I just started playing and got my team at what appears to be the end of the season. My newly-founded team of scrubs played one regulation game, losing 112-63.
Now I'm suddenly in a relegation series I guess which I probably have no chance of winning. Game 1, I lost 85-58, despite doing a perfect prediction in both tactics areas.
I'm just wondering if this is a normal start for this game... to be throw into the game and promptly booted from your level without being able to do anything.
It seems like an odd design choice to force new players to deal with another team's misfortune without having any of the players that causes the situation, but instead be given garbage players who couldn't win if their lives depended on it.
Also the game's pretty confusing to be able to adjust and figure out how to make a team that can compete that quickly since you're essentially building from scratch (not to mention, I wasn't allowed to sign players for the first few days anyway).
Anyone understand the thought process behind this sort of setup?
I underwent the same thing years ago when I started. Plopped right into a DIV season with over half the season gone. Needless to say, I was discouraged, but actually thought I could win my relegation tourney if I could just climb out of last place, so I CT'd my final league game to no avail, not realizing that Game Shape was actually a thing I needed to keep track of (I was playing my best players 120+ minutes per week). I then wrote a fairly heated message wondering how that could have happened and was pretty upset. What followed was an incredibly helpful series of messages with good advice and encouraging me to stay on.
That draft, I got my franchise player (turns 32 at the end of this season).
The next season, I won my DV easily while training and building my arena.
Then a couple seasons in DIV, followed by a long time in DIII, and now I've been in DII for about a year IRL.
So yep... this is normal. Best of luck in the upcoming draft!
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