Well the 4 relegating teams were
1) Tokyo Yahiro team a bot.
2) Higashikurume Lightning #12 in Nippon. Went to II.4.
3) shibuya #14 in Nippon went to us.
4) Kanazawa Kings #16 in Nippon went to II.3.
So I don't think it was just me, 3/4 of them were fairly tough and we got the second best, as close to average as possible.
When you look at his roster it is amazing compared to mine but nothing like Sharman. He has some great players but he paid a lot for them too.
Grégory Le Quère 65k paid $5,000,000.
Samuel Zavadil old 40k pf paid $2,000,000.
Martial Ginestet 35k old c $2,000,000.
Horea Radu 23k sg $2,000,000.
Chen Zhi Fu 15k pg $2,000,000.
Nicolás Ricard 15k sg $1,500,000.
But he has spent 6 of the last seasons in the JBBL so those players must be incredible with top secondary skills. Anyone with a $13,000,000 starting 5 seems scary to me.
Compare my starting 5.
Daisaku Kawaida $100,000 Bought season 1.
Noritada Konoe last years draft pick - free.
Jotaro Kinjo Original team player - free.
Lu Shuanghua $250,000. Bought season 2.
Martín Magallanes $175,000. Bought season 3.
Just over $500,000 for my whole starting 5. Quite a jump between teams like his and teams like mine even in my 3rd season (when I bought Martin).