Subject: Questions & Answers

barcelona v chelsea today - 23 shots vs 7 right? 2-2 draw. Amount of chances means NOTHING. that is a stat we are given but that doesn't mean anything. It doesn't follow that the team with more shots should score more goals. There is a thing called a goalkeeper, and a thing called luck. Its part of the game. Sometimes its in your favor sometimes its not.

Thing called tactic, and thing called "We don't want to shoot until we enter penalty box". Many things are involved in RL.

First, in a two-legged knockout round tie cannot be observed as a tie. If Barca would have led 2-1 in a single game at 90+2, Torres wouldn't have been unguarded and so on. Second, it's pretty absurd to say that the amount of chances mean "NOTHING", 'cause it clearly isn't true. You cannot score without a scoring chance, and with 23 shots you are more likely to score more than with 7. And yes, I know that didn't happen yesterday, but Barca was still more likely to score more.

A chance is a factor, I agree. And it should be. But you really can't compare real life results with a game - life has endless possibilities whereas a game hasn't.

your right wing was open for business.

the engine works right all the time. Why do you have this feeling that it doesn't? Because the same match can have more different outcomes when simulated multiple times? Isn't that the nature of sports?

Why do you get a different explanation for every match? Because there are many factors in the engine (just like in real life). When the analysts say that Barca didn't win because of this or that and other times they say some different reason you don't doubt that, do you?

were they in the penalty box when they had the ball? Did they put 7 or more defenders in their lineup? You say stuff you have no clue about. You have no clue how the engine works in this regard, but you criticize it.

every team does have a chance based on tactics and players.

penalizations are there only for stupid tactics which are not used in real football. What you call random is simulated luck factor that you have in real life. It works with probabilities and there is nothing in the engine that is completely "random". Every calculation is based on chance that you as a manager can influence.

Well to be honest I don't have any clue why i have won or lost game. Looking on my statistic there is no bigger difference if I play 3-4-3 or 4-4-2. I score more goals, but I need more chances for that, and difference to usual 4-4-2 formation is just not worth mentioning. Same goes for my defense. I more goals from less chances, but again nothing that is out of 4-4-2 margin. From my point of view that is not logical. That is main problem.
Why i get more cards for talking with referee? No damn idea. And that is whole problem here. Stupid formations, as you call them, are choice of manager. They might be stupid or not, but fact that they are not used in RL does not prove that they are ineffective.
Regarding Chelsea - did they have 11 players in their own 16m room?
In RL starting formation is one thing, actual formation during attack and defense is something totally different.

try to avoid delay play...

then i concede more goals for some reason

but will be more chances for you...i play 343 too and i think is better when you put one defender front and one attacker back...this standard 343 formation looks like two potato fields engine dont like it

You would be better to play 4-4-2 or, if you wanted to use central midfield attack, something like 4-1-2-1-2. A strong midfield is important in football, and especially key to PPM. 2 forwards works good if you have an offensive midfielder in that top position.

Something wrong with importance between 1 and 2 half?

http://soccer.powerplaymanager.com/en/match-report.html?data=201204232570

I pass the same game with inferior equipment to mine and I do not win one, this is ridiculous.
that is tired of the same talk always ends up getting worse.


I ask for a review of spending power of many teams to play friendlies in VH and does not appear that there is no penalty for these teams

Are we going to see U20 and U18 teams for next season? And if so are the underage players on the Senior team going to be forced to play U20?