Quote Originally Posted by cracicot View Post
No, he is not looking too much into it.

The way it was explained to me by a vet was this:

Red arrow: moves forward when YOU have possession.
Blue arrow: moves back when YOUR OPPONENT has possession.

Very simple.

so a DC/DMC playing in 3-1-4-2 with red arrow:

When opponent has possession:

------ST---ST-------
---------------------
-ML---MC--MC----MR-
--------DMC---------
----DC--DC--DC------


When you have possession:

------ST---ST-------
---------------------
-ML-MC-DMC-MC-MR-
---------------------
----DC--DC--DC------
Based on my experience and observation the actually effect seems to be to move the player HALF a block.
So red arrows on a DMC would be Visually thus:
x M x M x TO x M x M x
- - - - - ....... - - D - -
x x D x x ..... x x x x x

I have also been told that it is not useless to put blue arrows on defenders and red arrows on strikers:

Blue arrows on DC - Apparently you can keep DCs from advancing and getting caught out, but they also wont go out to block the long shots.
Red arrows on ST - Apparently you can keep STs up in the box with a more attacking mentality.

I have been trying putting blue arrows on my left and right DC and leaving my middle DC with no arrows to test this. I consistently have the best GA in almost every season that there are no token buyers in my league.
I agree. I use blue arrows on my left and right DC as well, and it seems to be very effective at stopping flank attacks from AMR/AML. And it certainly reduces (but does not eliminate) the number of times that they end up far forward on attack.

I've never really tried using red arrows on strikers

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