Association turnaments getting boring ?

[pcmacdaniel]

Maybe there are two draws? First, we are drawn into a pool of potential opponents, then the draw for our opponents is made? So if membership is changed between the hypothetical draws, it creates an unbalanced draw? I would assume this isn't possible, but given how buggy this game tends to be probably can't rule this possibility out either!

We did have some crap going on like this before the draw one weekend, where one member retired from associations, so we added an 8*, who promptedly left an hour later, so I added my 5* friend as an emergency option, whom promptly got booted by Randy for his friend, that I denied request for. Then we took in Samuel whom was willing to rejoin as a favor to us, since we were down to 5 members.

Ryan is added to association following Samuel retiring (10:30 pm EST)
Ryan leaves association to use loan cheat and not participate in tourney (11:15 pm)
My friend JoMar added at midnight (EST)
JoMar booted by Randy (1:30 am)
Randy friend Ramon's request denied by me (1:35 am)
Samuel added (1:45 am)
I see my semi-final opponent (2:45 am). Semi opponent was Nikolgiorgios in this case.
Tourney offically beings (4:00 am)

In the case the matchups for the 1, 2 and 3 seeds were.

1. Randy (160%) vs. Gert (140%)
2. Me (139%) vs. Nikogiorgios (115-120%)
3. Samuel (125%) vs. Khris (102.5%).

Clearly, a very unbalanced draw.

JoMar's team was 80%, compared to 125% for Samuel and 148% for Ryan.


To address Kaiser's statement maybe he's on to something. In this case, Samuel was with us the previous weekend, so the 6 members we had here, were the same 6 we had the previous weekend! On average, we were roughly 7% stronger than O.M.A. before loans and we used loans way more than they did, so I don't think the previous weekend final quality can apply to this case.

P.S. My apologizes for bringing up this matchup, since I don't like talking about matchups between Top Eleven friends.

Am wondering if loan exploiters rejoining in the late hours before the draw, could have been going undetected by the association draw engine?

I understand the purposed theory I stated above may be entirely wrong, but can't hurt to bring it up and learn what other managers have experienced!