I didnt mean to sound like I was whining and granted I have gotten lucky in my draws except for I ran into a Lvl II team whos focus was not on the cup but he still put in some starters and tried to continue.
Im just saying looking at the risk reward of it all:
I can just play scrubs in cup games and if I bow out early, then the advantages are:
I can set up a more regimented training schedule and play just non starters
If a non starter gets injured, no big loss.
Im able to train up a player or two to either fill in a gap, or sell off for more than I could possibly earn in the tournament, knowing that I may run into an NBBA or tough Div II at any point the next week. 4-5 weeks at 20 grand may not be worth it when I can get 4-5 weeks of regimented training and sell off a player for 300k?
This all makes sense if I am able to turn a consistant profit week to week.
I can make a cup run of it.
I might have to play some starters in which case I lose game shape.
I risk an injury to my starters in those games that I feel it is necessary to use them. Could become a problem with finishing the season and I may not get advanced to the next division which I thought was one of the major aspects of the game.
All for the shot at? Running into a team that is going to wax me or I have to CT to attempt to stay in the cup to try and get BB3 invite in either case I risk dropping 2-3 games trying to recover only to know that I may end up facing an equally tough opponant the next week.
I guess my main question is, with the randomness of the cup and the meager pay out week to week with no garuntee that you are going to hit a big time player with a bench that throttles your starters, theres no good reason to stay in it when I can train a player that could basically get me the same type of payout a little bit further on in the year. Granted I do like the idea of the competitiveness, however, in my eyes it almost does more damage to a team to attempt to run the cup vs just focusing on division advancement.