Quote Originally Posted by Anna Martyniec View Post
About stronger teams losing to weaker ones, I noticed it almost 3 seasons ago.
I am a proud manager of a low quality team, and for the two previous seasons I was beating stronger teams like crazy.
The difference in qualities varied (about 5 or more points), but still I was always weaker, and used not sophisticated tactics.
I still can't find an explanation to this.
This season I've improved my team quality and the results finally started to vary (some losses, some wins, all within reason).
But I keep observing the results in the Cup and it's an unwritten rule that the underdog teams have some secret advantage over stronger ones. This is true regardless if the manager is present during the game or not (on my level people are generally present).
I'm playing in the cup finals tomorrow and my opponent has a slightly stronger team. I'm wondering if maybe this time the result will be more realistic, or will the underdog luck will lead me to another victory.
I'm not complaining, it's nice to be the winning team, but I feel that the game is not fair.
Mostly it is easier to accept the odd defeat against an ACTIVE albeit weaker team as does happen in reality. Losing against a team that is inactive or where the Manager never watches is harder to take. Turning up to watch your game should have more benefit.
I've said many times that the variables are all wrong.