Recruiting plays a HUGE role in your teams win-loss records. The games are all simmed and no stats are calculated. This game is strictly based off of recruiting so I'd recruit wisely. If you have a team with a B+ rating and you face a team with an A- rating then it will be a close game. The sim could go either way with that game. If you have a team with a D rating and you play a team with an A+ rating, out of 45 games, the D team might win 5 at max because of the A+ team's cockiness. That's basically how the game works so now you know what to expect. Oh and one more thing, after every game, a player gets a "Player of the Game" award just to let you know that that player played above all the other players that game.
Now you know how the games work.