League help

[12fdennison]

I was wondering if anyone knows how your league opponents are decided? Is it based on quality, with higher rated managers in the same league? If this is the case, is there a way to ensure your league isn't too hard?

thanks

[Arphaxad]

The draw is made on the last day of the season and based on the 14 highest rated players in terms of quality.

Sell all players you don't intend to keep before the season ends to ensure a lower overall quality of your 14 best players. That way, you'll get an easier draw. If the average quality of your 14 highest rated players is higher than 99 %, chances are you'll get drawn against +1 level managers in the cups.

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[12fdennison]

Thanks for your help. So basically before the first day of next season (last day of this season), I should get my top 14 players to have an average percentage of just under 99% to get an easier league? Also I read that sometimes the league puts you and your friends together. Do you know if this is true? lot of my friends are the same level but high quality so I don't want a harder league

[12fdennison]

So even though it says the league fixtures are released on day 3, the draw has already been made? So I can improve my team between day 1 and 3 and it won't give me hard opposition?

[Arphaxad]

Try to lower the quality of your 14 highest rated players on the last day of the season, meaning sell everyone you don't intend to use next season.

If the average is below 99 %, you won't get drawn against a team one level above you in the different cup events. You will be drawn against teams around your average quality. The more you lower your average quality, the easier the draw. The draw is made 4 days before the first fixutre on day 3. You can thus improve your team as much as you want between day 1-3 without interferring with the draw. Bear in mind that your youth academy players are accounted for in the draw. You'll have to decide whether it's worth keeping them and increasing your average (if they increase it that is) or not.

What I do is I keep my fast trainers by the end of the season and sell everyone else. This season, my fast trainer will end the season between 130-140 %. I expect my team average to be around 122-125 % by then. I will sell everyone else in order to lower my team average. Every season, I grab 2-3 young players with 3 stars to keep on the bench. I assign them a special ability or new position so that they don't gain anything from training or friendly matches (I keep a full squad to boost my team bonus to 10 % and to play friendly games in order to collect rest packs). These low rated players makes sure I always lower my average quality as much as possible. After a couple of seasons, they will be 1 star only onsiderably lowering my team average quality allowing me to have high rated players but still have a low overall average quality for my 14 highest rated players. By the end of the season, if I decide that I need more cash next season, I keep my youth academy players and sell them the next season to finance other purchases/investments. If I decide that I have enough cash, I sell them on the last day of the season as well in order for them to not increase my overall average team quality.

You have the possibility to be drawn against your friends if you're on the same server. But it's not a guarantee.

[minamino]

The draw is made 4 days before the first fixutre on day 3.

The draw is made between 2am and 4am UK time early hours of sunday (day 1) and not 4 days before day 3 lol

[Arphaxad]

The draw is made between 2am and 4am UK time early hours of sunday (day 1) and not 4 days before day 3 lol

Yeah, I confused things in my head. You should sell on the last day and the draw us the day after that. You're correct.

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[minamino]

Yeah, I confused things in my head. You should sell on the last day and the draw us the day after that. You're correct.

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i do it every season. i keep my front 3 (aml, amr,st) who are all 140% each and only white skills. and then i sell firstly the 4 positions that i know i have coming from youth next season and sell the GK and 2 mcs and replace with weaker so i end up on a safe % of 92% . i find finishing on 99% too risky (too borderline for me). so with the 4 youths i get free, all i need to buy in auctions are 4 players so my team is ready within 30 minutes on sunday morning cos i just train them back up with greenpacks that i save in a month (800).
generally my league opponents range from 40% to 75% and perhaps a competitor of around 85% max so the league is in the bag. the cup is the same with just a few teams close to me and ucl is the same too. in the past 6 seasons i've won 3 quadruples, 2 triples and a double.

I played for 10 years with high % teams and got sick of tankers in cup comps and assos. i said good bye to all that 6 months ago and haven't seen tankers since loving the game now

[Kenny Jones]

i do it every season. i keep my front 3 (aml, amr,st) who are all 140% each and only white skills. and then i sell firstly the 4 positions that i know i have coming from youth next season and sell the GK and 2 mcs and replace with weaker so i end up on a safe % of 92% . i find finishing on 99% too risky (too borderline for me). so with the 4 youths i get free, all i need to buy in auctions are 4 players so my team is ready within 30 minutes on sunday morning cos i just train them back up with greenpacks that i save in a month (800).
generally my league opponents range from 40% to 75% and perhaps a competitor of around 85% max so the league is in the bag. the cup is the same with just a few teams close to me and ucl is the same too. in the past 6 seasons i've won 3 quadruples, 2 triples and a double.

I played for 10 years with high % teams and got sick of tankers in cup comps and assos. i said good bye to all that 6 months ago and haven't seen tankers since loving the game now

That is very interesting.
How do you get on in Events - like Unite Cup and King of Kings?
How do you get on in Association matches?

[dave1311]

Try to lower the quality of your 14 highest rated players on the last day of the season, meaning sell everyone you don't intend to use next season.

If the average is below 99 %, you won't get drawn against a team one level above you in the different cup events. You will be drawn against teams around your average quality. The more you lower your average quality, the easier the draw. The draw is made 4 days before the first fixutre on day 3. You can thus improve your team as much as you want between day 1-3 without interferring with the draw. Bear in mind that your youth academy players are accounted for in the draw. You'll have to decide whether it's worth keeping them and increasing your average (if they increase it that is) or not.

What I do is I keep my fast trainers by the end of the season and sell everyone else. This season, my fast trainer will end the season between 130-140 %. I expect my team average to be around 122-125 % by then. I will sell everyone else in order to lower my team average. Every season, I grab 2-3 young players with 3 stars to keep on the bench. I assign them a special ability or new position so that they don't gain anything from training or friendly matches (I keep a full squad to boost my team bonus to 10 % and to play friendly games in order to collect rest packs). These low rated players makes sure I always lower my average quality as much as possible. After a couple of seasons, they will be 1 star only onsiderably lowering my team average quality allowing me to have high rated players but still have a low overall average quality for my 14 highest rated players. By the end of the season, if I decide that I need more cash next season, I keep my youth academy players and sell them the next season to finance other purchases/investments. If I decide that I have enough cash, I sell them on the last day of the season as well in order for them to not increase my overall average team quality.

You have the possibility to be drawn against your friends if you're on the same server. But it's not a guarantee.

Nice explanation.