What kind of ridiculous opponents we face in Associations?

[woopypooky]

With associations, you'll face associations with roughly the same quality as yours regardless of your association level.

What will happen if you have a tanking member is, the average quality of your opponents will be higher than the average quality during the previous season. That said, if its your strongest member that is tanking, it shouldn't hurt you, because that player will be able to offset his quality boost with loans. If it's one of your 3 or 4 weakest teams that is tanking, there is no advantage to tanking, and actually it will hurt your association, since the higher an associations's average quality, the higher the odds of playing against an association with 6 actives.

does that also mean when recruiting new members, the best is the new members quality is close to the existing members, there no point if the new member is 120% if old members are 80% quality?

[pcmacdaniel]

does that also mean when recruiting new members, the best is the new members quality is close to the existing members, there no point if the new member is 120% if old members are 80% quality?

Not necessarily, it depends largely upon whether or not the overpowering team (relative to the others) is loaning out players. What's more important than quality of the teams is that their managers are skilled and active.

Managers that are active are a dime a dozen; but ones that are skilled and active can be hard to find.