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Another factor that hasn't been mentioned is that the "weak" teams in the league might have been losing because they were training their best players out of position. Come September, those teams will often switch the lineups to the best possible defense... and since they've been training, the AI has more flexibility when making substitutions.
The playoffs are a different matter. Even in real life, best-of-5 series are a crapshoot... and in PT, most teams have weaknesses that an active manager can exploit. So I wouldn't expect whether or not the team got into the playoffs via the wild card to be anywhere near as much of a factor in success as whether or not the manager is logged in and making adjustments on Sunday.
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Primary team:
Secondary team, with heavy restrictions on using the auction house:
Tertiary team is AFK... I'm not allowing myself to make any changes to the team except during the offseason:
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