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I have noticed about a week ago that my team started to perform strangely, that is winning unconvincingly or drawing with teams far much lower quality despite having set decent formations. It is as if something has picked on my team and preventing it from winning like it should have. After a while, I was discouraged too as despite making some changes, the team still perform unconvincingly.

I am not sure if it is to tempt you to buy more tokens. I want to verify a few things though.
1. When was the last time you bought tokens, and when was the last time your obtain tokens from surveys and so on?
2. What was your average daily token level this season, that is how many tokens you kept in stock?
3. Have you made any significant construction upgrades, for e.g opted for the full stadium upgrade rather than adding seats? I know this should affect your finance rather than your team's performance, but just to verify if there is a similarity between some teams performing badly despite being of better quality and using decent tactics.

Generally speaking, it is possible that there are more injuries to attract managers to buy red packs, or decrease supply of system generated young players to promote sales of tokens. But it is less likely making a team playing poorly to stimulate them buying tokens. If a team suddenly play poorly and need to buy more tokens, at the same time their opponent will suddenly play well and has less pressure to buy tokens.

However, in case the sales strategy of T11 is really so sophisticate as you suspected, strategic manipulation of results to promote token sales become more probable. They may make a team playing well right after buying token so as to make manager feeling good, and then may make another team which may soon use up its tokens playing poorly so as to stimulate the managers to pay for tokens again. This is a conspiracy theory.

Edit: My teams are also in uncontrollable poor form that I have ever seen. My L23 team lead the league table for most of the season but have 3 losses & 3 draws in last 6 matches without obvious poor performing players. It just lost home match to last place team and dropped to 3rd place. My L15 Team had a worst run in this poor season before winning the last 2 league matches. Now it is in danger of losing the ticket for participating CL in next season. It even lost 1-4 in Cup final against a team weaker in paper.

To a non-token-buyer, this cannot stimulate me to buy tokens. But it is a excellent time to let me think again spending less time on T11 next season. If their sales team is manipulating results of my team, maybe they don't need a non-token-buying managers to fill the positions in league for them.

BTW, I don't understand why the team just defeated my L23 Team has so poor performance in league. Its quality is close to league average and so does my team. It has a reasonable formation and players. It is not a bad looking team. Normally I accept occasional loss against a team like this.