Colebourn said:
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.... this simulator is a f***ing joke I swear

@CelloG said:
Hi,

so, a few things. Your opponent played with much more effort than your team (slider closer to high effort) which always results in a few more goals. In addition, 2 CDF is not necessary to defend against 1 CF, and actually gets in the way some times, because they can't decide what they're marking. You also had them spaced so that there was always a space in the middle for the CF to slip through. More important was to shut down his OM and RW with a DFM (which you didn't field) and a LB (which you did). I have noticed, however, that players rarely shoot outside the box, so I would think against this team, an LB-LDF-CDF-RDF-DFM combo would be very effective at containing his forwards. Also, you need to hold the line. In advanced formation, don't let your defenders wander back, keep a high defensive line so you get more offsides calls for those breakaways. He scored all his important goals on breakaways that should have been offsides. On the other side, your offensive line of strikers also needs to hold their line. Don't let them wander into the box except on corner kicks! You had 14 offsides calls, and many would have been goals or at least shots.

I also don't think LM/RM are a great asset unless you use them as advanced attacking players. In the midfield, they're kind of listless, and they don't keep possession like LIM/RIM. You only had 2 inner midfielders, which greatly reduced possession. With better feeding to your forwards, you would have scored a lot more. In other words, LM/RM are attacking players in this sim, LIM/RIM are assisters, they just feed the forwards like a mother to her baby. This is why I use advanced RIM/LIM instead of RM/LM. Only with 75+ LM/RM does the balance tip and they start being really effective as attacking and assisting players.

Also, interesting fact: LW shoot and score more than RW. Don't know why, it was true in the old sim too.

You also need to add a new tactic to increase effort when your team falls behind by 1 goal, and to nearly max it out when they fall behind by 2. This should fix some of these results.

I do short passing until I get ahead by 2, and then switch to slightly more counterattack, the long lobs seem to trip up the other team's strategy if they're already losing, especially because the sim seems to be realistic in that a strategy shift mid-game befuddles the players for a few minutes .

Hope this helps. Don't use any of this stuff against me (just kidding, I expect you to eat me alive next time we play, mkay?)