Quote Originally Posted by Der_Ryan_M View Post
Association in general is one of the best parts of the game.
To answer some questions here - the draw is being based upon your 11 best players in your squad. Putting up the bench in starting lineup only gives you the easiest opponent out of the 6 opponents (when they don't do it) and else you would be the best team in terms of quality in your asso. So generally this is not recommended and can hurt your team more than it helps most of the times...

Of course your manipulating for easy draws in League, CL and so on doesnt help in association, so there is a place where people who don't weaken their team on purpose every season usually have the best potential.

So for a few months I have been in a really great association and even stopped my players-selling at the end of the season for now, so that I can have 11 skilled players to be able to contribute the most. Now unfortunately my general quality is always a bit higher, but it really helps in these asso games, where mostly you play vs similar opponents.
Good info mate. I hope my ex association mates read this. Some think it's the daily average quality of best 14 players over the last 7 days or something like that. So the impression is manipulating for the League/Cup/CL draw helps a little for week 1 as the daily average quality is lower for the first few days of the season until replacements are purchased and trained.