Nice beginner tutorial.
Some correctios and hints:
- League does not always start at the first day of a month, but when the season before is over. You can find the progression of the actual season in the bottom right of the website Top Eleven - Be a Football (Soccer) Manager. Next season will start on June, 29th.
- You made the suggestion to bid in the last 3 seconds. That is one possible strategy for the start, I found no dominant bidding strategy so far, important is only to bid one time in each bidding round.
- Your team profits from interactions with friends, who can send you gifts. This way you may get every day a health pack, a morale booster, a fitness boster and a skill point. So having at least 4 friends is important.
- Harvesting tokens and boosters on topeleven.com and facebook.com by watching videos can give your team an edge, filling surveys even more (everyone has to decide how much time to spend on the game).
- ... (you can find more advanced tips in this forum section)