Cup and Champions League are nonsense

[Niddhoeggr]

I am playing at level 19, but in Cup and in Champions League, I am at level 20, because at the beginning of the season I had a 100% team. I agree with this behavior. This way, in theory, you always play with teams of your same level. That's OK, in theory.

In practice, the problem is that the first team I face in the Champions League is at level 20 with a 121% squad. And now I face in the Cup to another 121% rival of level 20. These teams would have to be contesting Cup and Champions at level 21! Why is my team compelled to play tournaments at a higher level and these other teams do not? Winning the Cup or the Champions League becomes impossible.

Hi altatt!

Yeah, I had this once as well. Started with 105% and the whole season was a mess. I started with my main eleven players and some nice backup players and had no intentions to buy some new players or to spend some money to gain some tokens and therefore the outcome wasn't that great at all. It went all crazy in my league - around 4 to 6 players were buying a ton of new scouts to become competitive . But in the end I managed to win the CL and end at the third place in the league. I had some great victories against MUCH better teams and it felt quite like a win after all.

But yes the things you do address are a problem. It wouldn't be so much of an issue if the teams who are one level higher wouldn't without any problems get +20% better players in quality. I do understand as well that it is important to match players of roughly equal ability together in one kind of group but that should not include other manager levels. I guess that there aren't so many players actively playing and therefore the have to include +/- 1 levels? I've read before that some time ago there was even the chance to get much higher leveled opponents. But that isn't any comforting at all I guess.

Well, I don't like this mechanic as well and it forced me to manipulate the draw at the end of the season by selling most of my players. The question is how long can this approach work because I can image that someday almost every active manager will do it and we will have the same issues again.

Best,
Nidd

EDIT: But some managers here in the forum do have great results too without reducing their team strength at the end of the season. For example Nash (hopefully I am right?^^). So there are definitively other ways to be competitive even without spending money. But I am quite new to this game and not very experienced with the other approach.