Bit of a side note, but the rep skew has been off for human manages for 2/3 editions now.
If you have a lot of coaching badges then your experience is largely irrelevant. The badges cause huge rep increases. Sadly, even if you go down the route of not getting badges you still a few seasons in get better offers than you should.
Badges shouldn't cause rep increases, only coaching attribute increases. Your performance should be used for rep (taking country, level, importance etc into account) but that's a different debate for a different thread.
Really enjoying this one though and following!