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Originally posted by wewak:
This should have been titled "The Games Too Bloody Hard - I Can't Win :moan:" 
Despite your justification, Greg, you can't say the game is biaised/rigged/cheats. It is coded as realistically as the technology/resources/programmers talent allows. The match engine can be improved and is done so on a regular (ie yearly plus patches) basis, however, to imagine that it is designed to make you lose is just nuts. :kris3:
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I have not said that the game is biased/rigged/cheats. I have absolutely NOT said that the game is designed to make you lose, and I find it insulting that people would even suggest that I made such a claim. I'm suggesting that SI may believe that big clubs have an advantage in cup competitions, and SI may have actually programmed the game to reflect this. And, so, it gives too much of a benefit to clubs with larger reputations in playoff competition. I think it's a matter of opinion and how the game is programmed, NOT a matter of a conspiracy or the game somehow making me lose.
Contrary to what people might claim here, this is not a moan. It's simply a statement from me that I find Spain to be unplayable compared to other leagues, because it is the one country where the cup competition clearly has a major bug that hurts the human-controlled manager. It's also one of the few countries where promotion rests solely on playoff results, and this is a problem because the game seems to generate wild swings in performance in the playoffs.
There is not enough consistency in match results between the promotion playoffs and the regular season, and
I've seen this just as much with AI controlled clubs as my own. I can't tell you how many times I've seen an AI-controlled club dominate and destroy everything in its path for an entire season, only to play like amateurs and crash out in the promotion playoffs. It's understandable that it happens on occasion, but it happened with at least a couple of clubs in every season of my saved game, and it happened in my saved game before that one as well.