In my experience that doesn't work as association takes the best players into consideration like league draw at the beginning of the season. (I think its top 11 not top 14 for asso draw though)

But association draw is completely f'ed up in this game. Last weekend for example we won both duels with 36-0 and all other associations were 20-30% weaker on average, compared to our team. And yes we play in platinum league and we are about a lower 7 star association. So we played one high 5 star association and a low 6 star.
The weekend before 2 of the opponent associations were over 10% stronger on average than our asso, so high 7 star associations. How can this be so different? I absolutely don't understand these draws. One week you are gifted points and it is completely unfair bs for other assos, the next weekend you get insanely tough matchups.
This weekend seems quite fine regarding % but the opponent association did the thing you did and the single matchups are not fun because of this. I hate this as well. Association for me is the worst game mode, it is completely random and it depends so heavily on the draw. I only play it for the 100T every season...