Quote Originally Posted by KenoticFC View Post
Maybe lowering the team quality can do the trick but I can't say much about how things work in really high levels.
No, that doesn't really help..
I rebuild my team every season (usually keeping 3 or 4 top players from the previous) so I always have to start the season with a low quality ( 2 or 3* team)
I will play teams my level or the level below in the first round, no one is stronger than 5*, BUT they are almost always seeded so that all the strong teams play the weaker ones.
I check every season and without fail out of the 32 first round games usually around 25-30 of them will be strong v's weak (5* v's 2 or 3*), with the others made up of strong v's strong, or the few 4* v's 4*, as the server has obviously run out of weak opponents to match with.