The best strategy is to spend money and lots of time to build up your team to the highest level you can, maybe a 96 Shooting lineup. Then join a league and play against an 88 rated lineup and destroy them. It would be so satisfying to see all your work pay off. But, when you do play against them, EA handicaps you and your team misses everything. Because that is how you build a successful franchise... or how you steal a bunch of peoples money and dont give them the product they bought. I guess when they couldnt compete with 2k and quit, they decided that they needed a way to make money without having to put out a quality product. I wont give them another dime for this crap, instead I will go sit on the toilet and push out something better.