The new Champions league draw system

[pcmacdaniel]

I've been in several different +1 level Champions League throughout my career as a top eleven manager, with the first one occurring back in level 22.

The format of the higher level Champions Leagues has not been consistant! Some seasons its only a handful of managers playing down a level, others its a handful of managers playing up a level. Generally speaking, it has been the league winners bumped up a level, drawing those teams that finished either 2nd, 3rd or 4th in their respective leagues. This season the format is different in my CL, as I'm one of three managers bumped up one level, but the only one the group that won a 1st place trophy last season.

This season one of the managers that has been pulled up with me was in my league last season, and due to tanking didn't play in either the CL or SL last season. Are high quality teams with a history of not promoting being targeted for the call-up, as a means of deterring tanking? All three of the 7* teams that are playing up one level in my current CL, all tanked recently (including me). Due to tanking for the benefit of associations, is it plausible the nordeus is pulling higher quality teams up a level in an attempt to prevent the CL from being unbalanced due to tankers exploiting the direct qualification to the CL by winning the previous season CL/SL? I'm assuming some of you have seen teams tanking to build a superteam for associations, while still playing in the Champions League, due to winning the CL the season before!