No, you manipulate the schedule by playing teams ranked 20-40 who you can blowout as opposed to getting blown out by top 5 teams.
For instance, right down YJ Duswalt has a rating of 89, while Eagle Stix has a rating of 97.
There are many teams who would blow out YJ Duswalt by 8-10 goals and get 97-99 points, but would likely lose to Eagle Stix and end up with points in low 90s.
The key is to find good teams you can blow out while avoid top 5 teams who will dominate you. (Now if you care about player development, you probably want to take the opposite strategy).
Using Duzwalt as a marker (among the best of the B Teams and he was previously used in this thread)- If you are ranked higher than him and seek teams like his as competition, you will struggle with meeting the expected goal differential and suffer the consequences of entering into lower-rated competition. It will blow your SCHED number, get you bracketed in B divisions, and negatively affect your ranking. In short, if you seek B competition, you will get exactly what you're seeking.
If you're lower than Duzwalt, then yes. Seek him as competition. That's the nature of competition. But you're not achieving a "blowout." He's at or near the top of the B teams. If you do beat him, congratulations. You're now inching up toward the top of the B teams. How exactly did this help you hack the system against teams like Eaglesticks? You've just bracketed yourself below them and mathematically won't be near them in rankings, nor will you even set foot on the same field as them.
