Pls explain me, how this game works

[nash123]

I'm now at L11, won many trophies, so I thought, I understand this game... but... NO!!!!



First... AM is stupid (look at report), I want a new one. Where to buy?

-) This guy often made friendlies against me and I think, he tries formations. Everytime, I was there, it was a close game, if you see the qualitiy difference (~2:0) but at stats, he was always (much) better.
-) Everytime, I wasn't there, he won around ~6:0.


-) Today, my team was trained after league game at the morning and two own friendlies. My team was the lowest on condition at every friendly against him, moral was overall around lightgreen.
-) I set my best working counterformation against him.
-) You see, we took the lead.
-) At first 90', we were better, had more SoT,...
-) at ET, my team droped to red condition, we conceeded 2:1. It's okay.


But how is that possible? Not only this game, all close games? Because... if that was one of 10, it would say, it was luck.
The quality difference is extremly high. How can it be, that we are evenly on pitch (if I'm there)?

Is there anything, what is important or is it just a dice like risk?

I'm really shocked.

[Gert Funck]

You can't use friendlies for jack squad... it evens out the field and the results doesn't do you any godt in tactical perspective versus real counting matches .. sorry

[LeManiaque]

Care to share your tactics and the ratings page for that match?

One thing I find interesting about AM reports like this is that the programming has found 2 different criteria in the game stats that each return these 2 comments. They don't make sense to us, but do to the system, so there's "something" to be learned. Like when my GK "had a great match" according to the report, but played for a 6.7... does it mean he did well but was too exposed due to wrong back line formation? Or that 3+ saves triggers that comment regardless of rating?

Maybe defender ratings were high, (but they had little chance due to the quality difference), so they were right players, right formation, right mindset, but tactically either harder tackling or harder defending was needed? Or the possession: shots and corners ratio for opponent was high enough to trigger the "too soft" comment.

I haven't tracked AM comments to tactics or stats, but I do think there's information buried in there.

[nash123]

The problem is, you can't see the subs rating, and it's the rating after 120', because at ET, they droped twice.
And the ST, who came in, had 7,x.


edit: I don't play 4-5-1V, I changed at the beginning to Hexa.

[nikolgiorgos]

friendly games have a different "formula" of calculations.
I 've made some posts, a couple of years ago