Guidance seeking newbie

[navyben]

Dear fellows of Top Eleven,
I joined this game last week. I was happy with my "amazing" team until I started looking at my friends' team. When I saw my level 7 friend's team with 50 average. I was like duymmmmmmmm...and then I saw his form "LLLLLL"

Now, I am wondering how long I will last. Most of my teams are 4 stars, and some 3 stars and two 5 star. Up till now I have won all my games. But doing same next season seems very difficult as I spent the budget of 700k, which I was given to start with. And with that 700k budget, I was only able to increase my team's rating up to 14.

So any kind of guidance with the exception of "Use real money to buy tokens!!" will be deeply appreciated.

Thank you