Road to Success - How to Win the Cup

[Niddhoeggr]

I have to agree with keta! I've learned a lot here in the forums! So thank you as well.

@Nik: Just one more question: Do you think it is worthwile to drop the strength of my best 14 players from 113% to 95%? I know I wrote before that I will try it but it does hurt a little bit to toss them out of the team and simultaneously not to be sure whether it will have a significant impact on the draw. ^^

Thanks in advance!

Best,
Nidd

[nikolgiorgos]

So, back to business
I won the treble (the 12th)


My CH.L. final was a tough one even if my opponent was one lv bellow and almost 1,5-2* difference.
But he is good manager, active and present in the game.
Scored two goals in the beginning and had to make magic things to won the game.
Really the quality difference cannot secure any game, specially if opponent manager is good and present .
I also won once a team +3* in a cup final.





So, after my CH.L. and as League is secure, I started selling some players.



I start early as in auto selling there is some delay if you have to sell many players so I don't want to risk it tomorrow at night still having many high q players in the squad.


I know, it's hard to sell some good players.
Zico, a star



Jansen, is a player I bought from the scout (55 tokens).
He did his job and now must go.
It was a successful investment - that's the most important.



* Beckstar (who wrote this guide) and me are in the same asso group so he loan me 3 players to play our tournament

[nikolgiorgos]

really don't know.
I suppose it depends from luck, which lv and server you are.
Another approach of winning the treble is to have a very strong team and some extra sources.
For example I have a reserve team at lv one. Staying there on purpose, playing only for the Cup and associations.
(I 'm just waiting at some time to activate it again but not soon).
This team has a basic 12th squad of 130%.
In the league I could be the top dog, the same in the Cup where I 'm facing teams from lv2 but not stronger than mine.
In CH.L. there is a possibility to face a strong active team and get disqualified.
Also as happened to Palash Mitra , to face a strong tanking team or an (asso) tanking team in the Cup.
But if you are facing many good active teams, it's very possible to have a bad day/a bad role dice or just loose concentration which is the most important.
(for example when I 'm playing in an easy league, doesn't matter if I didn't had the time to switch my 11th squad and play with the same 11 tired players. But in a competitive league, it's something you could pay for).

Anyway, it's a matter of philosophy - lol
I believe a logic target for every good, active manager is to win for once the treble.
Then, maybe two more trebles so to get the achievement (LV1 is one treble, LV2 is 3 trebles, LV3 is 10 trebles).
After that you can play as you want as 10 trebles is for hardcore players.
Like me hahaha
I started at levels 2-3-4 with doubles , loosing in quarter or semi-finals of the cup for teams 2 levels above.
Then Beckstar started this thread so I won my 1st treble at lv5.
Then, I kept running, like Forest Gumb.
he started running and arrived at West (Pacific) coast and then he turned around and started running till the East (Atlantic) coast.
And then one day he stopped - lol.
So I won 10 trebles, now two more as I 'm going for another 10.

[nikolgiorgos]

So after selling, the team finished with 8 high q players and 7 low (but 6 of them count for the 14th squad)



This gives 68% q for the basic team



so the first day of the season, with those 7* players (who are 6* now) and the new players I bought, I have ready a 6* team against some opponents -1lv (and *)


But if you see the quality of the teams, you can observe that even we have one star quality, the number of q of the teams is near (185 vs 177) so I still must be very concentrate

[FC Dacia Terra]

I've won the 5th treble, and surely Im not going to stop untill 10 😃

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[nikolgiorgos]

I've won the 5th treble, and surely Im not going to stop untill 10 ������

me too.
Just wanna try with a team lower than 7* quality.

It looks I 'll have an interesting League draw

[dsio]

me too.
Just wanna try with a team lower than 7* quality.

It looks I 'll have an interesting League draw

Hi nik,

I dropped my quality lower than 80% on Saturday and I bought more than 10 5* players on Sunday to reach the quality of 90%.

The cup draw includes many 30-40% teams, but the league draw has equal teams (half of them).

Have you noticed something similar? When does the league draw take place?

Tnx.

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[gizzmo]

League draw rules are to me a complete black box. My league ranges from 50% to 150% quality, mainly made out of tanking teams (like mine). But with a treble winner too who must be pissed out to have to face both the monster and me...

[nikolgiorgos]

Answering to those two posts above:
League draw is with the maintenance as Cup and CH.L. too (the latest months - 2017).
Quality affects also the League draw (it's the first priority) but there can be some other parameters, for example

- "Friendship" : if a week team from your league have a good q team as friend (same level) there is a chance to drug him in your league
- The grouping of teams with same quality (or lv) sometimes doesn't make "exact" numbers.
For example a group of +1 lv plus high quality teams of your same lv are 33 teams in CH.L.

Then you (or some one else) will go down in a lower lv group (of 32 weaker teams).

The same can happen in Cup or League too

[Niddhoeggr]

Oh nooo...

I did write a huge posting regarding my latest experience with the reduction of the team's quality at the end of the season but it got closed and is now gone...

Right now I am angry but I will try to do it some other time.

The take home message was: it was worth it!