Let’s talk seriously about tanking (or staying on purpose in the same League level).

[nikolgiorgos]

But it is said in the League rules that, to qualify for association division rewards, a team has to end up 8th or above in the League or to be promoted.

Those teams are old at platinum/top100 so they have earned a lot of tokens (plus a good stock of greens).
They earn almost every season about 65 tokens from the contract and the daily box plus a good amount from seasonal events.
They are permanent tankers so they do not spend any tokens, they do not need any tokens till replace a player at retirement age (who played 15 seasons for the team ).
They are proud to play at platinum or to be at top 100.
Some of them doing that for national reasons (look how great managers we are the Turks or the Russians), some of them waiting a chance to sell their team/group for real money.

[Tactician]

Those teams are old at platinum/top100 so they have earned a lot of tokens (plus a good stock of greens).
They earn almost every season about 65 tokens from the contract and the daily box plus a good amount from seasonal events.
They are permanent tankers so they do not spend any tokens, they do not need any tokens till replace a player at retirement age (who played 15 seasons for the team ).
They are proud to play at platinum or to be at top 100.
Some of them doing that for national reasons (look how great managers we are the Turks or the Russians), some of them waiting a chance to sell their team/group for real money.

So you mean they are not interested in the division rewards (most likely 100T) but they tank only to stay competitive for top ranks in associations? Maybe there are a fraction of users like this but I doubt it is the case for most.

As for me, I never tanked despite having been gutted to overflow point many times with the game in the past; I just left my team with a decent formation and line-up and stopped playing. Maybe some people might tank out of revenge just to piss off others but it is not worth the effort unless this person gets decent entertainement doing so.

It seems that there are differences (both good and bad) between servers because all this time I played I never faced certain things that others been complaining a lot, like for example, the problem of tankers, but I faced other problems that others were not complaining much like poor auction lists and even poor scouts list with respect to what type of players I was looking for. I don't even know which server this account is currently on, but in the past, I had a serious scouts and recommendations buyer (Andalucia) as opponent only once in the League with this account. So, there was no serious reason for people to tank say to put some distance between them and heavy-token buyers.