Users of a level have access to the higher level market, but it is not only that, they can also boost the quality of their players more easily as for them the players are 20% less.
This is how this game has become, and the only way to avoid this is by dropping your team overall average quality of top 14 players before the start of the new season. I myself, after having been through a very tough season (toughest league I ever been, +1 level Champions League with active, double and treble winning opponents, +1 level Cup and +1 level Super Cup), and I never manipulated the draws as such but I will manipulate the draws for next season, but this will probably be my last season as after that I plan to quit this game.