Here's the issue and it is BODERLINE CHEATING! I can't believe they allow this to happen. These lame players will get to a certain level where they hit a wall because they are either bad players or just don't want a challenge so they let their HIGH LEVEL TEAMS drop down to the lowest tier carbonite where newbs who are learning how to play are being preyed upon BECAUSE there is no way that you will be able to beat them. Then they can collect their easy money by running the board on your weak teams. My team is barely 1M GP and I am CONSTANTLY facing teams that were at carbonite 4, 4M GP with maxed out characters at 5-8 relic level against my TWO zeta best team!!! How is that ANYWHERE near fair??? I guess it works if you want to discourage starters from playing the game mode...
Here's what needs to happen. FORGET dropping players down on win/loss record. Keep the matches strictly at GP level or this kind of thing is going to keep happening. Each tier should have a max GP threshold to combat people taking advantage of a basically allowed cheat. You should never be allowed to drop BELOW your GP threshold which means that those players should be stuck on the tier that dictates their level of power. In this way, they will have to fight FAIR battles and LeaRn to PlaY or quit playing in frustration. I don't see why they should be able to troll people just getting into the game mode.
