Maybe we could just get back to trying to answer the original question(s):
If you are following minimum standard best practices (no pitching staffs of $1 starters, no 3s and 4s at 2B, SS and CF, no high-singles-only teams in the Cell, no fire sales after week one, no dropping Miggy after week two...etc etc...) and you are not consistently winning slightly more than half of your games, then what might you be doing wrong? How can you improve?
Minimum best practices: salary construction (ie, $20 mil SPs, $10 mil RPs, $50 mil offense); 1s and 2s up the middle on defense; scoring roughly five runs on offense and surrendering four runs on defense; players appropriate to at least your own park; pitching card selections; hitters card selections; minimal (or better yet no) dropped salary; learning from previous mistakes; learning from the boards.