The Reasons Top Eleven is Terrible.

[iansyorkcityfc]

you only have to look at last event to see how valid all your points are,i dont know if i'm managing a side or just collecting items to help game engine decide outcome of matches,
i've played 39 matches so far this season of which i have won 32,23 of those wins are in the league ( 49 winning streak in league) only been beaten in 3 yet two of the defeats have seen me out of both CL and LC one of who was a clear tanker and obviously wanted to win a cup, other was a team 30% less than me in both games i seem to have no control of either result no matter what did over the 4 legs of the games it was just sit back and see what excuse the game engine could come up with

[Berlitz]

you only have to look at last event to see how valid all your points are,i dont know if i'm managing a side or just collecting items to help game engine decide outcome of matches,
i've played 39 matches so far this season of which i have won 32,23 of those wins are in the league ( 49 winning streak in league) only been beaten in 3 yet two of the defeats have seen me out of both CL and LC one of who was a clear tanker and obviously wanted to win a cup, other was a team 30% less than me in both games i seem to have no control of either result no matter what did over the 4 legs of the games it was just sit back and see what excuse the game engine could come up with

This is exactly the problem. During certain pre-determined games, you can only sit back and see how the engine makes you lose.

Eliminated in the Champions League but at least it was against a team of similar quality and not a troll. 1-2, 3-2.Pity I lost on the away goal when my striker was given a red card in the first game on the 2nd min. Also, the 4-5-1V counter to 4-1-3W-2 did not work very well. My defenders were useless.

[Der_Ryan_M]

Also, the 4-5-1V counter to 4-1-3W-2 did not work very well. My defenders were useless.

There are no counter formations in the game anymore, not the obvious ones that were here in the past. This season I changed to a 3-1-4-1-1 with 3 DCs and surprisingly did very well with it, whereas people always said you desparately need wingers in your team as they are the best players.
I played 4-5-1 V as my main formation for years really and I would always agree on all of that, it's why I never really thought about changing it up.

I could see in the King of the Hill event, where you play the same opponents, probably with the same tactics and formation, multiple times, that I seem to do better against some teams than others on average. And against these where I didn't do to well, I tried other tactics and still didn't do well. So I don't really know, maybe formations are a thing, but if so, then not in a logic kind of way (my 3 DC formation does really well against 4-2-3-1 for example, which is strange as I don't have any wing backs) but more in a rock, paper, scissors kind of way.