I started playing this game a year ago.
I read everything i could find - all the official posts, evrything that was in this forum, and even managed to dig out archives from the old forum and some obscure off-site tutorials.
I studied different formations and techniques, put a lot of time into figuring out the legal formation criteria.

In 10 competative seasons I won 8 league trophies, 1 2nd and 1 5th. In Champions league I have 4 trophies and 2 runner up finishes. I've got 2 3rd place Cup finishes.

I've never bought tokens, but every season I've fielded a strong 5 star-6 star squad. In short, I've had some mediocre success at the game. But, at this point, I'd like to know one thing:
How do you play this damned game?

What are the rules? Do tactics and formations do anything? How about player abilities? Is it just completely friggin' random?