Era · 2010-11 to 2019-20
The greatest squads of the 2010s
The strongest decade in the database by some distance, and the one nobody has to be told about — Messi and Ronaldo, at 97 and 96, in the same ten years.
The decade
Spain has five squads here, and six of the ten European Cups of the decade. Real Madrid won it four times in five seasons, which no club had managed since the competition changed format; Barcelona won two more with the side most people would name as the best of the century. Around them, Bayern and Dortmund made the decade German for a season, Atlético came within a minute of it, and Ajax's young team briefly threatened to take the whole thing apart at the end.
Where the squads come from: Spain (5), England (3), Germany (3), France (2) and Netherlands (1). The highest-rated player of the era in this database is Lionel Messi (97), and 20 different players across these 14 squads are rated 90 or above.
Drafting the 2010s
The highest ceiling of any era: the best XI these squads could theoretically assemble averages 93.7, and nineteen different players clear 90 out of only fourteen squads. The practical effect is that a bad draft is still a good team — you will almost never be stuck with an unfillable position. Whether that makes it the era to draft in or the one where a good run means least is a matter of taste.
This decade has a draft mode of its own: The 2010s narrows the wheel to exactly these squads, so every spin lands in the era. Runs in it rank normally — narrowing the wheel carries no scoring penalty.
However you narrow the wheel, the run itself is the same Champions League draft game: an XI built one spin at a time, then a league phase, two-legged knockouts and a final.
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