million miles off the Q rate either to finish the Champions League qualifying spots.
At least one of those 5 teams will miss out on Champions League football at level 10. Almost every other league at level 9 (having gone through all those in the Champs League to see what they are up again), the 57.2Q of the fifth best team in my league would be enough to be in the top two of most others.
I fear my 100% league title win run will be over this year. SL Valclinic look to have packed a really strong team together. He's either farmed like mad like I have for months and like me has decided to splash out on his team this year, or he is a Token buyer. Same with FC Jupiter. All my Tokens have come from farming and I currently have 908T left in my bank. I feel confident that my team can get a top 3 finish - and at worse qualify for the Champions League. Promotion is an absolute must.
The only thing that could end is my consecutive title wins - but I have to make the decision if its worth burning through my Tokens to power train to try and better SL Valclinic's and FC Jupiter's Quality to try and retain my title run - or to battle with them with my squad. Its all ego really for me in this - I'd love to keep the consecutive title's going, however I have decided that I'd rather have 908T in the bank and promoted to Level 10 with a nice arsenal to fall back on than burn through my Tokens and win league 9, but start Level 10 with a low Token count.
I suppose it doesn't really matter how many titles and cups you win as long as you keep getting promoted. Long term I think it makes more sense to stick with what I've got at the moment and try and fight for the title.