Winning the rivalry game only weighs into attendance for your next home game though. Winning would have literally done nothing for you except potentially being in a different guaranteed loss game on the road first week of the playoffs.
The lack of enthusiasm management I’ve seen has baffled me in this league. Very rare are cases to use a CT during the season. Competing teams at most anyone should Normal 25% of their games while playing TIE the rest to build enthusiasm. More fringe teams should be around 50/50 for enthusiasm use.
I once had a team with 1757 players and was $25,835,360 in debt. This is not that team. Join the Discord group open to anyone, but especially for USA managers to improve your club or get involved with the U21 and NT programs
(https://discord.gg/cKpNkt2).