Same-quality league?

[BridgeGoth]

I just looked another level 9 team that was much lower quality. His league all the teams are of similar low quality, while my team is in with all 5 star teams.

One of my RL friends who is level 7, her team is in with a wide range of teams, from 1 star to low 5 star. Her team has 5 League and 4 CL wins, so she has been very successful.

I think her team average was like 49.8 or something at the start of the season, so just a tiny bid under 5 star. Mine was just over 60. Is it possible they are putting the 5 star teams in their own leagues?

To add to the oddity.. of the 14 teams in my league.... 1 finished 2nd, 1 5th, 1 7th, the rest didn't qualify. I was the only league winner.
So how are teams which are all higher quality than me and all 5 star players all failing?

[Qambu Yaasi]

sorry to disagree but things are different. Sure, nobody want to play easy-win leagues, no risk no fun, but why create leagues with all teams with a difference of plus-minus 2 points? that also in my case means 5-6 stars?
and other leagues all 4 stars? According to this mentality, I stop increasing the quality of my team, in every case I'll face similar teams

Don't just look at the numbers. Quality of squad is half of the story. It does not equate to being a good or competitive squad.

[BridgeGoth]

I know that, but in the past I'd have a wide range of qualities on the other 13 teams.
I looked at the lowest quality Level 9 team I have as friend, and pretty much all the teams in his league are withing a couple points of his team? I asked several higher level friends with strong teams, and they report similar findings.
Coincidence? I am finding it harder and harder to believe.

[cookizzz]

Different leagues have different composition of teams in terms of qualities. So leagues are not simply grouped in any way according to quality. I still believe league grouping is more largely affected by friendship of managers.

I suspect that one of your T11 friend intentionally attempted to create a league like this by making friendship with teams with similar quality. I noted in this forum before that a manager successfully made a league full of good teams in the past.

[Qambu Yaasi]

cookizz is right. One of the teams may be linked to the other teams via friendship and you are one of the fillers... as for my league, the difference in quality is 12 pts. I don't think I have ever been grouped in leagues where the quality is by a difference of 1 or 2. But again, quality means nothing until you play them.

[Matteo de Clemente]

Hi,you should check
if many strong teams with quality in that range ,
tanked their 16 level league last season.

I'm at 22 level now.At the beginning of the season my quality was 128,9.
Last season,many teams having quality superior to 130 have tanked their 22 level.
So there are 2 blocks in 22 level:

I'm in a league with very strong teams (over 130 quality),so i had to increase my quality to 132.

Other teams are in leagues with range between 117 and 124,including teams classified in position 8 in last level 21....


If you have friends whose quality is in that range,you may be taken into their league

[cookizzz]

cookizz is right. One of the teams may be linked to the other teams via friendship and you are one of the fillers... as for my league, the difference in quality is 12 pts. I don't think I have ever been grouped in leagues where the quality is by a difference of 1 or 2. But again, quality means nothing until you play them.

Yes. I think real competitiveness of teams in a league cannot be clearly shown until about 1/4 season. For high quality teams which was not promoted in previous season, many of their managers are still not active and they may not as strong as the quality indicating. In contrast, some teams are low in quality but perform very well. I highly respect them.

[t11_fan]

Well, everyone has its own goals and wishes in TE. I enjoy playing league like I have with Celtic. This season my league has 13x 5* teams (including mine) + one strong 4* team (whose Q is 0.7 behind 5*). This is going to be thoughest league I've ever played. It started yesterday with draw, i've played 1-1. I'm having fun playing in such league and I'd rather play it without trophy than to play all-bot league and brag about trophys every season.

[Gat Manar]

Different leagues have different composition of teams in terms of qualities. So leagues are not simply grouped in any way according to quality. I still believe league grouping is more largely affected by friendship of managers

Zero friends in my league despite if I've the max number of friends

[Qambu Yaasi]

Zero friends in my league despite if I've the max number of friends

The rest are probably friends with each other. You are the "filler" team...