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Watch what other teams are doing. Odds are, some will lose a few games that you don't expect and might open a door for you. The season won't go exactly like you think it will. Pick your spots, try to steal a win here or there when you can. Look at who's your competition for the 8 spot. If you can somehow beat them heads up, then you've got a step in the right direction. Be looking at who's 6 and 7 on the other side. Especially when later in the year you are thinking about buying a player. Not finishing last, and then beating the team from the other side in the relegation game is all you need. You can look plenty ugly on the other nites and still stay up.

Or, if it does seem totally hopeless, you can just train young guys all year long and save money. You already know you can win enough at the lower level to advance, and you can be a lot better the next time around. On that path, you are mainly looking a couple years in the future for what you need to stay up the second time around. Saving money for two years and training up young guys can make that look pretty good I'd imagine.

My HT soccer team is facing pretty much that same spot. But, I'm finding it fun to try to plot my way into making it work for me in the long run anyways. ;) My BB team somehow did stay up last year (finished 6th and won relegation series), so its now becoming a problem of how to build a good team at this next level. Although, staying up isn't completely certain this year. Just more likely than it was last year.

My HT soccer team is facing pretty much that same spot. But, I'm finding it fun to try to plot my way into making it work for me in the long run anyways. ;) My BB team somehow did stay up last year (finished 6th and won relegation series), so its now becoming a problem of how to build a good team at this next level. Although, staying up isn't completely certain this year. Just more likely than it was last year.

That's one of the nice things with BB as compared to HT -- the difference between the lowest two levels is far less onerous. In HT, teams can go from stomping a VI series to getting obliterated in a V and bounce back and forth for RL years at this point, but it's a lot less difficult to survive in IV in BB USA (Whether I can pull that off, myself, is another story, but it would be impossible to do in HT).

Thanks for the detailed post. :)

I think I'll first take Sleet's advice of getting older players from the transfer list. Then by the middle of the season, that's when I decide whether it's hopeless or not. But a team is going bot (hopefully) this coming Monday so I might take my chances in the relegation match.

Good luck to your HT and BB teams!

Thanks for everyone else too for taking their time to give an advice. :)

I'm in the same situation right now and I've been before. This is what worked for me:

- identify only ONE team in your conference that could be worse than you if you play right with your enthusiasm
- gather one more win than this team. Winning both matches against this team should probably do it
- in the meantime, save as much money as you can and train players
- when you are sure you are going to be 7th, identify the team that you are going to play relegation match with
- in the last weeks of regular play, look for older players who are cheap to complete your roster, so you can beat the 6th team

If you don't relegate, sell the older players at the beginning of the next season (in offseason they sell for too cheap) and put to good use the players you have been training this season. With their help, you should be able to stay in the league for good.


Last edited by Koperboy at 7/30/2011 5:48:45 PM

Thanks. Just a question, why is it good to train stamina before the start of the relagation?

Thanks too. I think getting to 7th place will be easier since a team in my conference last logged in on June 18. He will become a bot this coming Monday right?

So I think I only need to find out who will go 6th on the other conference.

Thanks again for the advice. :)

I am in the same position as you though i got promoted by winning the playoff. But look at my first game i lost by 40 points :(

My tactic now is using TIE against strong teams and normal against teams i can beat. And training my youth all the way. And hopefully i can last a season haha

I think you'll be fine. You got a 100k+ center for such a low price.

Hopefully, both of us stay in the league after this season. :)