Can someone explain this? (Reputation)

[D0bi]

To set the scene, I'm in 2017 and managing San Marino, as I have from the start.

Season #1 - Finished 5th in the Serie C1, predicted to get relegated

Season #2 - Finished 1st in Serie C1, predicted to finish mid-table

Season #3 - Finished 5th in Serie B, predicted to get hammered and relegated

Season #4 - Finished 1st in Serie B, predicted to get relegated

In all the above seasons, the reputation of the club has risen sharply, however, in my first season in the Serie A I managed an unbelievable 5th place (and Europa League football) as well as reaching the Quarter Finals of the Italian Cup (furthest I have ever got)

Season #5 - Finished 5th in Serie A, predicted to get relegated (5000-1 odds to win the title, longest odds I'd seen in FM before)

Yet I got this at the end of this season...

How could my reputation have fallen? Any ideas?

On a side note, I've successfully managed to finish 5th,1st,5th,1st and 5th. Surely next year I'll win the title and end Juventus' 6-year stranglehold on the Serie A title.

[Bobble2002]

other teams around the world will have improved or won trophies

[kingpug]

Reputation is something I've never understood, won everthing for 4 years back in FM12 with Ajax yet reputation barely went up whereas Roma moved up to 2nd overall on almost full 5 stars in the space of a season yet didn't win jack that season or the seasons before and I doubt the reason is everyone else improved unless by a miracle hundreds of clubs all over the world improved so much while this guy went downhill.

[D0bi]

other teams around the world will have improved or won trophies

This isn't based on clubs around the world though, it's purely from an Italian viewpoint; and whilst I have, within a year, been promoted, attained European Qualification and reached the 1/4 finals of the domestic cup, other clubs have been relegated, fell short of their expectations etc.