Its thru. Last season I buy some 3* players to low down my average quality. But NORDEUS calculate only 11-14 players I think.
I played a guy in the cup in season 5 or 6 and my average quality was 2 above his, although he was 2 levels above me.
Checked his team and he had 13 players 7* and above and 9 3* (1* to him) players.
He beat me easily and went onto win the cup that season as all the other teams were around the same average level.
Someone also posted something similar a week or so back with screenshots of a team half scout and above and half one * with a nice low average quality.
If you have 500-600T per season this is quit simple. At the end of the season you sell oll players and by 3* ducks. At the morning of new season you go to scoute list by 10 scoutes and the go to auction list by some desent 5* players and you have around 10-15 Q advantage over your opponents in CUP.![]()