and yes, a lot of teams go through a lot of player transitioning at first.. thats how it works.. but it shouldn't take too long to get on your feet with some semi-quality players (and check the free agents too)..
what team of yours was rampaged? i find it odd that you would start out with such high demand players initially that others would even reap much of an advantage from them
your players are protected up to 700k. and players that have high FTV (fair trade value) AKA good players, demand at least 800k, so they should be auto protected anyway...