Asunto: Questions & Answers

Thank you !

do you remember: dont tap the aquarium?

Yeah, that's all right. Of course, anyone who never plays Forechecking when his centers and goalies are lacking aggressiveness, has an excellent understanding of the game

That could be true also, who knows.

We are just joking There are lots of extremely successfull teams out there selecting from a limited pool of tactics, so your approach is definitely valid!

well... there are players who use a dice or random.org website to select tactics

If you can't figure out what your opponent will do, and if you can't set them up to do what you want them to do - random works great.

That's a good approach too, sometimes !

Yes, but if you look at the collected data (not sure if you have the link to the site with all that), you'd see that the success rate of the def. tactic is above 50% when playing offense, counter and is equal against defense. The 3 tactics you have played the most this season are those 3.

The logic is there, you just have to look for it

That said, if i was playing you... i would probably not play defense, instead would play one that counters the one you would play after looking at my teams analysis.

You missed one essential factor: team strength.
All those statistics have been made in earlier seasons, when, almost all teams had aprox. same team strength. I bet that if datas would be collected again, from matches between teams with different strength, the results obtained will be totally different.

Not "entirely" true. The tactics / counter tactics are accurate. The only difference would be that the numbers would not be so consistent, and would most probably be slightly lower.

While team strength is no longer as equal, over the course of a season we play both teams stronger and teams weaker than us, so there is still a certain amount of balance.

I personally have tracked my data over the last 4 seasons and have found the tactics to be accurate between 60% and 70% of the time, and that is taking into account team strength, strong teams, weak teams, injuries etc.

I try to work with an excell sheet, with the most knowns percentages of wins/draws/losts, based on the amount of games my opponent played with that tactic and multiplied with my-team-factor (best tactic for my team).
I had succes with it, but my last 6 division games were very bad

How are seedings sorted out for the National Cup and how can I get a better seeding next time?

the seeding is the ranking of OTR in your nation (overall team rating). To have better ranking you only have to win every game you play until next season

Simple - thanks