killerkiwis :
"Waspy Tiger" :
".Leicester Tigers." :
People go on about the hard work put in by the top teams. Lower teams put in hard work too.
Seems to me that those crying loudest are those with the deepest pockets.
Match bonus is another variable - live with it. It is available to everyone both 'rich and poor'.
Completely wrong - it's the big boys that use it most in my experience - they've nothing else to use the money on, and they use it to prevent an upset and prevent people who have invested a lot of time into developing superior tactics from getting the results they deserve. It's a cheat's charter.
are you for real?
Yes - that response leads me to believe that you aren't, though. Seems to be a lot of the big boys are trying to pretend it's a way of making it fairer for the smaller players, all the time knowing it's a way of protecting their positions and making sure that people with superior tactics can't get an advantage through skill. That misrepresentation is in itself downright dishonest.
An example - in yesterday's Guild Challenge, in my home leg I beat a player whose squad average was 20 points better than mine, team average nearer 30 points better. Without any match bonus, simply by having superior tactics. Close, but I beat him 9-7.Inevitably, he whacked on the bonus to play a return game, and he beat me 35-0. If it was a league game, I would've had no chance even if I maxed out bonus myself, because his team would then be 60 points better than mine, and no amount of tactics can deal with that. And that's what's happening - people who have maxed out stadia and other buildings have plenty of cash to spare, and are using it to protect their positions. Perhaps not overt cheating, but IMHO of dubious morality.