I'm pretty sure I kept my support. The other players were swapped out VERY early for Market players (but I changed their names to fit). I haven't picked up any new and amazing players lately, and I never abused the Academy (though I did pick up a couple of mediocre 5-10ks before the nerfs).
Due to my experience in season 1, I actually did not do anything to my original line up for quite a while. I believed that they are going to evolve into better players, just like how my team did in season 1.
I started spamming coaches (Just clicking the hire button without increasing the price to see if I am lucky enough to get a good coach for like 800 bucks) a couple of weeks prior to the big academy nerf, so I might have pulled the coaching punch very early on.
Unfortunately, I dear players suffered quite a rough season and finished the season in 5th place. Then, as things seemed to go better, they get assigned to division 3 with 1200 team elo and 1500 average player elo... I sort of renamed the team to "WHY AM I IN DIV 3, GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
But... things seems to go pretty well now. We are surprisingly undefeated so far in the split.. haha... and our team elo has jumped to 1400!
P.S: This is my main account, check my alt account (OP) to see my team and my players <3
Despite having much higher overall stats in my players in my main team, my alt team curbstomped my main team so fking hard its not even funny.
Maybe sticking with original players give them some sort of synergy boost or something
haha .... rip
This whole game is working out what is the best tactic, finding where stats are tuned and advantages can be found (without cheating). For now having 5 full time steamers is the best tactic, you never know, later it could be something completly diffrent.
The "abuser" post is purely a sarcastic joke-ish remark. I did that as a friendly *nudge* *nudge*.
I do not and will not hold any sort of grudge to anyone who has abused the academy. It's all part of the game! Please don't stab me with a pitchfork or burn me or throw me into a lake please! D:
Anyway I think it was also okay to go into debt at that point. I mean we had some discussions about a bank or so. As this is still not existing going into debt was somewhat a solid strategy for a big investment early on before then recovering from the debt and getting something back in positive. As long as you had some eco it was no problem at all. Only critics for that might be "abusing" of no punish for the debt (pay 5%+ back) or some players dropping into with no chance of getting out.