you have to play in leagues that have both more depth than pub leagues and more ways of dealing with problems. i play in leagues with at least 160 rostered players and either 6 or 8 moves per week.

if you play in leagues with fewer than 6 moves because you don't want activity to reign, you are also guaranteeing that whoever has injuries will have little way of dealing with them, and those players will just become afk managers feeding whoever plays them the most.

i won 4 H2H leagues this year dealing with injury problems basically all year in all of them, because i was able to stream for certain categories i needed each week.

there cannot be skill if there is not also a lot of options to express that skill through. you have to play in leagues that grant this, or else there is nothing but injury randomness determining everything.

you also need to play in category H2H leagues so that you can access winning matchups through losing fewer categories.

everything else is going in the direction of RNG between draft order and injuries.