The thought process behind most players is that they would rather win a trophy. They compete in the upper division but they lose the close games or go. 500 in tournaments. They'd rather play in a lower division blowout every team and feel better about themselves at the end of summer by saying...
Oh that sucks they must've been missing some good guys. It could've been worse I suppose they could've gone 0-4 that would've been really embarrassing.