Quote Originally Posted by Jeeves View Post
My long awaited point IS
A match isn't decided from the very beginning, so you should definitely watch your matches and, my advice, read some additional literature about Football and see what the managers of yore have devised as tactics and counters.

Now I get that it's more a matter of how you lose. It should feel fair. But sometimes it just doesn't. Or maybe it is fair and the loss actually affects us more than we think. I've had my rage moments with Top 11 so I should know.

There's a lot of psychology going on in the background.
A lot of true words, but you forget an essential detail: the simulation is a piece of crap.
Sry for this hard words, but f.e.: You see at the first 15min three shots on the target from your team (opponent keeper saved all three), non of your opponent. If you leave and join again, stats are actual... and you see on that stats 0 shots on target for your team, 1 for the opponent.
Now I ask you: how can do right decision with this crap?
You can't imagine, if opponent plays high or low press, you can't imagine, if he plays long or short, and so on.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of the 2D-simulation... but it needs a lot of improvement.