I forgot that the starting post was about your cup result lol (thats why my -and? xD-
But, is very imprecise when people talk about this theory of -non attending=win- ...of course people complain more when this happens, so this gives visibility to the myth but, in the end, all is just like a coin and if you can control the 2 pre-selected scenarios, 1-non attending 2-attending and here's a 3rd that we can include that is, attending, and affecting the match doing some movement (we should remember that sometimes attending and without touch anything it goes fluid in favour of us) , really this is the key...
I find the best advantage to watching is to be able to avoid the pitfalls the game has set up for you, best example I can think of is where your player gets a yellow card and you change him and then his replacement gets a yellow card, you just know that the game had planned a red for you and if you weren't watching it would've happened, but at least you were able to keep 11 on the pitch and not play with 10, you wont know if the result was affected but easy to believe that 1 down with 10 men the good result is unlikely but if you snatch a draw with a slightly weakened 11 you can be happy that you probably avoided a defeat by attending and affecting
Here are others questions users should be asking: Would there be 'pitfalls' if the user was not attending the match? How different the match would have been? Would the same player still get the red card.
Logic 'says' attending matches should be significantly advantageous, but this game does not go by football logic. Many times I felt like watching the match, making changes or trying to influence the match in a positive way using the available options resulted to negative things.
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